The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-03

cised at first completely, but in business
you will be before you know it, and if you
follow up this habit you will in the
end have only drunkards for
associates. Therefore, if you have
made up your mind that you cannot
refrain from gambling and intemperance,
the sooner you wind up your business and
90 to the devil, the better; for the sooner
this is done the more those you leave be-
hind will be likely to get from the wreck.
Walkabout does not profess to be a
preacher, for he has no license to preach,
or Temperance lecturer, and he may not
be telling you what you do not already
know, but he is telling you the truth, and
if you want to succeed In business, 1t will
do you no harm to be reminded of these
things. He is telling you what has been
the experience of others as able as your
self.
A man who cannot resist temp
tatio. lacks some essential quality
pertaining to true manhood. In other
words a man who says he can't refrain
from indulging in a base habit, no matter
how confirmed it may be, owns up to a
disgraceful weakness; a weakness that is
not entitled to respect or sympathy. If a
man is man in the true sense of the
word he can resist any temptation that
can be placed before him, come in what
shape it may. This is not only Walk
about's opinion, but that of his friend, the
Almighty. Otherwise why did He GUST
Adam from the garden? Walkabout
wants no friend who cannot do this. I'm
sophisticated wives may be led to believe
that their husbands can't leave off
drinking, but your humble servant has
been there and knows better.
Idleness is the fruitful source from
whence bad habits are derived. Hence it
is said that the devil is always on the
lookout for idlers. Industrious people
are not SO liable to acquire bad habits as
those that are idle. Now and then, how
ever, even such are led astray during their
leisure hours, by being inticed to the
gaming tables and other disreputable
places. Such would save their money and
credit and character by reducing their
leisure honrs, or by devoting them to in
nocent amusements. They should culti-
vate taste for things of a harmless char
acter, and cut themselves loose from dis
reputable associates and associations.
To succeed in any kind of legitimate
business you have got to inspire conf
dence, and you cannot do this so long as
you frequently disqualify yourself for the
braces all the vices above referred to and
hence it may be called the chief of vices.
From a. M, all day Tuesday and the
following night, and again yesterday there
was great commotion among the chickens
in the Union market house. This con-
tinued up to 8 p. m. yesterday, when they
appeared more calm and to-day their
fright seems to have subsidized. 1t was
supposed when the commotiOn COM
menced that a rat had found its way
into their quarters; but a diligent
search failed to discover any such intlu
der. Then the owner of these chickens
concluded that some one had been dosing
them on whisky, and that they were all on
a bender, but the length of time this dis
turbance was kept up spoiled that theory.
At last, at the hour above mentioned,
small boy discovered in one corner of
their coop newspaper, which proved to
be The STATESMAN, of the 1st inst, in
which was recorded the fact that the city
was being filed up with Methodist minis
tiers. That solved the whole matter, and
as soon as the paper was taken away
there was silence in the camp.
In the south we, are hewers of wood and
drawers of water; in the north they are
hewers of water and drawers ,of wood
in the winter time.
Old dog Spot guards the Iron Front in
the morning and the First National bank
in the evening. Like other policemen, he
seeks the shady side of the street, and
when he reposes he seeks the softest rock
he can find. He never leaves his beat
while on watch except to make the ac-
quaintance of some country dog that
happens along. When night cometh he
vanishes, but the parts all assume their
wornted shape when the day dawns. Of
late old Spot has the rheumatism, and as
soon as he draws his monthly salary he is
going to Jewett to try the ''faith-cure."