The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-29


first family altar. There your children
were born. In that room tapped the
wing OF the death angel. Under that
roof, when your work is done. YOU ex-
pect to lie down and die There is
only one word in all the language that
can convey your idea of that place, and
that word is 'home." Now. let me
say | never knew a man who was
faithful to his early and a lopted home
who was given over at the same time
to any gross form of wickedness. If
you find more enjoyment in the club
room. in the literary society. in the art
salon, than you do in these unpretend-
ing home pleasures, you are on the
road 10 ruin. Though YOU NAV be cut
OFF from your early associates. and
though you may be separated from all
your kindred. young man, is there not
room somewhere that you can call
your own? Though it be the fourth
story of thirt-class boarding house,
into that room gather books, pictures,
and harp. Hang your mothers pic
ture over the mantle. Bid unholy
mirth stand back from that threshold
with the knee of prayer. BY the men,
DRY of other days. fathers counsel,
mothers love, and sisters confidence,
call it home.
Another safeguard for these young
men is industrious habit. There are
great many people trying to make
their way through the world with
their wits instead of by honest toll.
There is young man who comes from
the country to the city. He fails twice
before he is as old as his father was
when he first saw the spires of the
great town. He is seated in his room
at a rent of s.. ZOO year, waiting for the
banks to declare their dividends and
the stocks to run up After awhile he
gets impatient He tries to improve
his penmanship by making copy-plates
of other merchants signatures! Never
mind-all is right in business After
awhile he has his estate. Now is the
time for him TO retire 10 the country,
amid the focks and the herds, to cul-
ture the domestic virtues.
Now the young men who were his
schoolmates in boyhood will come,
and with their OK teams draw him
logs, and with their hard hands will
help to heave up the castle. That is
not fancy sketch; it is every day life.
l should not wonder If there were a
rotten beam in that palace. i should
not wonder If God should smite him
with dire sickness, and pour into his
cup bitter draught that will thrill
l12o ~ ch
not wonder If that mans children
grew up to be to him a disgrace, and
to make his life shame. l should
not wonder If that man died a dishon-
orable death, and were tumbled into a
dishonorable grave, and then went into
the crashing of teeth. The way of
the ungodly shall perish.
Oh! young man, you must have in
dustry of head, or hand, or foot; or
perish. Do not have the idea that you
can get along in the world by genius
The curse of this country to-day is
geniuses-meu with large self-conceit
and nothing else. The man who pro-
poses to make his living by his wits
probably has not any. should rather
be an OK. plain and plodding and use
full, than to be an eagle, high-fiying
and good-for-nothing but to pick out
the eyes of carcasses. Even in
the Garden of Eden it was not safe
for Adam to be idle, so God made
him an horticulturist; and if the
married pair had kept busy dressing
the vines, they would not have been
| sauntering under the trees, laundering
after fruit that ruined them and their
posterityI Proof positive of the fact
| that when people do not attend to
| their business they get into mischief
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con-
| slider her ways and be wise; which,
having no overseer or guide, provideth
| her food in the summer and gathereth
| her meat in the harvest" Satan is
roaring lion, and you can never de-
stroy him by gun or pistol or sword.
| The weapon with which you are to
beat him back are pen, type and ham,
mer and adze, and saw, and pick-ax,
and yardstick, and the weapon of hon.
est toll. Work, work, or die.
Another safeguard that | want to
| present to young men is a high ideal
of life. Sometimes soldiers going into
battle shoot into the ground instead of
| into the hearts of their enemies Tuey
are apt to take aim too low, and it is
very often that the captain, going into
conflict with his men, will cry out:
Now, men. aim highr' The fact is
/ that in life great many men take no
aim at all. The artist plans out his
entire thought before he puts it upon
canvas, before he takes up the crayOn
or the chisel. An architect thinks
1 out the entire building before the
workmen begin. Although everything
NAV seem to be uuorganized. that
architect has in his mind every Corin-
THAN column. every Gothic arch. every
/ BYZANTINE capital. a poet thinks out
/ the entire plot of his poem before be
/ begins to chime the cantos OF tinkling
/ rhvthms And yet there are great
many men who start the important
structure of life without knowing
whether it is going to be rude Tar
/ tar's hut or a st. Marks cathedral,
and begin to write out the intricate
poem of their life without knowing
/ whether it is to be a Homer's ''Oiys-
/ sew or a rhymester's botch. Out
of one thousand, nine hundred