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M_v voice faltered—-Mother wept aloud. I sum
moned courage to say —father, will you quit
drinking? “Hush your impudence! Do you
presume to lecture your father!” This answer !
contained the first hard words my father ever ut- j
tered tome.
Sorrow, gloom and sadness now overshadowed
us. My father went on, from bad to woise—we
were reduced to poverty. Our hous6 was sold
by the sheriff, for debts that had no connexion
with our family expenses. My mothers health
failed—she‘left the world to wretchedness and
woe!’ Her last articulation was a prayer for her
husband and daughter. Yes, and when the pow- i
Cr ot speech was gone, h#r upturned eye and
moving lip told that she was beseeching mercy
for those she loved. “ She’s gone!” said the at-[
tendant nurse, “ she’s gone!”
None but a bereaved daughter can realize my j
feelings at that moment. No earthly protector
but an intemperate father! Almost did I desire j
to be lifeless beside my mother ; but that wicked
thought was at once checked. Having conse
crated myself to the service of God, I felt bound j
to live for His glory, till he should call me hence.
The day of burial came. Custom was to offer
wine to those who came to sympathise. My fa- j
ther drank, his appetite being excited, was intox- |
icatcd; and in the absence of a clergyman, drunk !
as he was, proposed, and actually led, the devo- !
tional exercises at the grave! My heart sunk !
within me; I sorrowed more for my father’s con
duct than for my mother’s death.
The church had neglected all this time to call
my father to account. He was summoned for
trial, and expelled. On our communion Sabbath
he was called by name, and arose in the congre
gation. The closing sentence of the excommu
nication was—“ You are expelled from this
church, and delivered over to the buffettings of
Satan." These words pressed with mountain
weight on me. The sentence was just. But
the thought was insupportable that he should no
more meet with us at the sacramental board, and
might be excluded heaven.
I pass by years without comment. My resi
dence was far from my father—nor did I have
frequent intelligence from him. One afternoon
a stranger presented himself at my door—he
smiled. I at once recognized that smile, which
for twenty years I had not seen. My father!—
“ My child—my only child!” he answered—“l
bring you good news.—l am a reformed man.—
1 have taken the pledge.”
We are all happy, and are greatly amused that
our little Mary, who bears the name of her grand
mother, runs about the room calling out, “dam
pa’s come, dampa’s come.”
ARABELLA.
Kor the Washingtonian.
Geographical Enigma.
I am composed of fourteen letters :
My 1,5, 8, 10, is an Island in Oceanica;
“ 2,3, 5, is a Town in South America;
“ 3, 12, 5, 11, is a County in Missouri;
“ 4,5, 12, 12, is a County in Georgia;
“ 5, 11,1, is a River in Great Britain;
“ 6,5, 11, is a County in Missouri,
“ 7,5, 3,3, 10, is a City in Asia;
" 8,13, is a River in Europe;
“ 9,5, 8,9, 11, is a River in Asia;
11 10, 12, 9,5, 11 is a Range of Mountains in
Asia, .
“ 11, 10, 8, is an Island in Oceanica;
“ 12, 13, 13, 3,4, 13, 13, is an Island in the
Pacific Ocean ;
“ 13, 4, 2,13, is a River in the Western States;
“ 14, 13,13, 9, is a River in Iowa;
My whole, is the name of a celebrated advocate
of the Temperance cause,
W O N.
An answer is requested.
From the (Penfield) Temperance Banner.
From Greenesboro’, Mr. Taylor visited our
■own village of Penfield. It had been made known
in the neighboring country, that he would lecture
here on Monday evening of this week. At an
early hour, the Chapel of our University was pret
ty well filled; and at the close of the lecture, the
pledge being offered, 131 names were enrolled.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. T. again lectured
to a crowded house, and at the close about 50 ad
ditional names were added to the pledge. It was
announced, that other engagements would com- j
pel Mr. T. to close his labors here on Wednes- !
