Character 
Lessons to 
Train Youth 
By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
[Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
opment league. ] 
XX.— Temperance. 
HE writer of 
these les- 
sons when 
a boy was invit- 
ed with all the 
other members of 
his class to a pic- 
nic at the home 
of one of his com- 
panions, who was 
very poor and 
whose widowed 
mother support- 
ed herself and 
her son from a 
JAMES T. WHITE. small apple or- 
chard. After spending the afternoon 
fn boyish sports the class was invited 
into the orchard to have some apples. 
With generous hospitality the host in- 
_ Yited the boys to help themselves, but 
to his amazement the boys, who were 
all from homes of refinement and sup- 
4 posed to be well brought up, began an 
_ orgy of unrestrained apple eating and 
_ after gorging themselves with all they 
could possibly eat stripped the trees in 
_ wanton waste, just taking a bite here 
_ and there, and destroyed barrels of ap- 
ples. The poor boy host could not 
conceal that this waste was an unlook- 
ed for financial loss. It was an intem- 
perate indulgence and abuse of hos- 
pitality that was contemptible. 
. In general, temperance is a kind of 
power to hold appetite at arm’s length, 
as it were; to handle it or put it whol- 
ly away, according to one’s will. It is 
like the regulator of a clock, which 
prevents it from going too fast or too 
slow. 
It is also an expression of freedom. 
A temperate person is master of all his 
_ appetites. The intemperate person is 
ruled by his appetite and thus becomes 
- aslave. At each moment of a man’s 
_ life he is either a king or a slave. As 
he surrenders to a wrong appetite, to 
any human weakness, to any failure, 
he isaslave. As he day by day crush- 
es out human weakness and recreates 
a new self from the sin and folly of 
the past he is a king. 
Every boy must begin in youth to 
tame these wild beasts of his passions 
if he would draw their teeth and clip 
their claws. This is the task of life, 
to tame them into domestic animals 
and servants, restive perhaps, but sub- 
missive. 
Experience shows that, quicker than 
almost any other physical agency. al- 
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coudgt vreuKsS GOWN a Mabs power or 
seif control, and this is a moral injury 
a thousand times worse than the physi- 
cal evils, great as they are. Manhood 
is lost, and the drunken man surren 
ders the reins of his nature to a fool 
or a fiend. Lyman Beecher was once 
asked why he was a total abstainer. 
He replied, “I thought I had better use 
my head.” The young man who means 
to do the best possible work’ bis body 
and mind can do must keep his body 
and mind as pure as Beecher kept his 
brain. The laws of health are as sa- 
cred as the Ten Commandments. 
Intemperance destroys self respect, 
the soul’s health. Gluttony and drunk- 
enhess cause disgust to those about 
us. The candy habit is too often car- 
ried to excess, and to deny oneself this 
indulgence is good practice in self re- 
straint, which is a great help in con- 
trolling more dangerous appetites. 
The appetites are so insidious—first, 
there occurreth to the mind a simple 
evil thought, then a strong imagina- 
tion, afterward delight, and lastly con- 
sent. A step toward temperance is 
appeal to the higher senses. The choice 
given to children between a second 
dish of ice cream or a bunch of flow- 
ers usually falls on the flowers. 
The value of total abstinence is be- 
coming widely recognized, and the 
United States Steel company and the 
Pennsylvania railroad have lately put 
out a rule that any employee who takes 
even a single glass of liquor will be 
discharged, and the belief is rapidly 
extending through the large industrial 
establishments that total abstinence 
will probably do more for the cause of 
temperance than all legislation, for it 
defines that absolute temperance is the 
requirement of business success. 
Practice.—Let each boy sign a per- 
sonal pledge with himself, “I will not 
drink, I will not smoke cigarettes, I 
will be a king over myself and not be 
a slave to any habit.” 
Literature. 
Temperance and labor are the best 
physicians of man.—Rousseau. 
Oh, that men should put an enemy 
into their mouths to steal away their 
brains—that we should with joy, rev- 
el, pleasure and applause transform 
ourselves into beasts!—Shakespeare. 
Temperance is a bridle of gold. He 
who uses it rightly is more like a god 
than like a man.—Richard Burton. 
Temperance keeps the senses clear 
and unembarrassed and makes them 
seize the object with more keenness 
nnd satisfaction It appears with life 
in the face and decorum in the person. 
It gives you the command of your 
head, secures your health and pre- 
serves you in a eondition for business. 
—Jeremy Collier. 
Temperance puts coals on the fire, 
mea! in the barrel, money in the purse, 
credit in the community, contentment 
in the house, clothes on the children, 
vigor in the body, intelligence in the 
whole constitution—Benjamin Frank- 
lin, 
Telephone 
Magnolia Wagoneite Line 
_ A. J. ROWE, Prop. 
Carriages to Let by day, week or season 
Auto Garage Connection 
Norman Avenue, Magnolia 
FOREST WARDEN NOTICE 
This is to inform the public that I have 
been appointed Forest Warden for Man- 
chester by Mr. F. W. Rane, State Forester, 
and I have appointed the following as my 
deputies: 
M. E. GORMAN, 
NATHAN P. MELDRUM, 
JOSEPH P. LEARY, 
LORENZO BAKER, 
JAMES SALTER, 
JACOB H. KITFIELD, 
WM. YOUNG, 
FRED’K BURNHAM, Forest Warden. 
WOOD SAWED 
By Machinery, 
Work Done Promptly and at a Sav- 
ing from the Old-Fashioned Way. 
S. Albert Sinnicks 
North Street - - Manchester 
Telephone 139-13 
Location of Fire Alarm Boxes 
31. Electric Light Station. 
33. Telephone Exchange Office. 
34. Summer Street, P. H. Boyle’s Stable. 
41. Corner Bridge and Pine sts. 
43. Corner Harbor and Bridge sts. 
52. Fire Engine house, School st. 
54. Corner School and Lincoln sts. 
56. School st., opp. the grounds of the 
Essex County club. 
61. Sea st., H. S. Chase’s House. 
62. Corner Beach and Mosconomo. 
64. ‘‘Lobster Cove.’’ 
Two blasts, all out or under control, 
Three blasts, extra call. 
Directions for giving an alarm: Break 
the glass, turn the key and open the dovr, 
pull the hook down once and let go. 
JAMES HOARE, Chief, 
GEORGE S. SINNICKS, 
CLARENCE W. MORGAN, 
Engineers of Fire Department. 
Manchester Post Office 
SAMUEL L. WHEATON, Postmaster. 
MAILS Ci.OSE 
For Boston, North, East, West and 
South, 7.02 and 10.04 a. m., 1.05, 4.51 and 
7.55 p. m. 
For Gloucester and Rockport, 11.12 a. 
m., 2.38, 5.24 and 8 p. m. For Magnolia, 
2.38, 5.24 and 8 p. m. 
MAILS DUE 
From Boston on trains due at 7.02, 9.13 
and 11.42 a. m., 3.08 and 5.54 p. m. 
From Gloucester and Rockport, 7.27 and 
10.34 a. ms, 1.35 and 5.19 p. m. rom 
Magnolia, 7.27 a. m. and 1.35 p. m. 
SUNDAY MAIL arrives from Boston at 
9.07, closes for Bogton at 9.50 a. m. 
The office will be open on holidays from 
7 to 10.05 a. m. Sundays from 9. 80 te 
10.30 a. m. 
