benign and noble influence forward into the centuries."

"But the law took her boy, her little boy and girl, away from her. Through
the influence of the Whiskey Ring, of which her husband wuz a shinin'
member, he got possession of her boy. And so the law has made it perfectly
impossible for her to mould it indirectly through him, what Serepta duz she
must do herself."

"Ah! my dear woman. A sad thing for Serepta; I trust _you_ have no
grievance of this kind, I trust that your estimable husband is, as it were,
estimable."

"Yes, Josiah Allen is a good man, as good as men can be. You know men or
wimmen can't be only jest about so good anyway. But he's my choice, and he
don't drink a drop."

"Pardon me, madam, but if you are happy in your married relations, and your
husband is a temperate good man, why do you feel so upon this subject?"

"Why, good land! if you understood the nature of a woman you would know my
love for him, my happiness, the content and safety I feel about him and our
boy, makes me realize the sufferin's of Serepta in havin' her husband and
boy lost to her; makes me realize the depth of a wife's and mother's agony
when she sees the one she loves goin' down, down so low she can't reach
him; makes me feel how she must yearn to help him in some safe sure way.

"High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life
is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she. Highest
love goes lowest, like that love that left Heaven and descended to earth,
and into it that He might lift up the lowly. The pityin' words of Him who