. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ll in their way, but they arenot in my line. I have been an actorsince I was eighteen years of age, and I amnow forty-two, and I never drank adrop of intoxicating liquor in mylife. What do you think of that?I am proud of it was no howling dervishof .a temperance cared but little for the ab-stract principle, but as to thefact of his own total absti-nence he said, I m proud ofit.* Yet there were men whocame to me in that city by thescore, — I say it within bounds,—one of them the son of awell-known lawyer in New York
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . ll in their way, but they arenot in my line. I have been an actorsince I was eighteen years of age, and I amnow forty-two, and I never drank adrop of intoxicating liquor in mylife. What do you think of that?I am proud of it was no howling dervishof .a temperance cared but little for the ab-stract principle, but as to thefact of his own total absti-nence he said, I m proud ofit.* Yet there were men whocame to me in that city by thescore, — I say it within bounds,—one of them the son of awell-known lawyer in New York, who, as he grovelled at myfeet and clasped my hands, said: *For the love of God, helpme out of this hell! Whats the matter with you?Drinks my curse! Yes. thats it. It comes from theprison, Drink s my curse ! It comes from your houses ofcorrection, Drink s my curse ! It comes echoing from thelunatic asylum, Drinks my curse! It comes from thepale-faced wife and the starving children, Drinks mycurse! It comes hissing hot through the black lips of the. DRINK S MY CURSE. DRINKS MY CURSE. 261 dying drunkard, Drink s my curse ! And not a man whohas escaped but to-day rejoices in the fact of his escape. Look at the wrecks of men to be seen on every hand. Oh,young men, I wish I could lift the curtain that conceals fromyour view the secrets of this charnel-house. A man aboutforty years of age, a graduate of Edinburgh University,came to me and showed me his diploma as a was a fluent linguist and a very cultivated gentleman,
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