The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-10-15

girl whom the Lord tookS Oh, you would |
not have been away 80 much nights, would
you, II you had known she was going
away so sooni Dear me, your house has
never been the same since. Your wlfe
has never frightened up. She has moi got
over iti she never viii get over ii.
GOOD MEN WRECKED.
deplore this ruin the more because this
style of dissipation Is taking down our
finest men, The admission foe slfts Out
tho penurious and takes only those who
are called the best fellows. Oh, how
changed you arel Not 10 kind TO your
wife as you used 10 be, not no patient with
your children, your conscience Is not 30
much at rest, You laugh more now and
sing louder than once, but you are not half
80 happy, II Is not the public drinking
saloon that Is taking you down, but u is
simply and undenlably your Club'room'
You do not make yourself as agreeable In
your family as once, You go homo at
twelve o'clock with an unnatural hush
upon your check and n strange color In
your eyes that you got at tho club, You
merely acknowledge that you feel queer
You say that champagne never intoxi'
catesi that ii only eXhilarates, makes
tho conversation llu0nt, Shakes up
tho humor, aud has no bad Of
feet except headache next day. DO
not deceived, Champagne may not, like
whisky, throw a man under tho tablet but
If, through any thing you drink you gain
an unnatural luency Of speech aud glow
Of feeling, you are simply drunk, II those
imperIled were h6artlesa young mon
stIngy young men-l would not be so sorry
as ami but there are many Of them gon-
erous TO fault, frank, honest, cheerful,
talented. | bogrudgo tho devil such a
prize. After awhile those persons will lose
all tho frankness and honor for which they
are now distinguished. Their counte-
nances viii get haggard, and, instead Of
looking one in the eye whom they talk they
viii look down. After awhile, when the
mother kindly asksi "What kept you 80
latoyr they viii make no answer or will
say, "That is my busInessW They will
come cross aud bologged TO tho
store and bank, aud ever and anon
neglect some duty, and after awhile
will be dismissed; and then, with
nothing TO do, viii rise In tho morning
at ton o'clock, oursIng the servant because
the breakfast IL cold, and then go down
town and stand on the steps of u fashion,
able hotel and criticize tho passors'by.
While tho young man who was q clerk In
n cellar has como up 10 be tho first clork,
and he who iOw years ago ran orranda
for the bank has got TO bo cashIOr, and
thousands of other young men OF tho city
have gone up TO higher and moro responsi-
blo positions, he has boon going down un-
Ill there he passes through the street with
bloated lips and bloodshot eye and stag
gering step, and hat mud.spattorod and
sot sideways on shock Of greasy hair the
ashos OF bis cigar dashed upon his cravat.
Here he goesl Look at him, all yo puro-
hearted young mon, and SEQ tho work Of tho
disslpatng Club-rOom. Iknow one such
who after the contaminations of his Club
house leapod out Of the third-story win
dow TO put an end 10 his wrotchedness,
q, men who are victims Of dissipatlng
associations, your sins will follow you'll |
describe tho history Of thousands OF houses
holds when | say that the toa IL rapidly
takon and while yet the family lingor, tho
father shoves back his chair, has ian on-
gagement," lights his cigar and starts out,
not returning until after midnight, That
Is tho history Of three hundred and sixty
I've days In tho year, except whom ho IL
sick aud can not go out, How about homo
duticsY lIoyo you fulfilled all your yowsy
Would your wife ever have married you
with such u prospocty Wait until your
sons get 10 b siXCoon or seventeen years OF
age aud they, too, viii shove back from
the tcH-tOblc have "Un cngUgementn flight
thcIr cigars, 80 over 10 their Club houses,
their uight.koy ratting In your door altor
mldnight--tho effect Of your example.
BEWARE.
A revolving Drummond light on the
front of locomotive casts its CLEAN
through the darkness as II Ia turned
around, So / catch up the lamp OF Gods
truth and turn II round until lis trcmon.
dous glare flashes into all the Club-houscs
Of onr cities, loo tho presence Of diss-
pating Club.housos, "Poid your moncyW
Sacrifice thatroth than your soul. "Good
fellows" arc thcyy They can not stay
what they are under such influences, Mol
lusca liyo two hundred fathoms down In
tho Norwegian seas, The Siberian stag
grows fat ON the stuntod growth Of Altaian
pcnks, The hodysOrum thrivos amid tho
dsolation Of Sahara, Tufts of oslcr and
birch grow ON tho hot lips of volcanic
Schnoohalton, But good character aud uso-
ful life thrive amid. Club.rOom designations
nevcrl Tho best way TO make u wild boast
cowcr IL to look him In the oyo; but the
bost way 10 troas The temptations have
described IL 30 turn your bnck and fly Oh
my heart aches SEQ men struggling TO
get out of the scrrdom Of bad habits, and l
want TO help them. | have knclt with
them aud heard their cry for help, hnyo
had them put one hand on each Of my
shoulders and look me In tho eye with an
oOrnestnoss that the Judgment shall hovo
no power TO mako me forget, and from
their lips, scorchod with the fires Of ruin,
have hoard them cry; "God help mop
Thoro ia nn roacun for auph anVo Ia tho I.urU