Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-23

brother. a great many people are not
Christians who carry a Bible. Resides
that. before ycu get home you might
become Christian, and YOU would irrl
awkward withou; a copy. Besides that.
YOU might get bad news from home. !
zee YOU with trembling hand opening
the Telegram. SAYING: George j.
ding" or Fannie i dead: come
home" Oh a. YOU sit in the train.
stunned with the calamity. going home.
YOU will ha,, no taste for fine scenery.
or for conversation. and yet YOU must
keep Your thoughts employed or YOU
will 20 stark mad. Then YOU will want
a Bible whether YOU read il or not. II
will he a comfort Ia have il near you
that book full of promises which have
romfortcd other people in like calamity.
Whether YOU study the promises or not
You will want that Book near YOU. Am
not Wise when | say put in the Bible:
Now. You are all ready to start. Won
| have Your valisc in ;he 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 l. one
thing | forgot To ask YOU about what
train are YOU going to take? We'll"
| YOU say. Il will take the five O'Clock
| sunday afternoon train" Why" ''Oh, 3"
| YOU say. Il shall save Il day by that, and
on Monday morning will he in the dis
tant city in the commercial establish
mcnt by the time the merchants come
| down" My brother. you are starting
wrong. lfyou clip off something from
the Lords day, the Lord will clip of
something from your lifetime sue
ces>es. Sabbath breaking pays no better
for this world than it pays for the next.
Young man. the dollar that you earn
| on the Sabbath is a red-hot dollar. and
il you put il into a bag with 5000 hon
est dollars that red-hot dollar will burn
a hole through the bottom of the bag
and let out all the 5000 honest dollars
/ with il.
But ! see YOU change your mind. and
you are going on Monday morning, and
see YOU take the train--Pennsylvania
or the baltimore a Ohio. or the Hudson
River. or he Erie. or the Harlem, or the
New Haven train. For few weeks
now you will pass half of your time in
the rail train. How are you going to
occupy the time? Open the valise and
take out a book and begin to read.
Magnificent opportunities have our
commercial travellers for gaining infor-
nation above all other clerks or mer-
chants. The best place in the world
10 study is a rail train. know il by rN-
perience. DO not do as some CONNER
cial travellers do--as many of them do
az most of them do-sit reading the
same newspaper over and over again
and all the advertisements through and
through. then sit for two or three
hours calculating the profits they eN,
pect TO make, then spending two oI
three hours looking listlessly out of the
window. then spending three or fouI
hours in the smoking ear. the nasties'
place in Christerdom, talking with mer
who do not know as much a. You do
Instead of that. call William Shake
speare, the dramatist, and John Rus
kin. the dramatist. and Tennyson. tn,
poet, and Bancroft and Macaulay. tn,
historians. and Ezekiel and Paul, tn,
inspired men of God. and ask them to
sit with you and talk with you. as the,
f6d w,eH aodfa bI Ae " my nay S sAI-
ness of commercial travelling. dom
Ill it," My brother. why don't YOU
read yourself out? Give me a young
Elan of ordinary intellect and good eye
sight. and let him devote TO valuabl,
reading the time not actually occupied
in commercial errand. and in six year,
he will be qualified for any position fol
which he is ambitious.
| BE ashamed to sell foreign fabrics oil
fruits unless you know something
about the looms that wove them or thu
vineyards that grew them. Understand
all about the laws that control com
mercial life. about banking. abou
tariffs about markets. about naviga
ton. about foreign people-their char
acteristics and their political revolu
tons as they affect ours; about tn,
haryests of Russia, the. vineyards o
Italy. the teafields of. China. Lear
about the great commercial centers ot
Carthage and Assyria and Phoenicia
Read all about the Medicl of Florence
mighty in trade. mightier in philan
thropies. You belong to the roya
family of merchants. BE worthy o
that royal family. Oh, take my advic,
and turn the years of WEAKNESS int
years of luxury. Take those hours YOU
spend AT the depot waiting for the de
layed train and make them Pisgaf
heights from which YOU can view tn,
promised land. When you are waiting
for the train hour after hour in tn,
depot, do not spend your time reading
the sewing machine advertisement:
and looking up the time tables of route:
you will never take. going the twenti
eth time TO the door TO see whether h.
train is coming, bothering the ticke
agent and telegraph operator with ques
tions which on ask merely because yo,
want to pass away the time. But rather
summon up the great essayists an,
philosophers and story tellers an,
thinkers of the ages and have them en-
terrain you.
But YOU have come now near the enc
of your railroad travel. ! can tell b.,
the motion of the car that they ar,
pulling the patent brakes down. The
engineer rings the bell at the crossing
The train stops. "All out" cries The
conductor. You dismount from tbs
train. You reach the hotel. The land
lord is glad to see you-very glad! HI
stretches out his hand across the reg
istry book with ell the disinterestet
warmth of brother! You are assigned
an apartment. In that uninyitins
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
a great elevation in the center covered
with advertisements. while there ART
inkstands sunken in the bed of the
table, and scattered all around rust !,
steel pens and patches of blotting pa
! nf courSa Won will mot stay ba