The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-08-07

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Why cider ever became tavorite
drink or why il continues to be popular
as beverage Is mystery Niihia
thirty days alter its manufacture il be.
comes sour. hard, aud uppaatabIe. un'
less drugged or kept air tight, and no
candid man who does not drink il for
the drunk il produces can deny this
trulhiully and still many farmers who
claim to be temperate. men who dis
claim loudly against drunkenness, boast
OF putting five or ten barrels Of cider
10 their cellars for their own use and
exhibit feeling OF pride aud superior
ity over their poorer 0eighbor who
carelessly neglects TO put up even a
barrel Of cider 10 treat his friends
when they call From six to twelve
hundred barrels OF cider are made Ia
Manchester yearly perhaps more
and most Of it goes into the cellars Of
the farmers aud most Of it is drank
after it has fermented and become an
intoxicating liquor II all the harsh,
angry, bitter words that this annual
product of cider has caused TO pass
between numbers Of hard. working, re.
spectacle families and neighbors, were
written in book, they would make
quite large volume, any page Of
which il read to one of the authors
would shame and disgust him.
The wife of respectable farmer not
long since learning that her husband
was talking Of buying barrel Of eight.
months-old cider. remarked tc neigh
Dor: ! hope Mr. -- won't sell him
any cider. for we put six barrels OF
cider in our cellar last fail and it made
good deal of trouble while it lasted,
How many hard working wives Of
thrifty farmers in Vermont feel the
same sentiments but are too proud to
give them expression. There are
hard working, thrifty farmers in this
county who have families Of children
who have used ten barrels and more of
cider during the past year and have not
taken newspaper. What wonder is
il that the farmers who ought to be
the true lords Of the country remain
the mud stills Of society.
Is it strange that associations Of
farmers do not generally succeed, that
suspicion and distrust of each other
destroys every advantage that associ.
ated strength ought to bring? Is It
strange that dishonesty and fraud crop
out in nearly every association Of farm
ers Z What change would come over
the farming class Of Vermont if every
farmer would dispense with his barrels
OF cider as a beverage and for each
barrel now drank in his family would
subscribe for good family Newspaper
at ,east one for and in the name OF each
member OF bis family, even TO The
youngest child, so that the boys could
each have paper Of his o"n aud irel
that his knowledge Of The world wa
not limited TO the pota'o patch, toe
barn yard and the cider barrel 4
young man called at farmers house
not long ago aud drank three pints aGd
halt OF hard cider 10 Gfieen minutes.
The result was, drunken, abusive,
hall idiJt was put to bed six hours
after to sleep off the effects Of the
farmers favorte beverage Another
Young man called at another farmers
house aud draak quart Of hard cider
at a drAught result, a light aud a
badly bntrn hand Another young man
called Al another farmers house aud
drank al If the hardest kind at hard
cider that he wanted result, Tell IRON
bridge aud was killed within one mile
Of the cider tap
Young men. lor bumanity's sake. it
you must get drunk, drink something
as tolerable to the senses Of taste and
smell as swiIi And you, staid old
farmers who always have and always
will have barrel Of cider ier springs
work aud barrel Of cider Tor haying
aud bafrel Of cider after haying.
Pray die OF as fast as you can OF drop
that odd time custom Of drawing a
pitcher Of cider Tor every guzzler and
cider topper that comes ia with a smile
on bis face and anxious 10 enquire alter
your health aud II the potato bug IL
doing you much damage Anu you
won't be disturbed after midnight 10y
young nen proving about your house
who. although they have got ccrliG-
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