"the Man Who Drinks."

j%ÍPittganfrgtts Tho man whn drinks js never, in tne end. "lbo man who laughs." Ho ia generaüy tho marr wlio weeps, or for hom othcrs must shed bitter tcars. He is, ] la ! a memtxrr of no partioular olass of society. You meet lam overywhero, from the lowest to the highest places of thi world, and always find hira not onij hin on worst o;iemy, but the unoonBcious encuiy of all who trust ín him. If among h band of bard-working mochanios you find one who, ou wages other doem sufliciont for decent clothes, tidy rooms aod corafortable diimors, ie always out at elbows, lways at logerhe&ds with hia landlord, and alwaya oom plainiDg of hsrd times, ten to one he is the man who drinks. 3f o the judge's bencb you meet a ntn who deals unjustly, who judgeg unlighteously, who is facetious in the presence of misery, nnd makes crime a jost, aud the Bentence of some poor wretuh an excuso fir Btupid puL-s and vulgar wittioism, there abo you may kuow the mnn who drioks - in bis own snuglittlo room, perhops- not opeuly, but all the same, a drunkard. If you eee a woman worn and pale and wretohed from soine unknown cause, fear ia hor eye and anxioty in her voice, youth gone too early, and her daily Jutica mere sari burdens, ten to one that hor husbniid is the man who drinks, - for wbo ever knew thnt mao to keep Lis tow, and love and oherith and proto'. h;B -.rife? The bcggar ohildren in the gnttors, ignorant and vile nd wretohod boyond deacription, aro his offspring. Tho jail opens to let him in. The gallows some timea endw his life. Th' man who drinks is not always an idiot, as one unight believe. The greatest stntesmon hare censed to ba great ; the best writers of the world droppcd their pons when thoy were most uaoful and most brilliant - splondid fellowB. whom men nduiiro I and wocnen loved - have fallen in their hoyday, of rum In one word, half tho world is a failurc, its hopos all wreoked, its love an offeriog on a ruined shrine, itssohumes dead failures, its crimes legión, it pribons and it charnel houses full, be