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bread This is nearly three pounds a day Good flour can be bought now at a barrel four tines seven make and thirty cents a day for drinks is 10950 or more per year than bread for a family of fire persona costs But says A I only take two drinks a day Very well you pay then for your drinks a year only more than you pay for the bread consumed by your whole five persons This Bum would provide tea and them Here then we gee that the man who pays twenty cents a day for liquor spends a sum sufficient to supply family with bread tea and coffee for the year Is it strange that times are hard and men com plain of the government and charge that it oppresses them with onerous taxes The above figures show men tar thera- they tax property too Inebriate Assy lorn cost of this city 10 paid by I Jr id the guide would have swept by the dreaded spot but at that report of a pistol rang through heard a Finding himself his pistol took deliberate aim at his upon the trigger J i- approached but no hostile attitude The stranger toyed bis hand At the ghost Iressed him in a voice that was anything rut sepulchral of your perch Ive hit the havent I The observed that his guide looked very easy about something v ground his horses pace as hough he intended to j brave drop behind Lead on cried the stranger don be afraid If anything happen Im nonpulssed a himself he grumbled word to his horse and the stood perfectly still By l wouldbe grope City for flour for all its and for the relief of The outdoor poor cost the city in How much of ibis could he charged to intemperance The number of persons committed to the workhouse in this city in 18C8 was 15738 The commissioners say a con- siderable portion of the committals is for intoxication The police stations the prisons home the penitentiary the miserable homes all tell of the work of intemperance It is the great curse of it feeda upon the wages of of health Only One More white hair straggling uncombed unshaven cheeks Hi- fashionable hung it tatters about his literally in rags from replied the What were asked the stranger laying down empty and preparing to fill it Why you see the landlord While he approached his guests table and took a seat I have spoken with several who have been robbed and all I learn from them is that they remembered in the lonliest part of the wood a ing which looked white and ghostly ind frightened their horses bo that they either ran away or threw their riders that confusion with them they I thought but find themselves 1 robbed of Indeed ejaculated thestraoger look- though he landlord The innkeeper looked at him Such perfi witnessed before You will remain landlord after wailing guest to speak Me cried tho stranger starting- from his fit of abstraction as though he re that he was tho person ad- Ohmoat certainly not Im behind his cowardly and thunderstorm If youll go on though make him follow out the road pulled up instantly light gleamed in his eyes while hi his breastpocket from which The dat Guides should lead e- stranger but with a Urn seemed exceedingly for the person addressed But faltered the guide my horse he queried the strange simplicity in his tone The guide heard a sharp click cnittljitiL in bis companion hand He seemed to understand what perfectly for he immediately ahead of his eon word lie had disappear as though he had vanished the thick foliage of the the road up to the spot and saw that his guide had irned down a narrow lane leading from the road heart of the wood heard the clatter of his horse as he gallop- 1 ay in the dark towards that isidiviiurd he found bending over a black about the size of a man on the road As the leaped upon the before hie his prey the bent form head to foot He stood trembling before door of a little groggery on Water street was bitterly cold without wind whistled through the the light bun landlord was Only stripped of his he found breath landlord addressed Im of the king at your duty to do what I plished Your plied the individual But Im an id killed by Two weeks later at Baden the landlord of the sign of the eer and the Ghost Robber of the Black cal person bavins been proved guilty of fiendish robberies the Black For by letting fall his head before the my better days the- fluid may warm ye not Dennis OGrahferty II be after it his best five whiskey and thats what youre But Dennis dont you remember that sailor I got in here only last week He spent all he had or at least you got it all And whats that ton ye I say out the cold rain Dennis with nothing to warm Ill perish if I do Faith be better off then What does wan want to live for when hes all broke down like ye you and your down but I dont you I owned all this block and two more on the nest Be off out a and I want the others the racewas a si terminated by the guide being nearly thrown from his saddle by a heavy hand which was laid upon his bridle stop- tly He turned in his seat beheld the strangers face dark and frowning and Very well said the furnish me with one I what he You shall have my son Wilhel landlord with an attempt at I he could under the What ft Costs From the New York even gather the following statistic information of what it cost toper with his daily snifter it that so many families of the men in our towns and cities live neb a poor beggarly way in st damp dark basements and up confined rickcy old attics of the heads of these famili and get their pay every week or regularly But in many- do their wages go Not to the tho grocer the butcher the mer chant they go for if your horse plays such tricks again hell drink and which do not the- Franklin taught the printers that cold water was better thai cold water has years London And the old mans voice rose almost to Well see you dirty vagabond well e whether youll go or not when I bid was a struggle it was brief he a wreck indeed was but a the hands of his burly foe second he was hurled far out into the dark- in the cold pitiless storm In the morning thcpolice found a dead an in the gutter The con and the old verdict given Died from intemperance to the rumtraffic shame to wretchedness and death