The Tyranny Of Appetite

In Mrs. Stowe's story, entitled "My Wife and I," thero occurs a thrilling passage regarding the degrading vice of a drunkard's appetite, which reveáis its desperate tyranny. It is wliero Bolton is giving his reasons why he does not uiarry, and 'is as follows : "One sip wonld flash to my brain like fire, oud then all fear all care, all eonseience would be gonc, and not one dozen would be inevitable. Then you roight have to look for me in somo of those dons to which. the possessed of the devil flee when tho flt is on theia, and where they rave and tear and cut theruselves until madness is worn out. This hashappened to me after peridds of sclf-deniul and eelf-control and illasivé hope. It seems to me that my experience is like a idüp. whom somo cruel fiend oondeinns to pro through all tho agonies of drowning over and over again - the dark plunge, the niad struggle, the suffocation, the wild horror, the agony, the club h at tlf.' shore, the weary clamber up stcep roe-les, the senso of relief, recovery and hope, on!}' to be wrenched off and thrown back to struggle and strangle, aim sink again. II I had fallen dead after the first glass of wine I had tasted, it would hare been thought a horrible thing ; but it would have been bettei for my mother, better for me, thail to have liveu as I did."