Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29

man wants to 60 the whole round of sin. ':s'
can find plenty to take him, a whole regl-
ment who know the way. But after awhile
| Edwards money is all gone. He has re-
ceived his salary again and again, but IL
was spent before he got it, borrowing a
little here and little there. What snail
he do now? Why, he has seen in bis
rounds of the gambling tables men who
put down dollar and took up ten; put
down hundred and took up thousand.
Why not he? To reconstruct his finances
he takes hand and wins; is SO pleased he
takes another hand and wins; is in
phrenzy of delight, and takes another
hand-and loses all.
When he first came to the city Edward
was disposed to keep Sunday in quietness'
reading little, and going occasionally 10
hear sermon, Now, Sunday is day OF
carousal. He is SO full of intoXicants by
of the licensed 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. he Is
listless, or silly, or impertinent, or in some
way incompetent and 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
services since we paid you last, and here 1T
| is"
what is the matter?" says the young
man. II cannot understand this. Have [
done anything?"
| The reply is: 1--WE do not wish any words
with YOU. Our enga cement with each other
is ended!"
"Out of employment" What does that
mean to good young man? 1t means op-
portunity to get another and perhaps
better place. 1t means opportunity for
mental improvement and preparation for
higher work. "Out of employment" What
does that mean to dissipated young man?
It means lightning express train on
down grade on the Grand Trunk to Perdi-
ton. AL Borak was winged horse on
by night from Mecca to Jerusalem, and
from Jerusalem to the seventh heaven with
such speed that each step was as far as the
eye could reach. A young man out of en-
ployment through his designations is seated
on an AL Borak, riding Us fast in the oppo-
site direction.
1t is now only five years since Edward
came TO town. He used to write home once
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 morning the father puts on the
best apparel of his wardrobe and goes to
the city to find out.
ooh, he has not been here for long
WHILE" say 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 place of abandonment.
The father says: "AIy son, come with me.
Your mother has sent me to bring you
home. I hear you are out of money and
good clothes, and you know as long as we
live you can have home. Come right
away" he says, putting his hand on the
young mans shoulder.
In angry tone Edward replies: "Take
your hands off me! You mind your own
your hands Off of me or l will strike you
down! You go your way, and [ will go
mine!"
That Saturday night, or rather Sunday
morning-for it is by this time o'clock in
the morning-the father goes to the city
home of his son Nicholas, and rings the
bell, and rings again and again, and it
seems as if no answer would be given; but
after a While a window is hoistcd and
voice cries out: "Who is there?"
ut is me" says the old man.
"Why, father, is that you?"
In Il 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?"
ooh! Edward has brought Inc here. 1
feared your mother would so stark crazy
not hearing from him, and l find out that
it is worse with him than suspected"
Yes" says Nicholas, "I had not the
heart to write you anything about it. I
have tried my best with him and all in vain
But it is after O'clock" says Nicholas to
his father, "and | will take you to bed"
Ona 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 COM
ing to the city, became indispensable in
the commercial establishment where he
was placed. He knew, what few persons
know, that, while in all departments of
business and mechanism and art there is Il
surplus of people of ordinary application
and ordinary diligence, there is a great
scarcity, and always has been a great
scarcity, of people who excel. Plenty of
people to do things poorly OF tolerably we'll.
but very few clerks or business men or
mechanics who can do splendidly well.
approaching tnls, Nicholas mad resolved
to do SO grandly that the business firm
could not do without him. Always at his
place a little after everybody had gone
AS extremely polite to those who declined
purchasing as to those who made large
purchases. He drank no wine, for he saw
it was the Imprisonment of multitudes, and
when anyone asked him to take something
he said mo" with the peculiar intonation
that meant no. His conversation was al
ways as pure as if his sisters had been
listening. He went to no place of amuse-
ment where he would be ashamed to die.
He never bet or gambled, even at a church
fair! When he was at the boarding house.
after he had got all the artistic develop
ment he could possibly receive from the
chrome on the wall, he began to study that
which would help him to promotion-study
penmanship, study biographies Of success
full men; or went forth to places of limo
cent amusement and TO Young Mems
| Christian associations, and was not ashamed
to be found at a church prayer meeting.
He rose from position to position, and
from one salary to another salary.
Only five years i'll town, and yet he has
rented his own house or a suite of rooms.
not very large, but home large enough in
its happiness to be a tyne of heaven. Tn