day evening. This annunciation was spread j
through the surround : :»g country, and at the ap- [
pointed hour our friends poured in upon us en- 1
masse. All classes and every body, for miles a- 1
round, were present—not even forgetting our old l
friend Aunt Betty Green, who was to be seen |
occupying a conspicuous seat near the speaker, i
This evening’s address was one of Mr. T’s best j
efforts, and at the dose, the list of pledges was |
swelled to 232!! Well done, Penfield. We
think a blow has been struck, that will drive the
old Prince from this region. Indeed, a clean
•weep bs« nearly hern made already We know
of but few individuals within miles of our village,
but have signed the pledge—“ hard cases.” shop
keepers, and all. Our fnends are in the best spi
i rits, and a ball has been set in motion, that will
I roll on, and roll on, till the cloven foot of Prince
! Alcohol will not make a single track upon the
sands of our soil.
ThePenfield Total Abstinence Society has
, dissolved, and a meeting ofallthe friends of the
cause is to be held at 2 o’clock, to morrow after
noon, for a new organization ; when, doubtless,
the principles of the Washingtonians will be a
dopted.
Mr. Taylor left here immediately after the lec
j ture, on Wednesday evening, on a short visit to
his family in Athens. He will be at Crawford
j ville at the end of the week, and from there he
goes to Washington.
| Before he left, at our request, he politely hand-
I ed us the following article:
Mr. Editor:—For four months past, I have been
! travelling in Georgia, disseminating the princi
! pies of the Washington Total Abstinence Soci
j ety;— I have visited the following Counties:—
: Richmond, Clark, Morgan, Walton, Newton,
j Jasper, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Cobb, Forsyth,
Cherokee, Henry, Pike, Bibb, Baldwin, Putnam,
and Greene. During the four months abovemen
j tinned, in visiting these Counties, I have delivered
i 142 addresses or lectures, in 125 days; the num
ber of Societies in the abov? Counties, organized
upon the Washington principles, is 31; the num
ber ofaccessions to the pledge in these Societies
jis 6,310. Os this number there are over 600 re
j formed drunkards, 500 of whom are men of fami
| lies; over 2,000 moderate drinkers, 1,600 temper-
I ate men ; and 2,000 ladies.
I I will explain what I mean by the different
l classes here mentioned: By a drunkard, I mean
a hard case, one who falls down, and feels for the
ground upwards, or holds fast to keep from falling
off.
By a moderate drinker, one who is in posthaste
j to the gutter, who lets “ his moderation be known
to all men.”
By a temperate man, one who takes a little,
now and then, for his aches and pains.
You know, sir, what l mean by ladies. We
dare not suppose them to be in the habit of drink
ing; but some of them think that a little wine,
porter and cider, brandy peaches and syllabub,
I are mighty nice. Os course we dare not lay bran
dv, gin and bald-face whiskey to their charge.
RICHARD P. TAYLOR.
From the Louisville Journal.
Temperance, Whiskey, Lird Oil, Stearin
Candles, Cornstalk Sugar, Berkshire
Hogs.
In the scheme of Providence, provision is made
to counterbalance, compensate, or supply all ex
cesses and deficiencies; and thus harmony is ,or
ever sustained in the affairs of the world. W hen
the temperance cause began to shut up the distil
leries and to throw the cooper and jug maker out
of employment, there were many misgivings
among the corn-growers and other parties inter
ested ; but no sooner had an over supply of corn
taken place, than ingenious necessity devised
modes of making sugar out of cornstalks, and oil
and candles out of corn elubrated into hogs.
Os corn-stalk sugar, the method of making it,
and the mode of cultivating the com for that pur
pose, we have already spoken at large in the Jour
nal.
We have likewise informed our readers of the
new uses to which hogs’ lard has recently been
applied, in the manufacture ofoil rivaling the best
1 whale and olive for burning and machinery, and
in the manufacture of candles equal to the best
sperm. A pound of hogs’lard will make half a
pound of stearin and half a pound of oil, Stearin
is, to the senses and to all other tests, identical
: with sperm. It can he manufactured, with a
I good profit, at 18 to 20c., perfectly pure. The
1 oil can be well afforded at 50 cents a gallon. Al
ready have a number of factories been established
; in the West, (at St, Louis, Cincinnati, and Lex
j irigton ; j and one is about being established here.
