Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-03-04
Temperamee.
"OUR BOYS" AND CORNER GRO
CERES.

| "Our Girls. Who Will tell US Wnab 10
do with our boys A? Whatever others
may think of them, there is one place
where they are awfully appreciated. and
that is at saloons. Then there is anoth-
er place where, though they are some
times perhaps nuisance. they find suf-
ficient attraction to spend their dimes,
getting an equivalent in the eating line,
with a ruin of soul and body thrown
in. A saloon openly proclaim its bust
ness, and our boys know the end when
they enter, if they pause to consider.
But never did piratical ship sail under
falser colors than do corner groceries.
There is an absolute necessity for peo-
pie, old and young, to 60 there. We
must all eat the very articles that can
be procured nowhere else. and when it
is discovered that something is required,
what more natural than that sour boy"
is sent in great haste. He quickly
brings the article that is required, no
one dreaming for an instant that, dur
ing the moment he was necessarily wait
ing for the parcel, he saw and heard
what he had never before seen and heard
what he will never forget. One knows
that if heavy stone fall upon worm
the worm will be crushed, but few real
ize that leaf falling upon soft clay
leaves its impress of the leaf. During
all the passing years while the clay is
hardening, the leaf has been growing
more and more apparent The analogy
is obvious. No one has ever dreamed
of the impression thus imperceptibly
made upon the boys mind in that cor
ner grocery. We would have shuddered
to have seen him entering saloon, but
the danger would have been no greater
perhaps not even SO crest, for he
would have been on his guard. We all
know that the most deadly malaria, that
which no medical skill can exterminate
from the system, has entered the body
when all around seemed most beautiful
There was no thought of danger, hence
no need of precaution. So with thu
= corner groceries. People seem to quite
forget that that green lattice means any
thing
One becomes accustomed to seeing it
and unless startled by some profan
word or the sound of glasses out of sight
IL one fOrgets what sad scenes the lattic
wells. We protest, in the name of al
that we as American citizens hold mos
dear, against any liberation of sellin,
n what so degrades man where respecta
BILE people must go. Selling grocerie
Mt is an honorable and reputable business
Mt Selling s0hiSkey is not. Then why blen
n the two, and make those who enter gro
: ceries enter grog-shops When the fea
full plague ragged in London during th
reign of King Charles III, upon the dool
of the sick were marked great red eros
es and the words Lord have Mere
upon US" A more fearful plague rag
in our midst, and yet there is no eros
no sign to mark the danger. We ma
NJ have all read of the nobleman who,
J the darkest of their dark days in TIL
:, plague stricken city, ordered his cuac
CHI and six, and was entering his carrial
ed. to flee from danger, when the thong
'O- occurred, "How much more noble
for stay and strive to save others" T
- stayed and saved hundreds. Is the
Y. none now with character as noble. thou,
no: it may be untitled, who will save so
~. boy" from the ten-fold greater evil tn
J disgraces while it kills. Let the corn
groceries bear the mark of the red eros
sly and may the Lord have mercy up
int those who enter, for man has none.
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With MRs. L. ~ DKoWNE.