Show the demon alcohol I one of the saddest sights we ever saw took place on fourth street yesterday afternoon A strong man in the meridian of life was toiling painfully along loaded to tho guards with whisky A little daughter who bad evidently been in search of him was pleading with the eloquence of virginia for papa to ago homo with her the besotted wretch completely lost to pride and indifferent to shame mumbled his incoherent barg on of defiance and threat to the little angel that trudged wearily by his side now caressing him with her innocent hand and now pleading with her childish voice tho staring gaze of strangers ns the two took their slow way along wag to her sho was indifferent to everything but the safety of her drunken father surely it eliat beseeching face and those swimming eyes do not find sympathy in human hearts they will find favor in the sight of a pitying god |