Connecticut western news., 1902-05-22

COLueS ; Ou us Ollll HIS HiOtuSi Ndhs ShS knows your own home is so far away that 1t is impossible for you to go there and get back to the store when the two holidays are over.
 Some False Friends.
 But the bad young man Is never hard to become acquainted with. He will slap you upon the back as soon as you enter the store. He offers you cig- arette or invites you later to take a drink. He stops you in the hall and wants to have a long talk. He is al ways loafing when the head of the de partment is away. After a little while he begins to make fun of your Bible. He ridicules you as stingy because you send most of your money home to sup port a widowed mother and five ia therless children, and then, if you have money to spend. he and his evil com panions will gather around you to help spehd 1t if you will let them, as field of clover tops will empty all the bee hives from far and near. But after your money is gone and position gone and health gone and honor gone they will care no more for you than for a dead cur in the street. The night you die the saloons will be as crowded, the glasses will click just as merrily as ever. At that bar which you now fire quent there will not be tear shed over you. The day your body Is buried the very friends who are now ent1cing you away will gamble just as recklessly and laugh just as loud with others as I<~ vNd and they could find no other place they would be willing to gamble at your grave.
 Some years ago in Glasgow team of horses took fright and ran away. The coachman was hurried from his box. The carriage was tossed about from side to side. With snort and lathered Hanks the mad creatures ran on. Inside of the vehicle was seen the pale face of a woman, whose arms clasped to her bosom a little child. You might as well have tried to stop a thunderbolt as to stop that runaway. Down the street they came faster and faster. The carriage grazed this post and that wheel. The people cleared the track. Suddenly from out of the crowd a man sprang. He was dressed in the common clothes of laborer. With almost superhuman strength he caught the bits of the wild animals. Though they trampled him underfoot and were beating out his life, be hung on until they were halted. The by islanders helped the fainting woman out of the carriage. Loving hands car ried the poor bleeding body of the la borer to the hospital. That night one of the finest mansions of all Scotland was lighted. A party was going on. The guests and friends were scongrat- ulating the hostess upon her escape from almost certain death. In the ear ly hours of morning the neighbors heard the noise of song and mirth and merriment. Not far from that man. sion, in one of the public wards of the hospital, a hero's life was ebbing away. 1t was the life of the poor man who that afternoon flung himself under the sharp iron hoofs- As the nurse was moistening the dry lips and lifting him just a little, and as the gurgle was sounding in the throat, he asked, Has she net been to see meT "No." was the answer; "she is at party and can't come" "Oh," said the dying man, "T did hope she would think enough of me to come just for one mo- ment" Such will be the indifference of evil companions after they have wrecked your life. Are you ready to sacrifice all that you hold dear for such friendsi
 One day some gentlemen were talk ing to my uncle, and one said, "Is it not strange how willing the world Is | to kick a man when he is downT "No," answered my uncle., II do not think the world kicks man so much when he is down as when he Is trying to stand up." My son, if sinners en- tice thee, consent thou not"
 King solomon's warninw.
 King Solomon warns the young peo- | pie not to consent to sin because after | we have once yielded we will never be the same again. It would be pleasant If we could go on shining and then aft CT awhile say, 'T guess I will stop and start over again." But we cannot say or do that. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. If man make bed of roses, he sleeps in a cloud of
 incense. If he gather only the thorns,
 he must be lacerated by the thorns.
 After you have once robbed the firm
 will never fully trust you. After you
 have once wrecked your health you
 can never be anything but 8 suffering
 invalid. After you have once led an
 immortal soul astray and that soul has
 departed from earth to meet its tudg-
 ment at the bar of God you can never
 change its eternal destiny. Many 8
 man today would willingly cut on his
 right arm if he could only change the
 past. He cannot. The past is forever
 dead unless that past can be changed
 in heavenly sense through the mercy
 and the pardon of God. Make not the
 mistake which so many older men
 have made of having a bad record dur
 ing the period of youth and then hay
 ing that record curse all the midnooI
 and the twilight of your existence and
 curse you down to the grave.
 During the persecution of the Hugue
 nots in France father and mother had
 to flee from the city for their lives
 They had to leave behind an only girl
 Fearing lest he should not recognize
 his child again, the father took sharI
 knife and cut the arm of the child
 almost to the bone. Time passed on
 The war was ended, and the father anC
 mother returned to the French capital
 They went everywhere looking fol
 their long lost daughter. When ths
 father thought he saw his child, h'
 would examine the arm just above tho
 wrist. At last he found his child. Fl,
 found her by the proof of red scar
 So Satan puts the fatal mark of sir
 upon every one of his disciples. Thougl
 we may repent of our past, though w
 may agonize before the mercy sea
 and ask God to forgive us our sins