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

heart, in sympathy with young folks
l have known man with seven hun
dred dollars salary, and he had no
other income, but he had q home so
happy and bright, that, though the
sons have gone out and won large for
tunes. and the daughters have gone
out into splendid spheres and became
princesses of society, they can never
think of that early home without tears
of emotion. 1t was to them the vesti-
bule of Heaven, and all their mansions
now, and all their palaces now, cannot
make them forget that early place.
Make your homes happy. You
go around your house growl-
ing about your rheumatisms and
acting the lugubrious, and your
sons will go into the world and
plunge into dissipation. They will
have their own rheumatisms after
awhile. Do not forestall their misfor-
tunes. You were young once, and you
had your bright and joyous times.
Now let the young folks have good
time.
God will hold you responsible for the
influence you now exert, and 1t Will be
very bright and very pleasant If some
winter night when we are sleeping
under blankets of snow, our children
shall ride along in the merry party,
and hushing a moment into solemnlty,
look off and say: ''There sleep the best
L. A. Al,nt mn q
happy new year" Arm yourself
against these temptations Of Decem'
Der, January and February. Tempta'
ton will come to you in the form OF an
angel of light. know that the poets
represent Satan as horned and hoofed.
If l were a poet and were going to
picture Satan, would represent him
as a human being, with manners pol
ished to the last perfection, hair fall
ing in graceful ringlets, eye a lit
tie bloodshot, but floating in be-
witching languor, hand soft and
diamonded, foot exquisitely shaped,
voice mellow as flute, breath
perfumed as though nothing had ever
touched the lips but balm of thou
sand flowers, conversation facilc, care
fully toned and Frenchy. But lwould
have the heart incased with the scales
of monster and have it stuffed with
all pride and beastliness OF desire and
hypocrisy and death, and then | would
have it touched with the rod Of Olsen
chantment until the eyes became the
| cold orbs of the adder, and to the lil
should come the foam of raging intoXi
cation, and to the foot the spring OF th'
panther, and to the soft hand th'
, change that would make it the clamml
: hand of the wasted skeleton, and thel
. | would suddenly have the heart breal
, out in unquenchable flames, and tn
q affected lisp of the tongue become tn
: hiss of the worm that never dies. Bu
t until dsenchanted, ringleted and die
r monded and flute-voiced, and CONVEX
q sation facile, carefully toned an
n Frenchy.
J, Oh, what beautiful thing it is to sc
g q young man standing up amid thes
d temptations of city life incorruI
It while hundreds are falling. l will te
y your history. You will move in 7
e spectacle circles all your days, an
II some day friend Of your father wi
,r meet you and say: Good mornln
is glad to see you You seem to be pre-
le pering; you look like your father fl
n all the world; thought you wou
~ turn out we'll when used to hold "
n; OH nv knee; if you ever want any he
N or any advice come to me; as long as
IL member your father I'll remember 20
1e Good morning" That will be the histo
re of hundreds of these young men. Hc
10 do know it? know it by the way y
he start. But here's young man W
ey takes the opposite route; voices OF
ty charm him away. He reads bad booi
ny mingles in bad society. The glow h
le, gone from his cheek and the sparE
le- from his eye, and the purity from
III soul. Down he goes, little by lit
The people who saw him when he cal
al to town while yet hovered over
he head the blessing of pure mothe
en- prayer and there was on his lips I
up dew of pure sisters kiss, now as th
en- see him pass, cry: What an aw
we wreck" Cheek bruised in grogsh
m. fight Eye bleared with dissipatic
rs? Lip swollen with indulgenceS
ty, careful what you say to him, for
lst trihe he would take your life Low
or. down, lower down, until, outcast
at God and man, he lies in the asylum
NIB blotch of loathsomeness and pain. {
led moment he calls for God and then
led calls for rum. He prays, he curses,
3ut laughs as fiend laughs, then bites
es, nails into the quick, then puts
so hands through the hair hang
ley around his head like the name o
ore wild beast, then shivers until
ere cot shakes, with unutterable tern
no then with his Gsts fights back
ore devils, or clutches for serpeuts t
too seem to wind around him their Gw
lch folds, then asks for water which
nts instantly consumed on his cracked
my Some morning the surgeon going
ave rounds will lind him dead. Do not
ane to comb out or brush back the mat
lgs, locks. Straighten out the limbs, W
his him in sheet, put him in l
and and let two men carry him down
in the wagon at the door. With p
of chalk write on top of the box
MP name of the destroyer and the
are stroyed. Who is it? 1t is you,
son. man, if, yielding to the temptat
nan of dissipated life, you go out
ave perish. There is way that sc
ltel, eth bright and fair and beautiful
oon n man, but the end thereon is de