The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-12-30

heart that sought for and loved ne.cs,
and joy to every soul that knew rratss
tude; and far as the eye could seq .
mantle of white enveloped the earth a.
though a loving father had, in a mo-
ment OF love and pity. covered the sin
Of his erring children with a mantle ~
purity. =
AS Harold sat alone Edward adj
vanced, with sycophantic smile. It was
not long until he had plunged into the
desperate deed that disturbed him last
night. 1t was only a loan of 5000 h.
craved-to pay some debts, you know.
old boy! I cannot stave them off long.
er, and now that you are a rich
man.
Go on"
PAY them for you?"
A flush of anger overspread Elward's
face.
mo. a loan-'
Edward, why shift your obligation
to others over to me? I am h very
last man you could be friends with
and under obligations to. Do not saw
mol know your disposition. If / loan
you money to oblige you this day. Won
would be my friend today. If I want
ed my loan repaid next month, or next
year, you would become my enemy. II
l let it go by for a time unnoticed You
would try to find some way to make Il
appear unjust to you to pay it at ali.
You owe this money to those who have
been comrades in your extravaganza.
each deceiving himself in trying to de-
ty. l could not loan you my dead
friends money. If you could give Sc
curity you can borrow from the banks
whose business it is to loan"
False friend!" said Edward, pas
sionately.
"Reware Endvuor5 ~,-
freedom OF thinking and willing what
he pleases, but not the freedom to saw
Whatever he thinks, and to do what
ever he wills. I, nor anyone else. could
be your friend unless he did what YOU
wanted done, whether good or evil. The
money you owe you spent wrongfully:
and If repay it I would be making il
easy for o to do wrong again. I
cannon become a party to w~rong-doinR
without bringing upon myself the con-
domination of the law. Go to work, re-
pay your Q by your own exertions.
and you will do yourself an untold
good. Borrow money to do it and YOU
sink deeper into the mire. T am too
sincere a friend, whatever you may be-
lleve me, to help you weaken your W
character or degrade your own man
hood. I shall make use of the income
from the fortune left me as my friend
who earned 1t would have done had he
lived, and dying, the principal shall go
10 the orphan asylum he mentioned.
Last night you tainted me with nav
ing a expectations that had been
disappointed. I knew at the tfmo
you were voicing you own heart. It
IS yourself, Edward, who have lived
for years in great expectations, and
these expectations lured you into ex-
~travagance that you were not able to
meet. Hear me, no man has any right
to any good thing that he does not
win for himself"
Then" sneered Edward, you have
no right to that old ranks fortune"
Il w the right that he considered
just. I won it honestly by innin his
would not squander it nor permit
anyone else to do so, that I would
never use 1T to my WI hurt, nor to
the injury Of another person, nor to
the d1scredlt OF his memory, and I
never shall. edward was silent.)
Many a man has won fame and
worldwide honor by fighting his way
out OF heavy debt, but no man has
ever yet won honorable distinction by
suffering another to pay his debts, or
by borrowing from one to pay another.
Beside, all this, Edward, you overlook
the fact that I could not, If I desired
ever SO much, loan you this money"
'Why?" he growled.
Die you not observe in the reading
of the letter, that one condition upon
Wnlcn L received this money was, that
l had contracted no debts. no oblipa-
lions incommensurate with my SAL
airy, nor ~dishonored his teachings, thai
II a man enters into an obligation he
must bend all his expenditures to
suit his obligations, not bend his obi
cations to suit his ex~travagant wantsf
II he was not willing and did not see
it for my good that this money should
be used to a my debts, do you be-
lieye he would have considered it well
used to a yours? You may think me
unkind to you. but If your heart is so
warped against all true ideas of JUS
tice and love, then I am not the man
to set it right. But, never was 1 so
determined in anything in my life as
that l shall neither do a wrong thing
myself. nor assist any other man to
do what l believe to be wrong, what
ever he may think of me, or whatever
the whole world thinks of me for it. as
I am today. This is my resolution for
the yea 1909"
A Bad Record.