St. Landry democrat., 1891-05-16
Don't Leave Your Country Home.
WHAT SOME PEOPLE THINK, AND OTHER
IMPORTANT FACTS.

WHAT SOME PEOPLE THINK, AND OTHER
IMPORTANT FACTS.
Some people try to avoid hard labor, and
their sole aim is to get something for
nothing, or, in other words, 70 make a
living without working for it. They for
get that labor Is what turns the wheels of
time SO smoothly. l do not mean to say
that every age and set of people think
this, but venture to say that most boys
of today have their minds stored with
such ideas, and the manner in which they
expect to make living 50 easily Is to 60
to some town near by. They think if they
60 to the city they will get rich before
they or any one else suspects such thing,
and in few months or years probably
they will become young vandelbilts.
They thick that by going to town they
can dodge the ho. sunshine which so often
beams on them IN the cotton patch, pre-
vent the mud from sticking to their shoes,
and keep their CHECK" shirts from being
soiled with sweat and dust. But when
they get there they think they will have
no more use for their ''check" shirts
They expect to put on ''boild" shirts and
hard" collars-in fact, dress up IN style.
and be so admirable that the merchant
will want them for salesman, the banks
for cashier, the town for an officer, the
sheriff for deputy, the lawyer for part
ner, the papers for an editor. the boats Tor
q captain, the railroad men for q telegraph
operator or a G. nductor, the saloon men
for bar tender But they do not expect
to follow bar keeping long-just long
enough TO learn the flip of the card and to
drench themselves with all kinds of strong
| drink. Then they expect TO resign as bar
keeper and seek some occupation that has
more connection with society.
No, boys, it will be too late then. Re-
member there are two things you can't call
back. They are the spoken word and the
spent life And remember also that
drinking and gambling are the wicked
gate into the "laby rinth' from which you
will find it difficult to escape. Ruin is
marked In blazing capital letters over the
door of the gamb bier and drunkard. "H,s
| hell is the vestibule to that eternal he'll
where the fire is not quenched and the
worm diesh not"
You may ask the question. "What
would be the difficulty IN getting outT
| Simply because in travelling this down.
ward course you lose your love and smbi
| ton FOX everything else, and at the same
time you have ten chances to lose your
| immortal soul where you have one to Re
tain it. Boys, you should net forget tn 4.
| if you are once taken into the coils of this
vice, once get your uinds polluted with
the alluring vices which are connected
with this sin, once get your hearts hard
ened with crime, your constitutions weak
ened with strong drink and late hours at
the gambling table, and in every way turn
your footsteps in the path of wickedness,
the hope of extricating yourselves OK OF
realizing your visions of wealth and hap
piness Is exceedingly faint. There is nc
reasonable or easy way OF escaping the
terrible cons. q aences which are insspara-
| bly connected with this sin, after you have
sunken 50 deep into it.
| The boy who leaves the farm for the
uar room passes from independence to
ruin. He passes from the influence Of
good to evil, which mav lead him to self
destruction. So, boys, If you wish to re-.
tain health, wealth and happiness, don I
think and do as some boys. Don't leave
the farm, if you wish to lead life of rec
titude and honor. If you do not wan,
your names enrolled on the black cata-
logue of crime. beware of the rocks upon
which so many have made shipwreck. II
| you wish to be happy man-a man who
can retire at night when he gets ready and
rise in the morning when he feels like it
| do MT lava xonr countrS home and van
viii be more than likely to accomplis
pour desire. &. q.
Sugartown, La.