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VOLUME 5XVI— No. 11. 
NEW- YORK, NOVEMBER, 1867. 
NEW SERIES— No. 250. 
THREE MEMBERS OF THE TEMPERANCE 
[COPYTUGTTT SSOtHtED.] 
SOCIETY. — FROM A PAINTING BY J. F. HERRING. — Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
We are sure Mr. Herring appreciated water 
ill its clear, cool purity, in its invigorating fresh- 
ness, in its health-giving, joy-giving, life-giving 
freeness, in its abundance, showered upon us as 
one of Heaven's richest boons, welling up from 
subterranean depths ; making glad the pastures, 
satisfying the cattle, reviving the faint, refresh- 
ing the weary. — The group of heads before us 
is a beautiful conception, and the picture re- 
pays study from different points of view. The 
artist's name for his production is the same 
which we have given it above, and in this age 
of excess and whiskey frauds we may well 
ponder upon the superiority of this natural 
beverage to all others, and perhaps join the 
horses iu a draught. The characters exhibited 
by the three animals are very different. The 
nearest drank his sip from habit, was not thirsty, 
and is a little cross. The next has filled himself 
to satiety and enjoys it to the full ; while the 
later comer, in the earnestness of thirst, is pump- 
ing the big draughts down his throat with a real 
gusto. We see in the first horse a hypochondriac 
who has joined the temperance society, partly 
to get some good if he can, partly to have 
society, and to be able to talk, to carp and 
criticise. He bears about him the marks 
of former years of excess. The middle one 
portrays the member who never committed an 
excess in his life, and never will. He is a 
member of the society by nature, genial, honest, 
good, strong in the right, and by precept and 
example wishes to keep others so. Black Hawk 
is Young America on the right track, now wildly 
enthusiastic as a temperance reformer, as he was 
gay among the clicking glasses. Ho goes in for 
water on his own account and on even body's 
else, and withal is just as good, honest, and 
exemplary as his friend by his side. Our 
friends will agree with us that the above is a 
successful reproduction of one of Herring's 
most admired pictures. There are many artists 
who can paint a horse's head with anatomical 
accuracy, but there are very few who, like Her- 
ring, can give the expression that indicates the 
character of the animal. Every lover of the 
horse can judge cpiite correctly of his dis- 
position by looking at his face and eye. 
