Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-02-25
Che family Circle.
Bound. and How.

during the year 1889. had made the ac-
quaint,nce, in the office where our tenn
perance paper was printed, of two young
men, practical printers, who, like three
ourths of that craft were pretty free drink
trs of into >icating liquors. They Were
both, however, excellent compOsitors. and
in common par ance clever fellows, in the
American sense of the word clever, i. g..
well disposed. One of them, the older
james Cary, had been II soldier in the re-
yultr army for years and had Of course
seen rough times. used frequently to
caution them against the habits they in
dulgcd in, but like millions of others they
were ignorant of the rel relation of al
coholic liquors to the physical consti ution
of man and We're under that spell or de-
fusion with which narcotics blind and bind
their victims. | could see fir III month to
month. yes, even from week to wees, that
e power Of the habit was increasing, and
earnestly urged them to abstain; but it
Was in vain. - can drink or let it alone,
us | choose. " Don't worry about this
child. - can take care OF No. L." and
- A man is a fool that can't COVE n him
self and stop when he chooses. &c. All
this 1 had heard hundreds of times before.
1t was the old story over again. At length
the Younger of the two, George w. War
ner. 1--WE called him Jerry J called at my
house one evening, i'll incipient delirium.
he talked st ;tngely, and seemed very much
alarmed. ! tried to persuade him to 90
over to the Dexter Asylum. AMI suffer
contin, ment or restraint il few days, until
he should recover from his present att. K
and regain his power of eel control. He
hesittt,d, and said he would 90 home t.
L. h,,
and think it over, and would come in and
see me again in the morning. That night
he cut his throat. Not fatally, however,
for our excellent surgeon, Miller, dresse
his wounds, and he seemed in II fair way
to recover. Before the wounds were
healed, however, he got out to II drinking
saloon. and althoug its proprietor knew
what had happened to him while in deliri-
um tremens, vet he handed down the de
canter of liquor to him again. The poor
drluded. ruined, man TOOK another drauyht,
his dellrum returned, and he made
another attempt ut self destruction, and
this time with success. thus the Demon
of the Still and the Cup could again exult
us in the language of the song:
1.-THE widow mourns for h r rnined son
Whai matter what matterl our oorG Is done II"
Ills com ptIlIOH, 1tiN, WIS anu
drank less for II time. but soon filled his
glass us before and urried on his way to
ruin The typos of Providence, three
fourths of whom drank daily, but not quite
so deeply OF frequently as Cary regarded
him as IL disgrace TO the craft, and raised
IL purse for him, on condition that he would
at once leave the city and not return He
| left, and went to Boston. Among the re-
suits of long intemperance, ulcers had
formed on his legs. and they We're SO often
sive that he could no longer be tolera ed in
II printing office. The workuen would at
once rebel, and insist d that he must leave
the office or they would. He WAS now
pretty much ut the end of his chain. He
could get no work, was out of money, and
for some days begged his fo, d about the
city and slept. when night came in an old
building lear the wharf among old barrels
and boxes, rs he afterward told me He
! had heard that | WAS in the city and lealn-
| ing my whereabouts, came to my office on
Cornhill late one afternoon and begged for
money to buy food and a cheap lodging
| He had suffered SO much from the cold the
night previous that he dared not lodge
among the barrels again | gave him
some money, extorting from him Il promise
that he would expend none of it for liquor
and would come to my office the next
morning. But what could be done with
this ragged, bloated. diseased, weak, sham
bling. degraded, offensive creature? There
was then no inebri tie asylum % which |
could send him He WAS just ON the very
verge of death and IL drunkard's doom /
remem bered him us he aOts when first
met him, and thought of his companion
and the manner of his death. But what
could be done for him? that WAS the
practical que ton which pressed itself up
on my mind; and am telling this story,
reld /. because | wish that same practical
question to press itself upon yors, con-
corning the wretched remnants of man
hood all about you which the liquor traffic
is sending to the grave. | went to my
home in Newton, II few miles out of the
city, stated the case to my wife, and after
consultation we decided to make an effort
for his ovation from the threatened doom.
We had then six children of our wn, and
this WAS not II promising child to adopt
INTO ones family: could not bring II Ger
titicate of good character; did not look
very well. aud withal, our senses revol-
at his presence. | took him home how
ever, Oh the following dry, furnished him
II r',om, nude such lmpr vemen.s in his
| DCTSOUCt us SOdp, WstCCl dil Clcttu
co Id do and he WAS zone of u.s." 1t was
IL bitter pill to swallow, MH. Those COM
pounded of al ,es and tSs;ti9tida are sugar
plums in comparison But what else could
we do but make the trial? The widows son,
his former companion, had come to me in
Providence, anu had given him advice.
That was all; and the rum seller and the
razor had given him-death. Who would
make an effort now to save Cary, if we did
noto That WAS he question. James Cary
was saved but it cost us five months board
tt-how much per week? His clothes did
not cost much, for he wore those had cast
off, but they were clean, although here and
there ornamental with IL pLlch. You would
nave laughed reader, to hi z Seen the set
of them, for my weight is about il hundred
and eighty and he was us thin us Oliver
TWIST, who Jared sumptuously ON Cruel,
us you remember. But what IL struggle
the poor fellow had for few days! The
presiding genius of that home. Il had told
HIM to call ner mother,) had to make him
Il good many cups Of strong coffee, and to
bake HIM Il good many cistarls, an to
speak to him "a good many encoura ing
words, during the first week. do not
leave us, James, however badly you may
feel; stay with Us come what may, and Ae
VIII do all we can for you. p" Il will
maam. I'll stick by live or die, i'll die
with the tremens, l Il die here. THAT is
right. james; but you will not die. You
may feel sometimes rs if you would die
but you will not; you will live to retrieve
the past; you have had terrible uca-
Clon, but never mind, you II be a man yet
Such used to be the talk. In IA few
weeks, the ulcers upon his limbs healed
without any other medicine than pure wa
ter applied externally and internally, with
clean dressings or bandages for his limbs,
hich he was able personally to manage.
His appetite for food increased. and he
gained flesh and strength daily. His
,hambling gait gave place to "a regul,r
aud nrm step, anI ut tue end VI i've