The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-12-11

told that he might escape on one OF
the lifeboats. "No," he replied, III
90 down with the passengers" AN tne
world applauded his heroism. And can
we not sacrifice our tastes and our appe-
tites for the rescue of others? Surely
it is not very great sacrifice. On NIX
not with the innocent beverages OF tne
holiday the poison of the adder! MIX
not with the white sugar OF the cup the
snow of this awful leprosy! Mar not tne
clatter of the cutlery of the festal oc-
casion with the clank of madman
chain. Pass down the street and look
into the pawnbroker's window. Ele-
giant watch, elegant furs, elegant tute,
elegant shoes, elegant scarf, elegant
books, elegant mementos. You some
times see people with pleased counte-
nances looking into such window
When / look into a pawnbroker's WIN,
dow it seems to me as If l had lookeu
into the window of hell! To whom dld
that watch belong? To a drunkaro
To whom did those furs belong? 10 a
drunkard's wife. To whom did those
shoes belong? To drunkard's childH
i take the three brazen balls at the
doorway of pawnbroker's shop, ana
clank them together, sounding the
knell of the drunkard's soul. a
pawnbrokers shop is only one OF
the eddies in the great torrent
of municipal drunkenness. "Oh, says
someone, II don't patronize such things.
/ have destroyed no young men by such
influences. / only take ale, and it Will
take a great amount of ale to intoxi-
cate" Yes, but tell you there is not
drunkard in America that did not be-
gin with ale. Three X's-I do not know
what they mean. Three KS on the
brewers dray, three KS on the door OF
the gin shop, three KS on the side OF
the bottle. Three KS. asked man.
He could not tell. / asked another
what is the meaning of the three KS.
He could not tell Then | made up
my mind that the three KS were an al
legory, and that they meant thirty
heartbreal1s, thirty agonies, thirty bro
ken-up households, thirty prospects OF
a drunkard's grave, thirty ways to per-
dition. Three KS. If were going to
write story the first chapter would
call Three KS and the last chapter
would call the pawnbroker's shop. Oh
beware of your influence.
The winter season is especially full
of temptation, because of the lonf
G evenings allowing such full swing 1ol
n evil indulgencies You can scarcel.
;. expect young man to go to his room
d and sit there from to IL o'clock in th'
d evening reading Motley's Dutch Re
public" T" or John Fosters essays. l
| would be very beautiful thing TO
n him to do, but he will not 1T. Th
q most of our young men are busy i
% Offices, in factories, in banking houses
!. in stores, in shops, and when evenin
a comes they want the fresh air, an
d they want sightseeing, and they mus
> have it, they will have it, and the
Il ought to have it. Most of them her
ID assembled will have three or fou
70 evenings of leisure on the winte
NJ nights After tea the man puts on h
10 hat and coat, and he goes out. On
10 form of allurement says, Come
M here" Satan says: sit is best for yo
to to go in; you ought not to be so gree
th by this time you ought to have see
ks everything" and the temptations sha
), be mighty in dull times such as "
Al have had but which, believe, al
,v rome; for l hear all over the land tt
Dy prophecy of great prosperity, and tt
d railroad men and the merchants, thu
to all tell me of the days of prosperi
MS they think are coming, and in mai
q departments they have already com
nj, and they are going to come in all q
,r. partments; but those dull times thron&
in. which we have passed have destroyed
,e. great many men. The question OF
,se livelihood is with vast multitude t
on great question. There are young m
he who expected before this to set
,ts their household, but they have be
ON disappointed in the gains they ha
&c. made. They cannot support the
he selves, how can they support Other
nt and, to the curse of modern socle
,qs the theory Is abroad that man mi
" a not marry until he has achieved +
W. tune. when the twain ought to start
nj the foot of the hill and together clir
ese to the top That is the old-fashion
,re way. and that will be new-fashior
the way if society is ever redeemed. l
OR during the hard times, the dull tim
tbe SO many men were discouraged,
he, many men had nothing to do-tt
the could get nothing to do--a pirate b.
rev down on the ship when the sails w
l,e down and the vessel was making
hen headway. People say they want m
ave time to think. The trouble is,
hat many people have had too MI
time to think, and if our mercha
,o. had not had their minds diverted, ms
oos. of them would long before this HI
= tc been within the four walls of an ins'
hat asylum. These long winter evenir
han be careful where you spend them. 1
t;ua winter will decide the temporal
het. eternal destiny of hundreds OF men
In this audience.
ish Then, the winter has especial te
uno tations in the fact that many homes
and peculiarly unattraetive at this seas
rs To In the summer months the young
so can sit out on the steps, or he can h
the bouquet in the vase on the man
him or, the evenings being SO short,
iph. after gaslight he wants to retire
ONE how. But there are many parents
mind do not understand how to make
hild. long winter evenings attractive to t
nhildrnn II Is amnZing to me tha