The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-30
wanted any of It since" That father


1t is 12 o'clock, it is half-past 12 o'clock,
the hallway. The father says: my
son, what does all this mean? / gave
you every opportunity. gave you all
the money you wanted, and here in my
old days 1 find that you have become
a spendthrift, libertine and sot."
The son says: "Now. father, what is
the use of your talking that way? You
told me to go it, and ! just took your
suggestion" And so to strike the me-
dunn between severity and too great
leniency, to strike the happy medium
between the two and to train our chill
dren for God and for Heaven is the
anxiety of every intelligent parent.
Some go to work and try to correct
all this, and the boy is picked az and
picked at and picked at. That always
is ruinous. There is more help i'm one
good thunderstorm than in five days of
cold drizzle. Better the old-fashoned
style of chastisement if that be neces-
sary than the fretting and the scolding
which have destroyed so many.
There is also cause of great solicit
tude sometimes because our young pee
pie are surrounded by so many temp
tations. A castle may not be taken by a
ightforward siege, but suppose
there be inside the castle an enemy, and
in the night he shoves back the bolt
and swings open the door. Our young
folks have foes without, and they have
foes within Who does not understand
it? Who il the man here who is not
aware of the fact that the young peo-
pie o., this day have tremendous tempta-
tions9
Some man will come to the young
people and try to persuade them that
purity and honesty and uprightness
are sign of weakness. Some man will
take dramatic attitude, and he will
talk to the yousg man. and he will say:
you must break away from your
mothers apron strings. You must get
out of that puritanical straight jacket.
II is time you were your own master.
You are vcrdant. You are green. You
are unsophisticated. Come with me;
I'll show you the world. I'll show you
life. Come with me. You need to see
the world. 1t won't hurt you" After
awhile the young man says: "Well,
] can't afford to be odd. | can't afford
to be peculiar. / can't afford to sacri-
flee all my friends. I'll just go and see
for myself" Farewell to innocence,
which once gone never fully comes
back. Do not be under the delusion
that because you repent of sin you get
rid forever of its consequences. l say
farewell to innocence, which once gone
never fully comes back.
Oh, how many traps set for the
young! Styles of temptation just suit
ed to them. Do you suppose that n man
who went clear to the depths of dissi-
patton went down in one great plunge?
Oh, no! At first it was fashionable
hotel. Marble floor. No unclean pic
| lures behind the counter. No drunken
/ hiccough while they drink, but the click
of cut glass to the elegant sentiment.
| You ask that young man now to go into
some low restaurant and get drink,
| and he would say: do you mean TO
| insult NEE" But the fashionable and
| the elegant hotel is not always close by,
and now the young man is on the down
grade. Further and further down, I'M
/ I'll he has about struck the bottom of
/ the depths Of ruin. Now he is in the
| low restaurant. The cards so greasy
/ you can hardly tell who has the best
/ hand. Gambling for drinks. Shuttle
away, shuttle away, The landlord
stands in his shirt sleeves, with his
hands on his hips, waiting for an order
to fill up the glasses.
The clock strikes l2-thc tolling OF
the funeral bell of Il soul. The breath
of eternal woe Pushes in that young
mans checks. In the Jets of the gas,
light the fiery tongue of the worm that
never dies. Two O'Clock in the morn,
ing, and now they are sound asleep IL
their chairs. Landlord comes around
and says: "Wake up, wake up! Time
to shut up!" "What?" says the young
man. thine to shut up?" Push then
all out into the night air. Now they are
going home. Going home! Let tn,
wife crouch in the corner and the chill
dren hide under the bed. What wa,
the history of that young man? lie be
gan his designations in the barroom o
u Fifth avenue hotel and completed hi!
damnation in The lowest grogshop.
Sometimes sin does not halt in tina
way. Sometimes sin even comes to tn,
drawing-room. There are leprou
hearts sometimes admitted in the high
est circles of society. He is so elegant
he is so bewitching in his manner, he il
so refined, he is so educated, no one sus
poets the sinful design, but after awhile
the talons of death come forth. VIVA
is the matter with that house? Tn
front windows have not been opene,
for six months or year. A shadow ha
come down on that domestic hearth,
shadow thicker than one woven of mid
night and hurricane. The agony of tina
parent makes him say: "Oh, | wish
had buried my children when they wer
small!' Loss of property? No. Deaf
in the family! No. Madness? Nc
Some villain, kid-gloved and diamond
Al.