Show AN 0 an fn UT tay ay ala we k e rd an account of ot the d death tl by y suicide of E E G horrocks alio I 1 wag nit fo many years past a resident t of ogden city the career of this unfortunate man is full of warning to young men who ought lo 10 by the terrible example of his downfall and demise some eight or more years bears ago mr horrocks ac occupied a responsible position in a mercantile establishment of this city he filled an honorable position in respectable society and waa was very generally esteemed by his fell fellow ow citizens citizen 9 he also 9 was the pos possessor seasor of considerable means and maintained a creditable family he was regarded as an upright roan man and a faithful servant ot god at all events he obeyed the gospel and seemed to be a faithful adhe adherent fent to the teachings of christ but id ili th the P mid midst of all his honors and prosperity at the zenith of his manhood ho he made a fatal blunder by beginning to indulge in strow strong W drink at first of course be he was only a moderate drinker and did not indulge in those excesses which arc are often popularly regarded as marking the line between genteel indulgence and dr drunken debauchery but the demon alcohol usually attacks the most of his victims in the guise of deteel indulgence by and avd by the habit of drinking ardent spirits conf confirmed armed and mr horrocks went rapidly from bad to worse hie ilia property was dissipated and be hebe became caroe alienated from his brethren and his bis god by degrees degre cs he sank lower and lower in the scale of wretchedness until he be lost the esteem of everybody and was almost face to face with poverty po and finally as wo we have seen he took hia ilia own life and there ie is no doubt but that his indulgence in in intoxicating drink Is i s responsible for hia ilia ruin lei let young men think of this and scrupulously avoid the first step which led E G horrocks from ability and honor lionor down to the roost most dark and dreadful end his is but one of thousand thousands upon thousands ads of similar 1 alar cases and universal experience peri ence has lias proven that no toan however rec intel or exalted is safe ironi irom degradation and ruin both financial and spiritual after he has begun to tipple therefore The reford should young men and all others beware of the first liba lion and shun the grogshop as they would the portals port als of hell in the grogshops of tho the land yearly monthly daily and hourly reputations arc are blighted virtue sullied intellect ruined ruine ct and fortunes squandered within these dens where the I 1 demon lemon of alcohol flourishes death is nourished the hand band of the assassin is nerved the seede of crime are sown and tho the reign of satan generally upheld from the grogshop the roan man of weal wealth th departs a pauper the man of respectability ability a disgrace the man of health a wreck and the man of brains an imbecile alcohol makes widows reduces children to orphanage and converts homes horde s in to hells bells it led letl the ace once esteemed vel wealthy athy and able E G horrocks into intha a suicides idee grave therefore let alcohol and the grogshop 1 first last midst and at a all I I 1 timea that we may way escape the con sequences which emanate from them them alcohol is the sister of licentiousness ceu and boll are the twin gerics of anti in utah |