Orange County observer., 1899-03-09

who gets such letter as tnat!
Again, l charge you tell the whole truth
about ANYTHING you sell. Lying CONNER
cial travellers will precede you. Lying
Commercial travellers will come right after
you into the same store. Do not let their
unfair competition tempt you from the
straight line. l. is al awful bargain thai
a man makes when he sells his goods aud
his soul at the same time. A young man in
one o, the stores of Eew York was selling
! some silks He was binding then! up when
| he said to the lady customer. 1T IS NY
| duty 70 show you, that there IS q fracture
/ III that enk' She looked AZ it and rejected
the goods. Tie head ofths firm. bearing
/ of X. wrote 10 the father q the young ran
! in tie country, SAYING: Come and take
! vour son away. He will never make a
/ merchant. The father caIe n agitation.
| wondering what bis boy had been doing,
/ and the head men % the firm said: Why.
/ YOUR son stood here AZ this counter and
/ ,5otited out {. fracture III the SILK. and OF
+ course the !ady wouldn't buy Il. We are
i not Responsible for tie ignorance # Gus
+ toners. Customers must look Tor them
-r!ve- Your son viii never MAKE a Iner-
+ chant Il. that GI.1' said the father.
An. nm prouaer d ny boy that | ever
va. John Get Your hal ana come home
Klt.c 4 almost niShf, and you 50 back
+ t. the hotel Now comes the mighty tag
Tor the commercial traveller. Tell ne where
Lc spends iii, evenlA1s, and will tell you
! -rLrrt H. will pend eternity and | wiliteu
you what viii ts 5 worldly prospects.
ere a. an Abundance o. choice There IS
your room with tie looks. There are tAe
Young Ien'- Christian Aseo cation rooms
There are tne Wt@& night services Of the
Christian churches. There is the Ssnb-
ling saloon. there is TIE theatre. Ihers
IS the L1u-e 0I lA.amy. Plenty Of places
10 20 TO- But which. Q immortal man,
which? o God, whichs Well, You say.
= guess / Will guess | will g to the
- -i,,f, in,
that place until II o'clock At niga, will i'm
YrJye your 30 lily health, or your financial
prospects, or your eternal fortunes? No
man ever found the path to usefulness, or
honor, or happiness, Or commercial sue
cess, or 1eayen through the American the
atre. 'WeH, You say Il guess. then, |
VIII 20 to-I guess Will 80 to the gambl-
iuc saloon" You Will nrst go 70 look.
Then you will coto play. You will make
800 you will mike 800, you will make
1000 you will MAKE $500 Then you will
lose all Then you will borrow some
so YOU will make >iGO,s YOU will MAKE
$500. Then you Will lose all. These
wretches Of the gambling saloon know how
/ tempt you. But mar, this: All gamblers
die poor They may make fortunes
great fortuncs-but they lose them.
"WeH, you say, If l can't so to the
theatre, and II can't 90 to the gambling
saloon, then | guess-I guess | will go to
the house OF infany. Commercial trav
elers have told me that III the letter box at
the hotel, within one hour after their ar
rival. they have Lad letters OF evil soicta-
tion III that direction. It is far away from
: home. Nobody Will know it. Commercial
travellers have sometimes gone in that evil
path Why not you. Halt. There are
other gates OF ruin through which a
man may 50 and yet come, out, but
that gate has a spring lock which snaps
, him in forever. He who goes there is
damned already. lie may seem to be
: comparatively tree Tor little while, but
. he is only on the limits, and the sa-
tanc police have their eyes upon him to
, bring him in at any moment. The hot
curse of God is on that crime, and because
Of 1t there are men whose heaven was
blOtteI out ten years ago. There is no
f, danger that they be lost; they are lost now
. | look through their glaring eyeballs down
into tho lowest cavern of hell. o destroyed
spirit, why comest thou In here to-day?
. ID ost think [ have the power to break open
: the barred gateway of the penitentiary
: OF the damned2 There is q passage in
:, Proverbs l somewhat hesitate to read
but do not hesitate long: 'At the win
!, dow OF my house | looked through NV
4 ones, I discerned among the youths, a
y young man, void Of understanding, pass
. Ing through tho street near her corner
: and he went the way to her house in the
twilight, il the evening, in the black and
= dark night. Ho coeth after her straight
I way, as an OK goeth to the slaughter or as
. fool to the correction Of the stocks, till
~ dart strikes Through his liver.
- But now the question is still open
+. Where will you spend your evening? G
= commercial travellers, how much will yor
give me to put you on the right track
i Without charging You a farthing 1 vii
= prescribe for you Il plan which will saw
a you for this world and the next, if you vii
a take It. Go, before you leave home to tn
+, Young Mems Christian Association Of tn
II city where you live. Get from them letter
=. Of Introduction. Carry then. out to th
. towns and cities where you go. II there b
II no such association in the place you visit
,s then present them at the door Of Chrs
- tian churche, and hand them over t
IN the pastors. Be not slow to arise in tn
-. devotional meeting and say: am q com
ii merclal Traveller. l am far away irO1
home. and | come in here tonight 70 see
- Christian society," The best houses en-
n, highest style OF amusement will open bt
- fore YOU and instead of your beng de
H.. pendent upon tho leprous crew who han
u. around the hotels, wanting TO show you a
: the slurs Of the city. on the one conditio
that YOU will pay their expenses, You wi
al get tGe benetlction Of God in every tow
Ie yoa visit. Remember this. .tha- whatcve
IL place youvislt bad .lntiu ences VII. seek yo
IL. OAt. GOOD Influences You must sack on
~ While | stand here / bethini1 rlvs4!t Of
Ii. eoiam"re!ai traveller who was a member
Ia ms church III Philadelphia. He was
- splendid young man. the pride ot his wiz
n. owed mother and Of his sisters It was h
IN joy - support them. and TOR that purpo>
~ he postponed his own marriage t.av II
thrivei in business, and after awhi
5f ~"r ~ his own LOaseAo!d. Leaving tAi
= '.tE Tor another city, had no oppo
-. ;slaity far three or fpnr years q makir
inquiry II regard % Linn. When l ,aao