Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-03

III loUxo NAN, WoRD WITH YoT I'VE knos
|, you are spending your evenings many of them
where yeu should not-.-as billiard saloons art
around card tables, in drinking houses and with
i, company that You would blush to have you,
mother ofssister know you associated with. You
4 are running q vigorous constitution by Oyster
suppers, potations of various kinds, and late
hours. This life is making you idle, ,-is makihg 4
lahora drudgery, and will lead, if yan don't look
70 Il, 70 dissipation, TO dishonesty in spending
money that is not your own, and finally to loss
Of character and standing in society. You will
| be avagabond, and in afew years. if you do not
| die "unwept, unhonored and ,insung," your oc-
cdpations will be menial one, and future mo-
thers will point their sons to you as an example
Of the terrible evils of dissipation upon one WHO
promised well when he entered upon the ,hresh.
hold OF life, but gave loose rein to his passions.
and appetites, and fell! ..ssspaus.
Thesother night, as We plodded home after
the cares nHd labors Of the day, little incident
fell under our observation which satisfies US that
there is aseeiter road to happiness than the one
you are now inland as We knowsitsiseopen 10 !.
you, we advise you to get into it as coon as pos
siblc, before you spend your energies and waste
all your substance. The incident was this. We
passed coy little house, neat and tidy, occu.
pied by loving couple, who have, how long
since this dcponent knowcth not, entered upon
the Divinely ordained estate of Matrmony. We
cast our eyes to the window. 1t was the meres.
accident in the world. We saw positively we
couldn't help t) the couple, and the lady is
very pretty, gazing into each others eyes with |
love too large for atterance. Here quotation |
from Byron, or somebody else, commencing
Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again,
would come in.very pat, but we positively have /
not time to look itnp, and our readers are re.
ques,ed to examine, and when found, .'makea
note on" Well, as we said before, the position
ofthe parties was suggestive of iove-it was the
very embodiment, tableaux Of perfect earthly
bliss. Their lips approached, nearer, nearer
lntil-without any spilling Of combs, breaking
of beads or scuA1ing-we there was graceful
kiss giyen--no mistake about t--one of those
pure, spontaneous, joint-stock enblems of love,
ground, and the sight of which, when rightly
Tiewed, ought to bring even you back to your
'enses and a yirtuous temperate life Can yoa
pretend to compare fast horses, billiard saloons
lard tables, nine pin alleys, oyster and cham
oagne suppers, or rather the fcverish excitement
'ou derive from them, which you are trying to
make your foolish self believe is happiness, with
hat Of our Benedict, the married man, with his
owing, happy wife! What presumption! He
las risen to the dignity of the head of !, family
md as he grows old, many sons and daughters
will rise up and call him blessed. You are
mere waif-a mere leaf on the great ocean ,of
ife-tossed too and fro, without local habita-
ion or nanle7-with no body to look after your
nen, darn your stockings, etc. Young man,
nr opinion is that the sooner you geta pretty
Toman interested in your welfare the sooner you !
will be released from your bad habits and mser-
BILE life, and the more apt will you be to trans.
nit your name to future generations. tsa