Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-19

churches, or thieving among domestic
servants, or swindlers among business
men. or malfeasance in Office. There is
much in life to make men suspicious of
others, and when that characteristic of
suspicion becomes dominant a man has
secured his own unhappiness, and he
has become an offense in all Circles re-
igious commercial and political. The
man who moves for committee of in
vestigation is generally moral derelict.
The man who goes with his nostrils in
fated trying to discover something NAL
odorous is not man, but a sleuth-
hound! The world is full of nice people,
generous people, people who are doing
their best-good husbands, good wives,
good fathers, good mothers, good Off
GERS of the law, good judges, good gov
errors, good state and national legis-
lators, good rulers Does some man
growl out. "That has not been my ex-
perience, and l think just the opposite. -
Well, my brother, I am sorry for your
affective circumstances, and that you
had an unfortunate ancestry, and that
you have kept such bad company and
had such discouraging environment. I
notice that after man has been max
ing violent TRADE against his fellow
men he is on his way down, and it he
live long enough he will be asking you
for quarter of dollar to get a drink
or nights lodging. Behave yourself
we'll, oh, young man, and you will find
life pleasant thing to live and the
world full of friends and Gods bene
diction everywhere about you.
Look Not For Luck.
Again. if you would be master of the
situation, expect nothing from good luck,
or haphazard, or gaming adventures. In
this time, when it is estimated that
gambling exchanges money TO the
amount of about $50, 900, 900 day, this
remark may be useful. There come
times in many mans life when he
hopes to get something for which he
does not give an equivalent, and there
are so kinds Of gambling. Stand aloof
from all of them. Understand that the
gambling spirit is a disease, and the
more successful you are the more GER
tain you are to go right on to your own
ruin. Having made his thousands, why
does not the gambler stop and make a
safe investment Of what he has gained
and spend the rest of his life in quiet or
less hazardous style Of occupation? The
reason is he cannot stop. Nothing but
death ever cures confirmed gambler.
DR.. Keeley's gold cure resoues the
drunkard, and there are antitobacco
preparations that will arrest the victim
of nicotine, and religion can save any
one except a gambler. The fact is he is
irresponsible. Having got the habit in
him he is no more responsible for keep
ing on than man falling from the
roof of a four story house can stop at
the window of the second story. Here
and there you may find an instance
where gambler has been reported or
reports himself as being converted, but
in that case the man was not fully un-
der the heel of the passion. The real
and -perdition. The only use in refer
ring to him is in the way of proven
ton. He began by taking chances on a
bookcase or a sewing machine at a
church fair and ended by getting few
pennies for his last valuable in pawn
brokers' shop. The only man who gam
bles successfully is the man who loses
SO fearfully at the start that he is dis
gusted and quits. Let him. win at the
start and win again, and it means fare
we'll to home and heaven. Most merci-
less of all habits! Horace Walpole says
that man dropped down at the door
of clubhouse in London and was car
ried in, and the gamblers began to bet
whether he was dead or not, and when
it was proposed to bleed him for his re-
covery the gamblers objected that it
would affect the fairness of the bet.
What noble men they must have been !
But more and more ladies are becoming
gambl They bet at the races and
have prizes in social groups which are
nothing but the stakes of gambling. A
good way for a lady to get into the
gamester' habit is by beginning with
progressive euchre. That opens the
door in a fashionable way. In one of
our great cities invitations were sent
out for such meeting at the card tables.
The guests entered and sat down and
began. After awhile the excitement ran
high, and the lady who was the hostess
tainted and fell under the table, The |
guests arose, but some one said Don't |
touch the bell / Let us finish the game |
She would have done SO herself and |
would wish US if she spoke. The game
went on for 80 minutes longer, and then |
a physician was called. After examina-
ton Of the case it was found that the
lady had been dead 20 minutes AS the |
guests lift their hands in surprise I ex-
claim in regard to them, What delicate
and refined and angelic womanhood!
Never PrOcrastinate.
Again, if you would be master of the
situation, never adjourn until tomorrow
what you can do today. The difference
between happy and inspiring work and
and exhausting and dispjrit-
ing work is the difference between work