The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-26
Some Of them hang around the city halls Of

20 into the courts.
Where do they get their money? That Is
what Fou ask. That is what l ask. Only
four WAYS of getting money-only four; by
inheritance, by earning it, by begging Il, by
stealing It: and there are vast multitude
among is WHO get their living. not by IN
heritanee, or by earning it, nor by begging
IL. do not like to take the responsibility OF
saving how they get It'll
Now, these men are constant temptation.
WHY should toll and wear myself out in
the bank or the Office, or the store, or the
shotL or the factory These men have moth
ing 10 do. They get along great deal bet
ter And that is the temptation under
which a great many young Iicn fall. They
begin 10 consort with these men, these idlers
and they 20 down the same awful sleeps.
The number of men in cur cities who are
irving to get their living by theif wits and
by seight Of hand is all the time increasing.
A New York merchant saw young man,
one iSf bis clerks IN half disguise, going into
a vry low place Of amusenient. The mer-
chart said to himself 81 must look out for
that clerk; he is going in bad company and
goif1 IN bad places; Unjust look out for him."
A few months passed on, and one morning the
merchant entered his store, and this clerk of
whom 1 have been speaking CAME up
in assumed CONSERVATION and said; 'Oh,
sir, the store has been on fire; have put out
the fire, but there are great many goods
lost we have had great crowd Of people
coming and going.h Then the merchant
took the clerk by the collar and said; II
lave had enough of this; you cannot deceive
me; where are those goods you stolef' The
young man instantly confessed his vilainy.
o the numbers Of people IN these great cities
whoiife tt ying to get their living not honestly
And they are mighty temptation 10 the in
dusuious young man who cannot undefstafi
it. While these others have it 50 easy tAey
have it so hard. Horatius of olden tiy-ie was
told that he could have just as much ground as
he could pillow around with yoke of oxen in
one day. He hooked up the oxen tothe plow
and he cut very large circle and pf0wed ufl-
til he came to the same point here he started,
and ell that property was his But have TO tell
you to-day that lust so much financial Just
50 much moral, asst 50 much spiritual pos
session you viii have as you compass with
your own Industries, and 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, chou slug
gard, consider her ways and DO wise.n One
of the most awful caldrons Of death to-day is
an INDECENT life. Thank God that you have
to work.
III. Once more remark: that the dram
shop Is c great caldron of iniquity in our
time, Anacharsis said that the vine bore
three grapes: the first was Pleasure. the next
vas Drunkenness, and the next Misery.
Every saloon above gfound Or finder ground
is a fountain Of iniquity. 1t may have
license and it may go along quite respectfully
for while but after n while the cover VIII
fall of and the color Of the iniquity viii be
displayed.
Hoh,n says some one, "you ought to be
easier on such traffic when it pays such
large revenue to the government, and helps
support your schools aud your great instltu.
lions Of mercy And theE think of what
William E. Gladstone said-I think it was
the first time he was chancellor of the exs
chequer-when men engaged In the r1inous
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 hOInes and we would have more
peace, and we would have fewer people in
the penitentiGry, 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 very small
part Of it. This iniquity Of which I speak
takes everything that is sacred out of
the family, everything that IS holy
in religion, everything that is infinite in the
marriage day has come. The twain
are at the altar. Lights fash. Music
sounds. Gay fest 60 up and down
the draWing-room. Did ever a vessel launch ON
such bright and beautiful sea- The scene
changes. Dingy garrett. No fire. On
broken chair sorrowfnl wife. Last hope
gone Poor. forsaken. trodden under foot,
wife. ''Oh, she says, '.he was the kindest
man that ever lived, he was no noble he was
30 goodi God never made a grander man
han he was, but the drink did it, the drink
lid itF' Some day she will press
her hands against her temples and cry: ''Oh,
my brain, my brainF' 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 oank
OF store He is going to leave his country
home. That morning they are up early IN
the old homestead. The trInkef on the
wagon. Mother says; MY [nars9pfs, ~, q
Bible in the trunk, hope YOU noio OslD
often" ! She wipes the tears ears ave pittance
worried, I know how to tot until then.
self. Don't be worried abs
ther says; MY son, be a
write home often, your mot
i0us to hear from your irieucc.
whip, AMI over the hills
Five years have passed on,
life has done its work for tl Ill
There is hearse coming upIt5 we'll
old homestead The young ocr,.icujturaI
borhood who have stayeSs . ~ - = - =
come in and say: @Isif p. 18th, 1889
doesn't l5ok natural, does D.
fair brow we used 10 knoyl WrOUe ie
healthy cheek we used to lmg=el,e. C.,oa;Pee
possible that is him. Ththl oP0OAhd
looking at the cash in THERE rheIr1!ln
which the life oozed out, ana sSer
hands AID say: oh, my sc / have my
son, my son Absalom; would l.. had
died for thee. oh Absalom, izmatlc " son!
Lorenzo de Medici was ventlv az! 20 s sl
of his superstitious friends u'iJ II they
could dissolve certain nur!lat prsrlssi IN
cup and then he would DIR would 1
cure him of the dlsea9t my ~, went |
around and they gathers fence. oe'l dis
ful pearls they could u AOH0o' eney tnS-
solved than IN a setion thafee sick lick
pensive dPlugh ins But 1anent cu,a0re *
nto s s e s1q tEe p saan Of this health the
perl qf dIm So fact thatn9 hop el the he
earl Of an eyerlastirils tam and presses
I tell you the drsS MP Is the gate of
iell. The trouHlo j. icy do not put up the
-ight kind 81 a sign They have great many
lifferent kind Of signs now on places where
frong drink is sold. One is called
he restaurant and another is called
he saloon and another is called the
ihoteln and another is called the "wine
ellar.S and another is called the sample
oomn What a name to give one of those
ilacesi A sample roomr saw a man on
he steps Of one Of those sample rooms the
,ther day, Gead drunk said to myself: 81
oppose that is a sampler tell you it Is
be gate Of hell.
'Oh, ~ says some man, II am kind / am
ndnlgent tc my family, am right in many
espects, / am very generous, and have too
rand and generous moral nature TO be
verthrOwn in that way.r Let me say that
be persons who are In the most peril
ave the largest hearts, the best educa-
ion, the brightest prospects. This sin
hooses the latest lambs for its sacrifice. The
r1ghtcst garlands are by this carbuncled
and OF drunkenness torn of the brow Of the
oct and the orator Charles Lamb, answer
homas Hood, answer Sheridan, the Eng
sl orator, answer Edgar A Poe, answer
unius Brutus Booth, answerl
Oh, come and look over it while draw of
he cover-hang over it and look down into
, and see the seething, boiling, loethsome,
nolzing, agonizing, disappearing hell Of the
runkard. Young man, be master Of your
Dpetites and passions. There are hundreds
might not say thousandss-of Young men