Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-04

full. comes Ga this category. Where one
good. honest. heathfai book Is rad now.
there l. a hundred made up Of rhetorical
trash consumed with ayidity.
Corrupt literature D. doing more to-day
for the disruption 30 domestic life than any
other cause ElOpemeut-. marital In
trigues, sly correspondence, fictitious
names given az pu-ioiirr windows. clan
destine meeiinr= IN parks, and at ferry
gates aud In hotel parlorS, aud coniugal
periuries are among the ruinuus results.
When woman. Young or old, gets her
head thoroughly stuffed with the modern
novel she is in appalling peril. There Is
wealth of good books coming forth from
our publishing houses that leave no excuse
for the choice Of that which Is dehauching
TO body, mind and soul. Go to some intel
ligent man or woman and ask for list OF
books that will bee strengthening TO your
mental and moral condition. Life Is so
short and your time for improvement 50
abbreviated that you cannot afford TO NIL
up with husks, and cinders and debris.
stimulating liquids also come into the
category Of temptation delicious but death
full. You say. Il cannot hear the taste OF
intoxicating liquor, and how any man can
like IL is to me an amBZement.' Well,
then, IL is no credit to YOU that You do not
take it. Do not hrag about your total alb
stinence, because il is not from any princi-
pie that you reject alcoholism, but Tor the
reason that you reject certain styles OF
food-you simply don't like the taste Of
them. But multtudes Of people have
natural fondness for all kinds of intoNi-
cants. They like 1t so much that it makes
them smack their lips to look at it. They
are dyspeptic and they like to aid diges-
ton; or they are annoyed by insomnia,
aud they take it to produce sleep; or they
are troubled, and they take il to make
them oblivious or they feel happy, and
they must celebrate their hilarity. They
| begin with mint julep sucked through two
straws in the Long Branch piazza and end
! in the ditch, taking from "a jug liquid
/ half kerosene and half whisky.
One would suppose that men would take
! warning from some of the Ominous names
| given to intoXicants, and stand of from
the devastating influence. You have
| noticed, for instance. that some OF the res
/ taurants are called THE Shades typical
| Of the fact that it puts IA mans reputation
in the shade, and his morals in the shade,
and his prosperity in the shade, and his
/ wife and children in the shade, and his i'm
mortal destiny in the shade. Now, | find
| on some of the liquor signs in all our cities
/ the words "Old Crow, nightly suggestive
| of the carcass and the filthy raven that
swoops upon it. Men and women without
number slain of rum, but unbured, and
/ this evil is pecking at their glazed eyes,
]
pecking at their destroyed manhood aud
womanhOod, thrusting beak and claw into
! the mortal remains Of what once was glori.
! Ously alive, but now morally dead. "Old
| Crow" But alas! how many takeuo warn
! ing. Remember Jonathan and the forbid
den honey in the woods at Bethavcn.
Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence
! must be pat in the list OF temptations de-
! liciuUs hut destructive. You who have
crossed the ocean many times have noticed
that always one of the best rooms has, from
morning Until late at night been given up
to gambling practices. | heard of men
who went on board with enough for an
European excursion who landed without
money to get their baggage up to the hotel
or railroad station.
state Legislatures have again and again
sanctioned the mighty evil by passing
laws in defense of race tracks, and many
young men have lost all their wages at such
sO-called meetings" Every man who
voted for such infamous bills has on his
hands and forehead the blood of these
souls
Stock-gambling comes into the same cat
alogue. 1t must be very eXhilarating to go
into the stock market and, depOsting a
small sum Of money, run the chance OF TAX
ing out a fortune. Many men are doing an
honest and safe business in the stock mar
ket, and you are an ignoramus If You do
not know that it is Just as Legitimate to deal
in stocks as it is to deal in coffee, or sugar
or flour. But nearly all the outsiders who
so there on financial excursion lose
all. The old spiders eat up the unsus-
pectng flies. | had friend who put his
hand on his hip-pOckct and said in sub
stance: Il have there the value Of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars" His
home is to-day penniless What was the
matter? Stock-gambling. Gambling is
gambling, whether is stocks or bread.
stutfs, or dice, or race horse betting.
Exhilaration at the start, but raviug
BRAIN and shattered nervous system, and
"A sacrificed property, and a destroyed soul
ut the last. Young men, buy no lottery
tickets, purchase no prtZe-p packages, bet
on no baseball games or yacht racing
have no faith in luck answer no mysterious
circulars, proposing great income rsmall
investments, drive away the buZzards that
hover around our hotels trying to entrap
strangers. Go out and make an honest
living. Have God on your side, and be a
candidate for heaven. Remember all the
paths of sin are banked with flowers at the
start, and there are plenty of helpful hands
to fetch the gay charger to your door and
hold the stirrup while you mount. But
further on the horse piunges to the bit IN
Il slough ineXtricable.
The best honey is not like that which
Jonathan took on the end of the rod and
brought to his lips, but that which God
puts on the hanQucting table of mercy ut
which we are all invited to sit. When u
man may sit at the Kings banquet, why
will he 90 down the steps and contend for
therefuse and bones of hounds kennels
"Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb, "
says David, is the truth of God. with
honey out OF the rock would | have salts.
fed thee" says God to the recreant. Here
is honey gathered from the blossoms OF
trees of life, and with rod made out Of
the wood of the Cross l dip it up for all
your souls.