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YOUNG LADIES— "BEWAKE." 



Beware, young lady, beware! 

 A serpent lies coiled in the lees of that cup, 

 Which your handsome "young man" has so gaily caught up 

 And drained to the dregs. He may laugh at your fears. 

 But if you would shun the disgrace and the tears 

 Of the helpless, despairing, disconsolate wife 

 Of a drunkard who has driven all hope from your life; 

 When the years have flown by and the fiend has control 

 Of that handsome young man, mind, body and soul — 



Beware I 



Beware, young lady, beware I 

 This life has enough of pain, trouble and care 

 For those who act wisely. Then turn from the snare 

 Of the deadly drink demon; that promise, fair-spoken. 

 Of reform after marriage, is sure to be broken. 

 Oh, heed thou the counsels of wisdom and truth. 

 That thy age be not cursed with the choice of thy youth. 

 There are many young men, brave, noble and strong, 

 Then choose not from Satan's Bacchanalian throng — • 



Beware! 



Bemarks. — All the counsel above given as to young men's success, if they 

 heed or are governed by the "advice" given, is as applicable here to young 

 women as to them; and I need only add that I have known several young 

 women in my lifetime who, if they had heeded the advice of their friends and 

 not married young men already addicted to drink, would have saved themselves 

 from a life of suffering and wretchedness. Those who begin early in life to 

 drink seldom reform; and, if they try to do so, more "seldom" hold out but 

 a very short time It does seem as though they might, but they do not look 

 high enough for support. Christ has said: " My grace shall be sufficient for 

 thee." It must be to all who trust it fully, for He never spoke only what He 

 knew to be facts. 



A Mortgage, Its Staying and Destructive Properties.— In the 

 whole range of sacred and profane literature, perhaps there is nothing recorded 

 which has such staying properties as a mortgage. A mortgage can be depended 

 'ipon to stick closer than a brother. It has a mission to perform, which never 

 lets up. Day after day it is right there, nor does the slightest tendency to slum- 

 ber impair its vigor in the night. Night and day, on tlie Sabbath and at holi- 

 day times, without a moment's time for rest or recreation, the biting offspring 

 of its existence — interest — goes on. The season may change, days run into 

 weeks, weeks into months, to be swallowed up in the gray man of advancing 

 years, but the mortgage stands up in sleepless vigilance, with the interest a 

 perennial stream, ceaselessly running on. Like a huge nightmare eating out 

 the sleep of some restless slumberer, the unpaid mortgage rears up its gaunt 

 front in perpetual torment to the miserable wight who is held in its pitiless 

 clutch. It holds the poor victim in the relentless grasp of a giant; not one hour 

 ^f recreation; not a moment's evasion of its hideous presence. A genial savage 



