The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-10-25

and society, He saw his sisters well
married; and himself, finally, led tc
the altar lovely maiden. She made
him truly happy husband. On the
night Of his wedding, as he sat beside
Helen, he paused for some time in
the midst of a pleasant conversation,
thoughtfully. At last he said:
"Do you remember, sister, the
night you staid home from the ball
to keep me company"
"That was many years ago. Yes,
l remember it very well, now that
you have recalled it to my mind"
81 have often since thought, Hell.
en-" he said, with u serious air, "lhat
by the simple act Of thus remaining
at home for my sake, you were the
means of saving me from destruot-
ion,"
How ao2s asked the sister.
II was just beginning to form an
intimate association with young men
of my own age, nearly all Of whom
have since turned out badly. l did
not care great deal about their
company; still, liked society and
used to be with them frequently
especially when you and Mary went
out in the evening, On the night
of the ball to which you were going,
these young men had SUPPER and
| was to have been with them. Ibid
not wish particularly to join them,
but preferred doing so to remaining
at home alone. To find you, as l did
SO unexpectedly, in the parlor, was
an agreeable surprise indeed. Istaid
at home with new pleasure, which
was heightened by the thought that
it was your love for me that had
made you deny yourself for my graf
ification. We read together on that
evening, We played together, we
talked of many things. In your
mind | had never before seen so much
to inspire my own with high and
pure thoughts. remembered the
conversation of the young men with
whom | had been associating and in
which l had taken pleasure, with
something like disgust. 1t was low,
sensual and too much of it vile and
demoralizing. Never, from that hour,
did | join them. Their way, even
in the early stage of life's journey, l
saw to be downward, and downward
it has ever since been tending. How
often since have 1 thought of that
point in time, SO full.fraught with
good and evil influences. Those few
hours spent with you seemed to take
the scales from my eyes, l saw with
a new vision. | thought and felt
differently. Had you gone TO the
ball and to meet those young men,
no one can tell what might not have
been the consequences. Sensual in.
diligence carried to excess, amid
songs and sentiments calculated to
awaken evil instead of good feelings,
might have stamped upon my young
and delicate mind a bias that never
would have been eradicated. That
was the great starting point in life
the period when I was coming in.
to state Of nationality and freedom.
The good prevailed over the evil, and
by the agency Of my sister as an
angel sent by the Author Of all ben
efts to save me-"
Like Helen Lindley, let every ell
der sister be thoughtful Of her broth
ers at that critical period in life when
the boy is about passing up to the
stage of manhood, and she may save
them from many q snare set for their
unwary feet by the evil one. In
closing this little sketch, we can say
nothiug better than has already been
said by an American authoress, Mrs.
Farrar:
$50 many temptations" she says,
"beset young men, of which young
women know nothing, that it is of
the utmost Importance that your
brothcrs evenings should be happily
passed at home, that their friends
should be your friends, and their en-
gagcments should be the same as
yours, and that various innocent
amusements should be provided for
them in the family circle. Music is
an accomplishment chiefly valuable
as a home eniOvment as rallvinu