The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-01-09
For the Sunday Bulletin.
FAST MEN.

FAST MEN.
OF all the low ambitions that ever actua-
ted the human heart, or influenced the
individual life, that Of being fast man is
the most contemplate and to good men
rcpusive Such a man begins the day
with no purpose, but to misspend it in an
idle and vain pursuit OF what he calls
pleasure. He visits every biliard-table and
drinking saloon, within the bounds of his
daily walk If he has money of his own
he recklessly throws it away on objects and
pursuits discreditable to himself, and
ruinous to his family and friends. If he has
none he unscrupuously borrows without
thought OF repayment, or more teloniously
appropriates it without a twinge of con-
science, His nights are given up to license
and spent in disreputable company, and he
lies down with no better hope or prospect
than that of continuing on the ensuing day
the evil courses of the last.
How many youths are thus destroyed be-
fore they arrive at maturity How many
fathers hopes in their sons have thus been
blasted! How many mothers heart have
been wrung and even broken by seeing
their boys devclope into fast young mem"
Homes, once happy and respectable, are
made desolate and sorrowful, and even
darken by shame and remorsc
We see such cases every day. We read
of them in every paper, and see their out
groupings at every corner Of the street. AS
we write these lines, our thoughts wander
to individual cases that have come under our
own observation. One-the pride and hope
of happy home-the object OF mothers
fondness and fathers care, dsregarding
both with cruel selfshness pursued this
guilty debasing course until he ended the
same in darkness, ruin and crime, and, at
the age of twenty,four filled suicides
grave.
And still another case, although years
have elapsed since then, lmpresses itself up
on our heart with painful reality. The on.
ly son of doting parents who spared neither
pains nor expense to give him every adyan-
tage to acquire a good education. He was
a bright, handsome, generous, lad, and al
tanned culture and courteous manners
Alas that the bright hopes Of his fond
parents were doomed to be drowned IN bit.
ter tears of shame and sorrow. At an early
age he acquired the use of tobacco, then
very soon taste for the madning in,oXi.
eating cup. These habits naturally drew him
into the company OF fast young men, Then
a passion tor gambling took possession OF
his soul. Al first his parents were not
alarmed he WIS only sowing his wild oats,
they SAID, and would soon settle down and
be all they had hoped. Blu; alas for the
weakness and short sighteiless Of poor hu-
man nature. When his friends We're 81
length fully aroused to the sense Of his
danger he was 50 completely submlrged
within the meshes Of the designing adverse
y, th2, be was power.ess 70 ex;Hcate him
self, and after few more years Of dowr-
Y gr3 madn!ag folly. he was one night car
riei home % Als hear; broken parents.
iesi-g5g. IN a drunken brgwl
Yyuag u4n sld boys, do no; such warn.
ing. .,4rtLe y7gi Are you in les. daageri
You vlo iiiak you are only q little Wild
o. fast, than those whose history we have
briesy .ke,clgd a1i whose course IN ami.
.sr case. you have doubles. Witnessed
o: Do you fee! able 10 go 10 the very verge.
,aeYery Jaws Of ruin, and 10, fall into the
ysws.sg gulf Jelowi
II yo1 aye presumptuou,ly daring, yours
/. tie greater danger D..uust yourself
b careful how you tampcf With yourself
morally Or physically Habit is the most.
relentless Of yranis nor can any one pre-
sumo ~ say, "lhu. far and no further will
Co." Soli.re.traint viii be harder;
more difficult, 70 exercise tomorrow than
to-day In few days the fatal crisis for
reformation may be passed Soul and
sense once fully stepped N the curupt
slough Of scnsuaIity and dissipation, no
pardon except His, to whom nothing is i'm.
possible, can restore either 10 purity aud
peace ! A. NJ.
CAIRO Ill, Jan, 9Th, 1881.