Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-22
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| improper amusement. 1t IS nightly al
Turing '-hen a young man, long { citizen.
offers TO show a newcomer all around.
Live Within Your Means.
/ Still further, those amusemeats are
| wrong which lead you into expenditure
| beyond your means. Money spent In rec
reaticn is not thrown away. 1t j. all fol-
ly for us to come from a place cf amuse-
| ment feeling that we have wasted our
money aud time. You may by it have
made an investment worth NOR, .han the
transaction that yielded yoa hunlreds Of
! thousands 81 dollars. But ha@ many
properties have been riddled ~ costly
| amusements.
The first time / ever saw tie city-it
was the city of Philadelphia, was a
mere lad. l stopped ct u hotet, and /
| remember in the eventiGe one of these
men piled me with his internal art lie
saw | was green. He wanted 70 show
me the sights of the town. H. painted
the path of sin until it looked liSe elner-
aid. but | was afraid of him. Z showed
back from the basilisb--I made up my
mind he was basilsk. J remeIl'er how
he wheeled his chair round in font of
me ami, with a concentered lnl dia-
bolical effort. attempted TO destroy my
soul. but there were good angels in the
air that night. 1t was no good resou
ton on my part. but it was tie all en-
comprising grace of a good Goo hat de-
| liyered me. Beware, beware, . young
man. There is Il way that seemeth
| right unto a man. but the end thereof is
death
The table has been robbed to Fay the
club. The champagne has cheated the
chiidren's wardSobe The carousiKs
party has burned up the boys primer.
The tablecloth of the corner saloon is in
debt to the wife's faded dress. EXcur-
sions that in day make a tour around
whole months wages, ladies whose
| lifetime business it is to go shopping,
| large bets on horses, have their counter
parts in uneducated children. bankrupt
cies that shock the money marSCt and
appall the church and that send drunken
ness staggering across the richly figured
| carpet of the mansion and dashinS inlo
the mirror and drowning out the carol of
music with the whooping of bl0ate6 sons
come home TO break SER old Irdther's
| heart.
| saw beautiful home, where The bell
rang violently late at night The son had
|
rades were bringing him home. They
carried him to the door. They rang the
bell at l o'clock in the morning. Father
and mother came down. They were wait
ing for the wandering son. and then the
| comrades as soon as the door was orened
! threw the prodgal headlong into the
doorway, crying, There he is, drunk as
| a fool. Ha, har' When men 90 into
! nj hot ~ fapA thpV
hfst borrow what they cannot cara, and
then they steal what they cannot borrow.
First they go into embarrassment and
then into lying and then into theft, and
when man gets as far on as th;t he
does not stop short of the penitentiary.
There is not a prison in the land where
| there are not victims of unsaniihed
| amusements.
Look Out for the Leakage.
Merchant, is there disarrangerlent
in your accounts? Is there a leakage in
your money drawer? Did not the cash
account come out right last night;
will tell you. There is a young man in
your store wandering off into bad ai1use-
ments. The salary you give him flay
meet lawful expenditures, but not the
sinful indulgences in which he has ehfer-
ed, and he takes by theft that which fou
do not give him in lawful salary.
/ How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens! The young man says:
Now l am off for a good time. Never
mind economy I'll get money somehow.
What fine road! What a beautiful day
for ride. Crack the whip. End over the
turnpike Come, boys, fill high yoCr
glasses. Drink! Long life. health, plef.-
( 49, ;rF IIor prE-
ing men hear the chatter of the hoofs AMI
look up and say: "Why, | wonder where
those fellows get their money from. We
have to toll and drudge They do moth
ing" To these gay men life is a thrill
and excitement. They stare at other peo-
pie and in turn are stared at. The watch
| chain jingles. The cup foams The
cheeks flush. The eyes fash. The mid
night hears their guffaw. They swagger.
They jostle decent men off the dewalk.
They take the name Of God in vain.
They parody the hymn they learned at
their mothers knee, and to all pictures
of coming disaster they cry out, who
caresr' aud to the counsel of some Chris
ton friend. "Who are you?"
l go further and say those are un-
Christian amusements which become the
chief business of a mans life. Life is an
earnest thing. Whether we are born in
a palace or howell. whether we are atfluent
or pinched, we have to work. If you do
not sweat with toll, you will sweat with
disease. You have a soul that is TO be
TRANSPORTED amid the pomp of a judi
ment day, and after the sea has sung IT'S
last chant and the mountain shall have
come down in an avalanche of rock you
| will live and think and act. high on
| throne where seraphs sing or deep in a
| dungeon where demons howl In world
where there is so. much TO do for your
selves and SO much to do for others God
| pity that man who has nothing to do.
Sports a Means to an End.
Your sports are merely means to an
end They are alterations and helps.
The arm of toll is the only arm strong
enough to bring Up the bucket out Of the
deep well of pleasure. Amusement is
only the bower where business and phi
| lanthropy rest while ON their way to stir
merely the vines that grow about The an
vii of toll and the blossoming of the
| hammers. Alas fer the man who spends
his life in Iaboriously doing nothing. his
days in hunting up lounging places aud
| ioungers, his nights in seeking ont some
| gasighted foGery. The man who always
has ON his sporting jacket, ready to hunt
for game in the mountain or fish in the
brook with no time to pray or work or
read. is not so well off as the greyhound
| that runs by his side or the fly bait with
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