The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, May 21, 1896, Image 5
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i neririg look until tlufteh crouches
a your presence. Therifio nmnstros-
uh. (, if ' vit 'kcdnes» thatin stand un*
ashed under tho phuJf purity and
nl ),inr ^oop 8 tlfightninga of
aim m his own seabfd, and no hu-
an arm ean wield the/but God gives
o eiery young man a nitning that ho
ay use, and that is th/ightning of an
nest eyo. Those wlihnve l>eeu close
nrklT 01 ? city life ill not wonder
warning t^'young men and
mpniiions. ”
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when this
fill have to
ring will
of Death
rSK him politely, “What do
t»£K a living?” If he says, ‘‘Noth-
n gentleman,” look out fur
may have a very soft hand
faultless apparel, and have a
tiding family name, but his
death. Before you know it you
his presence bo ashamed of your
ress. Business will become to yon
ry, and after awhile you will lose
lare, and afterward your respect-
y, and last of all your soul. Idle-
is next door to villainy. Thieves,
biers, burglars, shoplifters and as-
ins are made from the class who
c nothing to do. When the police go
hunt np and arrest a culprit, they
ildom go to look in at the busy carriage
tetoryor behind the counter where dili-
ent clerks are employed, but they go
among tho groups of idlers. The play is
going on at the theater! 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
shoulder of a young man, saying, ‘T
want you, sir. ” He has not worked
during the day, but somehow has raked
together 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.
Sin Drerdinc Iritrnrss.
During the past few years there has
been a great deal of dullness in business.
Young men have complained that they
have little to da If they have nothing
else to do, they can read and improve
their minds and hearts. These times are
not always to continue. Business is
waking up, and the superior knowledge
that in this interregnum of work you
may obtain will be worth $00,000 of
capital. The large fortunes of the next
2i years are having their foundations
laid now by the young nn n who are
giving themselves to self improvement.
I went into a store in New York and
saw five men, all Christians, sitting
round, saying that they had nothing to
do. It is an outrage for a Christian man
fo have fiothing to do. Let him go out
tjud visit the poor, or distribute tracts,
or go and read the Diblc to the, sick, or
take out pis New ^Ystament and l>o
pinking fii-j eternal fortune. L* t him go
pifo the beck office and pray.
Shrink back from pllenoss in yourself
ppd in others jf yog would maintain a
right position, Good old Ashbel Green
gt more than bO years of ago was found
busy writing, and pome young man said
to him I “Why do yon keep busy? It is #
time for yon to rest, ” He answered, “I
keep busy to keep out of mischief, ” No
man is strong enough to be idle,
Are yon fond of pictures? If so, I will
show yon one of the works of nn old
master, Hero it is: “I went by the field
of the plothful and by tho vineyard of
the man void of understanding, and lo!
It was all grown over with thorns, and
nettles had covered 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 ns nn armed man.” I
don’t know of another sentence in the
Bible more explosive than that. It first
hisses softly, like the fuse of a cannon,
and at last bursts like a 54 pounder.
The old proverb was right, “The devil
tempts most men, but idlers tempt the
j devil.”
A young man rame to a man of fit
j years of age and said to him, “Hoy
have ■'« made out to live so long at
! be j^ivell?” The old man took
I ▼' •^Kter to an orchard, and, point
^c^^ie large trees fall of ’’apples, s
“I planted these trees when I was a boy,
and do you wonder that now 1 am per-
laid attusenir nt. God would not have
ns with the capacity to laugh if
jfeftd not intended us sometimes to in
dulge it. God hath hung in sky and
fbt in wave and printed on grass many
a roundelay, but he who chooses pleas
ure seeking for his life work docs not
[erstand for what God made him.
r amusements are intended to help
in some earnest mission. The thun
dercloud hath an edge exquisitely pur
pled, but with voice that jars the earth
it declares, “I go to water the green
fields.” The wild flowers under the
fence arc gay, but they say, “We stand
here to make room for the wheatfield
and to refresh the husbandmen in their
nooning.” The stream sparkles and
foams and frolics and says: “I go to
baptize the moss. I lave the spots on
the trout. I slake the thirst of the bird.
I turn tho wheel of the mill. I rock in
my crystal cradle muckshaw and water
lily.” And so, while the world plays, it
works. Look out for the man who al
ways plays and never works.
You will do well to avoid those whose
regular business it is to play ball, skate
or go a-boating. All these sports arc
grand in their place’s. I never derived
so much advantage from any ministerial
association as from a ministerial club
that went out to play ball every Satur
day afternoon in the outskirts of Phila
delphia. These recreations are grand to
give us muscle and spirits for our regu
lar toil. I believe in muscular Chris
tinnity. A man is often 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 arc young men whose in
dustry and usefulness have fallen over
board from the yacht. There arc men
whoso business fell 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 thc-soaring of a well struck ball, and
I never see one fly but I involuntarily
throw up my hands to catch it, and so
far from laying an injunction upon ball
playing or any other innocent sport, I
claim them all as belonging of right to
those of us who toil in tho grand indus
tries of church and state.