In fine, it is now reduced to a certainty that the
whale* business will be abandoned, and that the
hogs will hereafter supply the whole demand for
oil and sperm candles, not only in America, but
throughout the world. We say the whole demand,
because it is obvious that we can grow land
whales far cheaper than we can obtain the sperm
whale from the ocean. Os course, the stearin
candle, from being cheaper than the sperm has
been, will be more generally used.
infinite, then, will be the demand for lard.
How will the farmers supply the demand 1 Sim
ply by converting from 50 to 75 per cent, of his
hogs into lard; and nothing in the world can be
easier than this. It is only to procure a breed
good for making fat, (such as the Berkshire,) and
to trim the hams and shoulders close, converting,
if necessary, the whole middling into lard. The
hog must, of course, be fed from the start with
plenty of the most nutrious food, so that he may
nearly run altogether into fat.
Here is a serious matter to be digested by the
farmer. He may now make Indian corn the bur
den of his crop, and he will even find it necessa
ry to adopt the improved mode of cultivating it, by
which he can produce twice as much to the acre
as formerly. The name of Walter C. Young
will now be famous, ind thousands will owe their
fortunes to the Louisville Journal and the Dollar
Farmer. But what shall we say of Berkshire
hogs ? They will henceforth be in far greater
demand than they ever were before; for you may
as well attempt by hand to compete with the ma
•Whalei were becomeing quite icarce, gad the hogi
have stepped in to «upp)y the deficiency.
chinerv lor making shoe-pegs, as to bring the
land-pike and alligator hogs in competition with
the Berkshire in lard making.
From the N’. c. Temperauce Union
I'i'wiii the official returns made to the depart
ment of state, it appears that 71 million 162 thou
sand and eighty-nine gallons of intoxicating li
quors are annually consumed in the United
States, cider not included. Os this amount some
thing more than 40 millions of gallons are ardent
spirits. A large part of this reaches the consumer
at the retail price of six cents a glass, or eight dol
lars a gallon. We willsuppose, however, which
is no doubt far below the truth, that it reaches the
consumer at the price of fifty cents per gallon,
and at that rate, the amount spent for intoxica
ting liquor in our country would amount to the
enormous sum of35J millions of dollars a year.
It appears from the same official returns that
more than nine millions of capital, and more than
twelve thousand persons are engaged in its
manufacture in distilleries ami breweries. It is
certainly a low estimate to suppose that eight
times as many persons are engaged in its sale, as
there are in its manufacture. This would give
110,(WO persons employed in the sale and manu
facture of ardent spirits. The wealth of every
country depends upon its productive labor—anil
if that labor is withdrawn from useful occupations,
and devoted to that which is unproductive, so
much is subtracted from the wealth of the com
munity. If then we suppose the value of the la
bor of those persons engaged in the manufacture
and retail of ardent spirits to be worth fifty dol
lars only a year, we have an annual loss of labor
to the country ofs2j million of dollars.
There are supposed to be 375,000 drunkards in
the United States. Suppose these to lose, on an
average, 100 days labor in the year, and estimate
this at twenty cents a day, and we have another
loss to the community of 7j millions of dollars.
There is unquestionably a shortening of an aver
age of ten years in the lives of 50,000 drunkards,
who die annually of intemperance; this, at fifty
dollats a year, gives us another item of loss in the
productive labor of the country of 25 millions of
dollars annually.
Wc have now the materials for forming some
estimate of the l< ss arising from intemperance
to the wealth of the community.
71,000,000 gallons liquor, at 50 cts. $55,500,000
110,000 years of labor of persons en
gaged in the manufacture and sale,
at SSO per year, 5,500,000
100 days labor 0f275,000 drunkards,
at 20 cents a day, 7,500,000
10 years lavor of 60,000 men killed
annually by intemperance, at SSO
a year, 25,000,000
Cost of pauperism and crime, 7,000,000
$80,500,000
Making the enormous amount of Eighty Mil
lions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars annually.
To this is to be added the labor of criminals
confined, and paupers—the support of lunatics—
the amount of private charities to paupers, not in
cluded in the estimate—and the loss from ship
wrecks, disasters, and accidents of various kinds
occasioned by intemperance. No man can esti
mate those in the aggregate at less than 10 mil
lions of dollars more.
