Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-08-19
From the Hearth and Hcme.
AT LAST!
BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.


pices at the end of the rapids, in
such courses as "our boy" has been
running, more running, more dread
full than Niagra. ...-
Better, far better the short agony
of that wild race down the roaring
rapids, and that one dizzy plunge.
that finishes all, than those worse
plunges that destroy all that young
man has to hope for in life, yet leave
him living.
There are dreadful hours when
live only because they cannot die.
What weeks of bewildering wretch
edness this poor fellow has beer
through with since we saw his hag-
gard, eager face at the gaming table
Since then he has been desperately
striving to regain his foothold, but
striving, alas /! in that false, treacher
Gus way that the devil opens to
those he would betray. He is hope
lessly involved, and the tempting
whisper is ever at his ear: g Win,
and pay back" Onefortunate throw
may redeem all. He hears among
the lobby members of the gaming
house Of those who have won daz-
zling piles of money after hard runs
of ill-luck. He is teller in a bank,
and tempting opportunities offer
every day to take the money that
will give him one more chance.
Not to stedl-no indeed-but to bor-
row! Did the devil ever ask well
brought-up youth to steal? Not he
Simply to borroU enough to turn
his luck with, and he will put it all
back before the time for settling ac-
counts. Borrowing of the bank, he
calls it; and he curses with hard
words the false friends that will not
help him. Nobody cares for him,
he thinks, and he must care for him
self; and so, from time to time he
keeps on borro wing. He could not
stand this kind of life were it not fol
his daily drinks of brandy. Tia,
makes things look brighter and
more hopeful, and dulls his senses to
the roar Of the coming cataract.
But the time is coming for the
settlement of bank accounts
and still his luck does not turn
Pray to God he dare not; and
the devil only laughs at his cries
He thinks of the agony of his detec-
ton, of the shame and the disgrace
pending. What shall he do? The
whispsr comes "Forye q cheque
Why not?" He can initiate writing
cleverly, was always a skiIful pen
man. He will do it. He does it
and here, to-day, the artist shows
him standing. pale, agonized detec
| ted, before the board who are me
to examine the accounts of th'
bank.
There stands the same boy tina
left his country home, so well mean
ing, so beloved, and SO happy. Be
hind him lowers the detective ant
the handouts, at the door the prison
van, while the president of the boar(
holds up the forged cheque.
| Where are the respectable friend:
who first helped him to wear off hi:
country greenness at select suppers
They are perfectly shocked a
such revelations of depravity. WHO
would have thought of his turning
out such a scamp? "What a mes.
he has made of it! The fellow wa
fool-a weak headed foolr'
Yes, he was weak-headed anc
weak hearted, and he tried to wall
where the strongest heads oftel
turn and you beguiled him to wall
there. You laughed before him a
the idea of total abstinence. 70,
boasled before him of your mani,
powers Of touching and tastin.
everything and never getting upset
You never did anything to hur
yourself! No, and you never will
But how many will be lost by beins
beguiled to do what you can d.
safely, and they cannot do at all!
Come now, boys, let US settle on
Or two things as absolute certaintie
: when you start in life:
He who meUer drinks, neuer Wi
be drunk That so-isn't it? III
who sometimes drinks, may be.
He who never goes into a gamb
ling saloon never will gamble, an
, he who never CANDLES never loses
but
He who goes to observe may gam
BILE, and he who CANDLES will snrel.
lose.
In all these things, is it not best no
, to begin and would not our countr,
!, boy have done better to have starte
with firm, positive No! instead o
, the treacherous ''We'l see" ?
He has seen, and seen a great dea
too much and, in nine cases out O
ten, that sort of seeing ends in thi
way. .... ...
, Beware Of innocent beginnings il
wrong ways, and remember the oil
, text we started with f.t
"There is a way that seeDeM rigl
! unto man, but the end thereof ar
the ways of death"
l The World gives list of eigh
e relatives appointed to office b
4 President Grant. Among them ar
r Jesse r. Grant, appointed by MI
johnson; A. H. Sharpe, a forme
e appointee of Mr.. johnson; FREQ
e Grant, cadet appointed by MI
f johnson; Rev. DR.. Cramer, lat
e Consul, appointed by Mr.. johnson
$ and not now in office; Fred. I. Dent
: appointed Brigadier- General by MI
E Johnson: and JUDGE Dent. nom