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RUINOUS COMPANIONS. , AV.npT WITH BURGLARS AND - r-s 1- A nilOOl A r-i a. YOU WILL cl DuriuLnn. Matt-M Some New lU-inarks pr. ao Oh! Subject How Spendthrifts ou ,;,, ps A re Made Fvil Wrought : t ...... Tl. T rn r)t:VittTalnia-e u. la, preached at Tt! riiaclel'-wlay. After expound 1 ,L ,-riitui-fs he gave out that in!.S?ri.vn!.i I'vA. M. Toplady, be- '''''"v.-ir iiuri'.'. ye tromblin saints, Ik'rlu i'na ike willows take. . tr tuok f"' liis toxt Ioverbs xiii, 20: . ( (11I1,)aiiioii of fools shall bo de ' ,-,.," Following is a verbatim re- " ,t of til'' 'f01: "Aliv it i'lase oui't," said a 'v,j.,(.,l ri iinmal, when asked if lie ''",1 'iiivtiiii'- to say before sentence - that'Si was passed upon him, '"may T,va.. tlin court, bad company has u-tu in' v' n'11- I--iT,fvcd the blessings !;,nM-f pan-nts, and, in returji, prom ; ,-tl 1" avoid all evil associations. H ti! 1 lc-it my promise I should have i'( n iv-l this shame, and been free Wn the load of ffuilt.that hangs ', 'm,l uv: like -i vulture, threatening vfih-i" ni'-l' -jiistico for crimes yet 1 icvi al'- !- h who once moved in the V -in -' (lt sot',cty and have been I':,,"! .nicst of !i-titiguished public men, ,'ra"jo-t, and ""all through bad com- ' This is hut -one' of the thousand H.f's that the companion of fools vhail h -dct roved. It is the invariable i'ilc Th r' is a well man in the .vlinlsof a -hospital, where there are a "hundred people sick with ship fever, and he w ill not he so apt to take the tUs( ae as a good man would be apt to 1; smitten- with moral distemper, if K.iUt u with iniquitous companions. in olden times prisoners were herded tu 'ether in the same cell, but each one j.-urijed the vices of all the culprits, so that, instead of being reformed by in .aiceration, the day of liberation turned them out upon society beasts, ti it men. l,i NOT SEEK BAD COMPANIONS. We may, in our places of business, l,t. compelled to talk to and mingle with had men; but he who deliberate--iv ..chooses to associate himself with vicious people is engaged in carrying mi a courtship with a Delilah, whose shears will clip off all the locks of his .t!vnj:th. and he will be tripped into perdition. is catching, is infee tious, is epidemic. I will let you look over the 'millions of people now in: hahiting the earth, and 1 challenge vou to show me a good man who, after one year, has made choice and con sorted with the wicked. A thousand dollars -reward for one such instance I care not how strong vour character may he. Associate with gamblers, you will become, a gambler. Clan with burglars,, and you will become a burg lar. 'Go anions the unclean, and vou will become unclean. lot appreciat ing the truth of my text, many a youn man has been destroyed. Jle nukes up some morning in the great city, and knows no one except the per sons into whose employ ho has en tered. As he goes into the store all the clerks marK him, measure him and 'discuss him. The upright young men ! the store wish hmi'well, but per haps wait for a formal introduction, and even then have some delicacv about inviting him into their associa tions. But the bad. young men of the More at the tirst opportunity approach :niil otl'er their services. They patron ize him. I hey profess to know all about the town. Thev will take him anywhere that he wishes to go if he will pay the expenses. For if a good youn-j: man and a bad young man go i" some place where thev oucrht not the jrood young man has invariably to pay the charges. At the moment the ticket is to be paid for, or the cham pagne settled for, the bad young man feels around in his pockets says: "I have forgotten my P-H-kct hook." In forty-eight hours alter the young man has en tcivd the store the bad fellows of 1 establishment slap him on the sa.mkler familiarly, and, at his stupid- II v iii taking certain allusions, say: ,'"' young friend, you will have to broken in; ' "and they immediately I'l'ot-ced to break him im - Young man, III "io name of God I warn you to be ware how you let a bad man talk fam- "1;llv with you. If such an one slap .u,ien the shoulder familiarly, turn I01!11' a,al give him a withering look, 1Ult'l the wretch crouches in your l'l'esenet". There is no monstrosity of u Redness that can stand unabashed '.niter the glance of purity and honor. rl keeps the lightnings of heaven in Vwii scabbard, and no human arm un wield than; but God gives to lWv)' young man a lightning that he lu use. and that is the lightning of lionet i.ye. Those who have been observers will not wonder why 1 i-'Vl' Warilinrr ir c.r J "Ware i if ... " l OJ J OLU1LT IUCU, Uiiu , ticJ-'tV' U:un J"ou-to shun tho skep "uv voung man who puts his fin fa pln h!s vt and laughs at your old M.n,0 ,vIlgion, and turns over to ;." e mystery of the Bible and says : bin, om ,t!iat' my pious friend; ex 1 a .that." .And vhosavs: "Nobody fut. ,v'a,J me; 1 am not afraid of the tuiipr': !lsC(l to believe in such inotfS" so tliJ my father and K mt I have got over it." Yes, L;S( ,l"ver it; and if j'ou sit in ompaI1Va linle longei.you will out- .,"' U to- Without presenting idi,;! ;Lru,:u'ut against the Christian amf 11',v:u'11 men bv their jeers von, !" s and caricatures, destroy Wtl tpect f(r that religion which decli n strcngtU of your father ill his vour "nyears' and the Pillow of a-dvin0 mother, when she lay that vT 4A!asI a time will come when We rtenn? yung infidel will win flo i ' a lhen his diamond ring Ieatli , o ino sPlendor in the eyes of v-aitinVr f st!nds over the couch, kslvnif lllssul. Those beautiful W al, u,ncombed upon the pil caunot ltl !,evinSmanTrill y? V1 Jl die-I cannot die." Death, standing ready beside the couc says: muu must aie; .vou nave only half a minute to live; let me have it right away your soul " "Xo " it,, young intidcl, '-here are mv gold rings, and these pictures; take tiiem ail." "Xo'savs Death, "what do I care for j .ict u res ! your sou 1. " ' Stand Dack, s;iys the dying infidel. "I will not stand back," says Death, "for you have only ten seconds now to live; I want your soul." The dving man says- --Don't breathe that cold air into my face. You crowd me too hard It is getting dark in the room. OGckI." Hush," savs Death; "you said there was no God." "Pray for me." exclaims the expiring infidel. -'Too late to pray." says Death"; "but three more seconds to live, and I will count them oil' one two three." He has gone! Whore? Where? Carry him out out, and bury him be side his father and mother, who died while -holding fast" the Christi an. re ligion. They died sininjr; but the you n g i n f i del on 1 y sai d : Di m t b reath e that cold air into my face. You crowd mo too hard. It is getting 'dark in the room." THE MAN WHO DOES NOTHINO IS WORTH NOTHING. Again, I urge vou to shun the com panionship of idlers. There are men hanging around every store, and office, and shop, who have nothing to do, or act as if they had not, They are apt to come in ; when the linn are away, and wish to engage you in conversa tion while you are engaged in your regular employment PoliteK- suggest to such persons that you have no time to give them during business hours. Nothing would please them so well as to have you Renounce your occupation and associate with them. Much of the time they -lounge around the club rooms Or the doors of engine houses, or aftejr the dining hour stand upon the steps of a fashionable hotel or an elegant restaurant, wishing to srive you the idea that that is the place where they dine. But they do not dine there. They are sinking dowji lower and lower, day by day. Neither by day nor by night have anything to do with the idlers. Before you admit a man into your acquaintance ask him politely : "What do you do for a liv lngT If he says, "Nothing; I am a gentleman," look out for "him. He may have a very soft hand and very faultless apparel, and have a high sounding family name, but his touch is death. Before you know it you will in his presence bo ashamed of vour work dress. Business will be come to vou drudgery, and after awhile you will lose your place, and afterwards your 'respectability, and last of all your soul. Idleness is next door to villainy. Thieves, gamblers, burglars, shop lifters and assas sins are made from the v class who have nothing to do. When the police go to hunt up and arrest a culprit they seldom go to look in among busy clerks or in the busy car riage factory, but they go among the groups of idlers. The play is going on at the theatre, when suddenly there is a scuffle in the top gallery. What is it? A policeman has come in, and, leaning over, has tapped on the shoul der of a young man, saying: "I want you, sir." He has not worked during the day, but somehow has raked to gether a shilling or two to get into the top gallery. He is an idler. The man on his right hand is an idler and the man on his' left hand is an idler. Shrink back from idleness in your self and in others if you would main tain a right position. Good old Ashbel Green, at more than eighty years of age, was found busy writing, and some young man said to him: "Why do you keep busy i It is time for you to rest," lie answered : "I keep busy to keep out of mischief." Xo man is strong enough to be idle. Are you fond of pictures? If so I will show vou one of the works of an old master? Here it is: "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of under standing; and lo! