St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-27


man is wine-guZzler, his wife broken
hearted or prematurely old, his fortune gone
CT reduced and his home mere name in a
directory.
Another test by which you can find
whether your club is legitimate or illegiti-
mate-the effect it has on your secular Oc-
cupation. [ can understand how through
such an institution man can reach COM
mercial success. | know some men have
formed their best business relations through
such channel. If the club has adyantaged
you in an honorable calling, it is
a LEGITIMATE CLUB.
But has your credit failed? Are bargain
makers more cautious how they trust you
with bill of goods? Have the men whose
names were down in the commercial
agency A 1 before they entered the club
been going down since in commercial stand
ing? Then look out You and | every
day know of commercial establishments
going to ruin through the social eXceSseS of
one or two members. Their fortunes beaten
to death with ball-payers' bat, OF cut amid
ships by the front PROV OF the regatta, or
going down under the swift hoofS OF the
fast horses, or drowned in large potatlonS
of Cognac and Monongahela. Their club
ness house was the ''Ville du Havre." They
struck, and the ''Ville du Havre" went
under.
A third test by which you may know
whether the club to which you belong, or
the club to whose membership you are in
vited. is legitimate club or an illegitimate
club is this: What is its effect on your sense
of moral and religious obligation? Now, if
I Oh fol tba nf a npOnlp
this audience this morning and put them on
a roll. and then | should lay that roll back
of this organ and 100 years from now some
one should take that roll and call it from
to T. there would not one of you answer.
/ say that any association that makes me
forget that fact is bad association. When
| 20 to Chicago am sometimes perpleXed
at Buffalo, as | suppose many travellers are,
as to whether it is better to take the Lake
Shore route or the Michigan Central,
equally expeditions and equally safe, get
ting at the destination at the same time.
But suppose that 1 hear that on one route
the
TRACK IS TORN UP
and the bridges are torn down and the
switches are unlocked? 1t will not take
me great while to decide which road to
take; now here are two roads into the fu-
ture, the Christian and the un-ChriStian
the safe and the unsafe. Any institution
or any association that confuSeS my idea in
regard to that fact is bad institution and a
bad association.
deplore this ruin the more because this
style of dissipation is taking down our
finest men. The admission fee Sits out the
penurious and takes only those VINO are
called the best fellows. Oh, how changed
you are. Not so kind to your wife as you
used to be: not so patient with your chill
dren. Your conscience is not so much at
rest. You laugh more now and sing louder
than Once but are not half so happy. Its
not the public drinking saloon that is tax
ing you down, but it is simply and undenia-
bly, your club room. You do not make
yourself as agreeable in your family as
once. You go home at II o'clock with an
unnatural flush upon your cheek and a
strange color in your eye that you got at the
club. You merely acknowledge that you
feel queer. You say that champagne never
intoXicateS; that it only eXhilarates, makes
the conversation fluent, shakes up the
humor and has no bad effect except a head
ache next day. Be not deceived. Cham
pagne may not, like whisky. throw a man
under the table; but if, through anything
you drink, you gain an unnatural fluency
of speech and glow of feeling, you are
SIMPLY DRUNK.
If those imperiled were heartless young
men; stingy young men, L would not be sc
sorry as | am; but there are many of them
generous to fault, frank, honest, cheerful,
talented. 1 begrudge the devil such a
prize. After a while these persons will lose
all the franlneSs and honor for which they
are now distinguished. Their countenances
will get haggard and instead Of look
ing one in the eyes when they
talk, they will look down. After a while
when the mother kindly asks: What kept
you out so late?" they will make no answer
or will say: ''That is my business" They
will come cross and befogged to the store
and bank and ever and anon neglect some
| duty, and after awhile will be dismissed:
| and then, with nothing to do, will rise in
| the morning at 10 o'clock, cursing the ser
want because the breakfast is cold. and then
go down town and stand on the steps of a
fashionable hotel and criticiSe the paSSerS-
| by. While the young man who was clerk
in a cellar has come up to be the first clerk,
and he, who few years ago ran errandS
for the bank. has got to be cashier, and
thousands of other young men of the city
have gone up to higher and more respon-
sible positions, he has been going down un-
til there he passes through the street with
| bloated lip and blood-Shot eve and
STAGGERING STEP,
and hat mud-spattered and set sideways or
shock of greasy hair, the ashes of his
cigar dashed upon his cravat. Here he
! goes! Look at him, all ye pure-hearted
young men and see the work of the diSsipa.
! ting club-room, and know one such who
! after the contaminatiOns of his clubhouse
| leaped out of the third-story window to put
an end of his wretchedness.
., men who are victims of diSSipating as
sociations. your sins will follow yOu l de
! scribe the history of thousands of households
when l say that the tea is rapidly taken
and while yet the family linger the father
shoveS back his chair, has IAN engage
ment." lights his cigar and starts out, moi
returning until after midnight. That is the
history of three hundred and siXty-five days
in the year, except when he is sick and can
not go out. How about home duties? Have
you fulfilled all your vows? Would YOU
wife ever have married you with such {
prospect? Wait until your sons get to bt
Is or II years of age and they too vii
shove back from the tea table, have ar
engagement. light their cigars, 90 over
to their club-houseS. their night key rat
Ting in your door after midnight-the effec
of your example. And as your sons con
stitution may not be as strong as yours, the
liquor he drinks more
TERRIBLY DRUGGED,
he will catch up to you on the road TO death
although you got the start of him. And So
you will both go to hell together.
A revolving DrummOnd light on the
front of 4 locomotive casts its gleam through
the darkness as it is turned around; so
catch up the lamp of Gods truth and tlirl
it round until its tremendous glare flashes
into all the club-houSes of our cities. Flee
the presence of diSSipating club-houses
| ..Paid Your moneY?" Sacrifice that rathe