We can make our lives sublime } And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time." £ ME above is read with great inferos t byjhousands of young men. It inspires them with Hope, for in tlie bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail. Alasl say many, this is correct,—is true with regard -and to the man who has not been " passion slave." * Buttotkat youth—to that man, who ha wasted his vigor, who has yielded himself to the temporary sweet allurements of viae who has given unb'idled license to his passions', to hvm the above lines are but as a reproach What Hope can he have? What aspirations What chance of leaving his footprints onjh* andsoftime? For him, alas J ther is nought ut dark despair md/ self-reproach for q qs % For a man to leave his footprints on the ands of time, he must be endowed with a trong brain and nervous power. He mus Possess a sound, vigorous, Healthy mind, ini body—the power to conoeive-the energy to execute ! But look at our Australian futh! Seethe emaciated form, the vacani look, the listless hesitating manner, the ner. vous distrust, th senselsss, almost idiotic expression. Note 7iis demeanour and comer sation,and then say: Is that a man to lea* his footprints on the sands of time. Do parents, medical men and educators ot South pay sufficient attention to this subject t Do they ever ascertain the cause of t/ii* decay ; and having done so, do they fax a advice of the medical man, who has made thti branch of his profession his partiJTe speciality whose life has been, demoted to th treatment of these cases? Header, what is your answer ?t Let each one aimverfor him self. Parens see their progem< fadiZ gradually before Ueir sight, *J&L fecZ emaciate I old young men, broken down in health, enfeebled, unfitted for the battle of life yet one word might save then, one sound and man, habituated to the treatment and con hnuous supervision of such cases, mould, in most instances, succeed in warding off tU mpending doom of a miserable and gloomy future, and by appropriate treatmeut reHora the enervated si stem to its natural vigor an ensure a joyous and happy life, S > ha S& f- eases ?fy mth «»<* those aksiny therefrom his peculiar study. 