"god Pity The Opium-eater."

Ö)ïe Wd'U'íida.V morniag, at fi o'clock, ' a man wis foiiud Welta'illg ín gore ín j one of tin: closets of tbc ÍSt. Jame Hotel, j He was borne to the hospital, but, ero many squares had been travoled, he ' brcnthod kis last. The followiiig letter, written only n short tirne previous to his ; being foiiml in tlie Bgoniea of death, told the Story ! My own truc name is M. M. Wisllard, Lnte Superintendent Orphans' Home, Knightstown, Ind. I am paying dear tof iiiv söi; Orñum is the, cans! of if all. Write ])r. Hannanian soini.' OttP, plets, whi'ii I am gone. Cèixl only known how I have fcmglit tliiH terriblf hnliit. but wlioncvcr it 'ctH hold of the syHt'! t is too latr. 1 am xpe'ting ovory momunt to lx' nrrexted and takon to jail, ffhere I KÏiall oeyer come out alive. Ctutl pity the ópinm-éfttor. Am aliuost pat gning now. m: 1. 1H77. In Öie inside of ilio Sliert, pvideütlv written vhile nervirig himself to eoinmit Hiiioido, wero the following : Oh ! thftt I liad been Wise n the day of this visitation. I havo a faint hope of forgivenesn. I then legan to figlit it witli the denperation tïiat almoKt craed me, and. when nearly wol], would ilix'oiiiagid and go taak again. My dea family is my rcgiet. ÜU ! that 1 liad h'ou wÏ8E in time. S" man ever had a dearer family tlinn 1 luul. A ife and cliildren in m:tu ever saw. llow cruel 1 hjivn been. Tf thrpygh Jesus' blood. Although 1 have been a greíit tiimier, 1 a su mucli intoxieated by opium that I thouglit I was a Oliristian, but, alas, nlits. lien too late. I fear I find I was not. TlitJ OptalB t'ft't ma eontrae.ted more tlian ten years ago, thouglt nut filiflnnil nntil abont eilit yt'.-irM siuco. I live, of whieli 1 liave little hope, I would cbeerfully serve i hem. I fear mv ife and little ones are de.id pr insano. (í(k1 kiiowH 1 cannot recall my Ufe. The hotel employé shv that at (5 o'olock, witli erect hearing aud delilerate moVementH, he eutered the hotel aud straightwaV SoUght the closet. A kuife and a pair of snrgical scissors cotivey the rest of the chnpter. He first out his thioal with a peuknife, and then, inserting the scissors into the wound, tried Ui sever the main artery, but, before he acomplislied his purpose, he feil