; but temptation
prevailed, and she fell from bad to worse. Loving hands received
her time after time, and at last placed her in an Inebriate
Home. For a short time she did well, but soon became
unmanageable. After another desperate period she entered a
second home, but after leaving she yielded again, was twice in
prison, and fell into the lowest degradation and utter ruin,
surely deserving our deepest pity. Her doctor and her husband
had persisted in working her fall in spite of her own strongest
convictions."--_Selected._

THEY DID NOT DIE.--"Dr. Lord of Pasadena suffered from
rheumatism of the heart for more than half of a long lifetime.
No doctor ever felt his pulse (which intermitted) without
exclaiming, 'Why, doctor, you have no business to be alive with
such a pulse,'--or something similar. For nineteen years his
wife never retired without having at least one medicine she
could put her hand on in the dark, the ammonia bottle within
reach, the electric battery ready to start like a fire-engine,
and preparations for heating water in less than no time. His
acute attacks usually came in the night--an uninterrupted
night's sleep was something unknown to either the doctor or his
wife in all these years.

"They lived in sight of an open grave, and seldom a week passed
when it did not seem as if death had actually occurred. If ever
a case called for alcoholic stimulants this one did. But none
were ever administered, none were ever kept in the house. The
doctor's standing orders were: 'If all the doctors in the
country order you to give me liquor, and say my life depends
upon it, don't do it. Tell them I know more about it than they
do. It won't save my life; it will only lessen what little
chance I have.' All who knew about this case, and hundreds did,
were driven to the conclusion that if these two people, one in
this condition and the other feeble, could live all alone as
they did, miles from a doctor, and neighbors not near, and could
get along without alcoholics of any kind, everybody can do the
same everywhere. And the doctor finally wore out his heart
trouble and died of another disease."--_Pacific Ensign._

An English weekly journal is responsible for the following anecdote:--

"A Birmingham physician has had an amusing experience. The other
day a somewhat distr