Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-08-05
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
SOME METHODS OF PREVENTION.

temperance nome how one could work
to destroy the craving for liquor. He
looked at me with some surprise that
a man IN my profession should ask
such Question, and said at once, s'No
man ever becomes temperate himself
unless he tries to make some one else
temperate" In fashion, had known
this, as every preacher of Christianity
must know it; it is a doctrine laid
down in the Gospels in hundred
forms; but I had never used it as
working formula, nor had [ recon-
mended it to other people as I have
done since. Let me say this to any
persons trying to reform relative Or
friend: you must Introduce this de-
sire to help forward somebody else, or
your work will not stand long. Your
protege need not speak at temperance
meetings if he does not want to, but
do you take care that he is doing
something in the general cause of
purity = that he is thinking of some
one besides himself. We do not at
tain purity by thinking of impurity,
we do not attain to temperance by
thinking of intemperance. Give him
high motive, and you have SO far
lifted him from the plane on which he
slipped and fell.
An old man and wise friend, who is
still living under the not cold shadow
of fourscore and ten, intoxicating prac-
tical morals, said to me once, "You
are interested in temperance; I will
tell you how to save men from drunk
enness." And when I eagerly asked
the secret, he replied by saying,
"Make them plant trees, make them
plant trees! So soon as they are in
terested in the growth of anything
else, they will be led outside them
selves and they will not have time to
be drunk!' I should be afraid to trust
to this instruction if / had man re-
turned to me from the House of Cor
rection after his tenth confinement,
for the tenth spree which had COM
manded the attention of the police,
but it involves an element which
ought to be more considered than it
seems to be generally. You want to
change the manner of life of your pa
tient as largely as you can; especially
you want to take him into the open
air, if you can. The army in the Civil
War was, for the private, school of
temperance. I think most officers
will agree with me in this. For offic-
ers it was often, alas! school of
drunkenness, because they could or
der for their own use liquors which
their men could not use. But under
the absolute prohibition which existed
when an army was far from any "civ-
ilized post" and in the freedom and
freshness of the open air life, many
man learned practically lesson which
before he had no opportunity to try.
If [ were the dictator of this nation
there should be beef tea or some slim
ulant Of equal value and innocence, at
the door of every factory where hard
work is done, that each man or wo-
man might drink a cup as he goes out
from work before he could refresh
himself elsewhere. You overcome
evil by putting in good. You keep
the devils out of the house by intro
ducing angels. And the person who
is thoroughly we'll fed escapes one of
the most terrible temptations, as it
comes upon the person who is hungry.
-EdDard EUerett Hale u, Cosmopolitan.
a
woman sentenced tie death recently in
London for the murder of her infant
child, uttered a protest on hearing the
verdict, Gin an incoherent speech
broken with Sobs that has touched
the peoples heart" While opini ons
differ as to capital punishment, if ever
the mitigation of a sentence was mer
tied it is in the case of these misera-
BILE young wifeless mothers, who must
bear in their own bodies, and if the
law is carried out, expiate at a ropes
end, that which is really the crime of
two. In the French legislature an at
tempt was lately made to amend the
barbarous law imposed on France by
that man of fb]ood and iron,'' the first
Napoleon, under which no inquiry as
to the paternity of child born out of
wedlock is permitted, but the chival
rio Frenchmen declined so much as to
take a vote on the subject; they like
the law too we'll! The laws of England
and America are less inhuman but the
meshes of the net of legislation are
still far too loosely knitted to catch
that most Elusive of all live creatures