The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-12-23
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not been my experience, and think
just the opposite?" Well, my brother.
| | am sorry for your aff1ictive circum-
stances. and that you had an unfortun-
ate ancestry, and that you have kept
such bad company and had such dis
| couraging environment. / notice that
| after man has been making n violent
TRADE against his fellow men he is on
| his way down, and if he live long
enough he will be asking you for
quarter of dollar to get drink or a
nights lodging. Behave yourself we'll,
| o young man, and you will find life
pleasant thing to live, and the world
| full Cf friends, and Gods benediction
| everywhere about you.
Again. if YOU would be master of the
situation, expect nothing from good
! luck or haphazard or gaming adven-
| lures. In this time, when it is estimat-
ed that gambling exchanges money to
| the amount of about $S0.000,000 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
aIoof from all of them.
Understand that the gambling spirit
| is disease, and the more successful
YOU are the more certain you are
to 60 right on to your own ruin.
Having made his thousands, why does
not the gambler stop and make 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 rescues the
drunkard and there are anti-tobacco
preparations that will arrest the VIC
tim of nicotine. and religion can save
anyone except gambler. The fast IS
he is irresponsible. Having got the
habit in him, he is no more responsible
for keeping on than a man falling from
the roof of four-story house can stop
at the window of the second story.
Here and there you may find an in
stance where a gambler has been re-
ported or reports himself as being con-
verted. but in that case the man was
not fully under the heel Of the passion.
Horace Walpole says that a man
dropped down at the door of club
house in London and was carried in.
and the gamblers began to bet whether
he was dead or not, and when it was,
proposed to bleed him for his recovery
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
l. hot of "a
have prizes in social groups which are
nothing but the stakes of gambling.
A good way for lady to get into the
gamester's habit is by beginning with
progressive euchre." That opens the
door in fashionable way. In one of
our great cities invitations were sent
out for such a meeting at the card ta-
bles. The guests entered, and sat down
and began. After awhile the excite
ment 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 30 min
utes longer, and then a physician was
called. After exapination of the case
il was found that the lady had been
dead 20 minutes. As the guests lift
their hands in surprise | eXclaim in
regard to them: What delicate and re-
fined and angelic womanhood!
Again, if you would be master Of the
situation, never adjourn until to-mor-
row what you can do to-day. The diff
ference between happy and inspiring
work and wearying and exhausting and
dispiriting work is the difference be-
tween work behind you and work be-
fore you. But always wait until you
feel like it, wait until circumstances
are more propitious, wait till next week
or wait till next year, and the proba- ;,
bility is the work will be only half done
or never done at all. Postponenent is
the curse of a vast population. After
awhile all the things that ought to
have been done previously will rush in
upon you, and. it being too much for
your brain and nerves, you will be fit
subject for paralysis or nervous pros
tration. How many battles have been
lost because the general did not strike
quick enough. and the enemy had full
time TO gather reinforcement! You
intend some time to write that impor-
tant letter. You intend some time to
make that business call. You intend
some time 10 finish that book. You in
tend some time to preach that sermon.
Where is some time? What is some
time? Does it walk or does it float
about you? Will it happen to come?
No! Some time is never. There are
no stragglers in the days ard months
and years. If one day should refuse to
keep step and become a straggler, it
would wreck the universe. Prompt
ness! Up to time! To-day! Now.
You will get only what you win.
Again, if you would be master of the
situation, and ! name it last because it
is the most important, for you know
that which is last mentioned is apt to be
best remembered, ] charge you get into
your heart and life, your conversation
and your manners, your body, mind
and soul. the near 6,OOO-yea--old re-
ligion of the Bible. Why so? Because
the large majority of people quit this
life before 25 years of age, and the pos
sibility is that if you do not take pos
session of this religion. and religion
does not take possession of you while
you are young. you will never come
into alliance. Mrs. Mckinley, the
mother of our president. said to me at
the white house: II am living on bor-
rowed time. for am over so years of
age." My reply to her was the reply
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