The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-05

ment, almost exhausted with the uhy
work, yet took evening employment
1t almost extinguished his eyesight
Why did he add evening employment
to the day employment? To ge
money. Why did he want to &c
money? To lay up something TO-
a rainy day? No. To get hi
life insured, so that in case o
his death his wife would not be beg
gar? No. He put the extra evening
work to the day work that he nigh
get $3.50 to get his wife a sealsllin coat
The sister of the bride heard Of thi!
achievement, and was not to bt
eclipsed. She was very poor, and she
sat up working nearly all night for 9
great while until she bought seal
skin coat. / have not heard of the re
suit on that street. The street was
full of those who are on small incomes
but suppose the ccntagion spread
and that everybody had sealskin
coat, and that the people came out and
cried, practically, not literally.
Though the heavens fall, we must
have scalskin coat"
l was out west and minister of the
Gospel told me, in Iowa, that his church
and the neighborhood had been impov-
erishcd by the fact that they put mort
cages on their farms in order to send
their families to the Philadelphia CEN
tennial. 1t was not respectable not to
evils and pauperism there is a very
short step. The vast majority of chill
dren in your aims houses are there be-
cause their parents are drunken, lazy,
or recklessly improvident.
/ have no sympathy for skinflint saw
ing, but plead for Christian prudence,
You say it is impossible now to lay up
anything for rainy day. l know it,
but we are at the day break of national
prosperity. Some people think it is
mean to turn the gas low when they
go out of the parlor. They feel en-
barrassed if the door bell rings before
they have the gas lighted. They apollo
gize for the plain meal, if you surprise
them at the table. Well. it is mean if
it is only to pile up miserly board.
But If it be to educate your children,
If it be to give more help to your wife
when she does not feel strong, if it be
to keep your funeral day from being
Mortified beyond all endurance, be-
cause it is to be the disruption and
humiliation of the domestic circle--if
it be for that, then it is magnificent.
There are those who are kept in pow
erty because of their own fault They
might have been well off, but they
smoked or chewed up their earnings,
Or they lived beyond their means,
while others on the same wages and on
the same salaries went on to compe-
5ency. l know man who is all the
time complaining of his poverty and
crying out against rich men, while he
himself keeps two dogs, and chews and
smokes, and is full to the chin with
whisky and beer. wilkins Micawber
said to David Copperfeld: "Copperfield,
NV boy, one pound income, expenses
20 shillings and six pence; result, mis-
cry. But Copperfeld, my boy, one
pound income, expenses 10 shillings
md siXpence; result, happiness" But,
Oh, working man, take your morning
Tram, and your noon dram, and your
evening dram, and spend everything
'ou have, and you insure poverty for
and your children forever,
If by some generous fiat of the CAPT.
lists of this country or by n new law of
he government of the United States,
IS per cent. or 80 per cent. or 100 per
,ent. were added to the wages of the
classes of America, it would
'e no advantage to hundreds of them
lnless they stopped strong drink. Aye,
Until they quit that evil habit the more
money the more ruin, the more wages
he more holes in the bag.
My plea is to those working people
Who are in q discipleship to the whisky
bottle, the beer jug and the wine flask.
and what say to them will not be
more appropriate to the working
classes than to the business classes,
md the literary classes, and all classes,
md not with the people of one age
more than of all ages. Take one good
quare look at the suffering of the man
whom strong drink has enthralled, and
biup toN ROdl
udes are running. The disciple of
alcoholism suffers the loss of self
aspect. Just as soon as a man
wakes up and finds that he is
he captive of strong drink
lie feels demcancd. / do not care how
ecklessly he acts. He may say, 81
lon't care" he does care. He can not
oolI pure man in the eye unless it is
With positive force of resolution.
Threc-fourths of his nature is de-
troyed; his self-respect is gone; he
avs things he would not otherwise
ay; he does things he would not other
wise do. When a man is nine tenths
zone with strong drink the first thing
lie wants to do is to persuade you that
he can stop any time he wants to. He can
lot. The Philistines have bound him
land and foot, and shorn his locks, and
'ut out his eyes, and are making HIM
.rind in the mill of great horror.
lie can not stop. / will prove it. He
inows that his course is bringing ruin
lpon himself. He loves himself. If
lie could stop he would. He knows
lis course is bringing ruin upon his
amily. He loves them. He would
top is he could. He can not. Perhaps
lie could three months or n year ago.
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