The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

his text from Proverbs vii. 23-"As an
OK TO the slaughter" Following is a
full report Of his discourse:
THERE Is NOTHING IN TIFF VOICE
or manner of the butcher TO indicate to
the OK that there is death ahead. The
OK thinks il is on the way 10 the pas
ture field of clover, where he will ali
day rove in the herbacious luXuriance.
But after a while group of men and
boys close in around him, and with
sticks and stones and shouts drive him
through bars and into a door, where
he is tied. and with a well-aimed blow
the ak fells him, and so his expectation
{ Of the redoient pasture field is disap-
/ pointed. So many young man Is
Z driven on OF temptation toward what
fhe supposes paradisiacal enjoyments.
4 But after while influences of darker
n hue and swarthier arm close in about
& him for his destruction, end he finds
that instead of making an excursion
IN garden, he has been going as an
OK TO the slaughter.
When young men are ruined we are
apt to blame them, when we ought
more vehemently TO blame their de-
stroyers. Society slaughters a great
many young men with the behest :
You must keep up appearances. 1t
makes no difference what your salary
: is, you must dress as well as Others,
give as costly entertainments, smoke
as Expensive cigars, drink such wine
a8ld brandy as do your friends, and
live in as fashionable a boarding
house. If you cannot do this on your
4 Salary. borrow il. Make a wrong en-
Try, or take an occasional bill out OF
! the bundles of bank bills. You will
be able to pay it some future time.
You will have to cover il up only for
few months or a year." BY this
process a hundred thousand young
men have been slaughtered. Suppose
you borrow. There are a thousand
circumstances in which it is right TO
borrow. There are few men who have
not some time been obliged TO borrow
+ money. The largest estates have been
built upon a borrowed dollar But
there are two kinds of borrowed mo-
ney-money borrowed to start or keep
up legitimate enterprises, and money
borrowed TO get things that You may
do without. The first kind is hOnora-
bic, the second blasting. If you have
money enough of your own TO buy a
plain vet respectable coat, and you
borrow money for a dandy's outfit,
Won are one revolution of the whele
Z OH the down grade. To borrow for
Pthe necessities may be well, TO borrow
fer the luXuries tips over your pros
poets the wrong way. The Bible SAYS
The borrower is servant TO the lender.
ii Is a bad sign when you go down
some other street to avoid meeting
some man to whom you owe money.
III Young men knew the despotism of
heing in debt, more of them would
keep out of it. What did it do for
Lord Bacon. with .sawgiind towering
above the centurieN induced him TO
take brides. and comet himself be-
fore all the ages as a criminal. What
:. did il do for Walter Scott? Broke his
heart at Abbottsford, and kept him
writing till his hand gave out in paral-
ysis. to keep the sheriffs away from
his pictures and statuary. Better if,
in its highest sense, he had observed
the words he had chiseled over his
kitchen Fireplace at AbbottsfOrd :
ssWaste not. want not" What did it
do for Robert Burns? Sent him to
: hard drinking, and TO begging for
seven pounds and four shillings to
nav for volunteers uniform. What
did il DO for Lord Byron and his
nfother? She died in fit from rage
at reading the upholsterer's bills.
William Pitt, able to manage the
-. =, q Lr,,olonI ooul1 NOT u n m orc
his own, and was in constant mortiti-
cation; and after his death Parlia-
ment voted 100000 to pay his debts,
although his annual salary had been
at least $4,000.
The trouble is that men do not I'M
dersfand the ethics of debt, and that
if,Tou borrow money or make pur-
chases with no prospect of meeting
your obligations, you steal just that
amount. If | buy sugars and coffee
and meats at corner grocery, with no
Dossibilitv of compensation, am more
dishonest than if | went in and, while
the grocer was looking the other way.
filled my pockets with the groceries
and ran of with ham. In the one
case
/ TAKE HIS TIME
in waiting on me, and the time of his
messenger in taking the articles TO my
house. In the other case take none
, of his time in the purchase, and carry
the things home myself, so saving hlm
the trouble. In other words, the sneak
thief is not so bad as the contractor OF
debts which he knows he cannot pay
Vet II is well-Nnown fact in our cities
that there are families who move ev-
erv spring so as to get into new neigh,
borhood of groceries, meat shops ard
anothecaries. They owe everything
xritbin a quarter of a mile around
where they now live, and they will
,,exf spring 90 clear over 10 another
-,,a,f Of the CITY, so as TO find new lot
If victims. For the next three months
49, YOU. the honest family, have
ed into your new house, there will
mock every day by some dlsap-
baker or butcher, or dry-So0ds
or paper-carrier, TO know where
"A ,,.adecessor has gone. You don't
ri Ii was so arranged that you
.sonld not know. Meanwhile your
& stinguisned predecessor has begun
III rayages in another nelghborhood'
! An the wagons of people who have
Wings to sell have called on the new
nesghbor. anxious to get his custom.
Nh, new neighbor orders the finest
stesss. the highest-priced sugars, the
bess bit UP of the canned fruits, and
tlcS have promptly ordered delivered
as ;heil. door the Eagle, Argus, Sun,
Ecrald, Tribune, Times and Wortdf
and the debts will accumulate TILL they
get their goods on the furniture cart,
On the 3Oth day of April next. Icoun-
sci such people, if they have any respec'
for their convenience, TO move a sum
Gent distance on. II, for instance, you
live in South Brooklyn. move TO East
ern District or Greenpoint. Or II you
live in these central parts of Brooklyn,
move to Jersey City or New ork' IL