1930 The Saloon in the Home

finishing touch to the club was a violent quarrel between Capt. Hardwick and Squire Thaxter. From words they came to blows. The captain was knocked down with a brandy bottle and sadly bruised; when he got up he seized the spit-box and belabored Squire Thaxter so severely over the head that the poor wretch never spoke another word. Dr. Simpson undertook to trepan him but it was ascertained at the post mortem that the opera– tion of trepanning was performed in so bungling a manner that the Squire would have died anyhow. Capt. Hardwick was sen– tenced to hard labor for seven years and Dr. Simpson was forced by popular indignation to leave the town. And so the Club, hav– ing lost all its members, was forced to suspend, to the dismay of the tavern keeper. Family Temperance Almanac, 1835. OH NO! I N the ways of true Temperance see children delight:ing, So joyful and happy wherever we go; If firm to the purpose in which we're uniting We shall never be drunkards-oh never, oh no! The first little drop of strong drink that is taken Is the first step to ruin, e'en children may know; If the first little drop be in earnest forsaken, We shall never be drunkards-oh never, oh no! Then free from the ru.!n strong drink would occasion, We'll stand by our Temperance wherever we go; And if bad men should tempt we'll resist their persuasion And never be drlinkards-oh never, oh no! Band of Hope Melodist, 1865. [ 44 J