Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-07-01
Rorace Greeley,s Tempcrancc Habits

Few boys had to rough it harder IN early NE
than HoRAcE GREELEY, of the Tribune hi'
parents had a little, hard, rocky farm IN ne"
Hampshire, and the " tOw-head" was put 10
work for living as soon as big enough TO PICK
Nd chips. Horace was puny and sicsly' al
seven rode horse to pillow early spring and sum
mer mornings, and then went to school mile
off When nine he could be spared from WORK
to attend summer schools no longer, but was
continued in the winter schools until thirteen
About that time his parents moved to Vermont,
and Horace assisted in chopping and clearing
land of timber. He found the employment so
healthful and mvigorating, that Mr.. T. now
commcnds the axe as the first of implements
for the dyspeptic, the hypQchOndriae, the low
spirited. At fifteen Mr.. G. went to learn the
printers trade at Poultney, Vermont, and
thouoh by no means athletic and sinewy, out
door work had given him vigorous enduring
constitution. At fifteen he had the ague, which
he saws rather hardened him than otherwise,
and since then, Mr. c., now aged AZ, has never
had long spell of sickness.
Horace GREELEY is emphalically a self
made man, and is one of the men of marx of
this country His industry, and simple, tenn
perate habits, on all occasions and under all
circumstances, are prominent traits of charae-
ter, and are worthy Of universal emulation. In
late letter to The GyHaAasf Mr.. G. says:
Liquor and tobacco were almost always in my
I u I -. 6. IL ell t.aa1u
though moderately, 10 all /; but in my fourteenth
wear formed myself, for want of associates aid
sympathizers, into an individual temperance So
ciety, and have not, since ! was cured Of the
agge, thiFty-tllTee years ago, tasted ardent spr-
its Wine, | was coaRed to Try when horribly
sea-sick on my first voyage to Europe, six years
ago, but neither liked 1t, nor did II seem likely
toi overcome my nausea, as sour cider TO
some extent did; so / did not swallow quite
half wine glass OF IT. Tobacco have always
IoatbeJ. before the selfshness aud tad manners
of its yotaries taught me to detes; i: Strong
beer or ale / may have drank twenty times dur
ing my greener days, but never since came TO
the years Of discretion, Lager never tasted
and gave up tea and coffee about twenty years
ago Few have liked coffee better than | did
but caught my hand trembling one morning
and Immediately called up my fayorite indul-
l genceb IN EchscN ~ doSSIt1lft WtiiSe Noe eue
Jonah was not long in detecting the oulprit,
coffee and Immediately put him overheard
Nv nerves haFe not quiYered since
/ very often asked, hardly kpaE why, if
! eat meat, and occasionally surprise is express
ed on AscsTtaini0g thst do 90, ] oRse dis
pensed with the use Of animal flesh almost
wholly for two or three years and It Is, as It
long has been, my deliberate Judgment that in
tbe torrid zones, where great abundance and
yariety OF vegetable TODD is easily procured,
Diet which includes no flesh mearis preferable.
III were to live leisurely as ] should choose, l
would say, give me the best productions of
grains, of fruits, with abundance OF milk, cream
&c, and let me never again SIC animal flesh
presented for humaR food Not having time
nor means TO make world for lnJself, try IA
accommodate nv habits to the world that Is,
and eat meat, which is often The best food witE-
roach