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Show An Object Lesson. Iioir.iii juurn.ii.) Tho other day 11 young man In the prltno of life so far us his yours weru concerned, and ut atlmu whon htsm.in. hood powers should huvu been ut their zenith, filling his days with joy and his hfu with usefulness und hopu, making It a blessing to himself und others, grew aweary because all thut might havo bceu was not. As ho thot over the yearsof his wasted past, whoreln his joys had bcon brief, feverish and unnatural, un-natural, and his hours of sorrow und rcmurso inuuy; us ho contemplated the dark years of tho future, ull leading to an inevitable and through means-which ho hud not in tho past been ablo to resist, re-sist, and with his weakened powers could not hope to overcome in tho future, fu-ture, life seemed so blank, so hopeless unu barren, tnat inn moment or despair ho threw it away, dying 11 painful and shocking death. He was ouo oftho victims vic-tims of the drink hublt, that oven In Logao has claimed its victims- in the past, and which now has others in training train-ing every day. His was not tho first shameful, unnecessary death cuiiped primarily by whisky, nor will it bu tho lust unless there Is a reformation In a good many directions. There aro oth ers treading tho same path;, some just entcrlngupon it, others neurlnp its end. There uro fur too many youug men spuudlug their spare timo und money in saloons, who will eventually spend both timo and money that they cannot sparo in the same place. Thoy will bo hail fellow well met, alwavs welcome, during the earlier part of their caroor, while thoy ' havothc price." but In the end thoy will degenerate into unwelcomcd, unhonorcd "bums," good company neither lor thomsolvosnor anyone else. With health, snlrlts. nrosnects broken. cursed with an inordinate and unnatural unnat-ural appetite thoy can neither overcome nor find means to gratify without de-sending de-sending to tho lowest of mcnlul offices or becoming pleading beggers bereft of all independent rautihood, they will find II fo a barren wasto indeed, und many would end it at that stage, or before, It tney hud but the physical courage. Wo refer to tho recent sutcldo but tor tho I purpose ol calling attention to thu warring it convoys to others who aro IriUolfnglhe same roart. II it serves jo urn sffmio from it before lho J.lmc. c rives whon thoncourscdistufrfpr whl. they nro sacrificing life's best prospects "bltuth liko u serpent and stlngth iiko un adder," thu late victim will not have died in vain. |