The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-11-29

In that room tapped the wing of the
death angel. Under that roof, when
your work is done, you expect 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 that never knew o
man who was faithful to his early and
adopted home who was given over at
the same time to any gross form of wick
edness. II you find more enjoyment in
the clubroom. in the htQary society,
in the art salon, than You do In these
unpretending home pleasures, you are
on the road to ruin. Though you may
be cut of 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 ownf Though 1t be the fourth
story Of third class boarding house,
into that room gather books, pictures
and harp. Hang your mothers por-
trait over the mantel. Bid unholy mirth
stand back from that threshold. Conse-
crate some spot in that room with the
knee of prayer. By the memory of 9TH
or days, a fathers counsel, mother 3
love and sisters confidence, call it
home. -,
A Rotten Beam In the Palace.
Another safeguard for these young
men is industrious habits. There are q
great many people trying to make their
way through the world with their wits
instead of by honest toll. There is a
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 rent Of 50, a
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 es-
tate. Now is the time for him to retire
to the country, amid the f1ocks and the
herds, to culture 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 no fancy
sketch; 1t is everyday life I should
not wonder if there were rotten beam
in that palace. I should not wonder il
I God should smite him with dire sick
nesses and pour into his cup bitter
draft that will thrill him with I'M
bearable agony. Ishould not wonder II
that mans children grew up to be to
him disgrace and to make his life q
shame. Ishould not wonder If that man
died dishonorable death and were
tumbled into dishonorable grave and
then went into the crashing Of teeth.
The way of the ungodly shall perish.
o young man, you must have in.
dustry Of head or hand or foot, or perish.
Do not have the idea that you can gel
along in the world by genius. The curse
Of this country today is geniuses-mer
with large self conceit and nothing
else. The man who proposes to make
his living by his wits probably has moi
any. Ishould rather be an OK, plain and
plodding and useful, than to be al
eagle, high flying and good for nothing
but to pick out the eyes Of carcasses.
Even In the garden of Eden it was moi
safe for Adam to be idle, SO God made
him horticulturist, and II the mar
ried pair had kept busy dressing the
vines they would not have been saun
tering under the trees, hankering aftel
fruit that ruined them and their pos
terity! Proof positive of the fact tina
when people do not attend to their bust
ness they get into mischief. go to thu
ant, thou sluggard; consider her way
and be wise, which, having no oversee
or guide, provideth her food in tn
summer and gathereth her meat in tn
harvest. Satan is roaring lion, ant
you can never destroy him by gun o
pistol or sword. The weapons will
which you are to beat him back are pei
and type and hammer and adj and saw
and pickax and yardstick and the weapon
of honest toll Work, work, or die.
Aim High.
Another safeguard that l want to pre-
sent to young men is high ideal o
life. Sometimes soldiers going into bat
tie shoot into the ground instead Of int
the hearts Of their enemies They ar
apt to take aim too low, and it is yer,
often that the captain, going into con
fiict with his men, will cry out, "Now
men, aim highW The fact Is that il
life a great many men take no aim a
all. The artist plans out his entir
thought before he puts it upon canvas
before he takes up the crayon or tn
chisel. An architect thinks out the Ell
tire building before the workmcn begin
Although everything may seem to b
unorganized, that architect has in hi
mind every Corinthian column, ever,
Gothic arch, every Byzantine capital
A poet thinks out the entire plot of hi
poem before he begins to chime tn
cantos of tinkling rhythms And We
there are great many men who star
the important structure Of life withou
knowing whether it is going to be
rude Tartar's hut or St. Marks ca
thedral, and begin to write out the in
tricate poem Of their life without know
ing whether it is to be Homer
Odyssey" or rhymester' botch. On
, of 900, 900 have no life plot. Boote
, and spurred and caparisoned, they has
ten along, and run out and say: "Hel
10. man! Whittier awayi" Nowhere!
they say. Oh, young man, make ever
days duty a filing up Of the great lif
plot. Alas, that there should be on thi
, sea Of life 50 many ships that seer
bound for no porti They are swept ey
cry whittier by wind and wave, up b
the mountains and down by the valleys
They sail with no chart. They gaze O.
! no star. They long for no harbor. Oh
young man, have high ideal and pres
to it, and it will be a mighty safeguard
There never were grander opportunitie
J opening before young men than ar
growing time
y That boy!-