Dodge City times., 1889-05-30

DrOkeu UeI Olu ueart. ne came INTO Tn
room and threw himself on the caske
and he sObbed outright: Mother
mother" but those lips that had kisse,
him in infancy and uttered SO man,
kind words spake not; they were sealed
Rather than have such a memory com
on my soul. would prefer to have rol
over on me the Alps and the Himalayas
But while sometimes there are son,
who turn out very badly coming from
good homes, want to tell you for you
encouragement it is a great exception
Yet an nhappy and dundisciplined homt
is the poisonous caldlon from which {
vast multitude drink their death.
II. 1 remark that another caldron oi
iniquity is an indolent life. All the raj
trains down the Hudson River yester-
day, all the rail trains on the Pennsyl.
vania 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 what one OF
your great temptations is going to be:
1t is the example of indolent people in
our cities. They are in all our cities.
They dress better than some who are in
dustrious. They have access to all
places of amusement-plenty of money,
and yet idle. They hang around our
great notes.-the Fifth Avenue. the
Windsor, the Brunswick, the Stuyvesant.
the Gilsey house-ail our beautiful
hotels, you find them around there any
day-men who do nothing, never earn
anything, vet well dressed, having
plenty. Why should l walk? Why
should you work? Why drudge and toll
in bank and shop and Office, or on the
scaffolding. or by the anvil, when these
men get along SO well and do not
work?
Some of them hang around the city
halls of our great cities, toothpick in
their mouth, waiting 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 it-really enjoy the disgrace
and suffering of those poor creatures as
they get out of the city van and go 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 four: by inheritance, by earning
it, by begging it, by stealing it; and
there are vast multitude amongu us who
get their living not by inheritance, nor
by earning it, nor by begging it. l do
not like to take the responsibility of
saying how they get it!
Now, these men are constant temp
tation. Why should 1 toll and wear
myself out in the bank, or the Office. or
the store, or the shop, or the factory?
These men have nothing to do. They
get along great deal better. And that
is the temptation under which q great
many young men fall. They begin to
consort with these men, these idlers,
and they go down to the same awful
sleeps. The number of men in our
cities who are trying to get their living
by 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,
going into very low place of amuse-
ment. The merchant said to himself:
Il must look out for that clerk; he is
going in bad company and going in bad
places; l must look out for him." A few
months passed on, and one morning the
merchant entered his store, and this
clerk of when l have been speaking
came up in assumed CONSERVATION and
said: "Oh, sir, the store has been on
fire; Ihave put ont the fire, but there
are 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: Il have
had enough of this; you cannot deceive
me; where are those goods you stole?"
The young man instantly confessed his
y the numbers of people in these
great cities who are trying to get their
living not honestly! And they are
mighty temptation to the Industrious
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 pillow around with a
yoke of oxen in one day. He hooked
up the oxen to the pillow and 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, just SO much moral, just
SO much spiritual possession you will
have as you compass with your own IN
dustries, and just SO. much as from the
of your life to the evening of
your life you can plow around with
your own hard work. 60 to the ant,
thou sluggard; consider her ways and
be wise" One of the most awful cal
drons of death to-day is an indolent
life. Thank God that you have to
work.
dram shop is great caldron of iniquity
in our time. Anacharsis said that the
vine bore three grapes: the first was
los hn VI
and the next Misery. Every saloon
above ground or under ground is a
of iniquity. 1t may have
license and it may 60 along quite re-
specially 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 a traffic when it paws
such large revenue 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
chancellor of the exchequer-whenm men
engaged in the ruinous traffic came to
him and said their business ought to
have more consideration from the fact
hat it paid such a large revenue to the
English Government. Mr.. Gladstone
said: Gentlemen, don't worry YOUR
selves about the revenue; give me
:hirty millions of sober people, and
we'll have revenue enough and a sur |
,lus."
We might in this country-this traffic |
less revenue, but We
would have more happy homes, and We
would have more peace, and We would
nave fewer people in the penitentiary,
md 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 q very small |
part of it. This iniquity of which !
speak takes everything that is sacred |
'ut of the family, everything that is !
holy in religion, everything that is in
mite in the soul and tramples it under |
DOT. The marriage day has come. The
vain are at the altar. Lights fash. |
iusic sounds. Gay feet go up and down
he drawing room. Did ever a vessel |
aunch on such a bright and beautiful |
ea? The scene changes. Dingy garret. |
No fire. On a broken chair a sorrowful |
wife: Last hope gone. Poor. forsaken,