The Newtown bee., 1907-05-24

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 "He that loveth pleasure shall be poor 2 He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rlch.' o,,1
 Did you ever try to draw water in leaky bucket? Down it goes into the well, and is filled with pure, sweet water; but it leaks. Little by little, as you draw it up the liquid runs out; and by the time the bucket comes to your reach there is but little left; you work hard, and make haste to oraW again, but the results are ever the same; and again and again you nave to let down the vessel before you can ill your pail, or pitcher.
 There is large class of people whose lives are like leaky bucket. They work hard, but never have much. They earn enough perhaps, but it does them little good They draw their wages, but lose it on the way home. They spend their money foolishly, and then wonder what bas become of it; and feel that they ought to have more pay for their labor.
 world are the poor. And in most cases they are poor simply because they, are extravagant. The only way to have anything is to save. To spend less than we earn is the only secret Of ac- cumulation. Self-denial is the secret of attainment even in the saving Of money. The lover of pleasure will be sure to find ready use for all he earns If he gratifes his appetites, and tastes, and goes in for fun as the great desire of life, he will always be poor
 Even the rich who have inherited for tunes often squander them on thelr desires for pleasure. How many there are who simply fool away the best years of their lives just because they are bound to have some fun anyway.
 The most expensive pleasure, prob ably, in our day is that of drink. Nothing is so wasJeful, and reckless of all good as the drink craze. It is the excess of all extravaganza. It IS prod igal in the greatest extreme; and it is wasteful beyond all calculation. And those who can least afford to indulge in it are the ones who make haste to waste their substance in riOtous abuse.
 The common laborer earns S1. 50 per day, we will say. This is the wage of the largest class perhaps, to-day. And these are the patrons who largely SUD- port the drink business of the country. Watch the doors of the saloons, day by day, as these laborers go to and from their work. We will suppose that on an average each man pays for three glasses of beer. The proba biiity IS days of the year, all told. One tenth of his wages for drink, which he does not need, and which in all probability tends to put discount, in the long run, upon his whole life, body, soul, and spirit. He wastes not only his money, but his strength, health, ability to labor; and in the nature of the case his character suffers and his depreciates sooner or later. Not only that, but if he has family, he robs his wife and children of the comforts and conveniences of life which of right belong to them out of his earnings. In one day, l5 cents; d in in one year, $50. 40; and in ten years $500, and more, which would purchase a small home, in many places!
 I once read the story of two young men who for time worked in the same factory. They were poor boys ward, one of them was governor of the State; and the other was at the door of the executive mansion. Supplicant for an office which paid $500 year! The former had spent his evenings, after work in the factory was over, 1n civil engineer, and had grown rich, useful and prosperous. The other had spent his evenings in idle amusement and bad company; and had sunk low CT and lower in the social scale, until he was in abject poverty.
 Il1S tells the W0Olo story Ol Uue two great classes of men, everywhere. Some are climbing steadily up the highway of true and noble life; while others are tumbling down the hillside of sloth, sin, and degradation. One class of young men and boys go quietly from the days faithful labor, to good homes, good books, music, and suitable places of association and amusement, and are on the way. of self-improvement. The other class hastens from work not we'll done, to places of doubtful, or bad associations, drink, low conversations, and cor rupting pleasures. One class rises,
 the other class falls in the scale of so- ciety.
 There is leaky bucket in many a mans life!