But the life business of pleasure seek
ing always makes in the end a criminal
or a sot. George Brummol was ’smiled
upon by nil England, and his life was
given to pleasure. He danced with the
peeresses and swung a round of mirth
and wealth and applause until, ex
hausted of purse, and worn cut of body,
and bankrupt of reputation, and ruined
of soul, he begged a biscuit from a gro
cer and declared that he thought a
dog’s life was better than a man’s.
Sueli men will come into your office,
or crowd around your anvil, or seek to
decoy yon olT. They will want you to
break out in the midst of your busy day
to take a ride with them. They will
tell yon of some people you must see, of
some excursion that yon must take, of
some Sabbath day that you ought to
dishonor. They will tell you cf exqui
site wines that you must taste, of costly
operas that you must hear, of wonderful
dancers that you must see, but before
you. accept their convoy or their com
panionship remember that while at the
end of a useful life you may be able to
look back to kindness's done, to honor
able work accomplished, to poverty
helped, to a good name earned, to Chris
tian influence exerted, to a Saviour’s
cause advanced—these pleasure seekers
oil their deathbed have nothing better
to review than a torn playbill, a ticket
for the races, an empty tankard, and the
east out rinds of a carousal, and, as in
tho delirium of their awful death they
clutch the goblet and press it to their
lips, the dregs of the cup fulling ppou
their tongue will begin to hiss ami, mi-
coil with the adders pf an eternaj pri
son.
Tho Gntukliac Spirit.
Again, avoid as you would avoid tho
death of your body, mind and soul any
one who has in him the gambling spirit.
Men who want to gamble will find
places just suited to their capacity, not
only in the underground oyster cellar or
a$ the table back of the curtain cover
ed with greasy cards, or in the steam
boat smoking cabin, where the bloated
wrench Vtth rings in his ears deals out
his pack find winks at the unsuspi cting
traveler — providing fisc drinks all
around—but in gilded parlors ami amid
gorgeous surroundings.
This sin works ruin, first, by unhealth
ful stimulants. Excitement is pleasura
ble. Under every sky and in every age
men have sought it. The Chinaman
gets it by smoking his opium, the Per
sian by chewing hasheesh, the trapper in
a buffalo hunt, the sailer in a squall,
tho inebriate in the bottle and the avari
cious at the gaming table. We must at
times have excitement. A thousand
voices in our nature demand it. It is
right. It is healthful. It is inspiring.
It is a desire God given. But anything
that first gratifies this appetite and
hurls it back in a terrific reaction is de
plorable and wicked. Look ont for tho
agitation that like a rough musician
in bringing out the tune plays so hard
he breaks down the instrument. God
never made man strong enough to en
dure the wear and tear of gambling ex
citement. No wonder if, after having
failed in the game, men have begun to
sK.eep off imaginary gold from the side
man was sharp cnou
ime, but.
street where bis family live* But gam
bling does not in that v. ay expose its
victims. The gambler may be eaten np
by the gambler’s passion, yet yon only
discover it by the greed in his eyes, the
hardness of his features, the nervous
restlessness, the threadbare coat and
his embarrassed business. Yet he is on
the road to hell, and no preacher’s voice
or startling warning or wife’s entreaty
can make him stay for a moment his
headlong career. The infernal spell is
on him, a giant is aroused within, and
though you may bind him with cables
they would part like thread, and though
you fasten him seven times round with
chains they w’ould snap like rusted wire,
and though you piled up in his path
heaven high Bibles, tracts and sermons
and on the top should set the cross of
the Son of God, over them all the gam
bler would leap, like a roe over the
rocks, on his way to perdition.
A Itnlnoua V»rer.
A man used to reaping scores or hun
dreds of dollars from the gaming table
will not be content with slow work. He
will say,What is the use of my trying
to make these $50 in my store when I
can get five times that in half an horn
down at Billy’s?” You never knew a
confirmed gambler who was industri
ous. The men given to this vice spend
their time not actively engaged in the
game in idleness, or intoxication, or
sleep, or in corrupting new victims.
This sin has dulled the carpenter’s saw
and cut the band of the factory wheel,
sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the
fanner’s harrow and sent a strange
lightning to shatter the battery of the
philosopher. The very first idea in gam
ing is at war with all the industries of
society. Any trade or occupation that is
of use is ennobling. The street sweeper
advances the interests of society by the
cleanliness effected. The cat pays for
the fragments it eats by cleaning the
house of vennin. Tho fly that takes the
sweetness from the dregs of the cup
compensates by purifying the air and
keeping back the pestilence. But the
gambler gives not anything for that
which he takes. I recall that sentence.
He does make a return, but it is dis
grace to the man he fleeces, despair to
his heart, ruin to his business, anguish
to his wife, shame to his children and
eternal wasting away to his soul. He
pays in tears, and blood, and agony,
and darkness, and woe. What dull
work is plowing to the fanner when in
the village saloon in one night he
makes and Irtses tlvo value of a summer
harvest! Who will want to sell tape,
and measure uankecq, and cut gar
ments, and weigh sngars, when in a
night's game lie makes and loses, and
makes again and loses again, profits of a
season? John Borack w’ns sent as mer
cantile agent from Bremen to England
and this country. After two years his
employers mistrusted that all was not
right. .He was a defaulter for $87,000.
