Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-02-20

my care. He said he had left home, and
he never meant to go back again. 1 got
into the carriage with him and rode with
him until after midnight, trying to
persuade him to go home I have been
scores of times to Greenwood. following
the dead, but that was the most doleful
ride I ever took. After Nidnight per-
suaded him to go home. We alighted
at his door. We walked through his
beautiful hall, his wife and daughter
standing back affrighted at his appear
ance. I took him to his room. I'M
dressed him. put him to bed. Where
is that home now? All broken up.
Where are the wife and the daughter?
Gone into the desolations of widowhood
and orphanage. Where is the man him
self? Dead by the violence of his own
hand.
Do Not Ruin Your Soul.
o commercial traveller, though your
firm may give you the largest salary of
any man in your line, though they
might give you 10 per cent of all you
sell, or 20 per cent or so per cent or SO
per cent they cannot pay enough to
make it worth your while to ruin your
soull Besides that a commercial house
never compensates a man who has been
morally ruined in their employ. A
young man in Philadelphia was turned
out from his employ because of inebria-
tion got in the service of the mer-
chant who employed him, and here is
the letter he wrote to his employer:
'Sir-I came into your service I'M
corrupt in principles and in morals, but
the rules of your house required me to
spend my evenings at places of public
entertainment and amusement in search
of customers. To accomplish my work
in your service I was obliged to drink
with them and join them in their pur-
suits of pleasure. 1t was not my choice,
but the rule of the house I went with
them to the theater and the billiard la
BILE, but it was not my choice. I did not
wish to co. went in your service. 1t
was not my pleasure so to do, but was
the conductor and companion of the
simple ones, void alike of understand
ing and of principle, in their sinful
pleasures and deeds of deeper darkness
that I might retain them as your GUS
toners. Your interest required it. I
have added thousands of dollars to the
profits Of your trade, but at what ex-
pense you now see, and I know too we'll
You have become wealthy, but I am
poor indeed, and now this cruel dis
missal from your employ is the recon-
pense I receive for a character ruined
and prospects blasted in helping to
make you a rich MANI Alas for the
man who gets such letter as thatl
Again, l charge you, tell the whole
truth about anything you SELL Lying
commercial 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. 1t is an aw-
full bargain that man makes when he
sells his goods and his soul at the same
time. A young man in one of the stores
of New York was selling some silks He
was binding them up when he said to
the lady customer, sit is my duty to
show you that there is a fracture in
that silk" She looked at it and rejected
the goods. The head of the firm, hear
ing of it, wrote to the father of the
young man in the country, saying:
"Come and take your son away He
will never make a merchant. The ia
ther came in agitation, wondering what
his boy had been doing, and the head
men of the firm said: ''Why, your son
stood here at this counter and pointed
out fracture in the silk, and of course
the lady wouldn't take it. We are not
responsible for the ignorance of Gus
toners. Customers must look out for
themselves, and we look out for our
selves. Your son will never make mer-
u. ST. L al 4 L
"Ahl I am prouder of my boy that I
ever was. John, get your hat and come
home.
But it is almost night, and you go
back to the hotel. Now comes the
mighty tug for the commercial traveller
Tell me where he spends his evenings,
and I will tell you where he will spend
eternity, and I will tell you what will
be his worldly prospects. There is an
abundance of choice. There is your
room with the books. There are the
Young Mems Christian association
rooms. There are the week night serv-
ices of the Christian churches There is
the gambling saloon. There is the thea
ter. There is the house of infamy.
Plenty of places to go to. But which,
o immortal man, which? o God, which2 |
"Well, you say, 81 guess I will
guess will go to the theater. Do you
think the tarrying in that place until
II o'clock at night will improve your
bodily health, or your financial pros
poets, or your eternal fortune? No man
ever found the path to usefulness, or
honor, or happiness, or commercial sue
cess, or heaven, through the American |
theater. ''Wel, you say, ST guess,
then, will go to- guess will go to |
the gambling saloon" You will first go |
to look. Then you will go to play. You