The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-07-03

! YnU Niu not appear 10 lure
That you talked in an easy. Illus
lralive, convincing way Of he ben
efDs that followed HE efforts OF
men to axe cait. IF their brains as
the great motive power. That yen
said that 10 great man could al
ford 10 steal from Others, or 10
steal from God, as he did every
tine he robbed himself by drink
or dissipation of his inherent pow
er TO prapel in the right, which
was the upward direc ion Yes. |
remember he idea And | re-
member so much as you said. So
does Maggie.
STOP DRINKING AND SUNSHINE.
"Wtll, Maggie and | went home,
and before morning We agreed you
were correct. | said that |
would stop drinking and see if |
couldn't get my work i'll where II
would stay. Maggie said she would
stay by me and be sunshine to my
struggle" Hundreds cf precious
wives and mothers will lie more
than sunshine to taelr husbands
and ,ons, if they will just form lie
same heroic resolve.
Il just shot loose from the gang
of treaters aui attended To busi-
ness. | got new situation, where
the wages were less. but | didn't
have 10 spend so much with the
"boys,n 81 that Saturday night |
had more to brin" home To Maggie,
and had more pluck III my heart,
more health in my body, and more
idea in my head He is a good
man-lOved his wife devotedly.
Maggie is uppermost hhis thoughts
precious Maggie She had sul-
fered and he knew il, though She
had borne her grief in silence aud
alone. The new resolve was "mOre
TO bring home 10 Maggie"
FOREMAN IN SEVEN MONTHS.
81 col along real we'll. In two
or three months, | was promoted
| W dSelSi uIl ItlCIlldils dii't ~ NSb
months, | was foreman
THAT NEW MACHINE.
"The better care | took oil my
self, The clearer my thoughts and
The more of good ideas came TO
me, till at last | thought out and
Brought out my new mac hlne. 1t
did lhe work Of seventeen men
who took no special interest in The
business, orIn their own lutute-
seventeen men who drank and
found fault with the fate they
were steadily making. OF seven
teen men who formed a union
with the saloon keepers, a. | had
done, ill | pulled out and
joined "A closer union with Maggie,
good woman, there beside yon,
God bless her.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
IL sold the one half intere-t in
my machine for 100000 in money
and kept HE other half interest.
That was eighteen years ago"
And you invested your money
in United States bonds 2
mot much! pr santed my
father with ten THOUSAND dollars
and he bought a home for himself
and mother, near Troy, and bought
land in Wisconsin. Then | gave
ten thousand dollars to Maggle's
mother, who was a widow, and she
put about half of it in a millinery
Store business in Harlem, AMI
gives employment TO two or three |
rooms full of girls aud women,
and owns her home anG Is happy"
Truth is stranger than fiction; and /
all these charming results are |
traceable 10 that one earnest ad-
dress in Robinsun's Hall nineteen
years ago.
MORE BEYEvoLENCE.
"And the rest of Ii You put in
bank ~
ayes. for a time only. One of
my old chums was KILLED, and lelt
"A widow and two children, all pnOr
as they could be. | let his widow
have money 10 go West. clear into
wesl from Albert Lea,
and she bought land and sold off
one fourth of il for more than all
The rest cost, and paid back wha,
let her have, and | loaned il to
her children for one per cent
wear interest fer forty years, and
don't care If they ever pay or not,
but they will. And | sent four
bright, manly, pleasant boys To
school-four new boys each year
for twelve wears. Have given for
weight bows three years of educa-
ton. Forty one of them live and
are doing we'll. One Is cashier OF
n bank in Chicago. Three OF them
are ministers. One is carriage
maker in indianapolis. Two of
Them are in Dakota doing well.
One of them is a leading musician
in St. Louis.
MAGGIE s BESEvoLENCE.
And Maggie, she has given
over sixty thousand dollars in six
teen years 10 girls and women who
she thought the right kind TO stay, /
and she has a regular flower gar
den OF girls, wives and mothers she
has sort of iransplante1 10 higher
ground. And she has given a great
deal 10 those who were very poor.
tut has never insulted God By
stopping TO ask il they were saints
mr. members Of our church, or any