Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — A Temperance Story. [ARTICLE]

A Temperance Story.

Once upon a time there was a young man who took to drink. Parental admonitions, the warnings of friends, were alike unavailing. The young man laughed them all to scorn. “Ha, ha!” laughed he, to be more explicit. So he went on from bad to worse until finally a girl married him to reform him. “Alas!” he cried, now that It was too late. “Would that I had never drunk the first drop!” Oh, boys, think of his sad fate when the cup tempts you!—Detroit Journal.