Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-20


ought Co Fear Stn.
You say you're not afraid OF sin. You
ought to be for your children. II doesn't
take boys long to get on the wrong track.
and while you are scratching gravel TO
make one lap. your boy makes ten. We've
got Kids who have not yet sprouted Ions
brooches who know more about sin and
! vice than Methuselah. There are little
trizzled-top sissies not yet sprouting long
dresses who know more about vice than
did their great grandmothers when they
were 20 years old.
| The girl who drinks will abandon her
virtue. What did Methuselah know about
| vmoking cigarettes? | know there are
/ some sissy fellows out there who object
/ to my talking plain and know you shirk
! from talking plain.
! IL any one ever tells you that you can't
be virtuous and enjoy good health, l
brand him as low, Infamous, black
hearted liar.
Ask any afflicted man you see on the
street. II you could only reveal the heart
Of every one of them In most you
would find despair and disease.
| How little he thinks when he is nurs-
ing that lust that he is nursing demon
which, like vampire. will suck his
blood and wreck his life and blacken and
blight his existence. And II any little
children are born to him they will be
weak anaemics without the proper blood
in their veins to support them. our
young men ought to be taught that no
sum they can leave to a charitable in
stitution can blot out the deeds of an
ignominious life. You don't have to look
far for the reason why so many young
men fail. why they go through life
weak, ambtionless, useless.
"Be Men aud Talk sense"
Let's be common folks together today.
Let's be men and talk sense.
As a rule man wants something bet
ter for his children than he has had for
himself. Ny father died before I was
born and lived with my grandfather.
He smoked, but he didn't want me to. He
chewed, but he didn't want me to. He
drank but he didn't want me to. He
cussed but he didn't want me to. He
made wine that would make a man fight
his own mother after he had drunk II.
I remember how used to find the bottles
and suck the wine through a straw or an
onion top.
One day a neighbor was In and my
grandfather asked him for a chew. He
went to hand it back, and wanted some.
He said l couldn't have It. ! said I
wanted 1t anyhow, and he picked me up
and turned me across his knee and gave
me crack that made me see stars as big
as moons.
IL there is father that hits the booze,
he doesn't want his son to- II he is keep
ing some one on the side, he doesn't want
his son to- In other words, you would not
want your son to live like you If you are
not living right.
All old general was at the bedside of
ms dying daughter. He didn't believe In
the Bible. and his daughter said What
shall do? You don't believe in the Bible.
mamma does. IL l obey one I'm going
against the other" The old general nut
his arms around his daughter and said:
Folow your mothers way; It is the
satest' Man wants his children to have
that which is sure
The PrOdIgaI Son,
nave sometimes imagined that young
FELLOW in Luke Is. He came to his father
ana said, Dig up. I'm tired of this and
want to see the world" His father didn't
know what he meant Come across
with the mazuma. come clean, divy.
want the coin. see?" Finally the father
tumpled, and he said: Il got YOU" and
nc divided up his share and gave II n
the young man. Then he goes down 10
BABYLON and starts out on a sporting life
lie meets the young blood and the
gay dame can imagine that young
Iellow the first time he swore. II his
mother had been near he would have
looked at her and blushed rosy red. But
ne thought he had TO cuss to be n man
NO man can be good husband no man
can be a good fellow, no man can be n
respectable citizen, no man can be a gent.
leman, and swear. You can hang out a
sign or gentleman, but when you cuss
you might as well take It in.
Ihere are three things which will ruin
any town and give It a bad name. Omen
licensed saloons; dirty cussing, swear
ing gang OF blacklegs on the streets, and
we story tellers. Let town be known
LOT these three things, and these alone
ana you could never start a boom half
Dig enough to get one man there.
Ola men, young men, boys swear
what do you cuss for? 1t doesn't do YOU
any good, gains you nothing in business
society; It loses you the esteem of men
God said more about cussing than anv.
thing God said, Thou shalt not kill
thou shalt not steal. thou shalt not bear
raise witness, but God said more
about cussing than them all and they are
still cussing. Thou shalt not take the
name Of the Lord thy God in vain. 70,
the Lord will not hold him guiltless who
taketh His name in vain"
No Excuse for CursinE.
l can see how you can get out Of any.
thing but cussing. l can see how a mar
could be placed In such a position that
he would kill and be exonerated by the
law of God and man. If he killed to pro.
tect his life or the life of another.
can see how a man could be forced
to steal If he stole to keep his wife from
starving.
In Chicago several years ago there
was long-continued strike and the last
division OF the treasury had given each
man p cents. man went into the rail-.
road yards and got a bag OF coal from
one or the cars. They pinched him and
he came up before a judge He told tho
judge that he had only % cents OF tho
last division and he spent that for food