Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13

They hang around our great notes.-the Fifth
Avenue, the Windsor, the Brunswick, the
Stuyvesant, the Gilsey House-all our beauti
full hotels you find them around there any day
men who do nothing, never earn anything
yet well dressed, having plenty. Why should
walk Why should you work Why drudge
and toll In bank and shop and office, or on the
scaholding, or by the anvil, when these meT
get along so well and do not work
Some OF them hang around the city halls Of
our great cities, toothpick in their mouth, wait
ing for some crumb to fall from the Office
holders table. Some of them hang around the
city hall for the city van bringing criminals
from the station houses. They stand there and
gloat over lt-really enjoy the disgrace and
suffering Of those poor creatures as they gel
out OF the city van and 60 into the courts;
| Where do they get their money! That is
| what You ask. That is what ask. Only -four
| ways ef getting money-only four; by inheri
tance by earning it by begging it, by stealing
it; and there are vast multitude among uS
who get their living not by inheritance, nor by
earning it. nor by begging 1t. / do not like to
take the responsibility Of saying
HOW THEY GET IT!
Nov, these men are constant temptation.
Why should toll and wear myself out in the
bank or the Office, or the store, or the shop, OF
the factoryR These men have nothing to do.
They get along great deal better. And that
is the temptation under which a great many
men. these idlers, and they 20 down the same
awful sleeps. The number Of men in our cities
who are trying TO get their livings by their wits
and by sleight of hand is all the time increas-
| ing.
A New York merchant saw young man, one
of his clerks, in half disguise going into very
| low place Of amusement The merchant said
to himself; u must look out for that clerk; he
| is going in bad company and going in bad
places; must look out for him." A few months
ovadn rfpeY fHa han an.
tered his store, and this clerk Of whom l have
| been speaking came up in assumed consterna-
tion and said: "0h, sir, the store has been on
| fire; have put out the fire; but there are a
| great 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 cannot deceive
me; where are those goods you stole1" The
| young man instantly confessed bis villainy.
the numbers of people in these great cities
who are trying to get their living not honestly!
And they are mighty temptation to the in
dustrious young man who cannot 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
a 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, Just SO much moral,
just SO much spiritual possession you will have
just so much as from the morning of your life
to the evening of your life you can pillow around
with your own hard work. go 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.
III. Once more remark; that the dram
shop is great caldron of iniquity in our time.
Anarcharsis said that the vine bore three
orropas. tho frct ruos plaaeura fha navt
Drunkenness and the next Misery. Every
saloon above ground or under ground is
fountain of iniquity. 1t may have a license
and it may go along quite respectfully for a
while, but after a while the cover will fall off
and the color of the iniQuity will be displayed.
"Oh." says some one, you ought to be easier
on such traffic when it pays such large reve-
nue. to the Government, and helps support your
schools and your great institutions of mercy"
And then think of what William E. Gladstone
said-I think it was the first time he was Chan
cellor of the Exchequer-when men engaged
in the ruinous traffic came TO him and said
tion from the fact that it paid such a 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 well have reve-
nue. enough and a 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 people in the
penitentiary, and there would be tens of
thousands of men who are now on the road to
hell who would start on the road to heaven.
But the financial ruin is a very small part of
it This iniqulty OF which speak takes every
thing that is sacred out of the family, every
thing that is holy in religion everything that is
infinite in the soul and tramples it under foot
The marriage day has come. The twain are at
the altar. Lights flash. Music sounds. GAY
feet 60 up and down the drawing room. Did
ever a vessel launch on suoh a bright and
beautiful sea? The scene changes. ningy
garret. No fire. On a broken chair sorrow
full wife.
LAST HOPE GONE.
Poor, forsaken, trodden under foot she
knows all the sorrow of being a drunKard's
wife. ''Oh," she says, ''he was the kindest
man that ever lived, he was SO noble, he was SO
goodl God never made grander man than
he was, but the drink did it. the drink did itr'
Some day she viii press her hands against her
temples and cry: 'oh, my brain, my brainr' or
she will go out on the abutment of the bridge
some moonlight night and look down on the
CLASSY surface and wonder if under that CLASSY
surface there is not some rest for broken
heart.
A young man, through the intercession of
metropolitan friends, gets place in bank or
store. he is going to leave his country home.
That morning they are up early in the old
homestead. The trunk is on the wagon.
Mother says: "My son, put a Bible in the
trunk, hope you will read it often" She
wipes the tears away with her apron. "Oh"
he says come, don't you be worried, l know
how to take care of myself. Don't be worried
about me-" The father says: "My son, be a
good boy. and write home often, your mother
will be anxious to hear from you" Crack
goes the whip, and over the hills goes the |
wagon. Five years have passed on, and a dis |
sipated life has done its work for that young |
man, There is hearse coming up in front of |
neighborhood who have stayed on the farm |
come in and say: rs it possible Why he |
doesn't look natural, does he Is that the |
fair brow we used to know? Is that the |
possible that is him. The parents stand look |
ing at the cash in the forehead from which the |
life oozed out, and they lift their hands and |
salon, would God / had died for thee, o, Alb |
salon, my son, my son %
LORENZO DE MEDIcI
was very sick, and some of his superstitious |
friends thought if they could dissolve a certain
number OF pearls in a cup and then he would |
drink them it would cure him of the disease. |
So they went around and gathered up all the |
beautiful pears they could find, and they dis |
solved them in a cup, and the sick man drank |
them. oh, it was an expensive draught. But
| tell you of a more expensive draught than
that. Drunkenness puts into its cup the pearl
piness, the pearl of respectabillty, the pearl of
Christian hope, the pearl of everlasting |
heaven, and presses it to the hot lips.
/ tell you the dramshop is the gate of hell
The trouble is they do not put up the right
kind of sign. They have great many differ
ent kinds of signs now on places where strong
drink is sold One is called the restaurant"
and another is called the saloon" and another
is called the "hotel," and another is called the
wine cellar" and another is called the SAM
pie ROOM" What name TO give one of those
places! A sample roomr' 1 saw a man on the
steps of one of those sample rooms" the
other day, dead drunk. said to myself: II
AAN%hn