Show the turning point traveling lat last summer slimmer through ver mont jont I 1 chanced to bo be sitting ono evening upon tho the piazzi of 0 a little tiou total hotel in the tha company of a gray halrid nian man a largo large and wealthy man ol of who win was a native of 0 the town bat had left it yema yearn before and was now returned for a little visit isit tar far tho the crat time in nearly forty ya years aro our conversation touched upon the subject lof temperance iia spoke of tho of 0 young man vt of the present day whose lives were utter niter failures mud and who were wrecks boily and bout ton through intemperance deploring this tact fact houlda lie also spoke ot at liia ilia own decision in tha alia matter as i tho the key to all the success of 0 him hi life ilia then pointing to un tin old building across ill thal wiy way ito said whon when I 1 was waa it young man that old building was a thriving factory ila HB manufactures the duet chief industry of the town there I 1 earned my living those were the ilia daya ili ya before the subject of 0 temperance wan waa ranch much agitated almost everybody drunk drank more or less lea it wui was the lie custom universally for the factory boys boya to moot facet on artur Sidur day evening in a 11 certain place ianco and have a jilly night ot of it drinking and anil malting making L merry or y to dope up tho ilia wook nono none liked thid bettor than and all my crony anu blathers jim and I 1 usually leatho lod the crowd in ill stories songs nod act drinking toasts 11 hut bob after while awhile it ono one day it suddenly I 1 y dawned upon tie me that even as aa early I 1 in n the tha week as I 1 found myself longing for or saturday Sat night 11 tho the cou sequences of this thia discovery aavo mo me it shock unil and think thank god open opened 0 d my oya eyes to the way I 1 was tending I 1 said not it word t to 0 a fault not even to jim mothers Mat liers lut but when hen saturday came I 1 out but out oat as aa nonal haual for our place of nito liag between lore hero and the aloro I could set tuy my foot upon tho the very spot lowi met jim coming coining toward me we va neither of us ns spoke I 1 put out tuy liabo ancho ami bo ilia his though it was not it linnit with us to extend such buch form of greeting gru eting hut but it seemed as 08 it if tho the namo manic thought was waa in each mind I 1 I 1 jomo J jira lm sald bald 11 I 1 I 1 lets lata unlike make a resolution to quit 11 I 1 agreed said bind jim wo kept our pledge he till his hi death some ton tan youra years after mail I 1 till the ilia Bont 0 tit moment and nd whatever ver macheas ares I 1 have hud had in ill lite life I 1 owe to tho the tremolo tiou lion of that hour I 1 have comeback come benok iiona to theold the old town to look for the boys boya but I 1 find none of them thero hero was not on one of at all that merrymaking merry making crowd that ever made an impress on oa the world or won even a position tiou of linear honor at aitor t or th tha a little story hom lit lila a own m life he told LOU naother nu other which is interest inte rost ing na its showing bow times lavive changed from that day to this there was waa another young man who left tle the town about the sunio same tim time ous as himself with the idu idea of oil himself for the tha ministry but bat ho he found alter after a little that it would bo be better to change his hii purpose pur poso still so BU ho be oban boned tho the chott anti and wont to do too tor for employ employment men t 1 raiding at girat to tied find anything moru more congenial aud unwilling to bo be idle he ha took a position ua as u butler or toward steward in ono one of the that families 0 of f tho the of city it Y for it time oil all wont well lie found a good homo home and hla his employer a good servant bat the day came whoa the gentleman gave a grout patty aud and wine anil and liquors flowed like water baroro bafaro it was over tho the sor services rices of tho the steward warn moro more ia ini demand manucso or attendant ut upon guests unable to cue care for themselves vos than in any other capacity tile tho ideas of the vermont boy were in advance ol of his times he was mia a staunch of temperance and lie ho was VM filled with disgust di that his duties forced him to mingle in such As all soon as aa the n next at day dawned ha be appon appo rail urea quietly before his hia employer with a request for a set bet of accounts counti uc and the announcement that lie he must leavo leave him why laby said the stately t have you yet not a good home yes ves are y yon on not Batis flud with your wages 1 yea then why do yon loll leave I 1 am satisfied sulia llod with you yon B aej ud would not have you yea lomo leave mo me aa uj 1 you will not readily und find another such anch u homo home I 1 think 11 well 16 all thuu thou lia ila loril iod hesitating hosit sting ly 11 I 1 cannot stay in ill it 11 place where I 1 oat mix mix with teen men as I 1 ilia did last lait night ono emu cau tell whether the tha bod boa ton gentleman who opened lia his doors to nono none bat life choicest society WM was moro astonished or amused but it wua was in vain that he argued that lie ho must set bet before liia hit guests what others did anti and that it I 1 a thu the custom of cf society iho youth wai determined to free himself I 1 maeef 1 1111 huch custom no ladu cemen t could tempt him to remain gamam the gifted bon aon of that very house holLi from which for such sach reason it servant thus went want forth forty years ago is ia today to day oua one of tho the most malvery longood orators of our an emit one of his latest arid and must most brilliant appeals is in behalf of tho the anco reform companion Compan ioa |