Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-10-07
w, C.T.U. COLUMN.
TEACH AND PROTECT.

Teach the cnllOFen I'D Idlc oISS
That is well. Give them reasons
scientific reasons why they should
fear it, shun it. Drill them in these
truths, but do not rest content there
No teaching is enough in itself. Inc
child needs protection also. Be con-
tent with nothing short of the re-
movaI Of the saloon from the path OF
the young.
In my girlhood 1 paid visit to
the land of Evangefne. Many OF
the persons that I then met, come OF
the homes 1 then entered are still
vivid in my memory, but one little
figure stands conspicuous among all
the rest. The bright, dark, eager
face made a strong impression upon
me at the time-the face of a boy
quick, intelligent, boy advanced far
beyond his nine short years in oetn
thought and understanding, already
lover of books, the best scholar IN the
village school.
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father who loved strong drink-a
kind and indulgent father when hlm-
self. but one on whom the habit was
fast strengthening. Willie was often
sent for the whisky and beer to sat
isfy his fathers thirst, and his PROUD
spirit revolted from the loath ONE
task. At last one day he rebelieo
openly, declaring he had carried the
last LIQUOR he would ever carry, what
ever the conse quences might be.
recall yet the thrill of admiration
that went through me at the NOBLE
declaration, for the child had seem
ingly taken his position Wltnou
either advice or urgency from any
one. His mother, much as she dis
liked her husbands habit and deplore
her little sons connection with II
; still looked on both as necessary evil
which must be borne and woul
better be borne cheerfully.
That beautiful boy has long sine
; become a man and, strange to say,
!, victim of the same vice that was b
: fathers ruin. In early life he left b
o home, before those who loved hi
best were fully aware that this app
tite had laid its hold. upon him. t
Q had come into his heritage as
drunkard's son. In some hour
y temptation or despair he had tast
= of intoxicants, to find they held
y deadly fascination for him. Tod
:: he wanders in some part of t
1; United States-God knows where
n miserable, dissatisfied with himse
Ii fettered. He is alone, because
IS, would not willingly bind another
to his or to the misery of drum
IL ards wife; because he would l
~ bring children into the world ours
" as he had been cursed from Dir
el. Gifted, highly organized, fitted
nature for best things, he wand
as defeated, warped, undone, and c.
s. sciously so. Yet he hated strt
drink as a child and realized
I'M harmfulness.
lei; I had letter from his sister.
p wrote that she had been trying
800 discover his last hiding place,
on that she was praying that sue
15c; revival as was Shaking arcs LII
shake this land of ours, that her
bar one might be found of God and SAY
box. All, how many of US need to join
pas in such praying!
LOU Beloved, the moral of this stol
oo4' plain. Noble desires, the consci
ness of the evil of strong drll
even hatred of it is not strong enc
4oc to save our youths. We must e
slew. them indeed to fear, and teach
also aDhy they should fear this q
shell; demon, but we must not be satl
half or rest-or let others rest-untll
oxen saloon is driven altogether from
pathway; until the weakest al
e"cn them-the one born to the herlta
- i'n appetite-may walk safely.-MI
r. GRAHAM CLARK, in Unie n Sigl