Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-27

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guidance. If man wants to go tne
whole round of sin, he can find plenty TO
take him, a whole regiment who know the
way. But after awhile Edwards money Is
all gone. He has received his salary again
and again, but it was spent before he got
it borrowing little here and little there.
What shall he do now? Why, he has seen
in his rounds of the gambling tables men
who mt down dollar and took up ten,
LDut down a hundred and took up thous-
and. Why not he? To reconstruct his
finances he takes a hand and wins; Is SO
pleased he takes another hand and wins;
is in frenzy of delight and takes another
hand-and loses all.
When he first came to the city Edward
was disposed to keep Sunday in quiet
ness, reading little, and going OCCASION
ally to hear a sermon. Now, Sunday Is
day of carousal and. He is so
FULL OF INTOXICANTS
by eleven o'clock in the day he staggeIs
into one of the licensed rum holes OF the
city.
Some morning, Edward, his breath
stenchful with rum, takes his place in the
store. He is not fit to be there. lie Is
listless, or silly, or impertinent, or in some
way incompetent, and the messenger comes
to him and says: '.The firm desire to see
you in their private office"
The gentleman in the private office
says:
Edward we will not need you any
more. We owe you little money for SER
vices since we paid you last, and here II
is"
''What is the matter" says the young
man. IL cannot understand this. Have
| done anything"
The reply is: 1--WE do not wish any
words with you. Our engagement with
each other is ended.
''oUTOF EMPLOYMENTD.
What does that mean to a good young
man? 1t means opportunity to get an
other and perhaps better place. 1t means
opportunity for mental improvement and
higher work. "Out of employment"
What does that mean to dissipated young
man? 1t means lightning express train
on down grade on the Grand trunk to per
dition. Al Borak was winged
horse on which Mahome prctenden to have
ridden by night from Mecca to Jerusalem,
and from Jerusalem to the seventh heaven,
with such speed that each step was as far
as the eve could reach. A young man out
of employment through his dissipation is
seated on an Al BOrak, riding rs fast in
the opposite direction.
1t is now only five years since Edward
came to town. He used to write home
once q week at the longest. He has not
written home for three months. "What
can be the matter" say the old people at
home. One Saturday moringi the father
puts on the best apparel Of his wardrobe
and goes to the city to find out.
80, he has not been here for such q long
while" says the gentlemen of the firm.
Your son, am sorry to say is on the
wrong track.
THE OLD FATHER
goes hunting him from place to place and
comes suddenly upon him that night in n
place OF abandonment. The fathcrSayS:
'Mv son come with me, your mother has
sent me to bring you home hear you
are out of money and good clothes, and you
know Us long rs we live you can have Il
home. Come right away, he says putting
his hand on the young mans shoulder
In angry tone Edward replied: Take
YOUR hands off OF me. You mind your own
business! | will do as please! Take your
hands off of me or will strike you down!
You 90 your way and | will go mincw
That Saturday night or rather Sunday
morning-for it is by this time two o'clock
in the morning-the firther goes to the
city home of his son Nicholas, and rings the
the bell, and rings again and again, and it
seems aS if no answer would be given;
but after while q window is hOiSted and
n voice cries; who's there?"
at is me-" says the old man.
"Why, father, is that you?"
In minute the door is opened and the
son SAYS: "What in the world has brought
YOU to the city at this hour of the night?'
'Oh! Edward has brought me here.
feared your mother would 90 stark crazy
not hearing from him, and find out that
it is worse with him than suspected
eyes" SAYS Nicholas, 81 had not the
heart to write you anything about it.
have tried my hest with him and all in
vain. But it is after > o'clock" says
Nicholas to his father, ''and | will take
you to Il bed. "
On comfortable couch in that house
the old father lies down cOaXing sleep for
few hours, but no sleep comes. Whose
house is it? That of his son, Nicholas.
The fact is, that Nicholas soon after coming
to the city became Indispensable in the
commercial establishment where he was
placed lie knew what few persons know,
that while in all departments of business,
and mechanism, and art, there is
A SURPLUS OF PEOPLE
of ordinary application and ordinary dill
gence, there is great scarcity, and always
has been great scarcity, of people who
excel. Plenty of people to do things
poorly or fairly well, but very few clerks,
or business men, or mechanics who can do
Splendidly well. Approaching this Mich
olas had resolved to do so grandly that the
business firm could not do without him.
Always at his place little after everybody
had gone. AS extremely polite to those
who decline purchasing rs to those who
made large purchases He drank no wine,
for ne saw it was the imprisonment of
multitudes, and when any one asked him
10 take SOnletnlHSI Hc Stlu NJ WITH lHt
peculiar intonatiOn that meant no. His
conversation was always as pure as if his
sisters had been listening. He
went to no place of amusement where
Inc would be ashamed to die. He never
bet or gamhled, even at q church fair!
When he was ut the boarding house, after
he had got all the artistic development
he could possibly receive from the chrome
OH the wall, he began to study that which
would help him to promotion-Study pen
manShip, study biographies of successful
men; or went forth to places of innocent
amusement and to Young Mems Christian
Associations, and was not ashamed TO be
found at u church prayer-meeting He
rose from position to position, and from
one salary to another salary.
ONLY FIVE YEARS IN TOWN
and yet he has rented his own house or
suite of rooms, not very large but o home
large enough in its happiness to hea type
of heaven. In the morning as the old
father with handkerchief in hand comes
crying down stairs to the table there are
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