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had cov ered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered well. I looked upon it and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth and thy want as an armed man." 1 don't know of another sentence in the Bible more explosive than that. It first hisses softlv, like the fuse of a cannon, and at last bursts like a fifty-four pounder. The old proverb was right : 'The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil.1 BREAD THAT IS CAST UPON THE WATERS. A voung man came to a man of ninety years of age and said to him: "How have vou made out io live o long and be so well ?" The old man took the vouno-ster to an orchard, and, pointing to some large trees run oi appies. am. "I planted these trees when I was a - . . l ii -i - bov. and do vou wonucr mai now am permitted to gather them r We nather in the truit oi old age what wa nl'ml in our vouth. Sow to the V J 7 W " J 111 wind, and we reap the whirlwind. T'lnnt. in enrlv life the right kind of a Christian character, and you will eat luscious fruit in old age, anil gathei these harvest apples in eternity. A,rain: I urge you to avoid the per vuitmd nleasure seeker. 1 believe in ,v.v.tinn and amusement. I need it as much as I need bread, and go to my daily exercise with as conscientious a purpose as 1 go to tne ioru s ouppei , and all persons of sanguine tempera-' it must have amusement and recre ation. God would not have made us icitv to laugh if he liau ;,to.ifl.l us sometimes to indulge IJUV Jllll. uv- . . : nA lioth Iiiino- m SCV. ailU Set 11. VJ Oil nin - . . - v in wave, and printed on grass many ..inwlehiv : but he who chooses pleas ure seeking for his life work does not understand for what God made linn t moments sire intended to help us in some earnest mission The thunder cloud hath an edg( ;.;tniv n!irnlf(l. but. with voice CAiluisiivy - -.1 l i,V ts the earth ' it declares nj tv-nfer he friwii nekls. me .;m n-ei under the fence are gay, hut thev sav : "We stand here to make a beautiful "edge" for the wheat field, tlift husbandmen in mm i . - - - - . . their nooninff." The stream sparkle and foams, and frolics, and savs: 'T go to baptize the moss. I lave the spots on the trout. I slake the thirst of the bird. I turn the wheel of the mill. 1 rock in my crystal cradle muckshaw and water lily." And so, while the world plays, it works. Look out for the man who '.always plays' and never works. Vou will do weil to avoid those whose regular business it is to play ball, skate or go a-boating. All these sports are grand in their places. I never derived so much advantage from any ministerial association as from a ministerial club that went out to play , ball every Saturday afternoon in the outskirts of Philadelphia. These rec-. reations are grand to give us muscle and spirits for our regular toil. I be lieve in muscular Christianity. A man is of ten not so near God with a Weak stomach as when he has a strong digestion. But shun those who make it their life occupation to sport. There are young men whose in dustry and ; usefulness have fallen overboard from the yacht on the Hud son or the Schuylkill. There are men whose business fe.'; through the- ice of the skating pond, and has never since been heard of. There is a beauty in the gliding of a .boat,' in the song of skates, in the soaring of a well struck ball, and I never see one 11 v but I in- 'voluntarily throw up mv-hands to catch it; and,: so far from laying an in junction upon ball playing, or any other innocent sport, I chum them all as belonging of right to those of us who toil in the grand industries of church and state. LISTEN NOT TO THE TEMPTER'S VOICE. But the life business of pleasure seeking always makes in the end a criminal or a sot. George Brummell was smiled upon by all England, and his life was j given, to pleasure, lie danced with peeresses, and swung- a round of mirth, and wealth, and ap plause, until exhausted of purse, and worn out oi body, and bankrupt of reputation, and ruined of soul, he begged a biscuit from a grocer, and declared that he thought a dog's life was better than a man's. Such men: will crowd around your desk or counter or work bench or seek to decoy you off. They will want you to break out in the midst of your busv day to take a ride with them tef Coney Island or to Central park. They will tell you of some people you must see; of some excursion that you must take; of some Sabbath day that you ought to dishonor. They will tell you of exquisite vincs that you must take; of costly operas that you must hear; of wonderful dancers that you must see; but before you accept their convoy or their companionship remember that while at the end of a useful life you may be able to look; back to kindnesses done, to honorable work accomplished, to poverty bellied, to a good name earned, to Christian influence exerted, to a Saviour's cause advanced these pleasure seekers on their death bed have nothing better to review than a torn playbill, a ticket for the races, an empty tankard and the cast out rinds of a