The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-06-28

in their treatnent of those under them.
God only knows what some of the lads
suffer in the cellars and in the lofts
Of some Of our great establishments.
They have no one to appeal to. The
time will come when their arm will be
strong and they can defend themselves.
but not now. Alas for some of the CASH
boys and the messenger boys and the
boys that sweep the store! Alas for
some of them! Now, you capitalist, you
the head man of the firm, must look,
see those all around you, in.
vestigate all beneath you.
And then charge you not to put un-
necessary temptation in the way OF
your young men. Do not keep large
sums of money lying around unguard-
ed. Know how much money there is in
the till. Do not have the account books
loosely kept. There are temptations
inevitable to young men, and enough
of them, without your putting any un-
necessary temptations in their way.
Men in Wall street, having 30 years OF
reputation for honesty, have dropped
into Sing Sing and perdition, and you
must be careful how you try lad OF
Is. And if he do wrong do not pounce
on him like hyena. If he proves him-
self unworthy of your confidence, do
not call in the police, but take him
home. Tell why you dismissed him to
those who will give him another chance.
Many young man has done wrong
once who will never do wrong again.
All, my friends. think we can afford
to give everybody another chance when
God knows we should all have been in
perdition if He had not given us 10000
chances.
Then, if in moving around your fac
tory or mill or barn or store, You arc
inexorable with young men God will
remember it. Some day the wheel OF
fortune will turn, and you will be pau
per, and your daughter will go to the
workhouse, and your son will die on the
scaffold. If in moving among your
young men you see one with an oml-
nous pallor of cheek or you hear him
coughing behind the counter, say to
him: "Stay home day or two and
rest or go out and breathe the breath
of the hills" If his mother die, do not
demand that on the day after the fu-
neral he be in the store. Give him at
least week to get over that which he
will never get over.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
above all, religious life. So far from
that, how is it, young men? Instead OF
being cheered on the road to Heaven
some of you are caricatured, and it is .
hard thing for you to keep your Chris
tian integrity in that store or factory
where there are so many hostile to re-
Egion. Ziethen. grave general under
Frederick the Great, was Christian.
Frederick the Great was skeptic. One.
day Ziethen. the venerable, white-haired
general. asked to be excused from mill
tary duty that he might attend the
holy sacrament. He was excused. a
few days after Ziethen was dining with
the king and with many potables OF
Prussia when Frederick the Great in .
| iocose way said: "Well, Ziethen, how
did the sacrament of last Friday di-
gest?" The venerable old warrior
| arose and said: "For your majesty
have risked my life many time on the
battlefield, and for your majesty !
would be willing at any time to die;
but YOU do wrong when you insult the
Christian religion. You will forgive
me if 1, your old military servant. cam
not bear in silence any insult to my
Lord and my Saviour" Frederick the
Great leaped to his feet. and he put ont
his hand, and he said: Happy lie
then! Fo-give me, forgive mel
Oh, there are many being scoffed at
TOR their religion, and thank God there
are many men as brave as Zietheh
One summer in California gentle
man who had just removed from the
Sandwich Islands told me this inch
dent: You know that one of the Sand
wich Islands is devoted to lepers. Peo-
pie getting sick of the leprosy on the
other islands are sent to the isle Of
Ilepers. They never come of. They are
in different stages Of disease, but all
who die on that island die OF leprosy.
On one of the islands there was ply
sician who always wore his hand gloved,
and it was often discussed why he IL
ways had glove on that hand under oil
circumstances. One day he came TO the
authorities, and he withdrew his glove,
land he said to the officers OF the laws
, "You see on that hand spot OF the
!eprosy and that am doomed to die
I might hide this for little while and
: keep away from the isle OF lepers; bu'
I am physician. and can go on tha'
island and administer to the suffering
, of those who are farther gone In tn
disease. and I should like to go now
1t would be selfish in me to stay amir
the luxurious surroundings when
. might be of SO much help to th
. wretched. Send me to the isle Of lep
ers.' They. seeing the spot OF leprosy
n of course took the man into custody
: He bade farewell to his family an
4 friends. 1t was an agonizing farewell
! He could never see them again. He va
i taken to the isle of the lepers and ther
wrought among the sick until pro