SELECTED SCRAPS

THE DRAM SHOP.
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SVoP YoUNo Man: Do you know the
character Of that house you are about to enter2
That is dram shop-a fashionable dram shop
Ia place where you may take the 6rst step 10
your downward career. There thousands have
fallen 10 rise no more IN honor--thousand who
were once surrounded by brilliant prospsc,s,
the sons ofdoating parents, the hopes Of fond
hearts, the support Of trembling age. They
went there as you are about to 20. to enjoy the
socisl hour, and salute the sparkling wine cup.
Then the fatal cord was twinsd about them,
and they found themselves every day being
possessed Of less and less power to serve il, un-
Ill. disgraced and almost pennyless, they were
elected from the altar on which they sacrificed
all--reputation, wealth, friends, parental hopes
and turned over to those underground hells
where the sunlight is not permitted to look
misery in the face.


Such, young man, il you enter may be
your career. Think not that you have more
power 10 resist temptation than others. The
strongest have fallen. There is no safety
but in retreat. Shun the FIRST glass and you
are safe. Drink j, and you may 'fill drunk
ards grave. To shun the first glass the more
easily, shun the place Of temptation. Look
not upon the gilded trappings Of the fashiona-
BILE bar room. Avoid the bats which the temp
ter holds ONT dazzling before you, Look, If
you must. to the dram shop at the other end Of
the drunkard's race course--the miserable, FL
thy, cellar where vice stalks knee deep in crime;
and if you look At nothing more alluring, you
are safe--you will die sober man. llH