The Progress., 1897-08-21

am more dishonest than if I go into the
store and, when the Grocer's face is turned
the other way, / I'll my pockets with the
articles Of merchandise and carry Oft a
ham. In the one case / take the 1ner-
chants time and ! take the time of lis
messenger TO transfer the goods to my
house, while in the other case take none
of the time Of the merchant, and ] wait
upon myself, and ! transfer tho goods
without any trouble to him. Ia other
words, sneak thief Is not SO bad AS a
man who contracts debts he never expects
to pay.
Yet in all GUY cities there are families
who move every May day to get into lroZ
unity to other grocers and rleatshoIs and
apotbecaries. They owe every body within
half & mile of where they now live, and
next May they Will move in1o distant
part of the city, finding n new lot of VIC
tins. Meanwhile You, the honest family
in the new house, aye bothered day by day
by the knocking at The door Of disappoinr-
ed bakers and Butchers and dry goods
dealers and newspaper carriers, and you
are asked where your predecessor is. You
do not know. 1t was arranged you should
not know. Meanwhile your predecessor
has gone TO some distant part of the city,
and the people who have anything to sell
have sent their wagons and stopped there
TO solicit the -'valuab le'' custom Of the
Z
with great co1pplacency and an Air of affiu~
ence, orders the finest steaks ana the high
est priced sugars and the best of The can
ned fruits and perhaps all the newspapers
And the debts wiz keep on accommodating
until be gets his goods on the S0th of next
April in the furniture cart.
Nonads of City Life.
No wonder that so many of our 1ner~
chants fail in business They are swim
Arabs, these no,nads Of city life They
cheat the grocer out OF the green apples
which make them sick, 1ho physician who
attends them during their Distress and
the undertaken who fits them out for de-
rarture from the Deie hborhood where they
owe every body when they pay The debt of
nature, the only debt they ever do pay.
Now our young men are coming Up In
this depravcd state of commercial ethics
and ! am soiicitous about them. i want
to warn them against being slaughtered
on the sharp edges of debt. You want
many things yoa have not, my young
friends You shall have them if you have
patience and honesty and industry. Ger
tain lines OF conduct always lead out TO
certain successes There is Il law which
controls even those things that seem hap
haz,<d. ] have been told by those who
have observed that it is possible 10 caiou
late just bow many letters viii be sent to
the dead letter office every year through
misdirection; that il is possible to calcu-
late just how many letters will he detained
for lack OF postage stamps through the
forgc1fulpess of the tenders, and that it Is
possible TO tell just bow many people will
fail in the streets Try slipping Oh an orange
peal In other words, there are DO acct
dc' as. The most insignificant event you
ever beard Of is The link between two eter-
nitie@-the eternity of the past and the
eternity of the future Head the right
Wy, young man, and you will come out
at the right goal.
Bring INC young man and tell me
what his physical health is and what his
mental ealiber and what his habits, and
Will tell you what Will be his destiny for
this world and his destiny for the world to
come, and i viii not make five inaccurate
prophecies OFT of the 500 All this makes
ff:c SGlicltous in regard 10 young men, and
] want 10 make them nervous in regard to
the contraction of unpayahle debts.
give you "a para graph from NV own exrsrI-