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Show 0DJECT LESSON SEEN IN POLICE COURT. : "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth it- jelf aright, for at the last itbiteth like a serpent and stingeth like en adder." "Wine is a mocker, strong drink IS )UAGING, and whosoever who-soever is deceived thereby is not wise." Proverbs of Bolomon. A young girl, just blossoming into womanhood, with fair features fea-tures and slender figure, stood, in Police court, under the eyes of the vulgarly curious a few days ago, and was charged with being a moral leper. An aged woman, bent with the weight of seventy-three years, her white hair disheveled, the marks of pain and suffering on her wrinkled, careworn face, her body bent and twisted by disease, facd the court on the same day charged with drunkenness. I ' . "-,''. Both had been brought to their positions of shame and degradation degrada-tion by that insiduous serpent, strong drink. The girl, for she was not yet a woman, had started on the path that Sqlomon said "leads to hell," but a few days before. The old woman, old enough to be he mother of any of the spectators who leered and sneered at her, bad tarried at the winecup until her reason had been temporarily ' .dethroned. To the police she was simply "a drunk." , ' ' :.. Seldom is there seen even in a Police court, a stronger object, lesson, that should warn those who. have begun to tread the primrose prim-rose path of dalliance that leads to shame and dishonor. But the lesson was lost on many of those who saw the incident the deadly parallel, showing how strong drink is even a greater leveler than death. ' ' . - You have seen beauty clothed with rags and shame, and manhood man-hood shorn of its glory. . You have seen the fall of those that held honor and position descend on the sliding scale that has -no end ' , save in the gutter and in the brothel. You have seen the sacrifice of ' virtue, of honor, of integrity, of intellect, of wealth, of life and soul, upon the altar of wine and strong drink. , You have seen the fairest, purest women debased and the beginning was the creation of an insatiable appetite by the moderate drinking of alcoholic, spiritous and.vinous liquors. |