The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-11-23

down and die. You try with many words
to tell the excellency of the place, but you
| fail. There is only one word in the Ian
! guaGe that can describe your meaning. Ii
IS home.
Now. + declare that young man is com
paratively safe who goes out into the world
with a charm like this upon him The
memory of parental solicitude, watch
inG. planning and praying viii be to nun
u shield and shelter. | never knew man
faithful hoth to his early and adopted home.
who at the same time was given over TO
any gross form of dissipation or wicked
ness lie who seeks his enJoyml nj chleuy
from outside association. rather than from
tho more quiet and uapresuming pleasures
of which | have spoken, may be suspected
to be on the broad road to ruin. Absalom
despised his fathers house, and you know
his history OF sin and his death Of shame
II you seem unnecessarily isolated from
your kindred and former associations. Is
there not some room that you can call your
own? Into it gather books and pictures,
and q harp. Have a portrait over the man
tel Make ungCdly mirth and stand back
from the threshold. Consecrate some spot
with the knee OF prayer. By the memory
of other days a fathers counsel, and
mothers love, and a sisters confidence, call
it home.
Another defense for a young man IS In
duatrous habits. Many young men, in
starting upon life la this age. expect TO
make their way through the world by the
uso of their wits rather than the toll OF
their hands \ boy now goes to the city
and fails twice before he is as old as his
father was when he first saw the spires of
tho great town. Sitting In some office.
rented mt thousand dollars year, he is
waiting for the bank to declare It's divi-
dend, or goes into the market expecting be-
foro night to be made rich by the rushing
up OF the stocks. But luck seemed so dull
he resolved on some other tack. Perhaps
he borrowed from his employers money
drawer. and forge,s to put it back or for
merely the purpose Of improving his PEN
manship. makes cOpy-plate OF a mcr-
chants signature. Never mind: all IS
right In trade. In some dark night there
may come in his dreams vision of the
peritont'ary; but it soon vanishcs. In
short time he VIII be ready 20 retire from
the busy world and anlid his noeks and
herds cultivate the domestic virtues. Then
those young men who once We're his school
mates. and know no better than TO engage
IN honest work. viii come with their OK
teams TO draw him logs. and with their
hard hands to help neave up his castle.
This is no fancy picture. 1t is everyday
llfe. should not wonder if there were
some rotten beams IN That beautiful palace.
J should not wonder e dire sickness should
smito through tho young man, or if God
should pour into his cup OF life draught
mat would thrill him with Unhearable
agony; il his children should become to
him % living curse. making his home "a pest
ANA % disgrace. should not wonder ff
he goes TO "a miserable grave and beyond Il
lht" titr S'ashlnE OF tectn. The way OF the
uU%odIy shah perish.
1y young friends there IS no way TO
genuine success except through toll either
Of head or hand. Al the battle Of Crccy.
i'm l@l6 the prince Of Wales, finding hiiu-
sci heavily pressed by. the en"my, seat