Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-03-18

down as 10 our InOTai OF as 10 our pnybiCh
strength you may come to the conclusion
that they are obnoxious.
There is nothing more depraving thar
attendance upon amusements that are ful
ofinnuendo aud low suggestion. The younl
man enters. At first he sits far back, witt
his hat on and his coat collar up, fearfu
that somebody there may know him. Sew
eral nights pass on. He takes of his ha
earlier and puts his coat collar down. Th'
blush that first came into his cheek wheI
anything indecent was enacted comes n'
more to his cheek Farewell, young man
You have probably started on the long roat
which ends in consummate destruction
The stars OF hope will go out one by one
until you will be left in utter darkness
Hear you not the rush of the maelstrom, IN
whose outer circle your boat now dances
making merry with the whirling watersi
But you are being drawn in, and the gen
tie motion will become terrific agitation
You cry for help. In vainl You pull al
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 its
wrath ten thousand hulks.
YOUNG MAN BE ON YOUR GUARD.
Young men who have just come from
country residence to city residence will dc
we'll to be on guard and let no one induce
you to places of improper amusement. II
Is nightly alluring when young man
long citizen, offers TO show new conner
all around.
Still further. Those amusemunts are
wrong which lead you into expenditure be-
yond your means. Money spent in recrea-
tion Is not thrown away. 1t is all folly for
us to come from 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 n mere lad.
stopped at hotel, and l remember in the
eventide one of these men piled me with
his internal art. He saw was green. DE
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 l
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 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 II was the all encompassing grace
of good God that delivered me. Bewarel
beware oh, young man. "There Is a 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 carouslng party
has burned up the boys primer. The
tablecloth of the corner saloon il in debt to
the wife's faded dress. Excursions that in
a day make tour around a whole months
wages ladies whose lifetime business 1t Is
TO Ego shopping;" large bets on horses
have their counterparts In uneducated
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 whooping
OF bloated sons come home to break their
old mothers heart,
A SAD STORY.
saw beautiful home, where the bell
rang violently late at night. The son had
been OFF in sinful indulgences. His com
rades were bringing him home. They car
ried him to the door. They rang the bell
mt o'clock in the morning Father and
mother came down. They were waiting
for the wandering son, and then the com-
rades, as soon as the door was opened,
threw the prodigal headlong into the door
way, crying; "There he is, drunk as fooli
Ha, hap When men go into amusements
they cannot afford they first borrow what
they cannot earn, and then they steal what
they cannot borrow. First they go into en-
barrassment, and then into lying, and then
into theft; and when man gets AZ far on
as that he does not stop short OF the peni-
tentiary There is not prison in the land
where there are not victims Of unsanctitied
amusements.
Merchant of Brooklyn or New York, IL
there u disarrangement In your accountsi
Is their leakage In your money drawerI
Did not the cash account come out right
last nlghtP / will tell you. There is a
young man in your store wandering of
Into bad amusements. The salary you
give him may meet lawful expenditures,
but not the sinful indulgences 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 unrestrained
amusement opens. The young man saysl
"Now | am of for good time. Never
mind economy. I'll get money somehow.
What fine roadl What a beautiful day
for ridel Crack the whip, and over the
turnpikel Come, boys, I'LL high your
glasses. Drink Long life, health, plenty
OF rides just like thisn Hard working
men hear the clatter OF the hoofs and look
up aud say. "Why, | wonder where those
fellows get their money froml We have to
toll and drudge, They do nothing" To
these gay men life is "A thrill and an excite
ment. They stare at other people, and In
turn are stared at, The watch chain
jingles The cup foams The checks
flush. The eyes flash, The midnight hears
their guffaw. They swagger. They jostle
decent men of 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
os some Christian friend. "Who ars youP
Passing along the street some night you
hear a shrek Ia a grog shop, the rattle OF
the watehman's club. the rush Of the POI
lice. What IL the matter nowt oh, this
reckless young man has been killed In .
grog shop fight Carry him home 10 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 cannot ia his silence ask H.
The prodigal has got home at last. Mother
will 40 % her little garden and get the
sweetest flowers, and twist them into a
ehaplet for the silent heart OF the Wayward
boy, aud push back from the blOated brow
the long locks that were onoe her pride
And the air viii be rent With che agony
The great dramAtist says, "How sharper
than serpcnt's tooth IL Is 90 have thank
less child