God pity and strengthen her is my heartfelt prayer.

She will have need, I fear, of more than human help and comfort." "You take the worst for granted ?" The lady drew a deep sigh: "I fear the worst, and know something of what the worst means.

There are few families of any note in our city," she added, after a slight pause, "in which sorrow has not entered through the door of intemperance.

Ah! is not the name of the evil that comes in through this door Legion?
and we throw it wide open and invite both young and old to enter.

We draw them by various allurements.