Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-25

Young Men-Evils Resulting Froi
Getting Into Debt-An Irreligious LII
Always Destroys Young Mems Morals
TEXT: "As an OK to the slaughter" -
| Proverbs vii, %
There is nothing in the voice or manne
OF the butcher to indicate to the OK tha
there is, death ahead. The OK thinks he |
going on to n rich pasture field of Glove
where all day long he will revel in the herb
aceous luNuriance, but after awhile tn
men and the boys close in upon him wit
sticks and stones and shouting and driv
him through bars and into a doorway, wher
he is fastened, and with well aimed strok
the AK fells him, and so the anticipation o
the redOlent pasture field Is completely dis
appointed. SO many young man has beeI
driven on by temptation to what he though
would be- paradisiacal enjoyment, but aft o
awhile influences with darker hue ant
swarthier arm close In upon him, and h,
finds that instead Of making an excursion
into garden he has been driven ''as an o,
to the slaughter
We are apt to blame young m en- for be
ing destroyed when we ought to blame the
Influences that destroy them. Societ,
SiauShter5 great many young men by the
behest: You must keep up Appearances
Whatever be your salary, you must dress
as we'll as others, you must give wine and
brandy to as many friends, you must
smoke as costly cigars, you must give as
expensive entertainments and you must
live in as fashionable boarding house. If
you haven't the money, borrow. II you
can't borrow, make Il false entry or sub.
tract here and there n bill from bundle oi
bank bills. You will only have to make
the deception" IA little while. In few
months or in II year or two YOU can m nk.
it all right. Nobody will be hurt by it, no,
body will be the wiser. You yourself will
not be damaged" BY that awful process
l0o 600 men have been slaughtered for time
and slaughtered for eternity
Suppose you borrow. There is nothing
wrong about borrowing money There is
harilya man who has not sometimes Dor
rowed money. Vast estates have been built
on borrowed dollar. But there are two
kinds of borrowed money, money borrowed
for the purpose of stating or keeping up
Legitimate enterprise and expense and
money borrowed to get that which YOU can
do without. The first is right, the other Is
wrong. III you have money enough of your
own to buy coat, however plain and then
you borrow money for n dandy's outfit YOU
have taken the first revolution of the wheel
down grade. Borrow for necessities; that
may be well. Borrow for the luxuries; that
tips your prospects over in the wrong di.
rection.
The Bible distinctly says the borrower Is
servant OF the lender. 1t is bad state of
things when you have to go down some
other street to escape meeting some one
whom you owe. II young men knew what
is the dcspoiiiisnif 81 being in debt, more OF
them would keep out of Ii. WssAt did debt
do for Lord Bacon, with a mind towerin z
above the centuries? 1t induced. him to
take bribes and convict himself as a Grim
inal before all ages. What did deb. do for
Walter Scott, broken hearted at Abbots-
ford? Kept him writing until his hand
gave out In paralysis to keep the sheriff
away from his pictures and statuary. Bet
ter for him If he had minded the maxim
which he had chiseled over the fireplace at
Abbotsford, "Waste not. want not. -
The trouble Is, my friends, that people do
and that IL you purchase goods with no ex-
Pectation OF paying for them, or go into
debts which You cannot meet, you steal
Just 50 much money. III go into n grocer's
store and buy sugars and cDffees and
meats with no capacity to pay for them,
and No intention of paying for them, l am
more dishonest than if go into the store,
and when the Grocer's face is turned the
other way I'LL my pockets with the arti-
cles of merchandise and carry of a ham,
In the one case | take the merchants time
and / take the time of his messenger to
transfer the goods to my house, while in
the other ease l take none of the time of the
merchant, and | wait upon myself, and |
transfer the goods without any trouble to
him. In other words, Il sneak thief Is not
50 Dau as Il man VINO contracts debts he
never expects to pay.
Yet in all our cities there are families
who move every May day to get into prox-
unity to other grocers and meatshops and
apcthecaries. They owe everybody within
half mile of where they now live and next
May they will move into distant part of
the city, finding a new lot of victims.
Meanwhile you. the honest family in the
new house, are bothered day by day by The
knocking at the door of disappointed 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 So
lic!t the valuable" custom OF the new
neighbor, and he, the new neighbor
with great complacency and an air of affiu-
ence, orders the finest steaks and the high
est priced sugars and the best of the canned
fruits and perhaps all the newspapers. And
the debts will keep on accommodating until
he gets his goods on the 3Oth OF next April
in the furniture cart.
No wonder that so many of ou- mer-
chants fail In business. They are swindled
into bankruptcy by these wandering Arabs,
these nomads Of city life. They cheat the
grocer out of the green apples which make
them sick, the physician who attends them
during their distress and the undertaken
who fits them out for departure from the
neighborhood where they owe everybody
when they pay the debt Of nature the only
debt they ever do pay
Now our young men are coming up In
this depraved state of commercial ethics
and am solicitoIs about them. / want to
warn them against being slaughtered on
the sharp edges of debt. You want MANY
things you have not, my Young friends.
You shall have them IL you have patience
and honesty and industry. Certain lines of
conduct always lead out to certain successes
There is law which controls even those
things that seem haphazard. / have been
told by those who have observed that it Is
possible to calculate Just how many letters
will be sent to the dead letter Office every
year through misdirection; that 1t is posi-
be to calculate Just how many letters will
be detained for lack of postage stamps
through the forgctfulness of the senders,
ard that it is possible to tell just how many
people will fall in the streets by slipping on
an orange peel. In other words, there arr,
no accidents. The most insignificant event
you ever heard of Is the link between two
eternities-the eternity of the past and the
eternity of the future. Head the right way,
young man, and you will come out Mt tn.
right goal.
Bring me a young man and tell me what
his physical health is and what his mental
caiiber and what his habits, and will tell
you what will be his destiny for this world
and his destiny for the world to come, aud
L will not make five inaccurate prophecies
out of the 500. All this makes me soiicitous
in regard to young men, and l want to
make them nervous in REGARD to the con
traction of unpayable debts.
When young man wiilfully and oi
choice, having the comforts of life, goes
into the contraction of unpayabie debts, he
knows not into what he goes. The creditors
get after the debtor, the pack of hounds il
full cry, and alas for the reindeer. They
jingle his doOrbeli before he gets up in the
morning, they jingle his door!,eli after he
has gone to bed mt night. They meet him
rs he comes of his front steps. They send
him n postal card or n letter in curtes,
style, telling him to pay up. They attach
his goods. They want cash or note at
thirty Gays or u note on demand. They
call him knave. They say he lies. They
want him disciplined in the church. They
want him turned out of the bank. They