Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-04-17

And also still further; why trade at the store
When the goods arc NAKED in mysterious lore
I'm sure they don't know what those characters
mean.
So they must be ssersi. that's plain to be seen.
Ay. worse than Good Templars. for pay less or
nore
Those signs are a secret as much as before.
The next class are those who do not feel the need
0fany restraint from our Good Templars creed,
Who can drink when they please, or not as they
will,
And can stand on their feet like any man still.
Perhaps the sweet cider crops out in the way.
And when you have asked them, to you they
will say,
For me there's no danger, I'll not be your slave,
Go, work for the ones who are finding grave,
To reason with these eeds the greatest of care,
They stand in a critical place, | declare;
We must seek them as friends, with lore at
command;
We must point them to some who have stood
where they stand,
anu VINO IelN Us seNuitas thVl ieel to-uul,
But who have been lost and their lives thrown
away.
Illustrate the damage, examples may do,
Der young men and youths good and true;
Do all that we can to show them their place
And leave the result to the working of grace.
I'll mention a few of the kinds that remain,
And next come the ones who sell liquor for gain
No suasion convinces this kind of brute
Except the strong law which they cannot rcfute.
But if we apply lega! sudsiOa in force
1t will have the effect to slackcn their course.
There's A. B. & c., who sell goods as a trade
From the people at large their money is made;
They are temperance men in their daily walk
But seem to be guarded in what they may talk
I suppose they think ifthey go down on rum
That class of their custom will then fail to come
And their neighbor who trafics across the way,
VIII gain in his trade and get more of the pay.
Another will say il is drawing too fine
For my wife makes each year some nice cur
rant wine.
Ont class I've not mentioned, I'll mention them
now,
It's the ones who have taken our life long vow
To build up ourcausc and let liquor alone;
But who, for some trivial cause, are now gone
In business affairs when a man gives his word
And knows that his neighbor that Contract has
heard,
He knows that if he fails to do just about SO,
His word is not par but is some ways below.
This class is the worst for our cause through
the land,
For when one has left our temperance band,
He, then, is a stumbliag-biock placed in the way
OF those who are seeking the light of the day.
We always have had th:m, perhaps always will
Yet we can be true and be Good Templars still
But might so on from the dawns early light,
TO the time when the stars are shining at night
For this IS our hobby though not rode to death
I'm sure that it must be quite worried for
breath.
SO III turn your attention moment or two,
To some other subjects that have in view.
OF Nature We read on our Ritual page
And that it is best for each sex and each age
To follow her teachings through life as a guide,
And what she condemns, in that verdict abide.
That this is sound teaching no Templar Denies,
We should follow it il we would be wise;
But while we talk Nature let's look o'er our
band up aafi Hu
And see if we all by that principle stand.
While we stand all right on our hobby to-day
To Danish strong liquor forever away,
And show by ex nipple no man has the need
OF any such stuff to mix with his feed.
If any here present before me to-day
Make use of tobacco. to them would say,
The weed that you use (not so bad it is tr1e)
Belongs to the class that intoxicants do.
Shall tell you now how twas you begun?
In nine cases out of ten you did it in fun
You saw 'mong your neighbors, when you were
boy, ~
Some smokers and chewers who seemed to enjoy
Their lives very much, and you thought it
would pay
To try the same game and be happy as they.
All! fatal mistake; it is many we see
! Who wish that they were from this bad habit
free. lsa @ iip
You can't give it up? The man who drinks
rum,
Will say the same thing when you ask him to
come.
It made you so sick in beginning its use,
Had you been compelled, you would call it
abuse @ a nUl e
But you bore all the pain, not saying thing,
Because in the end it would happiness bring.
Regarding its use folks are not all agreed:
Some claim that none even were harmed by the
weed, t
And even Eve heard these same devotees claim
That it brightens the thoughts and strengthens
the brain.
The ladies must think the habit is neat
And only excelled by its being so soeet;
But without any doubt their opinions you've
heard, @ n8ls sp
SO |, on that point, will not offer word.
Let this be rue have no habits in life
That you would not gladly see shared by your
wife.
l wish to speak now of another mistake
That sisters as well as The brothers oft make
In respect to an herb we drink and call tea
Which grows in the land Of the heather Chinee,
This habit class with the rest Of its kind,
AS one that is bad for the mass of mankind.
For those who are old and have drank it so long
That their lives ROW consist of tea that is strong
Perhaps it is best for the rest of their days
NJ H. al, tha