Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-26

BOY ,UDU; the aDStalDeT VINO Inhue tHc
fewcst bricks, made 100000. The diff
| ference in behalf of the abstainer over
| the indulger, $1,000"
There came a very e~xhausting time
in the British Parliament. The session
was prolonged until nearly all the
| members got sick or worn out. Out OF
652 members only two went through
undamaged; they were teetotallers.
When an army goes out to the battle
| the soldier who has water or coffee In
| his canteen marches easier and fights
| better than the soldier who has whisky
in his cantecn. Rum helps a man to
fight when he has only one contestant
| and that at the street corner. But when
| he goes forth to maintain some
GREAT BATTLE FOE GOD
and his country, he wants no rum about
him. When the Russians 90 TO wara
corporal passes along the line and
smells the breath of every soldier. If
| there be in his breath a faint of intoxi-
eating liquor the man is sent back to
the barracks. Whyp He cannot en-
dure fatigue. All our young men
know this. When they are preparing
fyr a regatta or for a ball club or for
an athletic wrestling, they abstain. Our
working people will be wiser after a
while, and the money they fling away
on hurtful indulgence they will put in
to cooperative associations and so be-
come capitalists. IL the workingman
put down his wages and then take his
expenses and spread them out $ 70 they
will just be equal, he is not wise, l know
working men who are in a perfect fid-
get until they get rid'of their last dol
lar.
The following circumstance came un-
der u observation: A young man
worked hard to earn his six or seven
hundred dollars yearly. Marriage day
came. The bride had inherited $500
from her grandfather, She spent every
dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then
they rented two rooms in q third story.
Then the young man took extra even
ing employment-almost exhausted
with the days work yet took evening
employment. 1t almost extinguished
his eyesight. Why did he add evening
employment to the day employment
To get money. Why did he want to
get money! To
LAY UP SOMETHING FOR A RAINY DAY?
No. To get his life insured so that in
case of his death his wife would not be
a beggarP No. He put the extra eve
ming work to the day work hat he
might get "A $3.50 dollars to get his wife
a seal skin coat. The sister of the
bride heard of this achievement and
was not to be eclipsed. She was very
poor, and she sat up working nearly
all the nights for a great
while until she bought a seal
skin coat. l have not heard
of the result on that street. The street
was full of those who are on small in
comes, but | suppose that the %contagion
spread and that everybody had a seal
skin coat, and that the people came
out and cried, practically not literally:
Though the heavens fall we must have
a sealskin coat"
was out west and a minister of the
gosre: told me, in Iowa, that his church
and the neighborhood had been inn
poverished by the fact that they put
mortgages on their farms in order to
send their families to the Philadelphia
centennial. 1t was not respectable not
to 90 to the centennial. Between such
evils and
PAUPERIsM
there is a very short step. The vast
majority of children in your almshouses
are there because their parents are
drunken, or lazy, or recklessly impro-
vident.
l have no sympathy for skin-flint
saving, but | plead for Christian pru-
dence. You say it is impossible now
to lay up anything fora rainy day. l
know it, but we are ut they day break
of national prosperity. Some people
when they go out of the parlor. They
feel embarrassed if the door bell rings
before they have the hall lighted. They
apologize for the plain meal if you sur
prise them at Ike table. Well, it is
NEAR if it is only to pile up a misery
hoard. But if it is to educate your
children. if it be to give more help to
your wife when she does not feel
strong. if it be to keep your funeral
day from being horrible beyond all en-
durance because it is to be the disrup-
ton and humiliation of the domestic
circle-if it be for that then it is mag
nificent.
There are those who are kept in
poverty because of their own fault.
They might have been well off, but
THEY SMOKED OR CHEwED
up their earnings, or they lived beyond
their means, while others on the same
wages and the same salaries went on to
competency. l know "a man who was
all the time complaining of his poverty
and crying out against rich men, while
he himself keeps two dogs and chews
and smokes and is full t o the chin with
whisky and beer. wilkins Micawber
said to David Copperfield; Copper
field. my boy, one pound income,
twenty shillings and six pence; result.
misery. But, ~Copperfield, my boy. one
pound income, nineteen shillings and
six pence; result, happiness" But o
workingman of America, take your
morning dram and YOUR noon dram,