. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ldren and the children of others, thatthese may be saved from the power and influence of intem-perance. CHAPTER XI. MY POSITION DEFINED—REASON AND REVELATION—THECURTAIN LIFTED — TALES OF THE FALLEN. A Titled Toll-Man — Learning versus Common Sense — Our Standpoint —An Actor with a Proud Record — Incidents of my Visit to Califor-nia— Help Mc Out of This Hell — A Cry of Agony—••Drinks MyCurse—Lifting the Curtain — Secrets of theCharnel House — My Inter-view with a Physician — Its No Use, I m a Lost Laddie, Good-by —A Clergymans Sad Downfa
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ldren and the children of others, thatthese may be saved from the power and influence of intem-perance. CHAPTER XI. MY POSITION DEFINED—REASON AND REVELATION—THECURTAIN LIFTED — TALES OF THE FALLEN. A Titled Toll-Man — Learning versus Common Sense — Our Standpoint —An Actor with a Proud Record — Incidents of my Visit to Califor-nia— Help Mc Out of This Hell — A Cry of Agony—••Drinks MyCurse—Lifting the Curtain — Secrets of theCharnel House — My Inter-view with a Physician — Its No Use, I m a Lost Laddie, Good-by —A Clergymans Sad Downfall — Employed as a Hostler in a Stable —?• Vnu Know Who I Am. Go Away from Me — Lost! Lost! LOST ! — An Explorers Testimony — An Interesting Narrative — A CampaignFull of Hardship and Danger — Soldiers Without Grog —What theyEndured — Sir Henry Havelocks Report—Storming a Fortress after aMarch of Forty Miles — Sitting on a Hornets Nest — A Roys Com-position on a Pin — Stimulus not E know some persons con-sider it a condescension topatronize us, but a goodenterprise patronizes everyhuman being that thorough-ly engages in it; there is nostooping in the man. I do not carewho lie is. who will sign the temper-ance pledge ler the benefit of hisbrother, lakes a step upwards. Wecannot steep in doing a good you think the Duke of Buccleuch has Liken a step down,because, in order to prevent drink being sold in the toll-houses On his large estate, he lias taken these toll-houses intohis own hands, and en every toll-gate has had painted:256 A GRAND AND NOBLE ENTERPRISE. 257 Walter Scott, Duke of Buccleuch, toll-man ? Do yousuppose he lowered himself in becoming a toll-man for thesake of his neighbors, his tenants, and the community atlarge? He never took a higher step in his life. There is grandeur and nobility about our call it tame and commonplace. It forms a grand epicpoem such as
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