Connecticut western news., 1898-12-22

irresponsible. Having got the habit ln 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 gambler is through passenger to death and perdition. The only use in refer ring to him is in the way of proven tion. He began by taking chances on a bookcase or a sewing machine at church fair and ended by getting few pennies for his last valuable in pawn broker's 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 meroi- less of all habitsi Horace Walpole says that a 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 gamblers. 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's 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- tion of the case it was found that the lady had been dead 90 minutes. As the guests lift their hands in surprise ex- claim in regard to them, What delicate and refined and angelic womanhoodi
 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 wearying and exhausting and dispirit- ing work is the difference between work behind you and work before 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 probability is the work will be only half done or never done at all Postponement is the curse of 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 prostration. How many battles have been lost because the general did not strike quick enough and the enemy had full time to gather re-enforoement You intend some time to write that inn portant letter. You intend some time to make that business call. You intend some time to 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 strag- glers In the days and months and years. If one day should refuse to keep step and become a straggler, it would wreck the universe. Promptnessi Up to timei Todayl Nowl You will get only what you win. There are accidents, like the printers mistake, which caused Louis Napoleon to be called Napoleon III. D A Parisian editor at the time that Louis Napoleon by base strategy turned the republic into monarchy wrote in de- rision the word Napoleon, followed by three exclamation points. These ex- rlamation points the printer mistook for the letter "I" three times written, and hence he was called Napoleon IT," But promotions by accident are not to be de- pended on. Depend on getting nothing except that which under God by your own industry and good sense you achieve.
 That was a good maxim of olden time, "Get thy spindle and distaff ready, and God will send thee flax. D Especially do our young men need to get ready, as within the past few months the world has unfolded before them opportunities such as we never dreamed would come so soon. Putting aside the political question as to what ought to be done with Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, the whole world, for the first time, is open, and the ques. tion now is, what our young men will do with the world. China, the richest of all lands for metals and, with 500,- 900, 900 of people, is made our neigh bor, and the commerce of the United States is to be quadrupled in the life of the present generation, and what advan- tages commerce advantages mechanism and art and literature and the profes- sions. The American blow, the Ameri- can hammer, the American pen, the American printing press, the American bargain counter, are soon to have their opportunity in every island of the sea and every continent. Young menl You need to be wiser, braver, better men than we have ever been to meet the crisis.
 Live According to the Word.
 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, I charge you get .- tion and your manners, your body, mind and soul, the near 6, ,000-year-old reli- zion of the Bible. Why go? Because the large majority of people quit this life before 25 years of age. and the possibil-