carousal; and as in the delirium of their awful death thev clutch the goblet and press it to their lips, the dregs of the cup falling upon then' tongue will begin to hiss and uncoil with the adders of an eter nal poison. Cast out these men from your com pany. Do not be intimate with them. Al ways be polite. There is no demand that you ever sacrifice politeness. A young man accosted a Christian Qua ker with: "Old chap, how did you make all your money f" Tho Quaker replied: -"By dealing in an article that thou mayest! deal in it thou wilt- civilitv." Alwavs be courteous, but at the same time firm. Say no as if you meant it. Have it understood in store, and shop, and street, that you will not stand in. the companionship of the skeptic, tho idle, the pleasure seeker. Rather than enter the companion ship of such, ; accept the invitation to a better feast. Hie promises of God are the fruits. The harps of heaven are the music. Clusters from the vineyards of God have been pressed into the tankards. Ihe sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty are the guests. While, standing at the banquet, to . fill the cups and divide the clusters and command the harps and welcome the guests, is a daughter of God on whose brow are the blos soms of paradise, and in whose cheek is the flush of celestial summer. Hei name is Religion. : ' Her ways are ways of pleasantness. And all her paths are peace. WHERE THE RIGHT ROAD LEADS TO. Decide this soon, oh. voung man, what direction you will take. There comes such a m ent of final de cision whv not is ' One night saw a voung man ..t the street corner evidently doubting, a to which direc tion he had better take, his hat lifted high enough so you could see he had an intelligent forehead, and he had a stout chest and a robust development. Sulendid young man. Luitureu voung man. Honored voting man. Whv did he stop there while so many were going up and down? The fact is, that every man has a good angel and a bad 'angel contending for the mas tery of his soirit, and there was a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that voung man's soul aMhe corner of the street. "Come with me," said the "ood amrel; "1 will take you home; will spread my wing over your pil low: 1 will lovmglv escort you all through life under supernatural pro tection; I will bless every cup you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you enter ; I will con secrate vour tears when you weep, your sweat when you toil, and at the last I will hand over your grave to the hrio-ht nncrel of a Christian resurrec tion. In answer to your fathers peti tion and your: mothers prayer, I have been sent of the Lord out of heaven to be your guardian spirit. Lome with me" said the good angel, in a voice of unearthly symphony. It was music like that which drops trom a lute of heaven when a seraph breathes on it. "No, no," scid the bad angel, "come with me; I have some thing letter to offer; the wines I pour are f rom chalices of bewitching ca rousal ; the dance I lead is over floor tessellated with unrestrained indul gences i there is no God to frown on me temples of sin where I worship. The skies are Italian The paths I tread are through meadows, daisied and primrosed. Come with me." The voung man hesitated at : a time when hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel smote the good angel until it departed. spreading wings through tiie starlight upward and away, until a door flashed open iii the sky and forever the wings vanished. That was the turn- g point ''in that voung man's history, for.; the good angel flown. he hesitated no longer, but started on a pathway which is beautiful at the owning, but blasted at the last. The bad angel, leading the way, open ed gate after gate, and at each gate the road became rougher and the sky more lurid, and what was jeeuliar, as the gate slammed shut it came to with a par that indicatedilhat it would never open. Passed each portal, there was a grinding of locks and a shoving of bolts; and the scenerv on either side the road changed from gar dens to deserts, and the June air be came a cutting December blast, and the bright wmgs of the bad angel turned, to sack' cloth, and the eyes of light became hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at the start had tossed with win?, poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on tho right side the road there was a serpent, and the man said to the bad angel: '.'What is that serpent r and the answer was: "That is the ser- fent of stinging remorse.'" On the eft side the road there was a lion, and the man asked the bad angel: "What is that lion jf"'. and the answer was: "That is the lion of all devouring de spair."' A vulture flew through the sky. and the man asked the bad angel : iuu is inai vuiiure:. ami tne an swer was. "I hat is the yulture