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Saw him sink lower and die.
saw the stone that fore only his name
The rain drops chatter and rave,
SAW the mother with sorrow and shame,
Bowed to the brink Of the grave.
Ella Wheeler.
London's Juvenile Drunkards.
One day last week Lady Henry Somerset,
q very earnest and eloquent champion OF TO-
tai abstinence, was initiated at Hereford into
the Order of the Eechabites, and in long
speech spoke out frankly about drinking at
Whitechapel. "a week or two ago, on
Saturday night" she said, II was walking
down Whitechapel road, and as L went
great longing came into my heart That
could take some of the leading men of our
land down into the midst of that scene. OIL
the misery, degradation and sin that were
there, all spring;ng from the feet OF this awful
drink traffic, which iaunts its brazen head N.
undisguised inieuty on all sides, house after
house vying with each other III leading men
and women into deeper sin. how they make
downfall easier and more certain! Not con-
tented with the ordinary puulic-house, they
have now invented new method-that Of
having an archway in the open street, with
only counter; over which drink is served
to the passer-by, so that the public need
open no door that they pass All these places
are served by young girls. Your hearts
would have sickened if you could have
looked on those yourg faces. l say
shame on us as O nation. In
America the amount of drinking is enormous.
But there is all honor to the nation in one re-
spect; their feeling about children and young
girls does not exist in England. You never
find native-born American girl serving as
barmaid in the States. On all the land over
which wave the stars and stripes you Will
not find young girls placed in positions OF
such temptation and danger. l cannot de-
scribe the horrors of that scene in White
chapel, the streets illuminated by the lights
of gin palaces There is the low theatre,
which is doing the DEVILS work six days out
pf seven. These theatres are now being
licensed to sell drink on Sunday, as If SIX
days are not enough! How can put before
you the sin and misery of that scene! 10 see
the children f1ocking out Of those dens Of sin!
l state no exaggeration, no overdraWn pic
ture. You have only to read the police re-
ports. Last year you will find in London
alone 500 children under ten years old were
taken up dead drunk, and there were 300
under fourteen, and 2U00 under twenty one.
Oh! as I walked down the street it seemed as
if He, called the Man OF Sorrows was by my
side, and prayed that there n the midst or
that sin He should be able to say: She hath
done what she could. .''-Pau Mall Gazette.
A Story by John B. Cough.
A lady in Jersey City said to me once 81
have a son who at the time he was elghteen
years of age came down stairs one NE"
Years morning, and he said: Mamma.
dear, Happy New Year Happy New Year
kissed me on both sides Of my face, and atter
breakfast he said : Now / am going out for
the first time in my life to make regular New
Year calls; you know have called occasion
ally; never make it a business; now am
going all day to-day. Goodbye, mother q"
She said she sat in the bay-window and saw
him as he turned the corner, manly and sweet
and clean and noble, and she was proud OF
her boy; thought of her boy all day long
all day The bell rang in the evening rather
strangely, and she said curious sensation
came over her as If something was wrong.
Instead of letting the girl go she went her.
self. opened the door, and Two young men
had brought home her boy so drunk ne could
not walk Bring him in They toos
him il. Lay him on the 1ioor
Never mind the sofa, lay him on the
floor She said II sat down and tooN
that boys hand in mine and looked at him.
Oh, how l did cry! He was SO sweet this
mosphere of this drawing-room. He was so
lovely; now look at him! The lips seem
swollen: the face absolutely seems as II tne
skin had grown coarse il ten hours did
cry. Then tried to rass my fingers through
his hair, damp and matted pushed lt on
from his forehead. Oh, did cry; it seemed
as though my heart would break. Mr.
Cough, il had felt that that was the work
of my boys worst enemy IL would have COM
forted me; should have been consoled." l
said: "A mothtr's love could shield him from
his enemies III any direction. But tbs is the
work of his friend! If that is the work OF
my boy's friend, God pity ME! have very
little hope for him. That was his first intoxl-
tion but not his last, and he is going to ruin;
it is done in friendship"
AIconoI as Medicine.
Soma striking instances are given OF the
danger OF taking alcohol as ineG cine. We
quote the following: "1n village adjacent
to my own native town in New England lived
a man eighty years of age. He was pattern
Of morality and integrity-a grand and noble
Christian man. He was a deacon i'll the
church, and to know him was to love hlm.
He was taken suddenly sick. At that time
it was customary and considered right TO
drink; no one among his acquaintance knew
that he had any passion for stimulants, bat
when on that bed OF sickness his physician
prescribed a stimuanJ, he said: Doctor, l
dare not drink it. Years ago, before came
to this section of the country, l was misera-
BILE drunkard. had to leave my old home
and get away from my associates, to break
the tyrannous habit that held me, since
which time have not dared to touch any
thing of an alcoholic nature The doctor
laughed at him, however, and insisted upon
him taking the prescription as the one con-
dition of his recovery. He took the stimu-
delirium tremens. The old latent fires that
never 60 out had been reused, the treacher-
Gus flames Of passion burst out with re-
doubled fury, and he could not conquer
them. 1t cannot be too strongly urged, or
too firmly grasped, that the only safe stand
for those who have been drinking men to
take is total abstinence forever from all that
can intoxicate THE Outlook.
Temperance News and Notes.
Neal Dow says he has not drank wine for
sixty years.
A live business always springs out Of a
dead saloon.
Temperance, employment, and cheerful
spirit, are the great preservers of health.
The court Of last resort-after the other
resorts-the police court, the next morning.
Is it right to license a man to make paup-
ers, and tLen tax sober men to take care or
them?
Prosperity awaits all men, and even pur.
sues some, but it is never found in the haunts
of vice.
The general agent Of the Prisoners Aid
Society, of Baltimore, reports that out OF
9S9S persons committed to jail during the past
year, 1854 were committed for drunkenness
Out of 29,l3S arrests by the police. 19,Sl5
were for intoxication. Out of 2-!23 admitted
to Bay View Asylum, I'LL were incorporate
All this is the ''revenus" derived from 30oo
saloons
The chemical test and the test of medical
experiments complete the proof that alcohol,
il all its forms, is q foe to life: and an In
vestigation of the alleged beneficial tenden-
cies Of alcoholic Stimu ants will demonstrate
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