Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-12-31
Temperance.
TEMPERANCE BEST EVERYWHERE.

TEMPERANCE BEST EVERYWHERE.
w. c.. Staunton, Superintendent
of the Boys House of Refuge, in
New Orleans, writes as follows:
MANY persons delude themselves
into becoming hopeiessly addicted
to liquors under the false idea that
it will enable them to bear up under
the strain of hard labor, or to safely
endure the extremes of heat and
cold. | claim to speak by the card
on this subject. Up to my forty
second year l was rigid total alb
stainer. [ was at that age severely
injured by being crushed by steam
engine while experimenting it's trans
ferral from a steamer to the wharf.
A drinking man would have died
from such an injury. his over-heated
blood would have made his bruised
body one mass of Inflammation,
which would have ended his life in
a few hours. | was nearly paralyzed,
but my blood being cool and healthy
there was no unusual Inflammation,
so, after eighteen months, L was
able to resume my occupation as SUI
perintendent of the loading and I'M
loading of a line of steamships.
While recovering from this accident
L (for the first time in my life) used
liquor, on a regular medical prescrip-
ton. 1 am now fifty-two years of
age. At the age of eleven years l
was in the English navy. In 1913
volunteered, from another ship,
to serve under Captain Penny in the
'Rattlesnake," then under sailing
orders for the Arctic regions to
search for Sir John Franklin. In
spite of my youth l bore up in good
health under the terrible rigors of
the Arctic climate, and in all the
labor required l did mans full
complement of work. | was men
toned by Capt. Penny in his "Mem-
oirs' on account of my great phys
ical endurance, and of all my en-
durance | credit to the fact that my
natural strength was never under
mined by alcohol. Every person in
Capt, Penny's crew was taken for
the cruise only after a rigid medical
examination, topers being uncere-
moniously rejected; but once in the
Arctic zone, the men who had Occa-
sionallv INDUCED in a spree on shore
quickly found out that every dram
ever taken had done its part toward
impairing their constitutions. Such
men, moderate drinkers, as they are
termed, could not stand the COM
bined effects of cold aud hunger,
and were good examples of the in
furious effects of moderate drinking"
Mr.. Staunton goes on to say that
he afterward in the navy and mer-
camille marine, served for long
time under the broiling sun of the
tropics, and his temperate habits
again sustained him under most try
ing circumstances, when those of his
companions who were moderate drink
ers were overcome by the heat.
A TEMPERANCE BIRD.
Canary birds are cleanly little
creatures, with a nice sense of what
is good for them and what is not.
The Methodist 4Advocate relates di-
verting instance of this:
Mary Mason had pet bird which
has shown great intelligence, and
has been trained to many pretty
things.
Every day at meal time Mary
opens the cage door, and Dick flies
out and lights upon her shoulder,
where he must be quiet and still
while Mr.. Mason asks blessing on
their food, so, unless he comes at
once when the cage door is opened,
he waits in silence till the blessing
is over.
Once fairly perched on Mary's
shoulder, he expects taste of ev-
cry thing she eats, and whenever
she drinks she holds spoonful of
tea or coffee up to him, which he
sips with relish.
One day Mary was i'll, feeling no
appetite, and growing often very
faint. The doctor ordered her bran
DIV and water to revive her, and
when she tasted it, Dick as usual,
called for his share. He laid his
little head against her face caress-
ingly, peeped and coaxed till, just
for fun, she determined to crafty
him. But no sooner had Dick tast-
ed the brandy, then he flew into a
| violent passion, and shook his head,
stamped his feet and beat his wings
scoldingly all the time.
Then in disgust he flew back into
his cage, and would neither come
out nor notice his young mistress
again all day.
O, that our boys, when spirits are
| offered them, would reject them in
dignantly as did this little bird.