agencies are at work in the abatement, prevention and cure of a disease
that is undermining the health of whole nations, shortening the natural
term of human life, and in our own country alone, sending over sixty
thousand men and women annually into untimely graves.

[Illustration: Satan sends his trusted servants, Alcohol and Gambling,
out upon a mission.]

[Illustration: Alcohol meets a bright young man and cultivates his
acquaintance.]

[Illustration: Alcohol introduces the youth to his old-time friend,
Gambling.]

[Illustration: The mutual friends relieve the youth of his cash.]

[Illustration: Alcohol and his victim have a jolly time.]

[Illustration: The young man comes to grief, but Alcohol sticks by him.]

[Illustration: They suggest an easy method for replenishing his
exchequer.]

[Illustration: The mutual friends determine to follow him to the inmost
cell of the prison.]

[Illustration: Alcohol and Gambling incite their victim to murder.]

[Illustration: They mock him when upon the scaffold.]