Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-12

all the time.
some Pointed Questions.
But, girls never mind now, get down
10 facts. When he asks you that great
est question, the most important one
that any girl Is ever asked. next TO the
salvation OF her SOUL Just say sit down
and let me ask you three questions.
want TO ask you these three questions
and II / am satisfied with your answer
Il will determine my answer 10 your
question. Did you believe me 90 be viz
tuous when you came here 10 ask me 70
be your wifer" ''Oh. yes. believe you
70 he virtuous. That's tho reason
came here. violets dipped Ia dew would
be as COW fodder compared to you" The
second question; Have you as a young
man lived as you demand OF mo M n
girl that I should have livcd7" The
third question: III l, ne n girl, had lived
and done as you. ~ n young man. and
YOU knew II. would you ask me to marry
your"
VIII Take the Count.
They will line up ana nine times out OF
ten they viii take the count You can
line them up and I know what I am
talking about and / defy any man on
Gods earth to successfully contradict
mo. = have the goods The average
young man is more particular about the
company he keeps than the average girl.
III tell you. II he meets somebody on
the street whom he doesn't want 10
meet no will duck into the first open
doorway and avoid the publicity Of meet
ing her. for fear she might smile or give
an Indication that she had seen him
somewhere and sometime before that.
Yet our so-called best girls keep COM
panv with young men Whose character
would make a black mark on piece OF
anthracite. Their characters are foul
and rotten and damnabie. like 20 see
n girl who has good head choose right
because it IN right never minding the
criticism. Choose tho good and be care
full Of her conduct. careful of good COM
pany and good conduct and keep COM
pany with a good young fellow. Don't
go with n fellow whose reputation In bad
Everybody knows IL Ia bad and IL you
nre seen with him you will lose your
reputation as WELL although your virtue
Is Intact. and they might as well take
YOU 20 the graveyard and bury you when
your reputation IL gone. II man like
that asks you TO go with him. say to
him II he will live the way you want
him to you viii go with bin. II you
would take q stand like that there
wouldn't be 30 many wrecks II our
women and girls would take higher
stands and say mo. no. we will not
keep company with you unless you live
the way we want you to-" there would
be better men
Infectious Disease.
Leprosy Is an infectious disease like
typhoid fever, smallpox or diphtheria,
and goes through community like an
epidemic; when one ieper comes in con-
eaet with the clean. he becomes infected
And 20 II Is with sin. Sin begins In So
called innocent filtration. The old, God
forsaken sooundrel Of a iibertine. who
looks upon every woman IA legitimate
prey for his lust. will contaminate a
community; one drunkard staggering and
maupdcrins and muttering his way down
20 perditlon will debauch town
SO with the boy. He viii sit az your
table and drink beer. and want to tell
you II you are low down enough TO serve
beer and wine In your home, when you
serve II you are a. low down as the
saloon keeper. and 1 don't care whether
you do II for society or for anything else.
II you serve liquor or drink you are ms
low down a. tho saloonkeeper in my
opinion. So the boy who had not grit
enough TO turn down his glass at tho
banquet and refuse to drink Is now a
blear-eyed, staggering. vermin-covered
drunkard, reelinE 20 he'll. He couldn't
stand the sneers OF tho crowd; many
\ fellow started out 70 play cards for
beans ana tonight he would stake his
soul for a show down. The hole IN the
gambling table Il not very big; Il IL about
big enough to shove a dollar through,
but It Is big enough 20 shove your wife
through; big enough TO shove your hap
/ piness through; your home through; your
salary. your character; Just big enough
TO shove everything that is dear TO you
in this world through. the little solid
top OF the tabl&
Tive Kinds OF Leprosy.
Listen 10 me. Bad as It IL to be af-
f1icted with physical leprosy, moral lep-
rosy is 1000 times worse. / don't care
II you are the richest man in tho town,
the biggest taxpayer In Douglas county,
the biggest politician In the congressional
1 dtahNtch VI Ah tho hlntcs uOn CAfO a
rap II you carry the political vote. and
II you can change the vote convention
II after your worldly career IL closed
my text would make you q fitting epitaph
Tor your tombstone and obituary notice
In the papers. then what difference would
Il make what you had done-"He was a
leper." He was a great politician-but
HE was a leper' What difference
would It maker
I'LL tell you, was never more inter
ested In my life than In reading the story
OF an old confederate colonel who was
a sticker for martial discipline One day
he had a trifling case OF insubordina-
ton. He ordered hia men to halt. and he
had tho offender shot They dug the
grave and he gave the command "a
march. and they had stopped Just three
minutes by the clock. At the close OF
the war they made him chief Of police
OF southern city. and he was so vile
and corruptible that the people arose
and ordered his dismissal. Then a great
earthquake swept over the city and the
people rushed from their homes and
thousands OF people crowded the streets
and there was great excitement