A TRUE SKETCH.
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All loved him, and many weps his down


fall


Asa summer flower be bio oned while


and perished.


knew youlh-ano bic generous youth
from out whose heart there flowed a
living fouat Of pure aud holy feelings, ,whic b
spread around and fertilized the soil OF
friendship and warm and generous hearts
crowded about HIM and enclosed him IN a
circle of pure goodlike happiness. The
eyes of woman Frightened al his approach b.
and wealth and honor smiled TO WOO him 10
their circle


His days sped onward. and as a sum
mer brock sparkIes all joyous on It's glad>
some way,-so sped he on blilhesome "a
MD the light of woman's love aud man
hoods euloey. The ear:h. the sea. the air,
and every bright anf bubbling stream and
fount sent fotth their murmuriag melody
ana his pure heart unstained by worldly
guile, drank their glowing happiness


He wooed and won a maid of peerless
charms; being fair and delicate, aud pure.
bestowed the harvest of her hearts young
!ove. and earth become heaven.





The car of time rolled on. and clouds as
rose TO dim the horizon of his worldly bliss
The serpent ;nebrialion entered into the T.
den OF his heart The pure aud holy feel,
ings the God of nature had implanted In
his soul, became polluted by the influence
of his miscalled SOCIAL cup. The warm
and generous aspirations Of his soul became
frozen and calous within him. The tears
of the elched-the agony oilhe affi cted,
found no response, within his bosom. The
pure and holy fount of universal love with
IN his heart that once gushed forth at the
meanings OF misery, and prom pied the hand
TO administer unto the requirements OF thr
wretched, sent forth no more OF lis pure and
benevo ent offeriags Is waters had be-
come lnlermlngled with the poisoned Ia
gredientS of the wine cup. and the rank
weeds of intempeIancc had sprung up and
choked the source from whence the foun-
tain flowed. The dark spirit Of poverty
had fllpped his wings over his habitalion,
and the burning hand of disease had scared
the brightness of his eye, and palsied the
elasticity of his frame.


The friends who basked in the sunshine
of his prosperity, fed when the wintry
winds of adversely blew harsbly round his
dwelling


Pause, gentle reader.


Goto yon Iowly burial place and ask the
rank grass tha, spreads from lis poll1ted
soil, W no rises beneath It's lowiy surface,
and the signing wind will answer. The
mouIdering remains of druLkard" " There
lie the remains oil one who possessed heart
overfowing with the milk OF human kind
ness the days of whose boyhood were hal
lowed by high and noble aspirations the
hours of whose early manhood were un
stained by care and crime-:he setting olb
of whose destiny was enshroudsd in mist
of misery and degradation. He saw the
smile of joy sparkling in the bfim of the
wine cup. He noted not the demon Of des-
truction lurl<iog at the bottom ofthe goblet.
With eager hand he raised the poisoned
chalice to his lips and-he was not