A TEETOTAL CAPTAIN 



"I was born in the state of Maine. My father 

 was lost at sea when I was a little fellow. I, 

 too, loved the sea and determined some day to 

 command a ship. Mother tried hard to make 

 me like some other business better, but it seemed 

 born in me to love 



'A life on the ocean wave, 

 A home on the rolling deep.' 



Then my mother said I should go with her 

 blessing, and she told me of the many tempta- 

 tions I must be ready to meet and to resist. She 

 talked much to me about temperance, and I 

 signed the total abstinence pledge in her Bible. 

 Mother taught me many temperance recitations. 

 Some of these I spoke in public at temperance 

 meetings, and the one I liked best of all was 

 about two ships, the 'Social Glass' and 'Tem- 

 perance.' These two ships sailed out of the har- 

 bor together, both looking gay and fair, with 

 their flags flying and their white sails shining 

 in the sun, but the 'Social Glass' was wrecked 

 and never returned to port, while the Teetotal 

 ship made many successful voyages." 



As the captain talked about his boyhood days, 

 his clear blue eyes grew very bright, and he 



