The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-03-07
Yonne Man. Want You !

good conduct and reliability; Tor youna
men, who are seen at the Churches instead
of the bars and low houses; young men
who are ready not only to fill their own
desks, but help ont any other desk, whether
it is their own or net; who are on hand
early and late, the first to come and the
last to leave; who are not afraid of doing
more than their share of the work, but
that they can rot do enough; young men
who are polite, well-bred and civil; young
men who know how to behave themselves
as gentlemen. Such young men are hunted
after by our best business houses, while the
frequenters of tho bells and dens are marked
and noted by the police and reporters and
registered and noted, and when Que such
applies for place he is generally run
down; the alphabetical list that merchants
are keeping of these worthless young vaga-
bonds at once defeats the efforts of friends
to get them any work. tell you, young
man, good character is worth fortune,
and he who has it and parts with it plants
the road of his life with thorns and brisrs
and miserles, with hell at the end of the
road, whilst the young man of probity will
hear his praises sounded on the lips of the
aged and respectable merchant, the mothers
and the divines, and all the good men and
women Of st. Louis.
Choose you, young man, the road 70 hap
piness CT misery2 Look around you at the
wrecks within your own knowledge. What
broughs it about2 Racing the streets after
night, wasting money at the theatres, ga
looms, bawdy and perhaps gambling houses,
and drinking and eating late suppers that
could not be afforded. Thst is the whole Of
| il. The other young man il at home. he
reads and embellishes his mind. lie goes
to the prayer meeting with his mother or
sisters. He is always seen 8. least once on
the Lords day in the Church. He is never
seen except with the refined and good; such
young man is wanted; places are Away
open to him. He is happy and contented
and grateful TO have work to do, and he IL
making the hearts of his parents happy.
He is laying up treasure on earth and in
Heaven, and the world is made happier and
| better that he has lived in it. The miserable
young man who has defed parental advice
who is rude and vulgar, who is curt and
offensive Ia his demeanor and language, and
| who is besotted and scarcely acts well
enough to hold his place, and could not
save some friendly or psren 81 influence
stood behind, when he loses his p ace there
is no place for him, and he appeals and ap.
peals in vain. He drifts along )wn lower
and lower, and gets down at last possibly
to DC trusted 10 do little odd jobs of collect
ing or something of the sort, until a. last
| he drops into an untimely grave with every
one he knew that was worth anything re
joicing that at last the grave mad claimed
him. and that he could worry them as q
burthen on their hearts no longer.
1 know a young man, an only son, that
began with bright prospects; loving rela-
tives did al they could to get him positions
with salaries beyond his merits He wasted
every dollar he made-$1. 200 per year.
His mother would delve to save to him the
cost of = dozen shirts and be would waste
more than the sum she would save in 9
| nights debauch, or at houses of ill-fsme. OF
making presents to people he was under nc
| obligations to, forgetting even at Christmas
to give to the children of his benefactor the
slightest token of his gratitude. Thus this
| selfish, wasteful young man went on until
he laid his mother in the grave, whilst the
fumes of whiskey steamed from his breath
over the coffin and whilst the earth ratified
down to cover her from mortal hit forever
Soon after her death he lost his place from
drunkenness and all efforts to get him start
ed again have proved abortive
Take warning, young men, and
don't forfeit q good character. The
drunks and the dissolute, the immoral and
MASTERS are not wanted. The good are al
ways wanted. Never was there time
when BUSH ess men were so on the lookout
for worthy, good, sober, saving men. Bust
meas men know that if young men waste
their own means they will theirs, and they
are afraid to trust them.
/ know another young man who, against
his will, has the infrmity of drink. His
honesty Is unquestioned; and ne has the
misfortune of having a rude, vulgar, IN
gentlemauly manner. The influence of a
friend holds him in place, and if he were to
lose his position he would have inside no in
fuences to help him; but he has weakened
himself by being known to drink, and by
his rude manners, and it would be bar to
his getting place. Young man, 1 name
this to warn you that civility and courtesy
are the cheapest and best paying articles in
| life. Every one values them, even the vul-
gar hog, from whom the civil never get
more than a gTunt. You will have to
change human nature when it does not re-
spond to gentlemsnly courtesies. There
fore always control your temper and your
speech. Be kind and good; be faithful and
pure 6DQ keep cleSr Oh the gam Dling houses,
the saloons, the bawdy houses and evil
places, and attend to your Church and be
good and pure, and attend well to your du-
ties, ever seeing how much and not how lit.
tie you can do, and tell you, young man,
you will always be wanted; whilst no one
will want the idle, profigate, drunken
waster, and if he gets place he only gets
it and holds it by the power and influence
Of some one and not because hi own merit
has won 1t for him. The man that is
wanted is always modest, kind and good,
and the man not wanted is loud, vulgar
and ungrateful for the favors he is un-
worthily enjoying. Choose, young men.
the easy or the hard way of lie. If have
said one word that will induce any young
man to become better 1 shsll be glad. My
hope for the rising generation rests in the
pulpit and the press-the two mighty pow
ers of the sge-and trust the young men
will begin to learn that there is no road to
happiness and success save through good,
pure, holy, upright. industrious and eco.
nomical life.