Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-05-11

had money in my pocket, Jonn,
But now you know haint
I've spent it all in treating you,
Because loved you so,
But mark how you have treated me,
John Alcohol, my Joe!
John Alcohol, my Joe, John,
We've been TOO long together,
You must now take one road, John,
And will take anoiher
For we must tumble down, John,
If hand in hand we go,
And will have TO foot your bills,
John Alcohol. my Joe.
An ATTRACTIVE HoME.-I know OF
a young man, who has acquired the
appetite for strong drink. but who
would not be its victim. Just now,
he finds much assistance in the attract
ion of his newly y-made home, the result
of his recent marriage. He finds it
more agreeable to stay at home eve
nings, than to seek the companionship
of his former associates of the bar
room. Does not his present love of
home, serving as shield from temp
tation, reveal a lack of exertion of the
natural power of female influence,
while he was yet under the paternal
roof. the favorite brother of four or
five sisters?
Mothers, wives, sisters; do you do
all You can to make home attractive,
so ha t your sons, husbands, and
brothers may thus be kept from spend
ing their evenings in the streets, bar
rooms, or saloons? =? | fear that many
Christian women are guilty in regard
to this thing.
PEsULTs OF "GooD LIVING" A
friend writes i knew man whose
ships floatcd on every sea; everything
he touched turned to gold; through
out his whole mercantile career he
never failed, never suspended, never
asked an extension. A large family
of children survived him; they were
said to be the most beautiful in one of
the largest cities of the nation. He
himself was the handsomest of men;
commanding in his appearance, courte-
ous in his manncr, afeclionate IN his
domestic relations, indulgent to his
children, devoted to his wife. During
his life he furnished money in the
most lavish profusion for family ex-
penditurc, never making inquiry as
to its disposal. At his death he pro-
vided for his wife magnificent i'll
come, ana left every chill rich. In
the settlement Of his estate, scarcely
dollar was lost He never was III
volved in lawsuit, and had but one
partner in business, whom he left MS
sole executor. He had three draw
backs: he was a gourmand; h, was
never drunk, but was always fall OF
liquor: he habitually made light of
religion and its ministers. He in
dulgcd in highly seasoned food and
the finest wines and brandies. He
died about seven months before the
time he had fixed on for retiring from
business. The subsequent history of
that large family of highly favored
children is suggestive. The eldest
daughter. of quecnly presence and
beauty, died-an exile from her father
house Four others died on the very
( threshold of beauteous womanhood !;
: one of them in madness; q fifth, by
| reason Of bodily infirmity, is dead TO
D the world; a son has long been in an
: asylum. a hopeless idiot. Another
survives, a bankrupt having no busi-
G ness capacity whatever. Anoth G r
V lives, of no promise, and the mother
! is dead The lesson here taught, so
terrible, is simply this: that the man
whe makes every day a feast Of fat
c things. and sustains himself in this by
:, never allowing the alcohol to die out
: of him. except for a few hours in the
e after part of the night, must perish
e prematurely, and cannot beget healthy
d children. Every child this man had
g was born with rotten constitution
. except the first two, when it may be
l. reasonably supposed he had not com
a. plctely fallen under the dominion o
e high living. 1t should be borne il
" mind that four-fifths of the idiotic child
rcn, in our well-conducted asylum f0l
such, are known to be the children o
t parents one or both of whom INDUCED
IN in liqucr drinking.
= CHARLES LAMBS WARNING.--Charle
= Lamb-who has not heard of 'gentl
!, Charles ?'-was much addicted to tn
=, Il wine cup. Hear his solemn warning
80 heed it, We who can:
~ The waters have gone over mt
- But out of the black depths, could
: . be heard, would cry out to all thos
~ - who have but set foot in the pcrilou
- food. Could the youth to whom TIL
flavor of his first wine is delicious a
~ the opening scenes ofli.e, or the entc
no ing upon some newly discovered par;
disc, look into my desolation, and |
=. made to understand what drear
b. thing it is when a man shall feel hin
s;c self going down precipice with ope
- ewes and a passive will; to see b
af destruction and have no power to ste
na it. and yet to feel it all the way eman
ting from himself; to see all goodne
emptied out of him, and yet not
by able to forget time when it was OF
mo erwise to bear about the pitco
cd spectacle of his own ruin; could
ire see my feveriSh eye, feverish with la
CO. nights drinking, feverishly looking fl
ak the nights petition of the folly; con
th- he but feel the body of the death o
I'M of which | cry hourly, with. feebl
outcry to be delivcred-it were enou:
to make him dash the sparkling be
ors erage to the earth in all the pride
the its mantling temptation. faa
,ies sOh, if a wish could transport
her back to those days of youth, when
of draught ofthe neat, clear spring, cou
ane sIake the heat which summer suns al
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