"Mad woman! You have driven me over the precipice!" Turning quickly away, he left the house--to return to his store ?--Alas! no.

With him the struggle was over.

The manly spirit, that had, for nearly two weeks, battled so bravely with difficulty without and temptation within, yielded under this last assault.

In less than an hour, all sense of pain was lost in the stupor of inebriation!.