Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-16
PLAQUES OF THE CITIES.
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more to his check Farewell, young man!
You have probably started on the long road
which ends in consummate destruction
The stars of hope will 20 out one by one,
until you will be left in utter darkness.
Hear you not the rush Of the maclstrom, in
whose outer circle your boat now dances,
making merry with the whirling waters2
But you are being drawn in, and the gen
tie motion will become terrific agitation.
You cry for help. In vainl You pull at
the oar TO put back, but the struggle will
not avail You will be tossed and dashed
and shipwrecked and swallowed in the
whirlpool that has already crushed in it's
wrath ten thousand huIks.
YOUNG MAN DE ON YOUR GUARD.
Young men who have just come from
country residence to city residence will do
well to be on guard and let no one induce
you to places of improper amusement. 1t
is nightly alluring when young man.
long Il citizen, offers 10 show q new conner
all around.
Still further Those amusemunts are
wrong which lead you into expenditure be-
You'd your means Money spent in recrea-
ton is not thrown away. 1t is all folly for
us to come from a place of amusement feel
ing that we have wasted our money and
time. You may by it have made an in
vestment worth more than the transaction
that yielded you hundreds or thousands Of
dollars. But how many properties have
been riddled by costly amusements,
The first time / ever saw the city-it was
the city of Philadelphia was u mere lad,
stopped at a hotel, and | remember in the
eventide one Of these men piled me with
his Internal art. lie saw | was green. He
wanted to show me the sights of the town.
He painted the path Of sin until it looked
like emerald; but | was afraid Of lin. l
showed back from the basilisk--I made up
my mind he was II basilsk, | remember
how he wheeled his chair round in front of
me, and with n concentrated and diabolical
effort attempted to destroy my soul; but
there were good angels in the air that
night 1t was no good resolution on my
part, but it was the all accomplishing grace
of good God that delivered me. Beware!
bewarel oh, young man, "Ihcre is way
that seemeth right unto man, but ecud
thereof is death"
The table has been robbed to pay the
club. The champagne has cheated the
chiIdren's wardrobe The Carou-ng party
has burned up the boys primer The
tablecloth of the corner saloon is in debt to
the wife's faded dress. Excursions that in
day make tour around whole months
wages; ladies whose lifetime business it is
to Ego shopping large bets on horses
have their COuutcrparts in uueuucaled
children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appal the church, and
that send drunkenness staggering across
the richly figured carpet of the mansion
and dashing into the mirror and drowning
out the carol of music with the WhuOplng
of bloated sons come home to break their
old mothers heart.
AgAD STORY.
saw beautiful home, where the bell
rang violently lnte ut nisht. TIE son had
been off in sinful indugenccs. His com
rades were brinripr him home. They car
ried him to the door Thcy rang the bell
at / o'clock in the morning Father and
mother came down. They were waiting
for tbe WANDERING son. md then the com
rades as soon as tn, door was opened
threw fine prodipal hpadlopg into the door
,vav cryinp. "Thore ne ia. DRUM, as a fooIl
In hal3 When men 90 into amuscmcnts
they cannot afford thcy first borrow what
they cannot earn. and then they steal what
they cannot borrow. First thcy 90 into en-.
barrossment, and then into living. and then
into theft. and when man gets IA far ON
as that he docs not stop short of the pcni-
tentiarv. There is not Il prison in the land
where there arc NOT victims of uusanctiGpd
amusements
Merchant Of BroolIyn or New York. is
there n disarrangenr1t in your accounts?
10 tboir a Iaal,oan in ,nnr money drawcry
Did not the cash account come out right.
last nigbt2 | viii fell Won There is a
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