Connecticut western news., 1895-12-12


 whom dld Chose shoes Delongs To drunkasd's child. rtake the tHree bra zen balls as tho doorway of . pawnbro- ker's shop and clank them together, sounding thes knen of the drunkard's soul ~ASpawnbroker's shop ;is only one of the >SddiesS in the great torrent of municipal drunkenness. "Oh," says some one, II Aon't patronixe such things. l have destroyed no young man by such influences. only take ale, and it will taken great amount of ale to i'm toxicate. ' Yes, but teh you there is not drunkard in America that did not know what they mean. Three Ks on the brew er's dray. three .on.the door of the ginsfop, three X's on the side of the bottle. Three Ks, I asked a man. He could not tell. 1,asked another what was the meaning of the three Ks. He could not tell me. Then made up my mind that the three Ks were an ale aory. and that they meant 80 heart breaks. 80sasonies, so broken np house. 
 grave, 30ways to perdition. Three Ks. If were going to write story, the first chapter 1 would call "Three Ks" and tho Hast chapter I would call ''The Pawn brdker's Shop" Oh, beware of your influence
 Winter reinptatioas.
 The winter season is especially full of tetnptation,s becatse of the long even- ings allowing such full swing for evil indnlgences. You can scarcely expect a young man to go into his room and sit there from to II o'clock in the even ing. reading Motley s Dutch Republic" or John Foster's essays It would be g very beautiful thing for him to do, but be will not do it. The most of our young men are busy in offices, in fac tories, in banking houses, in stores, in shops, and when evening comes they want the fresh air. and they want sight seeing. and they must have 1t, they will have it, sndtheydought tohave it. Most of th6s rnens here assembled will have three 6r four exeAfhgs1of leisure iotg the winter nights. After tea the man puts on his hat and coat and he goes out. Ono form of aliur6ment says, "Come in here. 's Satan says: "It is best for you to 20 in. ' ou ought not to be so green. By this time ycu ought to have seen everything. And tho temptations shall be mighty fmduntimes such as we have bad sbnt which, 1believe. sre gone, for I hear all over the land the prophecy of great prosperity, and the rsilroad men and the AmerchaDts, they ail tell me of the days of prosperity they think are coming, and in many departments they have alraady come, and .they arc going to come in all departments, but those dull times through which we have passed have destroyed great many men. The question of 3 livelihood is with vast smultitude the great ques- tion. There are young men who expect ed before to.set up their household, butstheyshave been disappointed in the gains they have made. They cannot SUD- port themselves, how can they support others? And, to the curse of modern so- ciety, the theory is abroad that man must not marry until he has achieved a fortune, when the twain ought to, Start at the foot of the hirr and together climb to thestop.
 That issthe old fashioned way, and that will be the new fashioned way if society is ever, redeemed. But during the hard times. the -fufi times so many men were discouraged, so many men had nothing to do--they could get noth- ing to do-a pirate bore down on the ship when tho 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 mer- chants had not had their minds divert ed many of them would long bzfore this have been within the four walls of an insane asy lum. These long winter evenings. be careful where you spend them. This winter will decide the tenn poral and eternal destiny of hundreds of men in this audience.
 Attractive Homes.
 Then the winter has especial temp. tations in the fact that many hornest are peculiarly unattractive at this season. In the summer months the young man! can sit out on the steps, or he can have bouquet in the vase on the fhahtel, or, the evenings being so short, soon after gaslight he wants toretire anyhow But there are many sparentsswh do riOt ua-l derstand howto make the long winter evenings attractive to their children. It is amazing to me that so many old peoi pie do notunderstand young people. To hear some of these parents talk you would think they had never themselves been young and had been born with spectacles on Oh, it is 'doloroas for young people to sit in ahe house ffom:7 to II o'clock at night and to hear par ents gfoan about their aiinfenrs and the nothingness of this world. The nothing ness of this world How dare yon talk such blaspheray: It took God six days 10 make this world, and he has allowed 1t 5000 years to hang upon his holy teart, and this world has shone on, you and blessed you and caressed you for these 50 or 70 years, and yet you dare talk about the nothingness of this world [ Why, it is asmugnificent world. I do not believe in the whole universe there is world equal to it, except 1t be heav- on. You cannot expect your children to stay in the house these long winter even- ings to hear you denounce this star light ed, sun warmed, shower baptized. flow or strewn, angel watched, God inhabit- ed planet.
 Oh, make your home -brighti Bring in the violin or the picture. It does not requireSa great salary, or aFbig house, or chased silver, or gorgeous upholstery to make a happy. home. All that is wanted is fathers heart, mothers heart, in sympathy wifhsyonne folks. T havea known a man with e700 saiary, and he had no other income, but he had home so happy and bright that, though the sons have gone out and won large fortunes and the daughters have gone out into splendid spheres and became princesses of society, they can 1sves think of 'that parlv home xvithOuf<k kdar,s