CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW says: "Twenty-five years ago I knew every man, woman, and child in Peekskill, N. Y. And it has been a study with me to mark boys who started, in every grade of life, with myself to see what became of them. I was up last fall and began to count them over, and it was an instructive exhibit. Some of them became clerks, merchants, manufacturers, lawyers, and doctors. It is remarkable that every one of these that drank is dead, not one living of my age. Barring a few who were taken by sickness, every one who proved a wreck and wrecked his family, did it from rum, and no other cause. Of those who were church-going people, who were steady, who were frugal and thrifty, every one of them owns the house in which he lives, and has something laid by, the interest of which, with his house, would carry him through many a day. When a man becomes debased by gambling or drink, all his finer feelings are crowded out, and the poor women at home suffer—suffer for those whom they love better than life."