In this appear many communications from those who are, or have been, inmates.

We make a few selections from some of these, which will be read with interest: "When I came into the Home, mind, memory, hope and energy were shattered.

The only animating thought remaining to me was a misty speculation as to where the next drink was to come from.

I had a kind of feeble perception that a few days more of the life I was leading must end my earthly career, but I didn't care.

As to the 'hereafter'-- that might take care of itself; I had no energy to make any provision for it.
"To-day, how different! A new man, utterly defiant of the devil and all 'his works and pomps,' I am ready and eager to take my place once more in the battle of life; atone for the miserable time gone by; to take again the place in the world I had forfeited, bearing ever in my breast the beautiful maxims of the German poet and philosopher, Schiller: 'Look not sorrowfully into the past; it comes not back again.