Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-01-10


place since. Your wife has never bright
aned up She has not got over it; she
never will get over it. How long the
evenings are, with no one to put to bed
and no one to tell the beautiful Bible
story. What pity it is that you cannot
spend more evenings at home in trying
to help her bear that sorrow! You can
never drown that grief in the wine cup.
You can never break away from the lit
tie arms that used to be flung around
your neck when she used to say, "Papa,
do stay home tonight-do stay home to-
night. You will never be able to wipe
away from your lips the dying kiss of
your little girl.
The fascination of dissipating club
house is SO great that sometimes man
has turned his back on his home when
his child was dying of scarlet fever. He
went away. Before he got back at mid
night the eyes had been closed, the un-
dertaker had done his work, and the
wife, worn out with three weeks watch
ing, lay unconscious in the next room.
Then there is rafting of the night key
in the door, and the returned father
comes up stairs and sees the empty era
die and the window up. He says,
"What is the matter?' In Gods judg-
ment day he will find out what was the
matter. Oh, man astray, God help you!
The influence which some Of the club
houses are exerting is the more to be de-
plored because it takes down the very
best men. The admission fee Sits out
the penurious and leaves only the best
fellows. They are frank, they are gener-
GUS, they are whole souled, they are tai
ented Oh, begrudge the devil such a
prize! After awhile the frank look will
60 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
Ter, 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 despatched hat set sidewise on
a shock of greasy hair, his cravat dashed
with cigar ashes. Look at him, pure
hearted young man, look at him! The
clubhouse did that. I know one such
who went the whole round and, turned
out of the higher clubhouses, went into
the lower clubhonses and on down un-
til one night he leaped out of a third
story window to end his Indebtedness.
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. I 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, 81 drink, but never in the
presence Of my children. Your chill
dren know you drink. 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
1865 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 Is 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
mp with you on the road to death,
though you got such long start of him,
and 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 ravines, upon
the city, but take the lamp of Gods
eternal truth, and flash it upon all the
of these cities, so that no
young man shall be deceived. By these
tests try them, try theml Oh, leave the
influences of the clubroom,
if the influences Of your clubroom are
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