his knowledge, watched and prayed for him.  After a few weeks’ residence, the chaplain was able to lead his mind to the consideration of spiritual subjects, and to impress him with the value of religious faith and the power of prayer.  He became, at length, deeply interested; read many religious books, and particularly the Bible.  At the end of three months his wife came to see him, and their meeting was of a most affecting character.  A year later, he left the asylum and went to a Western city, where he now resides—­a prosperous and happy man.

CASE NO. 2.  A clergyman of fortune, position and education lost his daughter, and began to drink in order to drown his sorrow.  It was in vain that his wife and friends opposed, remonstrated, implored and persuaded; he drank on, the appetite steadily increasing, until he became its slave.  His congregation dismissed him; his wife died of a broken heart; he squandered his fortune; lost his friends, and, at last, became a street reporter for some of the New York papers, through means of which he picked up a scanty living.  From bad to worse, he swept down rapidly, and, for some offense committed while drunk, was, at last, sent for three months to the State prison.  On coming out, and returning to the city, he became a fish-peddler, but continued to drink desperately.  One day he was picked up in the street in a state of dead intoxication and taken to the hospital, where he was recognized by the doctor, who had him sent to Binghampton as a county patient.  Here he remained for over a year, submitting himself to the regime, and coming under the salutary influences of the institution, and making an earnest, prayerful and determined effort at reform.  At the end of this period he left the asylum to enter upon the duties of a minister in the far West; and to-day he is the president of a new college, and a devout and earnest man!  He attributes his cure to the influence of the late chaplain, Rev. Mr. Bush, and to the new life he was able to lead under the protecting influences and sanitary regulations of the asylum.  This is a meagre outline of a very remarkable case.

CASE NO. 3.  A poor farmer’s boy acquired, while in the army, an inordinate appetite for drink.  He was sent to the New York Inebriate Asylum, but was expelled because he made no effort to reform.  Six months afterwards he joined a temperance society, and kept sober for a year; but fell, and was again sent to the asylum.  This time he made an earnest effort, and remained at the asylum for seven months, when he was offered a situation in Chicago, which he accepted.  For a year he held this place, then relapsed and came back to the asylum, where he stayed for over twelve months.  At the end of that time he returned to Chicago and into his old situation.  He is now a member of the firm, and an active temperance man, with every prospect of remaining so to the end of his life.

THE CARE AND TREATMENT OF DRUNKARDS.