The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1889-07-19

we'll as to huye,you renounce your bbccu-
patton and associate with them. Much
Of the timo they lounge around tile.
club-rooms or the doors OF engine
houses, or after the dining hour stand
upon the steps or a fashionable hotel or
an elegant restaurant, wishing to give
you the idea that that Is the place
where they dine. But they DO not dine
there. They arc sinking down lower
anu lower, day by day. Neither by
day nor by night have anything to do
with tho idlors. Before you admit Il
man into your acquaintance ask him
politely: "lVhat do you do for q liylng9n
IT ho says, s'Nothing; am n gentle-
man, look out for him. He may have
a very soft hand and very faultless
apparel, anu have a high sounding
family name, but his touch is death. Be-
fore you know it you will III his pres
ence be ashamed Of your work dress.
Business will become to you drudgory,
md after awhile you will lose your
place, and afterwards your respectable
ity, and last Of all your soul. Idleness
IS
NEXT DOOR 70 YILLAINY.
Thieves, gamblers, burglars, shoplifters,
and assassins are made from tho class
who havo nothing to do. When the
police go to hunt up and arrest Il cul-
prit, they seldom go to look in among
the busy clerks or in the busy carriage
factory, but they 60 among the group
Of idlers. The play is going on at the
theatre, when suddenly there is u scutlie
in the top gallery. What is it? A
policeman has come III, and, leaning
over, has tapped on the shoulder 4
young man saying: 81 want you, SIR"
IIo had not worked during Tie day. but
somehow had raked together Il shilling
or two to get into the top gallery. lie
is an idler. Tie man on his right hand
is an idler, and the man on his left hand
Is All idier.
Shrink back from idleness in your
self and in others if you would main
tain a right position. Good oil Asllbel
Green, at moro than eighty years ofiage
was found busy writing, and some
young man said to him. "Vyhy do you
keep busy? 1t is time for you to rest"
IIo answered: IL keep busy to keep
out OF mischief" No mau is strong
enough TO be idle.
a NOTABLE PICTURE.
Are you fond Of pictures? IF so [
will show you ono OF the works Of an
old master. Here 1t Is: II went by
the field Of the %slothful, and hy The
vineyard of the man void Of under
standing; and lol it was all grown over
with thorns, and nettles had covered
the face thereof, ana the stone wall
was broken down. Then L saw anu
considered well. I looked upon it and
received instruction. Yet little sleep,
Il little slumber, a little folding Of the
hands to sleep. SO shall thy poverty
como as one that travclcth, AMI thy
wait as an armc,l man, don't
know OF another sentence in The Bible
more explosive than that. it first
Kisses softly. like the fuse of u cannon,
and ut last bursts like q iifty-!our
FOUNDER. Tho old proyerb was right:
"The devil tempts most mon, but idlGrS
tempt tho dovil."
a young man came to q man of nine
ty years Of age and said to him: ''How
have you made out to live SO long and
be SO well?" The old man took tho
%youngster to an orchard, and, pointing
to some large trees full or apples, sail:
81 planted these trees when I wasa boy,
and do you wonder that now I am per-
mitted to gather the fruit of them2'
We gather III old age What we plant in
II youth. Sow to the wind, and we
reap the wllirlwind. Plant in early life
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