Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-11
HIS SACRIFICES. :


HIS SACRIFICES.
You must have experienced many
Inconvenience and made Treac sacrl-
fees, going 10 sea so lonGano net Ileid-
ing to the many teinptat at.OnS which sur
round >ca-faring men: not pa-' 1king OF
offered drinks at the tables Cf fricrds,
etc. - said lady Good TcmDlar to
brother of the Order who had plowed
good many fErrows across the oceans OF
this world.
Well yes. madam, the sacrifices which
my Temperance principles have cost
me have been away beyond anything
YOU have imagined. First thing that
attracted my motto" ut sea was the large
proportion of sca-faI'ing men who. after
many long years OF hard and dangerous
service, stood in Il ragged suit of two
Sinwic garments and Il crazy pair of
castaway odd slippers. and could stow
away in one stocking. if they had one,
all their real estate and personal prop
ertv, except their ruined constitution
and blasted hopes. The temptation to
work and Frj,th and grow into an old
age of heggary and slavery like theirs
was next to Irresistible You can t CON
ceivc what Il sacrifice it was to smother
that ambition.
who had made a rapid climb up to the
grades of Chief Mate and Captain, be-
cause they Were talented, brave. capa-
bic, generous. Jolly fellows. who could
dare and do ali Things, and were liked
10y everybody for their good qualities.
But after making Il rapid progress to the
first rank their alliance with the whisky
bottle had somehow led them down to
the billet of steward. q cook or a com
mon drunken jack. under Captain
WHO perhaps had made his first trip rs
Il bnl under their command In one
voyarc from China we h;si four men in
the forrcastl2 who had been Captains OF
foreign ships
These men were regularly drunked
and robbed hv the land-sharks every
time they arrived in Il harbor: were
then solid to another ship. and all their
advance, were it one. two or three
months wares. regularly stolen away
from them. IL 1t most always is nova
iiaI~ in san Francisco. Now, madame.
can YOU understand what a lcart-rack-
inc sacrifice ii WAS not to drink and
follow iii their footsteps. and be no >tcd
on board ship rs helpless aS 4 quarter
of beef or Il sack of onions. and have
Mr.. Shark enjoy all my wages?
Then there were other sacrifices to
tiram-~hop. the tlieatcr and the dance
cellar: these were attractions so fH--
cisratinw that most of my e>thetic brrth
ren invested in them all their present
cash and the clothes and boots and
wraps that should hav" made them G M
Portable ON thr LONG nights OF - wincr
pa-Sa~.. around Care Horn or from Eu
rope To- New York.
10 resist these allurcmcntS on shore.
and in their place to patronlze the book
..tor" the riothiorS. the rcadln"rOomS
and the Bethel SUNDAY meetings. To
visit evenings Il; ihc homes of good.
honest. worthy families. whose ho~pi-
triitr< Were gladly extended t. III"
stranger that ;,soidr bad company. and
could interest them with descriptions OF
foreign lands and strange peoples
and then to 90 to sea with plenty Of
clothing and a modest bank hoo!t-t"
have to suffer :,ii tiIi~. YOU can Jiin re
what ii cross ii was nnt to drink.
Then la cr along tn" man who avoid
ed the way cf >tromr drink was always
given the trtl-ty jobs and got the tru>ty
mans pay and the truSty mans ad-
vanccmcnt And ali along his sober
habit led him into Il higher and better
circle of friends and acquaintanceS than
the moderate drinkcr fell into. The fol
lowing incident was one of a good
many similar ones that could be related:
Your friend on his first visit to Il GER
tain large seaport was invited to the
house of the merchant conSiGnce. At
dinner Two dccantcrS stood in front of
the host. '.Will You take port or sher
rv?" said he 1T may look singular,
but ! take neither, sir "Niil YOU
have brandy? becr?'' No sir. n"v-
er take anything OF the kind; have. not
rnr MANY wears Possiblc?' said be:
we'll il NAV be singular, but there i~
nothing so commendsa = sea-faring man
10 me az. his total abstinence Do
YOU know Captain M? Yes. he
is NV intimate friend" "-Well, Cap
tain N I,IoesnoB drink even coffee
and he ia nv f.voritc z6'aptain; If you
are like him. YOU and he will always he
the two inst 10 get 4 freight that L can
give or get iif this port. And he made
his word good as long rs he lived
The mere circu1nstance< of our not
drinking was always getting. Us t""
t:,krn notice Of bv people whose ac-
auaintance was valuable to us and
pleasant as we'll, but who would never
have heard of us otherwise These. a.
though mostly drinking men, intro
duced us to others who hointercsted them
selves in our behalf and made every
thing prosper uuder our hand Ihat Is
the Kind OF sacrifice and suffering that
our total abstinence always kept heap
. And that is the. kind Of sacrifice that
our Young readers win have to make
" ho touch-nee. taste not the uncieah
drink. They viii associate with nohler
men and more excellent women, VIII
win the respect and confidence OF the
best people and avoid a thousand traps
and snares which otherwise might pro
vide them with abundant store of
shameful, torturing memorles.-ooh
Francisco Rescue. -