The Press., 1895-09-26
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Papa does, :" came defiantly from Roy's popting lips, while two chubby hands held dirty clay pipe. behind the small back.
 9Oh, Roy!" Mammals tones were full of shocked surprise.
 HPapa smokes" ;" reiterated the child, trying hard to hold his ground against his mother's expression, %
 But Ii is not right she said.
 "Papa's good" Roy answered, loftily.
 FYes, but his little boy isn't"
 ''Why?"
 "What can I say ?" thought the moth CT, with inward anguish. "I must not shake his faith in his father, and cannot make him see any differenc-if there is any"
 An oath glided iron. mouth still as sweet as half-opened rosebud. "Mau- rice Day!" cried mortified bystander.
 ''Papa says that" was the answer.
 A number of boys in their early teens were eiecting tobacco juice in very grown-up manner. A gentleman spoke seriously with them; the reply was : ttOpr minister chews."
 A little girl of seven summers broke 8 goblet, but when questioned she replied that Jane-the servant-did it. Jane, of course, denied it, and, finally, the child made confession, nOnchalantly adding II didn't story any more than mamma did when she told Miss Jones that her bonnet was pretty, and then called it 8 fright when she was gOne."
 A rich man carelessly picked an apple from off basket standing on grocery mans counter, and of course nothing was said, but when hungry street Arab tried the same feat he was arrested for theft. A small lad was roundly abusing his sis ter. When reprimanded by lady pres- ent, he coolly answered: "That's the way papa talks to mamma when she don't behave to suit him."
 And so the world moves on. Each gen. eratiOn is but 8 fac simile of the genera tion before it, only, it sometimes seems, that, like the lines written under the copy in a writing book, each one grows worse. We are all of us influencing some one hourly; we do not realize it, but it is the truth. Fathers and mothers are the copies, and the little ones are trying to look, to act, to be just like them, especi- lally in the bad things they do. Evil is much easier of imitation than is good. IEyery new day Is like a white page I spread out before us; before night there will be indelible lines written there, crook ed perhaps, and possibly there will be blots and unsightly earicatqres, and some other soul will be so influenced by Oul page that-unsightly though it may be- they will try to make one like it. Let us guard our influence as we value the souls about it.
 | Before the enforcement of the excise law in, New York, Sunday was always z fFbusy day in the emergency wards uf thu hospitals. The most of the cases brought in were men injured in fights in saloons or by accidents, because, being.under thu influence of liquor, they were. unable tC take care of themselves. Sunday is now the quietest day of the week. !
 The New York Evening Post interview ed 155 small German tradesmen with tho result of finding that 1O4 were in favor O the strict enforcement of the Sunday clos ing law, thirty-eight were opposed, anc twelve were indifferent. If some of oul weak-kneed officials would only try it they would find law enforcement much more popular than they suppose it to be
 The president of the Cambridge, Mass. Grocery Association says that since tha city has had no-license, for every dollar O bad debts he now has, he formerly ha( $1O. "There is not a copper of money il the liquor traffic for any city in the world. The savings banks. show the Improved condition of the people. The last yea under saloons there were. $40, ,OOO of nev deposits. The first year under prohibi tion $588, ,OOO. The increasein valuation of taxable property gave an income 5 $30, 0,OO0 in excess of the former incom from saloon licenses of $1 ,O0O each.
 Go forth at eventide, Commune with thine own bosom, and b
 still;
 Check the.wild impulse of wayward will And learn the anothingness of humal
 pride.
 Morn is the time to act, noon to endure, 77l But oh, if thou wouldst keep thy spiri " pure,
 iI Turn from the beaten path by worldling :. sf : trod,:Y | < ts4 &sE.4 f> 't'F:.i:' ~ ~F. ~F Go forth at eventide, in heart to wal