Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

in the whirlpool that has already crushed |
in its wrath 10000 hulks. Young men
who have just come from country resi- |
dence to city residence will do well to be |
on guard and let no one induce them to |
places Of improper amusement. 1t is |
nightly alluring when young man, long
a citizen, offers to show a newcomer all
around.
Live Within Your Means.
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lead you into expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in rec
reation is not thrown away. 1t is all fol-
~ for US to come from a place Of amuse-
ment feeling that we have wasted our
money and time. You may by it have
made an investment worth more than the
transaction that yielded you hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars. But how many
properties have been riddled by costly
amusements.
The first time ever saw the city-it
was the city Of Philadelphia was a
mere lad. 1 stopped at a hotel, and
remember in the eventide 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 it looked like emer-
aid, but I was afraid Of him. / showed
back from the basilisk-I made up my
mind he was basilisk. I remember how
he wheeled his chair round in front Of
me and, with a concentered and dia-
bolical effort, attempted to destroy my
soul, but there were good angels in the
air that night. 1t was no good resolu-
ton on my part, but it was the all en-
acfnor 81 n osOoA Cod FhoF
livered me. Beware, beware, o young
mani ''There is a way that seemeth
right unto a man, but the end thereof is
DEATH"
The table has been robbed to pay the
club. The champagne has cheated the
children's wardrobe. The carOusing
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 a day make a tour around
a whole months wages, ladies whose
lifetime business it is to ego shopping"
large bets on horses, have their counter
parts in uneducated children, bankrupt
cies that shock the money market and
appall the church and that send drunken
ness 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.
saw a beautiful home, where the bell
rang violently late at night. The son had
been off in sinful indulgences. His COM
rades were bringing him home. They
carried him to the door. They rang the
bell at l O'Clock in the morning. Father
Q aud nathan drrr,V, FTNhary =.
ing for the wandering son. and then the
comrades as soon as the door was opened
threw the prodigal headlong into the
doorway. crying: There he is. drunk as
a fool! Ha. ha" When men go into
amusements that they cannot afford, they
first borrow what they cannot earn. ant
then they steal what they cannot borrow
First they go into embarrassment ant
then into lying and then into theft, anC
when a man gets as far on as that hi
does not stop short of the pentitentiary
There is not prison in the land wher
there are not victims Of unsancti6e,
amusements.
Look Out For the Leakage.
Merchant, Is there a disarrangemen
In your accounts? Is there leakage il
your money drawer? Did not the casl
account come out right last night?
will tell you. There is a young man i
your store wandering off into bad amuse
ments. The salary you give him ma
meet lawful expenditures, but not tn
sinful indulgences in which he has entel
ed, and he takes by theft that which 20
do not give him in lawful salary.
How brightly the path Of unrestraine
amusement opens! The young man says
''Now l am off for a good time. Neve
mind economy. I'll get money somehow
What a fine roadl What a beautiful da
Tor ride! Crack the whip, and over th
turnpikel Come, boys, I'LL high yOU
glasses. Drink! Long. life, health, plel
ty Of rides just like thisw Hardwood
ing men hear the clatter Of the hoofs an
look up and say: ''Why, 1 wonder whel
those fellows get their money from. "
have to toll and drudge. They do notl
ing" To these gay men life is a thri
and excitement, They stare at other pc
pie and in turn are stared at. The watC
chain jingles. The cup foams. TT
cheeks flush. The eyes fash. The mi
night hears their guifaw. They swagge
They jostle decent men off the sidewal
They take the name of God in val
, They parody the hymn they learned
! their mothers knee, and to all pictur
! of coming disaster they cry out, ''Wh
e cares" and to the counsel of some Chri
a tian friend, "Who are your"
= Passing along the street some night yC
: hear a shrek in a grOgshOp, the rattle
e the watchman's club, the rush of the p
r lice. What is the matter now? Oh, tn
e reckless young man has been killed in
e grogshop fight. Carry him home to
fathers house. Parents will come dow
L and wash his wounds and close his ey
e in death. They forgive him all he ev
s. did, although he cannot in his silence al
Is it. The prodigal has got home at las
a Mother will go to her little garden al
10 get the sweetest flowers and twist the
10 into a chaplet for the silent heart of t
II Maynard boy and push back from t
~ blOated brow the long locks that we
u once her pride. And the air will be re
n with the agony. The great dramati
" says, ''How sharper than a serpen
III III tooth it is to have a thankless child
u 1 go further and say those are L
i. Christian amusements which become t
= chief business Of a mans life. Life is
~ earnest thing. Whether we are born
u u a palace or howell. whether we are afiue
l.s or pinched, we have to work. If you
's not sweat with toll, you will sweat vi
~ disease. You have a soul that is to
70 TRANSPORTED amid the pOmp of a juC
20 ment day, and after the sea has sung
"a last chant and the mountain shall hs
q comedown in an avalancheof rock youv
az live and think and act, high on thrc
JUS where seraphs sing or deep in dunge
IA where demons howl. In a world VIII
'oh there is so much to do for yourselves a
VI so much to do for others God pity Il
Jus man who has nothing to do.
20 Sports a Means to an End.
to Your sports are merely means to
. end. They are alleviations q
nan helps. The arm Of toll is the only q
are strong enough to bring up the bucket
The Of the deep well Of pleasure. Anu
FAR ment is only the bower where bl
liar ness and philanthropy rest while on IL
nav way to stirring achievements. Amt
Ha ments are merely the vines that q
,oo+ about the anvil Of toll and the bloss,
,r,o ing of the hammers. Alas for the u
- who spends his life In laboriously do
ooI, nothing, his days in hunting up loung
~ places and loungers, his nights in Sc
- ing out some gaslighted foOlery!
49, man who always has on his sport
tars jacket, ready to hunt for game in
you mountain or fish in the brook, with
you time to pray or work or read, is moi
lose well off as the greyhound that runs by
1 n side or the fly bait with which he wi
but the stream. A man who does not "
snte does not know how to play. If God
aoh. intended us to do nothing but laugh
Il az would not have given US shoulders '
iggle which to lift and hands With Whiel
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