The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29

plunge through Jnat mothers neart. A teie-
gram brought him from afar. he went
bloated and SCARED into the room and he
stood by the hfeless form Of his mother.
Her gray hair; It had turned gray in sor-
row. Those eyes had wept floods Of tears
over his wandering. That still white hand
had done him many kindness and had:
written many a loving invitation and gooo
counsel. Hehad broken her old heart. he
came into the room and threw himself on
the casket and he sobbed outright: Mother,
mother!'' but those lips that had kissed him
in infancy and uttered 20 many kind words,
spoke not; they were sealed. Rather than
have such memory come on my soul,
would prefer 20 have roll on me the alps
and the Himalayas,
But while sometimes there are sons who
turn out very badly coming from good
homes, I want to tell you for your encour-
agement it is a great exception. Yet an IN
happy and undisciplined home is the poison
Gus caldron from which vast multitude
drink their death.
III remark that another caidron OF in
iouitv is an indolent life. All the rail trains
down the Hudson river yesterday, all the
rail trains on the Pennsylvaniaro route, all the
trains on the Long Island road brought to
these cities young men to begin commercial
life. Some of them are here this morning,
doubt not. Do you know whatone OF your
great temptations Is going to bea 1t Is the
example Of indolent people in our cities.
They are in all our cities. They dress bet
ter than some who are Industrious. They
have access to all places Of amusement
plenty Of money, and yet idle. Iney nans
around our great notes.-the Fifth avenue,
the Windsor, the Brunswick, the Stuyve-
SAINT, the Gilsey House-au our oeauu1ul
hotels, YOU find them around there any oay
men who do nothing, never earn any talng,
vetwell dressed, having plenty. Why should
I work? Why should you. workl why
drudge and toll in bank and shop and ofhce,
or on the scafoldinS or by the anvil, when
these men get along sowell and donot WORK
Some Of them hang around the CITY halls
of our great cities, eoothpick il their mouth,
waiting for some crumb to fall from the
ofsceholder's table Some Of them hang
around the city hall FOR the city van BRING
ING criminals from the station houses. They
stand there and gloat over it-really enjoy
the disgrace and suffering Of those poor
creatures as they get out Of the city van and
80 into the courts.
Where do they get their money? That IS
what you ask. That is what ask. Only
four ways Of getting money-only tour: oy
inheritance, by earnisg it, by begging 1t, oy
stealing it: and there are vast multitude
among US who get their living not beinherlt-
ance, nor by earning it, nor by begging it. l
do not like to take the responsibility Of say
ing how they get It'll
Now. these men are a constant temptation.
Whv should toll and wear myself out in
tbehsak. or the Office, or the store, o. ore
shS -sezfaesSSszsss4 Szs4s-al-Esse men have
-s1Ehing to do. They get along great deal
better. And that IS the temptation under
which great many young men fall. They
begin to consort with these men, these idlers,
and they go down the same awful sleeps.
The number Of ren in our cities who are try
ing to get their livingby their wits and BY
sleight Of hand is all the time increasing
A New York merchant saw young man,
one of his clerks, IN half disguise, gong
into very low place Of amusement. The
merchant said to himself: 81 must look out
for that clerk; he is going-iaa- company
and going in bad places; I niuSv looA oe' ~ ios
him. a few monEJze.-asseo on, anu oie
morning the E:o1oH4HU Inteteu nis $50
49, ceroe 40 in assumed CONSERVATION and
-a;a o, sir, the store has been on FIRE;
many goods lost, we have had great crowd
Of people coming and going" Then the
merchant took the clerk by the collar and
said: II have had enough Of this; you can
not deceive me; where are those goods you
stole?" The young man instantly confessed
his vi1fainy.
O, the numbers Of people in these great
cities who are trying to get their living not
honestly! And they are mighty tempta-
tion to the Industrious young man who can
not understand it. While these others have
it so easy they have it so hard. Horatius Of
olden time was told that he could have Just
as much ground as he could plow around
with yoke Of oxen in one day. He hooked
up the oxen to the plow and he cut very
large circle and plowed until he came to the
same point where he started, and all that
property was his But have to tell you to-
day that Just so much financial, iustso much
moral, just so much spiritual possession you
will have as you compass with your own In
dustries, and just 80 much from the morn
ing Of your life to the evening of your life
can plow around with your own hard work
500 to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her
ways and be wise" One Of the most awful
caldrons Of death to-day is an indolent life.
Thank God that you have to work.
m.-Once more remark: that the dram
shop is q great cal6ron Of iniquity in our
time. Anachsrsis said that the vine bore
three grapes; the first was Pleasure, the
next was Drunkenness, and the next was
Misery. Every saloon above ground Or under
ground is fountain Of inicuity. It may
have license and it may 90 along quite re-
specially for awhile, but after awhile the
cover will fall off and the color Of the inlqul-
ty will be displayed.
ssO,n says some one, ''you ought to be
easier on such traffic whom it pays such a
large revenue to the government, and helps
support your schools and your great
tions Of mercy.' And then ! think Of what
William E. Gladstone said-I think it was
the first time he was chancellor Of the ex-
cheouer-when men engaged in the ruinous
traffic came to him and said their business
ought to have more consideration from the
fact that it paid such large revenue to
the English Government. Mr.. Gladstone
said: Gentlemen, don't worry yourselves
about the revenue; give me thirty millions
of sober people, and Wen have revenue
enough and surplus"
We might in this country-this traffic per
ished-have less revenue, but we would
have more happy homes, and we would have
more peace, and we would have fewer peo-
pie in the penitentiary, and there would DO
tens of thousands Of men who are now on
the road to he'll who would start on the road