Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-15

OuS, IuOJ dI6 WuOlO cOulCu, VACy HA0 ecA-
ented Oh, begrudge the devil such
prizel After awhile the frank look will
20 out of the face and the features will
be haggard, and when talking to you,
instead of looking you in the eye, they
will look down, and every morning the
mother will kindly ask, my son, what
kept you out SO late last night" and he
will make no answer, or he will say,
'.That's my business. Then some time
he will come to the store or the bank
cross and befogged, and he will neglect
some duty, and after awhile he will
lose his place, and then, with nothing
to do, he will come down at 10 o'clock
in the morning to curse the servant be-
cause the breakfast is cold. The lad who
was clerk in the cellar has got to be
chief clerk in the great commercial es-
tablishment, the young man who ran
errands for the bank has got to be CASH
ier, thousands Of the young men who
were at the foot of the ladder have got
to the top Of the ladder, but here goes
the victim of the dissipating clubhouse
with staggering step and bloodshot eye
and mud bespattered hat set sidewise on
o shock of greasy hair, his cravat dashed
with cigar ashes Look at him, pure
hearted young man, look at him The
clubhouse did that. know one such
who went the whole round and, turned
out Of the higher clubhouses, went into
the lower clubhouses and on down un-
til one night he leaped out Of third
story window to end his wretchedness.
A Warning.
Let me say to fathers who are becom-
ing dissipated, your sons will follow
you. You think your son does not know.
He knows all about it. l have heard
men who say, II am profane, but never
in the presence of my children. Your
children know you swear. have heard
men say, II drink, but never in the
presence of my children. :" Your chill
dren know you drink. I describe now
what occurs in hundreds of households
in this country. The tea hour has ar
rived. The family are seated at the tea
table Before the rest of the family arise
from the table the father shoves back
his chair, says he has an engagement,
lights cigar, goes out, comes back aft
er midnight, and that is the history of
9G5 nights of the year. Does any man
want to stultify himself by saying that
that is healthy, that that is right, that
that is honorable? Would your wife
have married you with such prospects?
Time will pass on, and the son will
be IL or II years of age, and you will
be at the tea table, and he will shove
back and have an engagement, and he
will light bis cigar, and he will go out
to the clubhouse, and you will hear
nothing of him until you hear the night
key in the door after midnight. But his
physical constitution is not quite SO
strong as yours and the liquor he drinks
is more terrifically drugged than that
which you drink, and so he will catch
up with you on the road to death,
though you got such long start of him,
end SO you will both go to hell together
The revolving Drummond light in
! front of hotel, in front of locomotive,
| may flash this way and flash that upon
the mountains, upon the rayines, upon
| the city, but l take the lamp of Gods
! eternal truth, and flash it upon all the
clubhouses of these cities, so that no
young man shall be deceived. By these
| tests try them, try them! Oh, leave the
dissipating influences of the clubroom,
if the influences of your clubroom are
dissipating. Paid your money, have
you? Better sacrifice that than your
soul Good fellows, are they? Under
that process they will not remain such.
Mollusca may be found 200 fathoms
down beneath the Norwegian seas, ST.
berian stag get fat on the stunted growth
Of Altaian peaks, hedysarium grows amid
the desolation Of Sahara tufts OF osier
and birch grow on the hot lips Of vol
canic Sneehattan, but pure heart and
an honest life thrive in dissipating
clubhouse-never.
The way to conquer wild beast is to
keep your eye on him, but the way for
you to conquer your temptations. my
! friend is to turn your back on them and
Hy for your life.
Oh, my heart achesl see men strug-
Cling against evil habits, and they
want help have knelt beside them,
and have heard them cry for help, and
then we have risen, and he has put one
hand OH my right shoulder and the other
hand ON my left shoulder and looked
into my face with all infnity of earnest
ness which the Judgment day will have
no power to make me forget as he has
cried out with his lips scorched in ruin,
"God help MEL For such there is no
help except in the Lord God Almighty
1 am going to make very stout rope.
You know that sometimes ropemaker
will take very small threads and wind
them together until after awhile they
become ship cable. And am going to
take some very small, delicate threads
and wind them together until they
make very stout rope. I will take all
the memories of the marriage day,
thread of laughter, thread of light, a
thread of music, thread Of banquet
ing, a thread of congratulation, and 1
twist them together, and 1 have one
strand. Then I take thread of the
! hour of the first advent in your house,
thread of the darkness that preceded,
and thread Of the light that followed,
and a thread of the beautiful scarf that
little child used to wear when she
bounded out at eyentide to greet you,
and then thread of the beautiful dress
in which you laid her away for the res
direction, and then I twist all these
threads together, and l have another
strand. Then take thread of the scar
let robe of o suffering Christ, and a
thread of the white raiment of your
loved ones before the throne, and a
string of the harp cherubic, and string
of the harp seraphic, and twist, them
all together, and 1 have third strand.
"Ob, you say, "either strand is strong
enough to hold fast world" No l
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