Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
lsed to be a commission merchant.

thought there was money in whisky
and in fact he was making money. he
had lost all his friends whom he re-
spected, but still he thought OF the
money, money, money. He would not
give up the whisky business for his
character because there is money IN
it, Money, young man, comes IN the
saloon business at the expense OF
every bit of character a man has OF
ever expects to have. He loses every
thing and for gold alone.
The Gambler.
"I have friend down in Georgia
who was very near to me before !
was converted. He used to help me
! when was on the detective force OF
| Atlanta He was smooth with MS
{ fingers and helped to ferret out cases
because he liked the business. But he
| fell away and became gambler one
day we had a number Of orphans ID
my church in Atlanta, holding serV-
ices for them. During the services
was called into my private ONCE.
There found my gambler friend cry
! ing and sobbing. He asked me now
many of those little orphans we nao
| in the church. He was one OF those
good hearted men, friends, and ne
sobbed like baby. l went back ana
counted them, returned and told MIN
the number. He reached in his pocket
and pulled out roll of bills as big as
his fist. He began pulling off DIS
one for every little orphan there.
That money young men, he had taken
from men at the card table theS night
before. He could not come out anu
! 70 nrnhlna
| he had won it and it bore the talnt OF
the gambler. He was good lelloM'
all right, a fine fellow, but ne saclr
feed his manhood and character ioi
money. He admitted that ne was uo,
ing wrong in gambling, but ne "anteu
the money, he wanted money anu
get it at the expense OF character. iio
was looked down upon by all MS
| friends. And when he did want 10 W
good turn, like helping these poor
orphans, he had to 60 under cover 70
do it. .E-.. r.,
| political men get power, influence
and popularity, but let their mannoou .
20. Socially, men secure influence, ou'
at the expense Of manhood ana cnar.
acter. The quality of your brain, young
man is the decision that comes from
your brain. Do not defile yourselves;
Keen your brain and your backbone.
Gambler Like Bed-Bug.
Getting back once more to gampllng'
Mr.. Mcconnell said, "a gambler Is
like a bed-bug in my opinion
81 don't like the way either VI
them make their living. A gambler
is the dirtest sneak on the face or the
earth and trust isn't in him. Woulu
rather walk with saloonekesper
hanging on either arm than III the
same block with a dirty gambler.
why men. a gambler cannot tell what
business he is in. Suppose he mas a
little daughter who asks him wnat MS
business is. He him-haws around a
while and then mumbles, am
broker He certainly is broker. Are
you gambler? II you are, quit H.
quit 1t. ~
r.1 The Drunkard.
| "Tf there Is man for whom am
sorry it is he who has fallen into the
clutches of the demon whisky. NO
man ever intended to become drunk
ard, It is usually the good hearted
fellows that allow drink to become
their master. A miser says 1t costs
! 100 much. stood in bakery one
day, watching the flies becoming mir
ed in several new sheets OF, STICKY ny
naper. They would tumble in head
foremost, feet first, and every way
and then work in vain to drag them
selves out. One Of those flies just got
his front feet into the trap. He man
aged to pull himself loose and ne new
M on shelf and proceeded TO WASH
| himself. When he had once more pc
come clean and free, what did he 40
but f,y right down and PUNK himself
head foremost into the fly paper. Men,
lust as that fly paper was trap TOT
flies. the saloon is trap Tor men,
They fall into it every way, become
mired, pull themselves away from Inc
curse and plunk themselves right IN
the middle of it agaiI They rush IN
to the door only to plunge in the
trap. And, young men, human be-
ing has no more sense than u fly when
he goes into a saloon We laugh at
fool fly for lighting on fly paper. But
we think bat little about man VINO
goes into saloon and gets mlred. one
day saw TWO young men. clean ana
we'll dressed come out Of dry goods
store in their shirt, sleeves and start
for a saloon Coor. They saw drunk,
a dirty, staggering man fall out OF the
door. They just Looked at him and
laughed and went ineo the trap. They
saw the result but laughin3ty they
went the same way THAI char man
had gone before them. If there is a
man here who has teen seized with
the drink habit, quit it. quit it, for 1t
will land you sooner or later. Don't
think you can control your Thinking.
Brother, just as sure as you live, you
are not using your brain for your own
res2ectability Why, men, If Your
| wife would do onehundredth part OF
what you do to yourselves you world
throw Ter out of your house in sec
ond There is no man hurting You as
! much as you are hurting yourself.
Fathers, do you drink? Are YOU say
| i:r n act if not iE words. that Won