After riding on horseback about three miles, through deep mud of clay road, in the breaking-up of winter, the doctor knocked at his minister's door, and on entrance, before taking seat in the house, he earnestly uttered the following words: ' Mr. Armstrong, I have come to see you on important business.' Then, lifting up both hands, he continued : ' We shall all become a community of drunkards in this town unless something is done to arrest the progress of intemperance.' " The poet has sung in soul-stirring numbers of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. There are, indeed, certain resemblances between it and Dr. Clark's historic adventure. It was night ; there was national peril ; heroes were in the saddle, and the voices of their fervent appeals were destined to reverberate down the aisles of time -- " words that shall echo forevermore," Due notice having been given to the people of the ■toW'iis of Moreau and Northumberland, a meeting for the purpose. of forming a temperance society was held at the pubHc house of Captain Peter L. Mawney, at Clark's Corners, on April 13, 1808. Resolutions were adopted, the chief of whidi was that " in the opinion of t^is meeting it is proper, practicable and necessary to form a temperance society in this place ; and that the great and leading object of this society is wholly to abstain from ardent spirits." A committee, of which Dr. Clark was chairman, was appointed to prepare the Bylaws for the organization, and twenty-three persons enrolled themselves as members. The following is the list of the signers : Isaac B. Pa}Ti, Ichabod Hawley, David Parsons, James Mott, Alvaro Hawley, Thomas Cotton, David Tillotson, Billy J. Clark, Charles Kellogg, jr., Elnathan