Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-12

all the time.
some Pointed Questiops.
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 20 ask you these three questions
and IL ! am satisfied with your answer
Il will determine my answer 10 your
question. Did you believe mo 60 be vir-
tuous when you came here 20 ask me 20
I be your wifer " 'Oh, yes I believe you
20 he virtuous. That's tho reason
came here. violets dipped In dew would
be as COW fodder compared to you" The
second question: Have you as a young
man lived ~ you demand OF mo as n
1 girl. that I should have ilved7" The
/ third question: IF /, as "A girl, had lived
and done as you, az young man, and
YOU knew it would you ask me TO marry
4 your"
Will Take the Count.
! They will line up and nine times out OF
ten they will take the count You can
I line them up. and / know what l am
| talking about and l defy any man on
I Gods earth to successfully contradict
mo have tho goods The average
young man Is more particular about the
company he keeps tnan the average girl,
/ I'll 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 che 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
wculd make a black mark on a piece Of
anthracite. Their characters are foul
and rotten and damnable. like TO see
n girl who has good head choose right
because Il Ia right never minding the
criticism. Choose the good and be care
fui Of her conduct, careful of good com
pany and good conduct and keep COM
pany with n good young fellow. Don't
go with fellow whose reputation is bad
Everybody knows II Ia bad, and n you
are seen WITH him you will lose your
reputation as well. although your virtue
Is Intact. and they might as well take
YOU TO the graveyard and bury you when
your reputation is gone. II a man like
that asks you to go with him. say to
him II he viii live the way you want
him 20 you will so with him II you
would take a stand like that there
wouldn't be 80 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 ia an infectious disease like
typhoid fever. smallpox or diphtheria,
and goes through community like an
epidemic; when one iepcr comes In con-
eact with the clean, he becomes infected.
And 20 It is with sin. Sin begins in So
called innocent filtration. The old, God
forsaken scoundrel OF q libertlne, who
looks upon every woman as legitimate
prey for his lust. will contaminate a
community; one drunkard staggering and
maundering and muttering his way down
TO perditlon win debauch town.
30 with tho boy. He will sit at 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 Il you are as low down as the
saloon keeper. and 1 don't care whether
You do It for society or for anything else
II you serve liquor or drink you are as
low down as the saloonkeeper in my
opinion. 30 the boy who had not grit
enough to turn down his glass at the
banquet and refuse to drink Is now a
blear-eyed. staggering. vermin-covered
drunkard. reeling 10 hell He couldn't
stand the sneers OF the crowd; many
fellow started out to play cards for
beans ana tonight he would stake his
soul for a show down. The hole In the
gambling table u not very big; II IL about
big enough TO shove 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 tablA
Two Kinda OF Leprosy.
Listen to me. bad as Il is to be af-
fiicted with physical leprosy. moral iep-
rosy is 10000 times worse. I don't care
II you are the richest man In the town,
the biggest taxpayer IN Douglas county.
the biggest politician in the congressional
district or in the stats. don't care
rap II you carry the political vote. and
IL you can change the vote convention
n after your worldly career Is closed
my text would make you fitting epitaph
for your tombstone and obituary notice
in the papers. then what difference would
Il make what YOU had done--'He was a
lepor." He was a great politiclan-but
"He was a leper" What difference
would Il 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
no had a trifling case OF insubordina-
tion. He ordered his men to halt, and he
had tho offender shot They dug the
! grave and he gave the command TO
march. and they had stopped Just three
, minutes by the clock. At the close OF
. the war they made him chief OF police
I 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.
When "A-tharity" Failed.