The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-24

gaze OF WOndertul prosperity. Let the
manufacturers put the bands on
their wheels and the merchants open a
new set of account books in place of
those filed with long columns of bad
debts. Let us start on new CONNER
cial campaign. Let us drop the old tune
of Naomi. and take up Ariel" or AN
tioch."
Now YOU the commercials traveller.
| have received orders from the head men
OF the firm that you are to start on u
long excursions. You have your pat
terms all assorted aud prepared. You
have them put up in bundles or cases
and marked You have full nstruc-
lions MS TO prices. You know on what
prices you may retreat somewhat. You
have YOUR valise or trunk. or both
packed II were stranger would
have no right to took into that valise.
but as | am your brother | will take
The liberty look into the valise, and /
congratulate you on all these com
Portable articles OF apparel The sea-
sons are so chungeabe you have not
taken u single precautiou too many.
some night YOU Will get out in the snow
bank and have to walk three or four
miles until you get to the railroad sta
ton. and you Will want all these com
forts and 'couveniences. But will you
rNcuse,me if make Il suggestion or two
about his valise? You say: Certain
lN: as we are having Il plain frank talk
will not be offended at any honorable
suggestion"
Put in among your baggage some
carelully-selec wholesome reading.
Let it be history. or poem. or book
of pure fiction. or some volume that will
give you information in regard to your
| line of business. Then add to hat "A
Bible in round. beautiful type--small
type is bad for the eyes anywhere. but
peculiarly killing in the jolt of rail
train Put your railroad guide and
your Bible side by side-the one to show
you the route through this world and
the other TO show you the route to the
next world oh" you say. that is SUI
pertluuus. for now in all the hotels. in
The purlor. you will find Bible and in
nearly all the rooms OF the guests
YOU will find one!" But my brother,
that is not your Bible. You want your
own hat. your own coat. your own blan-
ket. your own Bible. But" you say.
II am not a Christian. and you ought
not TO expect me TO carry n Bible" My
brother. great many people are not
| Christians who carry Bible. Besides
that. before you get home you might
become Christian. and you would teel
| n 1 nd
you might get bad news from home.
see you with trembling hand opening
the telegram, saying: George is
dying" or Fannie is dead; come
home!" Oh, as you sit in the train.
stunned with the calamity, going home,
you will have no taste for fine scenery,
or for conversation. and yet you must
keep your thoughts employed or you
will go stark mad. Then you will want
Bible whether you read it or not. 1t
will be comfort to have il near you
that book full of promises which have
oomforted other people in like calamity.
| Whether you study the promises or not
you will want that Book near you. Am
l not wise when ! say put in the Bible?
Now, you are all ready TO start. You
have your valise in the right hand and
you have your blanket and shawl strap
in the left hand. Good-by! May you
have a prosperous journey. large sales,
| great percentages. Oh, there is one
thing ! forgot to ask you about-what
train are you going to take? Well"
you say, 81 will take the five O'Clock
| Sunday afternoon train" Why? oh"
| you say. 81 shall save day by that. and
on Monday morning will be in the dis
tant city in the commercial establish
ment by the time the merchants come
down." My brother, you are starting
wrong. If you clip off something from
the Lords day, the Lord will clip off
something from your lifetime sue
cesses. Sabbath breaking pays no better
for this world than il pays for the next.
Young man, the dollar that you earn
on the Sabbath is red-hot dollar. and
if you put it into bag with 5000 hon
est dollars that redhot dollar will burn
hole through the bottom of the bag
and let out all the 5000 honest dollars
with it.
But you have come now near the end
of your railroad travel. ] can tell by
the motion of the car that they are
pulling the patent brakes down. The
engineer rings the bell at the crossing.
The train stops. IAN out!" cries the
conductor. You dismount from the
train. You reach the hotel The land
lord is glad TO see y0u-very gladl He
stretches out his hand across the reg
istry book with all the dsinterested
warmth of "A brother! You are assigned
an apartment, In that uninviting
apartment you stay only long enough
TO make yourself presentable. You
descend then into the reading-room,
and there you find the commercial trav-
elers sitting around long table with
great elevation in the center covered
with advertisements, while there are
inkstands sunken in the bed of the
table, and scattered all around rusty
steel pens and patches of blotting pa
per. OF course you will not stay there.