A SCENE FROM LIFE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2559, 28 March 1887, Page 2

A SCENE FROM LIFE.

In all large cities and topps, there^ 1 ar« incidents occurring every day, wMon if thenoveliat should portray them "in a book might • point n moral' far' niora A instructive.than anjr sermon.; the following;-- ,:' -,' : \ ' t ;^' ;;.. v^,'.;--A'yoiing man ehteretftbe BaMobm'-i of a village tavern; and- callffdl .'for A tf drink,"No,"said'the landlord,<'you,•• ;> have had the delirium tremens-'.-j&nCß?*-He- stepped to'make- rdbm'for'-i -'* couple of ypong meti who' tad just en',*, .tered, and the landlord them very, politely. \ Tha! others bad stood by silent and Bullen, when.' I 'they finished, then/walked- up-tHta•-';' landlord, and thusaddressed-bim W' " "Six years ago,af tlieir age, - 'where: those ypnng; men* > : was a young man .with: fair." prospefcf -• *; 'Now, at the age of faA;.:; a wreck, -body and mind.'; yon.'jeffj'il me to drinks In this room -I -formed«*. the habit that led'to :my,"ruin. : jNo'^'; '* sell me a few glasses more;' and ■-':', work' will be done. I $M\ ,Boon''be|on,i { ; of the way, There is no' hope; ''for,;ini«;t-:("j----•butthey can be. saved ;;do-'hoi sellfH ,; f to them, Sellirto:nfe'atid.'let hie <ind the \yorhlwill he, rid of me; but, ■'.■• for heavpu'R imke sell no more tothtJlri!'* '<■'.' The landlord • listened, '•remWing. Setting down Jim ttectSnlerci';-, he, exclaimed -'• God. help me this is'.. : ilie last drop t .will ever sell to any i i .iiniij". nod he kejit hia woriJ[»—Bbstoa .foywitijj(tt«r t .;■./ i ' - ■-• •','.-' "' ■ ■- •'-',,