Connecticut western news., 1901-05-23


pull ut the oar to put back, but the
Struggle will not avail. You will be
tossed and dashed and shipwrecked
and swallowed I'm the whirlpool that
has already crushed in it's wrath 10000
hulks. Young men who have come
from the country residence to city resi-
dence will do well to be on guard and
let no one induce them to places of i'm
proper amusement. 1t is nightly al
Turing when young man, long citi-
zen, offers to show a newcomer all
around.
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lead you into expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away. 1t Is
all folly for us to come from place of
feeling that we have vast
ed our money and time. You may by
it have made an investment worth more
than the transaction that yielded you
hundreds or thousands of dollars. But
how many properties have been riddled
by costly amusements.
The first time l ever saw the city-it
was the city of Philadelphia wcs
mere lad. l stopped at hotel, and l
in the eventlde one of these
men piled me with his internal art. He
saw l was green. He wanted to show
me the sights of the town. He painted
the path of sin until 1t looked like
emerald, but l was afraid of him. l
showed back from the basilisk-I made
up my mind he was a basilisk. / re-
member how he wheeled his chair
round in front of me and with a con-
conferred and diabolical effort attempt
ed to destroy my soul, but there were
good angels in the air that night. 1t
was no good resolution ON my part,
but 1t was the all encompassing grace
of a good God that delivered me. Be
ware, beware, o young man! There
is way that seemeth right unto
man, but the end thereof is DEATH"
Woes of Intemperance.
The table has been robbed to pay the
club. The champagne has cheated the
children's wardrobe. The carouslng
party has burned up the boys primer.
The tablecloth of the corner saloon is
III ucDI 10 the WIG Iuucu vi
cursions that in u day make tour
around a whole months wages, ladies
whose lifetime business it Is to "go
shopping" large bets on horses, have
their counterparts in uneducated chill
dren, bankruptcies that shock the mon
ey market and appall the church and
that send drunkenness staggering
across the richly figured carpet of the
mansion and dashing into the mirror
and drowning out the carol of music
with the whooping of bloated sons
come home to break their old mothers
heart.
l saw beautiful home where the
bell rang violently late at night. The
son had been off in sinful indulgences.
His comrades were bringing him home.
They carried him to the door. They
rang the bell at / o'clock in the morn
ing. Father and mother came down.
They were waiting for the wandering
son, and then the comrades, as soon as
the door was opened, threw the prod
igal headlong into the doorway, crying:
There he is, drunk as fool. Ha, ha!'
When men go into amusements that
they cannot afford, they steal what
they cannot borrow. First they go into
embarrassment and then into lying and
then into theft, and when a man gets
as far ON as that he does not stop short
of the penitentiary. There Is not a
prison in the land where there are not
victims of unsanctified amusements.
Merchants, is there q disarrangement
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 young man
In your store wandering off into bad
amusements. The salary you give him
may meet lawful expenditures, but not
the sinful indulgences In which he has
entered, and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful
salary.
How brightly the path of unrestrain-
ed 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 q
beautiful day for a ride! Crack the
whip, and over the turnpike! Come
boys, fill high your glasses! Drink
Long life, health, plenty of rides just
like this" Hardworking men hear the
clatter of the hoofs and look up an6
say: "Why, 1 wonder where those fel
lows get their money from? We have
to toll and drudge. They do nothing
To these gay men life is thrill and ar
excitement. They stare at other PEG
pie and In turn are stared at. The
watch chain Jingles; the cup foams
midnight hears their guffaw; they
swagger; they jostle decent men off tn,
sidewalk; they take the name Of Goo
in vain; they parody the hymn they
learned at their mothers knee, and tt
all pictures of coming disaster they CRY
out, "Who cares?" and to the counse
Of some Christian friend, "Who are
your Passing along the street some
night, you hear a shrek in grogshop
the rattle Of the watchman's club, tn,
rush of the police. What is the mattel
now? oh, this reckless young man ha!
been killed in a grogshop fight. Carr,
him home to his fathers house. Par
ents will come down and wash hi.
wounds and close his eyes in death
They forgive him all he ever did, al
though he cannot in his silence ask Il
The prodigal has got home at last
Mother will go to her little garden ant
get the sweetest flowers and twist then
into a chaplet for the silent heart of thu
Maynard boy and push back from the
bloated brow the long locks that wer,
once her pride, and the air will be re1
with the agony. The great dramatis
says, "How sharper than a serpent:
tooth it is to have thankless childp'
HeaIthfuI Recreation.
1 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 were
born in n palace or howell, whether VIZ
are atfiuent or pinched, we have Il
work. If you do not sweat with toll
you will sweat with disease. You have
soul that is to be TRANSPORTED annie