The air resounded with the loud noises coming from these mills.

Night and day they were "run," never ceasing until the "logs" were "worked up." Relays of hands were employed at all these lumbering centres, so that the saw-mills never stopped even for an hour during "the season," except for some occasional repairs.

All these men drank rum; a quart a day per man was a moderate quantity; but a great many of them required two quarts a day.

The result of this was, that the entire wages of the men were consumed in drink, except a meagre share that went to the miserable wives and children at home.
Everywhere throughout the State the results of this way of life was to be seen--in the general poverty of the people, and in the shabbiness of all their surroundings.

But some persons conceived the idea that all this evil was not necessary and inevitable; that it came from the liquor traffic, which might be prohibited and suppressed, as lottery-tickets, gambling-houses and impure books and pictures had already been.