The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-01-02
STRAIGHT TALK
To YOUNG MEN.
nv WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

will have a good time going, bu,
you'll be long time there. You'll
dance and play cards and chase out
nights. aud soak your soul In the
essence o, don't-give. s-damitiveness,
and you'll wonder, as you 40 up in
the balloon, what fun there IL In walk
Ing through this sober old world,
Friends-whst are they? The love OF
hamanAty-what r. -i,42--Fheayhti.sl-
ness to those about you?-Gentility
What are those things L,tteroll,
letteroll, But rs you drop cut OF she
balloon she earth will fook likes seri
Gus piece OF Landscape.
when you are old, the beer you
have swilled will choke your throat;
the women you have tllrted with
will hang around your ieet and make
you stumble All she nights you
have wasted st poker Will dim your
eyes. Aud the garden OF days that
are gone, wherein you should have
planted Kindness and consideration,
and thoughtiulness, and manly cour'
age to do right, will be grown,up to
weeds, that will blossom IN your
tprtches i In FL sssa 44EG- s-alss
twisted, gnarly face that no one
loves.
"Go Is, Bub, don's stop for your
pas sake; you know It all Your pa
is merely an old iogy. Tell him you
can paddle your own canoe. But
when you were o little boy, very
little boy, with soft round body,
youE-pa used to take youin his arms
and rub his besrd-his rough, stub
by, three days beard-against J our
face and pray that God would keep
you from the path you are going In.
"Ard 50 the sins OF she father, Rub
but we won't talk OF thar.
- Observation-Disclosures
ing complaining about his old troub
lie, that crlck in his back that he got
loading hay one hot day in Huron
county, Ohio, before the war The
'old trouble as you will remember,
bothers your pa good deal, and
ma thinks that his father must have
been u pretty hard hearted man SO
let him work so hard when he was q
boy. Your pa likes TO have you and
your ma think that when he was a
boy he did nothing but work and 60
to prayer meeting sndg around do
ing noble deeds out OF the third read
er, but a number OF the old boys O
the Eleventh Kansas, who knew youl
pa in the sixties, are prepared SO do
lot OF forgetting Tor him whenever hi
asks it. The truth about your pa''
old trouble is that he WAS down II
Fort Leavenworth just after the clos
OF the war, and after filling up OIL
laughing-water at a saloon, he 90
in q fight with the r-tender an,
was kicked out of the saloon, an,
slept in the alley all night. That Wa
his last whizz. He took an invoic
OF his stock and found that he ha
some Of the Irost valuable experient
es that a man can acquire; and b
Strengthened up and came out her
and grew up with the country. You
ma met him at basket meeting
and she thought him al extremel
pious young man, so they made a &
oiit.
$50 Bub, when you think that b
breathing on your sleeve to kill th
whisky you can fool your pa, yo
are wrong. Your pa In his day at
three carloads OF cardamon seed
and cloves and used myrrh by th
barrel. Also, he knew which was th
creaky steps on the stairs In hl
fathers house and he used to avoi
/! It coming In at night just as you al
doing. And more than that, you
pa speaks from the bitterest kind {
! experience when he pleads with 70
to quit. 1t Is no goody.goody tai
OF q mutton-headed old deacon tina
he is giving you; It has taken him
year to get his courage up to te
! you, and every word is boiled out 9
an agony Of bitter memories. H
knows where boys that start ss 20
, are starting end, II they don't tur
back. Your pa turned, but he recol
lects the career OF the Blue boys, VIII
;; are divided between the penitentiary
the poorhouee and the southWes