Sometimes he would be sober for several weeks at a time, and then our hopes would brighten that Charley would be himself again, and then in an hour all our hopes would be dashed to the ground.

It seemed as if a spell was upon him.

He married a dear good girl, who was as true as steel, but all her entreaties for him to give up drinking were like beating the air.

He drank, and drank, until he drank himself into the grave." By this time two or three loungers had gathered around John Anderson and Thomas Gary, and one of them said, "Mr.Gary you have had sad experience, why don't you give up drinking yourself ?" "Give it up! because I can't.

To-day I would give one half of my farm if I could pass by this saloon and not feel that I wanted to come in.