The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-06-27


Where? Where? Carry him out and
bury him beside his father and mother,
who died while holding fast the Chris
tian religion. They died singing; but
the young infidel only said: Don't
breathe that cold air into my face.
You crowd me too hard. 1t is getting
dark in the room"
Again, urge you to shun the COM
partnership of oilers. There are men
hanging around every store, and Office,
and shop, who have nothing to do, or
act as if they had not. They are apt
to come in when the firm are away,
and wish to engage you in conversa-
ton while you are engaged in your
regular employment. Politely suggest
to such persons that you have no time
to give them during business hours.
Nothing would please them SO well as
to have you renounce your occupation
and associate with them. Much of the
time they lounge around the doors OF
engine houses, or after the dining
hour stand upon the steps of fash
ionable hotel or an elegant restau-
rant, wishing to give you the idea
that that is the place where they dine.
But they do not dine there. They are
sinking down lower and lower, day by
day. Neither by day or night have
anything to do with idlers. Before you
admit man into your acquaintance
ask him politely: What do you do
for living?" If he says, Nothing,
am a gentleman" look out for him.
He may have a very soft hand, and
very faultless apparel, and have a
high-sounding family name, but his
touch is death. Before you know 1t,
you will in his presence be ashamed of
your work dress. Business will be-
come to you drugery, and after awhile
you will lose your place, and after
ward your responsibility, and last OF
all your soul. Idleness is next to vii
lainy Thieves, gamblers, burglars,
shoplifters and assassins are made
from the class who have nothing to do.
When the police go to hunt up and ar
rest culprit, they seldom go to look
in at the busy carriage factory, or be-
hind the counter where diligent clerks
are employed, but they go among the
groups of idlers. The play is going
on at the theater, when suddenly
there is scutfie in the top gallery.
What is it? A policeman has come
in, and, leaning over, has tapped
on the shoulder of a young man,
saying: 81 want you, SIR" He has not
worked during the day, but somehow
has raked together shilling or two to
get into the top gallery. He is an
idler. The man on his right hand is
an idler, and the man on his left hand
is an idler.
Shrink back from idleness in your
self and in others, if you would main
tain in right position. Good old
Ashbel Green, at more than eighty
years of age, was found busy writing,
and some young man said to him:
why do you keep busy? 1t is time
for you to rest" He answered.: Il
keep busy to keep out of mischief"
No man is strong enough to be idle.
Are you fond of pictures? If so /
will show you one of the works of an
old master. Here it is: Il went by
the field of the slothful, and by the
vineyard of the man void of under
over with thorns, and nettles had COW
cred the face thereof, and the stone
wall was broken down. Then l saw
and considered well. looked upon 1t
and received instruction. Yet a little
sleep little slumber, little folding
of the hands to sleep. So shall thy
poverty come as one that travelth and
thy want as an armed man." l don't
know of another sentence in the Bible
more explosive than that. 1t first
Kisses softly. like the fuse of cannon,
and at last bursts like a 54-pounder
The old proverb was right: 1.-THE
devil temps most men, but oilers tempt
the devil
A young man came to man of 90
years of age and said to him. How
have you made out to live SO long and
be SO well?' The old man took the
youngster to an orchard, and, point
ing to some large trees full of apples,
said: II planted these trees when
was boy, and do you wonder that
now l am permitted to gather the fruit
off them?' We gather in old age
what we plant in youth. Sow to the
wind and we reap the whirlwind.
Plant in early life the right kind of a
Christian character, and you will eat
luscious fruit in old age, and gather
these harvest apples in eternity.
/ urge you to avoid the perpetual
pleasure-seeker. l believe in recrea.
ton and amusement. God would not
have made us with the capacity to
laugh if He had not intended us some
times to indulge it. God hath hung in
sky, and set in wave, and printed on
grass many roundelay; and he who
choose pleasure seeking for his life
work does not understand for what
God made him. Our amusements are
intended to help us in some earn
est mission. The thunder cloud
hath an edge exquisitely purpled,
but with voice that jars the earth
it declares: II go to water the green
fields" The wild flowers under the
fence are gay, but they say: ave stand
here to make room for the wheat field,
and to refresh the hus bandmen in their
nooning." The stream sparkles and
foams and frolics and says: II go to
baptize the moss. leave the spots on
the trout. slake the thirst of the
bird. l turn the wheel of the mill.
rock in my crystal cradle muckshaw