The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1872-01-04
The Young I'm Great cities.

Much Of tho world does not learn its
lessons at all. Tho young are every.
whero growing up amid tho ruins Of
othor lives, apparently without inqui-
ring or caring for the reasons Of the
disasters of life, fortune aul rcputa.
ton, that arc happening, or have hap
pencd everywhere around them. Ono
man. with great trusts Of money, in
bis hands, bctrays tho confidence Of
tho public and becomes q hopeless
defaultcr, and blows his brains out.
Another, led on by love Of power and
place, is degraded at last TO a poor
demagoguo, without character or in
huencc. Another, through u surren-
der of himself to scusuality, becomes
disgusting beast, with heart and
brain moro foul than tho nosts of un-
clean birds. Another, by tasting, and
tasting, and tasting of the vino zap.
becomes drunk ard ut last, and dies,
in horrible delirium, or lives to bo q
curse TO wife, children and friouds
There is an army Of these poor wrotch-
es in every fargo city in the land dy-
ing daily reinforced. A young girl
loving mot wisely but too well,'
yields herself to q sedu Ger who ruins
aud then forsakos her to life ol
ruin, and then forsako 8 her to n life
Of shame and death Of despair. Not
one girl, but thousands Of girls year.
ly, 50 that, though great number Of
these whose robes are beyond clean.
sing hide themselves in tho grave
every twelve months, another great
company of tho pure drop to thcir
places, and keep 6Ilod to roplotion
tho ranks Of prostitution. Again
and again, in instances beyond coun,
ting, are tragedies repeated 10 the
full presence Of tho rising gen.
Grafton, and yet it seems to grow no
wiser. Nothing has boen moro fully
demonstrated than that tho first steps
of folly and sin are fraught with per.
II. Nothing has been bottor proved
than that temperate drinking is al.
ways dangerous, and that excessive
drinking is always ruinous. Nothing
is better known than that q mau can
not eonsort with lewd women for an
hour without receiving a taiut that q
whole life Of repentance cannot Who'll
y eradicate. Since timo began have
women been led away by the same
promises, tho same empty pledges,
the samo empty rewards. If young
mon and young women could posi-.
bly, learn, wisdom, II wosld seem as If
they might win it in a single day, by
simply using their eyes and thinking
upon what they soc. Yet in the
great city Of New York, and in all the
the great cities Of the country, young
men and women are all tho time re-
poating tho mistakes of those around
them who arc wrecked in character
and fortune. Tho young man keeps
his wine bottle, and resorts whore de-
csiyed and ruinod women lio in wait
for proy, knowing perfectly we'll If be
knows anything, or has over used
fairly tho reason With which Heaven
has endowed him, that be is in the
broad road to porditiou--and there ID
before him lifo Of disgust and o
death OF horror.
When tho results Of certain cour-
ses of. conduct and certain iudulgen'
css are 80 Well known Is these to
which wo alludo, 1t seems strange
any can enter upon them. Every
young man knows that Il hs never
tastes Q glass Of alchoholie drink
he will never become or stand 10 dan
gsr Of becominga drunkard. Every