The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-01-26
BENTON. LOUISIANA, THURSDAY JANUARY 26 1s99

cabinet officer read it to Mr.. Lincoin
and asked him how he liked it. Mr..
Lincoln replied: ut is splendid for
sarcasm and scorn. never heard any
thing more complete in that direction
But do you think you can afford 10
send it?" That calm and wise and
Christian Interrogation of the presi-
dent stopped the letter, and it was
never sent. Young man, before you
get far on in life, unless you are an
exception among men, you will be
wronged, you will be misinterpreted,
you will be outraged. All your sen"e
of justice will be in confagration. Let
me know how you meet that first great
offense, and I will tell you whether
your life will be triumph or fail
ure. You see, equipoise at such time
means so many things. It means sell
controlA, 1t means a capacity to fore.
see results. 1t means confidence q
your own integrity. It means a faith
in the Lord God that He will see you
through.
Again, if you would be master of the
situation put the best Interpretation
on the character and behavior OF
others. Do not be looking for hypo-
critics in churches, or thieving among
domestic servants, Or swindlers among
business men, or malfeasance in office
There is much in life to make men sus.
plcious of others, and when that char.
acteristic of suspicion becomes domi-
nant man has secured his own unliap-
| piness, and he has become an offe nse in
all circles, religious, commercial and
political. The man who moves for a
committee of investigation is generally
moral derelict. The man who goes
with his nostrils inflated, trying to dis
cover something malodorous, is not 9
man, but sleuthhound. The world is
full of nice people, generous people
people who are doing their best-good
husbands. good wives, good fathers,
good mothers, good officers of the law
good Judges, good governors, good state
and national legislators, good rulers
Does some man growl out: THAT has
not been my experience, and / think
just the opposite?" Well, my brother
am sorry for your affective circum-
stances, and that you had an unfortun-
ate ancestry, and that you have kept
such bad company and had such dis
couraging environment. I notice that
after man has been making violent
TRADE against his fellow men he is on
|
enough he will be asking you for a
quarter of dollar to get drink or a
nights lodging. Behave yourself we'll
o young man, and you will find life a
pleasant thing to live, and the world
full CT friends. and Gods benediction
everywhere about you.
Again, if you would be master of tine
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 $50, ,0OO. 900 a day
this remark may be useful. There
come times in many man's'life when
he hopes to get something for which
he does not give an equivalent, and
there are so kinds of gambling. Stand
aloof from all of them.
| Understand that the gambling spirit
is a disease, and the more successful
you are the more certain you are
to go 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
DIR. Keeley's gold cure rescues the
drunkard. and there are anti-tobaccc
| preparations that will arrest the vic.
tim of nicotine, and religion can save
| anyone except i 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 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
The real gambler is through passen-
ger to death and perdition. The only
use in referring to him is in the way OF
prevention. He began by taking
chances on a bookcase or sewing ma
chine ct church fair and ended by get.
ting few pennies for his last valuable
in a pawnbroker's shop. The only man
who CANDLES successfully is the man
who loses SO fearfuHy at the start that
he is disgusted and quits. Let him win
at the start and wia again, and it means
farewell to home and Heaven. Most
merciless of all habits!
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