Ninety Millions of Dollars a year for the use
of intoxicating liquors in the United States.
Verily King Alcohol has ruled us with a rod
of iron.
Clay and Calhoun.
An anecdote is told of the meeting of Mr. Clay
and Mr. Calhoun, after the former had retired
from the Senate, which shows that political strife,
though it may for a while deaden the finer feel
ings ofthc heart, cannot destroy them, especially
in those hearts that heat with generous and man
ly sensibilities. As Mr. Clay was passing to
wards the door to leave the Senate Chamber, Mr.
Calhoun met him—they had not spoken to each
other for five years; but they now simultaneously
extended their hands, and rushed to each other’s
arms; neither spoke, but both wept. At length
Mr. Clay said on parting, “ Give my best regards
to Mrs. Calhoun.” How much more noble was
this reconcilliation and parting, than if they had
separated looking defiance at each other! They
had almost spent their lives together in Congress,
and at various times stood shoulder to shoulder,
animated by patriotism and emulous only of
serving their country. Time had passed over
both, and the young had become old. One was
about to retire, and both must ere long “ sleep the
sleep that knows no waking.” The retirement
of the one would leave the other with no com
pany or rival of his younger days, and it told him
emphatically that he too must soon follow.—
Thoughts like these soften the heart not wholly
indurated, and cause the fountain of generous
feeling to gush forth—it came and the two dis
tinguished rivals and antagonists, under the in
fluence of these sympathies, were drawn together.
Would that they had never been separated.”—
Worcester Waterfall.
“ Gentleman of the jury,” said a western law
yer, “ would you set a rat trap to catch a bar ?
Would you make fools of yourselves by endeavor
ing to spear a buffalo with a knitting needle lOr
would you attempt to empty out the Mississippi
with a goard 1 No, gentlemen, I know you would
not, then how can you be guilty of the absurdity
of finding my client guilty of man-slaughter for
taking the life of a woman ?’’
“ G’way, g’way, dere—yon’m doin’ gjischicf,’
said a negro, who stood on the top of a ladder to a
hog, which was rubbing against the bottom of it.
“ Ba-ah !” shrieks a halt'naked infant of about
eighteen months old.
What's the matter with mamma’s tweet little
duckey 1” says its affectionate mother, while she
presses it to her bosom, and the young sarpint in
return digs its iaions into her face.
“ Da den, .Vlissis, I knows wot little massa Jim
wants, exclaimed the cherub s negro nurse.
“Youblack hussy! why don’t you tell me,
then V’ and the infuriated mother gives Dinah a
douse in the chops with her shoe.
“ Why, he wants to put his foot in dat dar pan
ob gravy, wots coolen on de harf!” whimpers the
unfortunate blackey.
“Well and why dont you bring it here, you
aggravating nigger, you,” replies the mother of
the brawling brat.
Dinah brings the gravy, and little Jim puts his
feet in the pan, dashing the milk warm grease
about his sweet little shanks, to the infinite amuse
ment of his mother who tenderly exclaims—
“ Did inomor’s yettle Dimmy want to put its
teeny weeny footseys in the gravy. It shall play
in the pan as much as it choosy-wocsys, and then
it shall have its pooty red frock on, and go and
see its pappy-yappy!”
Now read the following bit knocked about
amongst our exchanges witnout any papa:
“Children.—They are the blessings of this
world —the sweets among its sorrows—the roses
among its thorns. With their merry smiles their
joyous voices light up our abodes as with a ray
from heaven. Whose heart does not leap within
him to hear their shouts ? Who can look on their
faces and not rejoice that there are such happy
creatures on this dull earth ? they meet the poor
man coming from his labor, anil he forgets his
fatigue, and his whole soul blesses them. They
gather round the rich man’s hearth, and he who
is haughty to others must stoop to fondle them.
The fortunate man comes home, and his success
es thrill him with deeper pleasure, as his children
welcome him—and the unfortunate retires from
a world where every tacc is stern, and every look
cold and once more is happy among his children.
They are a bond to bind us together—they keep
our hearts from being chilled by contact with the
world. God bless little children!”
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