Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-02-01

uOWn Ills CHEEKS, telling clOqueully Vi
a tale of sorrow. | was puzzled ev-
cry time the lady spoke. seemed to
have dim recollection of the voice,
thick and uncertain though it was.-
Presently heard the gentleman call
his wife Nellie" Then it all flashed
upon me, that it was Nellie Hunter,
one of my former schoolfellows and
young friends. But how had the fine
gold become dim! [ followed them
to their destination, which found was
a house established for the cure and
reformation of ladies addicted to hab-
its OF intemperance. There Nellie
now lives, separated from all she
knows. She is only twenty seven
years Of age, yet she has drank to
such an extent that it is feared that
she will fall a victim to softening Of
the brain. Nellie has fallen before
the ruinous drinking customs of soci-
ETY., and therefore [ would warn my
young readers to beware. As | look
ed at her | could not help thinking:
6" OF all sad words of tongue or pen.
The saddest are these, it might have BEEN"
Educated, refined, intelligent, and IA
vored by position as Nellie Hunter
was, what might she not have been,
what might she not have done, had
she only remained uncOnJaminated
with the curse OF drink? This ques-
ton eternity eau only unfold.
One word, in closing, to my read
ers. Young girls never, never. touch,
taste, or handle that fearful agent thai
can rob YOU of honor, usefulness, wo-
manlinesS and virtue. All our great
temperance reformers unite in saying
that they scarcely ever knew a drunk
en- woman reclaimed. Even the Gel
ebrated John B. Cough, who has had
an unlimited experience in the refor-
nation Of drunkards, states that al
though he has seen thousands of men
reform after signing the pledge, and
win respectable positions in society,
yet he has never known but two wo-
men to be reclaimed. 1t is a fact that
woman falls 50 low, when degraded
by drink, that she rarely rises again.
All the better and finer feelings Of her
nature are blunted and destroyed, I'M
til she becomes a blot and a libel on
the very name of woman. Will any
OF my fair young readers become like
this ? We hope not. May God help
them ever to avoid the intoxicating
cup, however brightly it may gieam
and use all the power Of their inhu-
ence against it. God speed the day
when every girl and every woman
shall wage unyieIding warfare against
the drinking customs of the age.
END OF A GMIBLER.-Amoug the
innumerable anecdotes related of the
ruin of persons at play, there is one
worth relating, which refers to a Mr.
Porter, gentleman who, in the rcigl
Of Queen Anne possessed one of the
best estates in Northumberland, tn,
whole of which he lost at hazard il
twelve months. According to tn,
story told of this madman-for W,
can call him nothing else-when h,
had just completed the loss OF his las
acre, at a gaming house in London
and was proceeding down stairs t.
throw himself into a carriage to con
yey him home to his house in town
he resolved upon having one NOR
throw to try to retrieve his losses, all,
Immediately returned to the room
where the play was going on. Nerves
for the worst that might happen, b
insisted that the person he had bee
playing with, should give him on
chance of recovery or fight with him.
His proposition was this; Tha
his carriage and horses, the trinket
I and loose money in his pockets, hi
town house, his plate and furniture
in short all he had left in the wOrlC
should be valued in a lump at Gel
tain sum. and be thrown at singl
cast. No persuasion could prevail 0
him to depart from his purpose. H
threw, and lost; then conducting tt
winner TO the door, he told the cOacl
man there was his master, and marci
ed forth into the dark and dism;
,, streets, without house or home, or an
crcditable means of support. ThI
beggared, he retired to an 0bscul
lodging in a cheap part of the tow
Subsisting chiefly on charity, som
: times acting as the marker at ii
billiard table, and occasionally as
helper in a livery stable.
In this miserable condition, wi
: nakedness and famine staring him
= the face, exposed to the taunts al
. insults of those whom he had on,
supported, he was recognized by {
old friend, who gave him ten guine
to purchase necesSaries. He eXpen
ed five in procuring decent appare
with the remaining five he repair
to common gambling-house and
:: creased them to fifty. He then a
- .journed to one of the higher order
:, houses, sat down with his former ;
Sociates, and won 100000. Retul
= ing the next night he lost all, W
. once more penniless, and after 81
!" sisting many years in abject power
~ died beggar in st. Giles.
The great man that is vicious v
90 be greatly vicious, and the rich mis-
+ is only a coyetous beggar.
.s. Not he who possesses, but he Il
or enjoys his wealth is the rich and h
ne py man.