Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-23

in the co'urinE; if you show them n
beautiful rose they will submit il to
a botanical analysis. which j. only the
lu>i-mortcm examination of huN, +.
They never do anA thing unrc than
crblv smile. There are M great tides
IF f,c elm" sur yiug M from the depth
ut their soul in hilluw after hillow of
rcrrrhcrating laughter. They seem H.
if Nature Ind built them bv contract
and made a hung.ing job cut of
it, lut. blessed be tod. there are
PEOPLE in the world who have bright
faces and whose life is - >bng.
an anth6m Tacan nf victory. Ev-
en- their troubles are like the vines
that crawl up the side Of great
tower. ON the top of which the sun
light sits and the soft airs of summer
hold Perpetual carnival They are the
people you like To have com" To- Your
h"u>ci they ARE the people like To
nav" come to my huu>y. Now. IL is
these eNhilarant and aymnat hrtic aud
warm hearted PEOPLE that are most
tempted to Pcrnici0u> amuSc tncntS.
In proportion as ship is swift it
wants Il Stron" helm Smani in propor-
tion a. II horse il gay il wants
n Stronr driver; and thrs, people
of eNuhcrant nature will do well
Ia look at the reaction of all
their amu>cmcnts II an amu>e-
mrnt scnds YOU home at night ncr-
vous So YOU can not sleep. and you
rise in the morning. not because You
are slept out, but because your duty
dragS yen from SlumherS, YOU have
been where YOU ought not tn have
been. There are amu,e ments that
send man next day to his work
hloodshot, yawnin%. stupid, naulcatcd.
and they are wrong kinds of amuS--
meats. There are entertainment, that
give man disgust with the drudgcry
of life, with tools because they are not
swords. with working aprons because
they are not robes. with cattle because
they are not Infatuated bulls of the
arena. Ii any anus 'mcnt sends you
nome longing for life of romance and
thrilling adventure. love that takes
poison and shoots itself. moonlight adj
v, nturc and hairbrcadth escapes, you
may depend upon il that You are the
sacrificed victim of unsanctiiicd plcaS-
urc. Our rrcreatiuns are intended to
| build lis up, and if they pull us down.
AS To our moral or our physical
strength, you may come To the conclu-
sion that they are obnoxious.
StiN furthcr: Those amuscIucnts
are wrong which cad in To expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in
+ creation is not thrown away. 1t is
all folly for Ms to come from a place of
amusement feeling that we have vast
ed our money and time. You may by
| il have made an investment worth
more than the transaction that yield
| cd you 500 or Sl.010. But how MANY
properties have been riddled by costly
| amuscments? Ths table has been
ro bbcd to pay the club. The cham
pa gnc has cheated the childrcn's
wardrobe The carousing party has
burned up the boys primer. The table
cloth of the corner saloon is in debt
to the wife's faded dress. Excursions
that in a day make n tour around "A
| whole months wages; ladies' whose
| lifetime businc. il is to Ego shopping
have their counterpart in uneducated
| children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appall the church,
/ and that send drunkenness staggering
across the richly figured carpet of the
mansion and dashing into the mirror,
| and drowning ont the carol of music
with the whooping of bloated sons
come home to break their old mother S
| heart. When men go into amusements
| that they can not afford they first bor-
row what they can not earn, and then
they steal what they can not borrow.
First they go into embarrassment and
then into theft, and when a man gets
as far on as that he does not stop short
| of the renitentiary. There is not a
l-ariSnFl in The land where there are not
victims OF unsanctified amusements.
How often / have had parents come to
me and ask me to go and beg their boy
off from the consequence of crimes
that he had committed against his en-
ployer-the taking of funds out of the
employers till, or the disarrangements
of the accounts! Why, he had salary
enough to pay all lawful expenditure,
but not enough salary to meet his sim
full amusements. And again and again
| have gone and implored for the
young handsome times, alas! the petit
ton unavailing.
| How brightly the path of unre-
strained amusement opens! The young
man says: Now / am off for good
time. Never mind economy; I'll get
money somehow What n fine road.
What beautiful day for ride! Crack
the whip and over the turnpike! Come,
boys, fill high your glasses! Drink.
Long life, health, plenty of rides just
like thisi' Woodworking men hear
the clatter of the hoofs and look up
and say. why, | wonder where
those fellows get their money from.
We have to toll and drudge. They
do nothing" To these gay men life
is a thrill and an excitement. They
stare at other people and in turn are
stared at The watch chain jingles.
The cup foams The cheeks flush. the
eyes fash. The midnight hears their
guffaw. They swagger. They jostle
decent men off the sidewalk. They
take the name of God in vain. They
parody the hymn they learned at their
mothers knee; and TO all pictures of
coming disaster they cry ont, who
cares" and to the counsel of some
Christian friend, Who are you?" Pass
ing along the street some night you
hear shrek in grog shop,
the rattle of a Waterman S
club, the rush of the police. What
is the matter now? Oh, this reck-
less young man has been killed in a
grog-shop fight. Carry him home to
his fathers house. Parents will come
down and wash his wounds and close
his eyes in death. They forgive him
all he ever did, though he can not in
his silence ask it. The prodigal has
got home at last Mother will go to
her little garden and get the sweetest
flowers and twist them into a chaplet
for the silent heart of the maynard
boy and push back from the bloated
brow the long locks that were once
her pride. And the air will be rent
with the fathers cry: ''Oh, my son,
my son, my poor son; would God | had
died for thee, oh, my son, my son!'
You may Judge of amusements by