The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-12-20


let us go alone and not take others
with us. Can we not sacrifice our
feelings If need be2
When the good ship London went
down the captain was told that he
might escape in one of the lifeboats.
NO. he replied, ''I11 go down with
the passenger" All the world applaud
ed his heroism. And can we not sacri-
fee our tastes and our appetites for
the rescue of others? Surely it is not a
very great sacrifice. Oh, mix not with
the innocent beverage of the holiday
the poison of addersl Mix not with the
white sugar of the cup the snow of
this awful leprosyl Mar not the
clatter of the cutlery of the fes-
tai occasion with the clank of
q madman's chain. Pass down the
street and look into the pawnbroker's
window. Elegant watch, elegant furs,
elegant flute, elegant shoes, elegant
scarf, elegant books, elegant memen-
toes. You sometimes see people with
pleased countenRncel looking into such a
window. When / look into a pawn
brokers' window, it seems to me as if
mad looked into the window of hell
To whom did that watch belong2 To
drunkard. To whom did those
furs belong? To 1runkard's
wife. To whom did those shoes
belong? To a drunka;ds child.
( take the three brazen balls
ut the doorway of a pawnbroker's
shop, and L clank them together, sound
ing the lxnell of the drunl1ard's soul. A
<,1-o,~ II = l..
eddies in the great torrent of munich
pal drunkenness. "Oh, says some one,
II don't patronize such things. have
destroyed no young man by such infu
ences. l only take ale, andit will take
a great amount of ale to intoxicate."
Yes; but l tell ynu there is not
drunkard in America that did not
begin 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 bot
tie. Three KS. / asked a man. He
could not tell. 1 asked another what
is the meaning of the three KS. He
could not tell me. Then 1 made up my
mind that the three KS were an allie
CORY, and that they meant thirty heart
breaks, thirty agonies, thirty brolzen-up
households, thirty prospects of
drunkard's grave, thirty ways to per-
dition. Three KS. If l were going to
write story, the first chapter 1 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 long
evenings, allowing such full swing for
evil indulgences. You can scarcely ex-
pect young man to go into his room
and sit there from seven o'clock in the
evening, reading Motley's dutch Re-
public" or John Fosters essays. 1t
would be a very beautiful thing for
him to do, but he will not do it. The
most of our young men are busy in of
fees, in factories, in banking houses, in
stores, in shops, and when evening
comes they want the fresh air, and they
want sightseeing, and they must have
it, they will have it, and they ought to
have it. Most of the men here assem-
bled will have three or four evenings
of leisure on the winter nights. After
tea, the man puts on his hat and coat,
and he goes out. One form of allure
ment says: "Come in here" Satan
says: 1T is best for you to go in; you
ought not to be so green; by this time
you ought to have seen everything"
and the temptations shall be mighty in
dull times such as we have had, but
which, believe are gone; for hear
all over the land the prophecy of great
prosperity, and the railroad men, and
the merchants, they all tell me of the
days of prosperity they think are COM
ing, and in many departments they
have already come, and they are going
to come in all departments; but those
dull times through which we have
passed have destroyed a great many
men. The question of a livelihood is
with vast multitude the great ques-
tion. There are young men who ex-
pected before this to set up their
but they have been
disa ppointed in the gains they have
made. They can not support them
selves; how can they support others?
and, to the curse of modern society, |
the theory is abroad that a man must |
not marry until he has achieved for
the foot of the hill and together climb |
to the top. That is the old-fashioned |
way, and that will be the new-fash- |
ioned way if society is ever redeemed. |
But during the hard times, the dull |
times, so many men were discouraged, |
so many men had nothing to do-they |
could get nothing to do-a pirate bore
down on the ship when the sails were
down and the vessel was making no
Roadway. People say they want more !
time to think. The trouble is, too
many people have had too much time to
think, and if our merchants had not
had their minds diverted many of
them would long before this have
been within the four walls of an insane
asylum These long winter evenings,
be careful where you spend them. |
This winter will decide the temporal |
and eternal destiny of hundreds of |
men in this audience.
Then, the winter has especial temp |
tations in the fact that many homes |
are peculiarly unattractive at this sea-
son. In the summer months the young |
man can sit out on the steps, or he can |
have bouquet in the vase on the man |
tel, or, the evenings being so short, |
soon after gaslight he wants to retire |
anyhow. But there are many parents |
who do not understand how TO make |
the long winter evenings attractive to |
their children. 1t is amazing to me |
that so many old people DO not under /
stand young people. To hear some of /
these parents talk you would think I