The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
Temperance.
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Begin Early.
BY REV. II. c. CRANE.

by the town CLOCK SITlklllS One lnSledlt
of twelve. Since that day the city
clocks have sometimes been kept an
hour ahead of the true time. Ii we are
to save our nation from the arch-con-
spiracy, intemperance, we must put
orr reform clocks ahead and begin
with the little children. The drunk
ards are savable and should not be
neglected; but we must especially
work for the next generation, which
now is plastic to our holding. The
same effort that is necessary to lift up
and keep up one fallen man would
probably save score of children from
falling. If the ship is sinking, let us
first stop the leak. OF course we must
work the pumps. But if the leak were
stopped, even though the present
drunkards should all go to their des-
pair, it would be bright hope for the
next generation. Bands of Hope,
Sunday-School armies, and various
other children's organizations should
reticulate the civilized world. Not a
child should escape methodical, con-
slant, thorough temperance-dlill. Let
books like DR.. Richardson's be multi
piled. Issue temperance catechisms
not only for the old, but what the little
girl called "kittychisms," for the
young.
Put the appalling facts before the
mind. Make the embryonic taxpayer
understand the burden of the rum bill.
Let him realize that nine out of ten
criminals are such because of drink.
Show him how asylums and aims
houses are filled. Make tangible by
charts and experiments how alcohol
behaves in the brain and stomach.
Make vivid the physical and moral
effects of intemperance-the murders,
adulteries, dishonesties, wastes and
wars. Drill him at home, line Oh
line;" teach him at day-school, "pre-
cept upon precept;" repeat at Sunday
school "here little, there a little"
Wendell Phillips says that "agitation
is the atmosphere OF brains" Robert
Peel defined it to be "the marshaling
of the conscience of a nation to mold
its laws" Let agitation give the young
enlightened consciences. Some one
said of Ireland. "lt needs tdterS, not
agitators." But the prolonged child
hood of that unfortunate people proves
the need of proper instruction. Make
boys and girls understand the venom
of the viper, and they will not put it in
their bosoms.
1t is easy to put cucumber in a
small-necked bottle if you begin early
enough, but it is difficult to get it out
when it is once grown. Good habits
and bad habits grow in easily, but are
drawn out with much effort. A lad
drinking in Shiny pool unconsciously
swallowed little snake. Years after,
that animal having grown within him,
as he supposed, to fearful size, brought
him to the verge Of insanity. That
may have been only fancy, but we
know that in the tempter's cup, be it
filled merely with beer and ale, there
is creature which will grow and grow,
until, sat last, it biteth like serpent
and stingeth like an adder" If the
first glass is untouched, the unresling
appetite will never be nourishing. 1t
is easier to keep this serpent out, than,
once in, to get 1t out.
An interesting survey of the amount
prohibition we already have is given
in the report of the committee on tenn.
perance in the Congregational associa.
ton of Oregon and Washington Terri
tory. There is prohibition of liquor
selling to Indians on reservations, as
was formerly the case with slaves on
plantations; prohibition of sale 10
minors and drunkards in nearly every
state and territory; prohibition on cleo
ton days; prohibition in U. S. army
and navy quarters; in the merchant
marine, and whaling fleets of the ma
ton; on railroad lines, river and lake
steamships, and in private bushes:
corporations, and churches, besides
prohibition by local option in thousands
of cities, villages and counties and con
stitutional prohibition in four sovereign
states of this nation; Maine, Vermont
Iowa,and Kansas.
The ravages of alcohol are no
confined to the poor and lowly
Among the recent victims of alco
holism" found dead in the nigh
in one of the streets of this cit,
was wealthy resident of Fifth avenue
a college graduate, with rare opportu
mites for general culture. lie was
however, overpowered by alcohol, ant
is supposed to have fallen and fracture,
his skull while intoxicated. Nor ar
men of wealth and good social position
the only victims. The New York Oh
Serrer, in a recent issue, referred u
the Christian Home for lntemperat
Women as "already demonstrating tn
wisdom as well as kindness of it
founders and managers" adding
Ladies of respectable position il
society have sought its pleasant retreat
where they are preserved from al
temptation to drunkenness, and ar
weaned from the desire that ha
brought them low" Alcohol is no re
specter of persons. To tamper with
is to be imperilled by it.-Nationo
Temperance AdrOcdte.
A druggist of reputation gives as
reason why SO many men find it Difficult
TO quit the tobacco habit, the Statement
that the opium in the cigar favorin
FORCES the chain that binds them. Tn
following is the recipe for making
0ten cent CIGAR for five centgv