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

some silks. He was binding them up
when he said to the lady customer: at
is my duty to show you that there is a
and rejected the goods. The head man
of the firm, hearing of It. wrote to the
father of the young man in the coun-
try, saying: '"Come and take your son
away. lie will never make mer-
chant" The father came in agitation.
wondering what his boy had been do
ing, and the head man Of the firm said:
why. your son stood here at this eoun-
ter and pointed out fracture in the
silk, and of course the lady wouldn't
take it. We are not responsible for the
ignorance of customers. Customers
must look out for themselves. and we
look out for ourselves. Your son will
never make merchant" "ls that all ?"
said the father. "Ah! | am prouder of
my boy than ! 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 travel
er. Tell me where he spends his even
iugs, aud will tell you where he will
spend eternity. and will tell you what
will be his worldly prospects. There is
an abundance of choice. There is your
room with the hooks. 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
theater. There is the house of infamy
Plenty Of places to 90 to. But winch.
Ommortal man. which? o God. which?
well" you say. 81 guess will guess
! will go to the theater." DO you think
the tarrying i'm that place until II
o'clock at night will improve your bod
lily health or your financial prospects
or your eternal fortune? No man ever
found the path TO usefulness or honor
or happiness or commercial success or
Heaven through the American theater.
We'll" you say, 81 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 will
make 500, you will make $500. you will
make $1,000, you will make .5OO-then
you will lose ALL Then you will Dor
row some money so as to start anew.
You will make $50. you will make $500.
you will make $600-then you will lose
all. These wretches of the gambling
saloon know how 10 tempt you. But
mark this-all gamblers die poor. They
may make fortunes-great fortunes
but they lose them.
We'll" you say, "if | can't go to the
theater, and If can't go TO the gamb-
ling saloon. then | guess guess will
go TO the house of infamy." CONNER.
cial travellers have told me that IN he
letter box at the hotel within one hour
after their arrival they have had letters
Of evil solicitation in that direction. 1t
is far away from home. Nobody will
know it. Commercial travellers have
sometimes gone in that evil path. Why
not you? Haiti There are other gates
of ruin through which man may go
and yet come out, but that gate has
spring lock which snaps him n forever.
He who goes there is damned already.
He may seem TO be comparatively
free for little while. but be is only on
the limits, and the satanic 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 it there are men whose
heaven was blotted out ten years ago
There is no danger that they be lost.
They are lost now. | look through their
glaring eyeballs down into the lowest
g I -.
why contest thou in here to-day? Dost
think have the power to break open
the barred gateway of the penitentiary
of the damned? There is passage in
Proverbs | somewhat hesitate to read,
but l do not hesitate long. AT the
window of my house looked through
my easement and beheld among the
simple ones, ! discerned among the
youths. young man void of under
standing, passing through the street
near her corner, and he went the way
to her house, in the twilight, in the
evening, in the black and dark night.
He goeth after her straightway, as an
OK goeth to the slaughter, or as fool
TO the correction of the stocks, till a
N'A' SN' 'NNS WI OhB
But now the question is still open,
Where will you spend your evening?
Oh, commercial travellers, how much
will you give me to put you on the right
track? Without charging you farth-
ing | will prescribe for you plan which
will save you for this world and the
next If you will take il. Go before you
leave home to the Young Mems Chris
tian association of the city where you
live. Get from them letters of intro
duction, Carry them out to the towns
and cities where you go. If there be no
association in the place you visit, then
present them al the door of Christian
churches and hand them over to the
pastors. BE not slow TO arise in the
devotional meeting and say: II am a
commercial traveller. | am far away
from home, and come in here tonight
10 seek Christian society" The best
houses and the highest style of amuse-
ment win open before you, and instead
OF your being dependent upon the