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Show A TOPEft'S EXPERIENCE. lo the editor of the Sun Sir: In your iesue of December 24 I find quite "a long article Jrom an oid drinker. -Ptriuit me iu my turn to give a little personal experience. 1 am thirty-six years of Age; have used whiskey for twenty-one years; tor the last years of my drinking at least one quart a day, and frequently mere. I drank all "day and a good deal of toe night. I came to tho same conclusion viz: that no one addicted to its uso could quit. But after a terrible debauch, in ft I sober moment, I concluded that any man wi.o yielded his will power to drink was mentally weak. I went to to Bingham ton asylum to get sober; didsnjoama away, and have never tasted a drop since. I frequently smell of it in tho bottle to see which is too stronger; always find my appetite demands it, but I am on tup. " 1 set it asid and go away, feeling myself each time stronger. If I belonged - to forty churches, I would never partake of tkA fjlrd'a ur.t.ar mn l.'im. -i t hPV offer alcohol as ttie blood of Christ. Any man can stop if ho will ay. "No, sir," to every enemy in the guise of a friend who invites him to I drink. At first I felt daily the craving; crav-ing; but instead ol going to a grog shop or drug store, I would start for home as fast as I could walk, drink a cup of coffee, eat a few bites of bread, and return to my business. That BtOpped the craving at once. Any man who says ho can't quit, either has no desire to do so or is so imbecile imbe-cile in mind as to demand the immediate im-mediate attention of his (rb-uds. New. York Sun. Jim Bexseti is deceribed iu New York as a fallow of infinite nerve. Recorder Hackett relates that some years ago Bennett allowed him to shoot, at seven paces, a three cent piece, inserted in a cork and placed on the top of his head. Again Bennett Ben-nett invited him to shoot, at the same distance, the ashes from a cigar in his mouth. In neither case did he so much as wince. But it isn't phya-j ical nerve iu which the young man is1 lacking; it's moral courage. |