Ten Nights in a Bar Room

"If I was in your place, landlord"--his voice was cold and unfeeling--"I'd pitch that fellow out of the bar-room the next time he stepped through the door. He's no business here...

There was a testy spirit manifested that I did not care to provoke. I could have met his assertion with facts and inferences of a character to startle any one occupying his posi...

On the next day I was to leave Cedarville. Early in the morning I repaired to the "Sickle and Sheaf." The storm was over, and all was calm and silent as desolation. Hours before...

How pure and fervent was the kiss laid instantly upon his lips! There was a power in it to remand the evil influences that were surrounding and pressing in upon him like a flood...

I looked attentively at the man who said this, all the while he was speaking, but could not clearly make out whether he were altogether in earnest, or merely trying to worry the...

NIGHT THE FIRST--THE "SICKLE AND SHEAF." NIGHT THE SECOND--THE CHANGES OF A YEAR. NIGHT THE THIRD--JOE MORGAN'S CHILD. NIGHT THE FOURTH--DEATH OF LITTLE MARY MORGAN. NIGHT THE F...

Had not her mother's condition made Flora's duty a plain one, the true, unselfish instincts of her heart would have doubtless led her back to the polluted home she had left, the...

"Thousands and hundreds of thousands are indebted to useful work, occupying many hours through each day, and leaving them with wearied bodies at night, for their safe passage fr...

"Dozens of people. You may always take it for granted, when you see a tavern-keeper who has a good run at his bar, getting rich, that a great many people are getting poor."

"I have, I am sorry to say, the gravest reasons for what I allege. That Green is a professional gambler, who was attracted here by the excellent company that assembled at the 'S...

"In the beginning, Willy went with the tide, and, in an incredibly short period, was acquiring a fondness for drink that startled and alarmed his friends. In going in through Sl...

"Did Willy Hammond speak only idle words, when he accused Green of having followed him like a thirsty bloodhound?--of having robbed, and cheated, and debased him from the beginn...

"Judge Hammond was a selfish, worldly man. People never liked him much. His favoring, so strongly, the tavern of Slade, and his distillery operations, turned from him some of hi...