wait ing for the,; carcasses' of the slain." And then the man began to try to pull otf of him the folds of something that had wound him round and round, and he said to the bad angel:' "What is it that twists me in this awful con volution?" and the answer., was: "That: is tic worm that never dies!" And then the man said to the bad angel: "What does all this mean I trusted in what you said at he corner of the street that night; I rusted it all," and whv have vou thus deceived me p Then the last deception fell off, the charmer, and it said: '"I was sent forth from the pit to destroy your soul ; I watched my chance for many a longyear, when you hesitated that night on the street, I gained my triumph; now you are here. Ha! ha! You are here. Come, now, let us fill these two 'chalices of lire, and drink together to darkness and woe and death. Hail! Hail!"' Oh J young man, will the good angel sent forth by Christ or the bad angel sent forth by sin get the victory over your Isoul? Their wings are interlocked this moment above you, contending for your des tiny, as above the Appenines eagle and condor light mid-sky. This hour may decide your destiny. God help vou. To hesitate is to die ! Fish on the Table. There can be no doubt that it would be better Tor the brain and nervous system if fish oftener replaced meat as an article of food. Too stimulating and heating diet has been the cause of several diseases. Fish is one of the most easily digested of foods A medi cal authority states that trout is di gested in one hour and milk not till two hours. The reason for the ease with which : fish is digested j is the small amount of fat contained. Cod and light colored uish are more easily assi- i i i '.i . , t , -i i miiateti into tne system than tne darK er kinds, though not as nutritious. Broiled fish is most easily digested. and fried the least. Raw oysters are easily digested and very nutritious. Cooking sacrifices their best quality. Clam and oyster waters are now being much used for invalids, j Fish is not only a very important and wholesome food but it is less expensive than meat. The use of fish affords one of the eas iest and cheapest ways :by which to (have a variety. Care should be taken in fish as in other foods to buy it in its season. During Lent there isa great variety' of fish at reasonable prices. Halibut is a little higher; then, but is still cheaper than heef steak, and has more solid meat to : pound than steak. Salmon is possible in season, but as it is a dollar and a dollar and a half a pound Jit will hardly be j seen on the economist's table. One large fish has enough nutriment to form the basis of a family dinner without meat. It should always be served with farina ceous or vegetable food, as toast, pota toes, rice, macaroni and the like. Fish will reduce the cost of table fare if wisely used, and still satisfy the most vigorous appetite. Good House keeping. : Extension of Photography. One of the officials of the Midland rail way, England, is the ' company's photographcr-in-ordinaryi The name of his functions is legion.; When en gines or cariiages of a hew pattern are constructed he takes' a record of their features. If it is reported to the engineer that a viaduct shows signs of giving way, or a wall is cracked, or an embankment has slipped, if the damage is only slight, j instead of going himself to see the j state of af fairs, ihe sends the photographer to see and record it for him.! If an acci dent has happened there! can thus be no subsequent dispute as to how the engine- was lying, or whether the carriages left the rails. New York Mail and Express. Anecdote of O'Connel'.. O'Counell was called to the bar iu Dublin, in 179S. Among his first oases was one against a fellow! Kerr vman, who railed him a "purse proud block head."' "I have no purse to be proud of," said O'Connell, "and if I am a blockhead, all the better for you." The man lost his case and wrote a challenge to duel, but the young lawyer replied that he declined unless the Kerryman would insure his life in j O'ConnelTs favor so that it would be worth while fto shoot him. 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The stock is large, varied and well selected, embracing HATS) BONNETS, FLOWERS RIBBONS, ETC., OF THE LATEST STYLES. And all the ladies are cordially invited to call and rive it -an inspection. Good Goods at low prices, polite attention and an earnest effort to please await you. MRS. apr23-d2m Make It and Sold at Once ! Object ! They Must Bo I XTiid.er Stokes HalL 1 $100,000 100,000 $200,000 LEO. D. HEARTT, Cashier. CHAS. A. JORDAN, Teller. A. II. STORKS, J AS. A. BRYAN. J.T.MALLORY, MAKING COLLECTIONS 8ZPE RECENT. TO EVERYBODY. AND LOW PRICED! (I ALL THE CO." ADA Win SMITH, Bank of Mam, Main Street, Durham, N. C.
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