The Forrest City times., 1890-07-26

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 "Whp, Roy sohdt is the matter7' Tor me when you are gone; but let come what may, you are always the same to me. My prayers will daily ascend to heaven for your protection and guidance"
 We here draw the curtain and leave the lovers to enjoy the parting scene alone. CHAPTER III.-Eoy ENTERS UPON HIS NEW
 DUTIES.
 A week later Roy arrived in the metrop- oils of the northwest and was employed in the great wholesale house of J. J. Gaylord, No 1i99 - street. There was a large corps of clerks and each one had his par ticular part of the work to do, and, Roy being the latest accession to the clerical force, was assigned to the lowest place that of general roustabout
 He got along remarkably well with his work, but everything was new to him and so different to the mountainous country in which he had spent all his life that he was at times almost persuaded to give 1t up and return home Paved streets and smooth stone and brick sidewalks had not half the charms for him that there was in the rough stony roads and the narrow uu- even foot-paths that wound their way through the ivy brush and wintergreen on the mountains and hills, and the gas and electric light shone dimly in compar. ison with the new moon as it illuminated the hills and valleys of his southern home. But as time passed along and he became more accustomed to city life, and his new business. he gradually became satisfied, and daily grew in favor with his employer and the employees
 How little do boys and young men real ize the trials and disappointments they are to encounter when they have once left home and drifted about in the world among strangers to battle against vice and immortality. They do not stop to see that they are taking n leap III the uara, and that every step is either upward to fame or downward to tho level of the or dinary, or total shipwreck. There can be no neutral ground upon which young man may walk. He must either progress or recede Nature endows him with tho power 10 shape his own future. The cities are full of hauuts of vice and upon nearly every street corner may be found hell gate ajar to entice and entrap the young and unwary These places are protected by the laws of our land to the great detri- IueDt ot tHt IlSiuR EthtAdNshis anu fht sooner they are closed the better 1t will be for suffering humanity.
 Roy's early acquaintances were limited to his immediate neighborhood and for a young man of his age he had seen but very little of the world He could see no grlevous faults in the acts of his associ- ates but, like himself, thought all men honest, and 1t had always been ray of sunshine in his life to look upon the bright side of everything and in his good nature passed by the little misdeeds of others and attributed them to mistakes of the head and not of the heart, IL is part of the nature of the truly good and righteous thus to give the benefit of all doubts to their friends
 There was. however, an evil rapidly growing, not only within reach of his ob- servation, but all over the country, about which he had seriously studied from the time of his early childhood with not the least degree oi aituwahce.
 "Wby will men drink that which fires the brain and dethrones their reasonih was his oft repeated question when he saw men reeling and staggering under the power of strong drink. And from his ex- periencc while an employe in Hines dis tillery he was better fortified than had he not seen so much drunkenness and de- bauchery.
 He had seen strong men become as help less as an infant by the monster intem- perance. He had known once happy homes broken up and worse than or phaned children thrown out upon the cold charity of the world by the use of strong drink. He had. with sorrowful heart, watched some of his childhood associates stagger into the presence of d heart-brok gu mother, and of all this he attributed the evil not alone to the consumers but to the authorities who sit upon the throne of justice and say that it is lawful and therefore right, so long as revenue can oe collected therefrom, notwithstanding t imperils the body and souls of millions ,f its subjects Are those millions of persons any less in bondage by reason of heir unnatural acquired appetite than were the millions of slaves whose chains ,f bon dage were broken Asunder by the death upon bloody battle fields of many Of our noble, patriotic fathers and sons, who upfiinchingly laid down ther lives for that which they knew to be rightf Will tho liquor traffic end In a parallel 70 the suppression or slavery Nul ous lawmakers continue to say it is right un- til God. through the agency of men. shall cry out against it in laundering tones of battle,
 He had with great anxiety watched the downward course of George and Harry Hines. and rightfuily placed the blame where 1t belonged. Their father did not care, or was too much engrossed in hts business to sec that the article he was manufacturing, and hoarding a fortune from, was robbing him of his two boys the noblest work of God
 These things were so apparent to Roy that he fairly shuddered when he realized within the reach of what great danger he had stood these many years, and worse still, to see some Of his friends yielding and vcrginG on the brink of ruin. In the light of all this he had long since resolved to abstain from 1t. and that he might be free from the very appearance of the evil, he determined to engage in . business where he might be free from the temptation; and now when we find him in the great city hc is better fortified against the monster than the majority of young men who are placed in similar situ. | ations
 Roy was very closely watched day by day and his every net noted by Mir Gay. lord, who from the first had shown great interest in him He was sent on import. ant errands. trusted with large sums of money to carry to the bank for, dsposit and many other things that would be . tstnutatlon to young man with an h.