Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-03

and swallowed in the whirlpool that has al
ready crushed in its wrath ten thousand
hunks.
Young men who have just come from
country residence to city residence will do
well TO be on guard and let no ona induce
you to places OF improper am useulent. It
is nightly alluring when a young man,
long citizen, offers TO show new conner all
around.
Still further. Those auonsements are wrong
which lead you into expenditure beyond your
means. Money spent in recreation is not
thrown away. It is all folly for us to come
from place OF amusement feeling that we
have wasted our money and time. You may
by it have made an investment worth more
than the transactions that yielded you hun
dreds or thousands of dollars But how unanv
properties have been riddled by costly
RmusementS.
The first time ever saw the city-it was
the city of Philadelphia was a mere lad l
eventide one of these men piled me with his
Internal art. He saw I was green. He wanted
to show me the sights of the town. He
painted the path of sin until 1t looked like
emerald; but was afraid Of him. showed
back from the basilisk-I made up my mind
he was basilisk. remember how he wheeled
his chair round in front OF me, and with a
concentrated ard diabolical effort attempted
20 destroy my soul; but there were good
angels in the air that night. It was no good
resolution on my part, but it was the all en-
comprising grace of good God that deliv-
cred me- Beware! beware! oh, young man.
''There is way that seemeth right unto
man, but the end thereof is DEATH"
The table has been robbed to pay the club.
The champagne has cheated the children's
wardrobe. The carousing party has burned
up the boys primer. The tablecloth in 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 1T is to ''go shopping:"
large bets On horses have their counterpart
in uneducated children, bankruptcies that
shock the money market and appail the
church, and that send drunkenness stagger-
ing across the richly figured carpet of the
mansion and dashing into the mirror and
drowning out the carol of music with the
whOpping OF blOated sons come home to
break their old mothers heart.
saw a beautiful home. where the hell
rang violently late at night. The son had
beer, off in sinful indulgeEcies. His COM
raGeS were bring ring him home. They car
ried him TO the door. They rang the bell at
! o'clock IN the morning. Father and mother
came down. They were waiting for the
wandering son, and then the comrades, as
soon as the door was opened threw the
prodigal headlong into the doorway. crying:
There he is, drunk as g fool. Ha. har'
When men 90 into amueements they cannot
afford they first borrow what they cannot
earn and then they steal what they cannot
borrow. First they go into embarrassment
and then into lying and then into theft;
and when a man gets as far on that he
does not stop short OF the penitentiary.
There is not prison in the land where there
are not victims of unsanctfed amusements
Merchants Of Brooklyn or New York is
there disarrangement in your accounts
Is there a leakage in your money draweri
Did not the last account come out right last
nil / will fn3t vp0Jr Is a v0Y
man in your store wandering OFF into bao
amusements. The salary you give him may
meet lawful expenditures, but not the sinfu
indulgeoces in which he has entered, and he
takes by theft that which you do not give
him in lawful salary.
How brightly the path OF unrestraiued
amusement opens. The young man says:
Now am off for a good time. Never mind
economy. I'll get money somehow: What
ride! Crack the whip, and over the turn
pike! Come, boys, fill high your glasses.
Drink! Long life, health, plenty Of rides just
like this! Hard working men hear the clat-
ter Of the boots and look up and say: why,
money from? We have to toll and drudge.
They do nothing" TO these gay men life
Is a thrill and an excitement. They stare at
other people, and in turn are stared at. The
T5s cS sn ns sb r 6as cup fGs aas
The midnight hears their guffaw.
They, swagger. They jostle decent men
off the sidewalk. They take the name
of God in vain. They parody the hymn they
learned at their mothers knee; and to all
pictures Of coming disaster they cry out,
"Who caresw and to the counsel Of some
| Christian friend, ''Who are your
Passing along the street some night you
hear shrek in grog shop, the rattle Of
| the watchnan's club, the rush of the police.
| v hat is the matter now? Oh. this reckless
| young man has been killed in grog shop
| fight. Garry him home to his fathers house.
| Parents will come down and wash his
wounds and close his eyes in death. They
| forgive him all he ever did, although he can
not in his silence ask it. The prodfgal has
| little garden and get the sweetest flowers,
and twist them into chaplet for the silent
heart of the hayward boy, and push back
| from the bloated brow the long locks that
- sre once her pride, and the air will be rent
! with the agony. The great dramatist says:
| 'How sharper than serpent's tooth it is to
b havea thankless child"
| I go further, and say these are unchristian
| amusements which become the chief business
]. of mans life. Life is an earnest thing.
!, Whether we were born in palace or howell,
| whether we are affluent or pinched, we have
| to work. If you do not sweat with toll, you
| will sweat with disease. You have soul
! that is to be transfigured amid the pomp Of
a Judgment day; and after the sea has sung
@t5 last chant and the mountain shall have
| come down in an avalanche of a rock, you
| will live and think and act high on a throne
! Were seraphs sing, or deep in q dungeon
where demons howl. In a world where there
| is SO much TO do for yourselves, and so much
| TO do for others, God pity that man who has
nothing to do.
| Your sports are merely means TO an end. =