It was found that he had lost in Lom
bard street, London, $29,000; in Fulton
street, New’ York, $,10,000, and in New
Orleans $:i,0()0. lie was imprisoned,
but afterward escaped and went into
the gambling profession. Ho died in a
lunatic asylum. This crime is getting
its lever under many a mercantile honse
in our cities and before long down will
come the great, establishment, crushing
reputation, homo comfort and immortal
souls.
Gnmea of Chance.
The whole world is robbed. What is
most sad, there are no consolations for
the loss and suffering entailed by gam
ing. If men foil in lawful business,
God pities and society commiserates,
but wb' ro in the Bible or society is
there any consolation for the gambler!
From what tree of the forest oozes tjirre
a balm that ran soothe the gnmester'e
heart? In that bottle where God keeps
the tears of his-ehildren are there any
tears of the gambler? Do the winds that
come to kiss the faded cheek of sickness
and to cool the heated brow of the la
borer whisper hope and cheer to the
emaciated victim of the game of haa*
ard? When on honest, man is in trouble,
he lias sympathy. “Poor fellow!” they
say. But do gamblers come to weep at
the agonies of the gambler? In North-
umbcrlnml was one of tlie finest estates
in England. Mr. Porter owned it and
in a year gambled it all away. Having
lost the last acre of the estate, he came
down from the saloon and got into his
carriage, went bark, put up his horses
and carriage and town honse and play
ed. He throw and lost. He started for
home and on a side- alley met a friend,
from whom he borrowed ten guineas.
He went back to the saloon, and before
a great while had won £20,000. Ho
died at last a beggar in St. Giles. How
many gamblers felt sorry for Mr. Por
ter? Who comoled him on the loss of
his estate? What gambler subscribed to
put a stone over the poor man’s grave?
Not one. Furthermore, this sin is the
source of uneonuted dishonesty. The
game of hazard itself is often a cheat.
How many tricks and deceptions in the
dealing of the rards! The opponen
hand is ofttimes found ont by
Cards are marked so that
designated from thebnet
sters l^’c their
wink tBy decide
have iBn fi
so
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•••h) uphar. ,,/' • l ‘‘ r himself
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hlers^
whi^
initted to gatlier tho fruit of th< m?” \V ( , i of ten, im- * n J 1 ' 110 Ca Si
gather in old age what we plant in onr Ions and exhausted Ul ’ ' vkce ^
A '- ° 4 ' the wind, and wp reap
ift: the
-*er, and
youth. Sow’ to
the whirlwind. Plant in ea,
right kind of a Christian
you will eat luscious, £y|
and gather these barv
A young man. hayitgi
•ted a Urge property,
' i t tttb *'*
, 11 ^tate won by tt fii
“** m eter- 1 and shakes it
no
not
it is
God that it wlrrnot
unappeasable, flerrer
blinds, it hardens,
crashes, it damns,
with gamblers whether'
large scale or small scale.
Cast out these men from ;
ny. Do not be intimate witl
ways be polite. There is
that yon ever sacrifice politl
young man accosted a Christl
with, “Old chap, how did yc
your money?” The Quake
"By dealing in an article
mayst deal in if thou wilt-
Always be courteous, but ai|
time firm. Say no as if y<]
it. Have it understood in stor
and street that you will nl
the companionship of the si
idler, the pleasure seeker, thoj
Rather than enter tho comj
of such accept the invitation,
feast. The promises of
fruits. The harps of heaven
sic. Clusters from the vineya
have been pressed into tank!
sons and daughters of tl
mighty are the guests. W|
at the banquet to fill the ct
the clusters, and eommg
and welcome the guests,
of God on whose brow are tl
of paradise and in whoso cl
flush of celestial summer. H^
Religion.
Her ways aro ways of pleasant
And all her paths aro peace.
PROTECTION
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epidemics is given by II
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EBLOOD. j 1
Ordinance.
1 HOG LAW.
'lie it ordained by tie Town Coucil
of Gaffney, S. C.. in council assem
bled :
Skc. 1. That on and after the Kith
day of May. 18%, it shall be unlaw
ful for any person or persons to keep !
or allow to live, hogs or swine of any 1
kind in pens or lots or otherwisyy 0
docs a gj
businej
Proofi
Safet;
rent.
-Cf]
within the boundary known as tjG/
v* -»ri
fire, limits in the town. This applp 0 ' °t)
_ l „ . . I . I # » # V </oa
8
to drove hogs or
hogs for sale on f(
wx
Hi
or otherwise.
Skc. 2. That it shall be unlawful |
raise, keep or allow hogs or swine >
any kind in pens, lots or otherwis
within the corporate limits of tl
town except as hereinafter provide!
Hogs or swine may be allowed to
kept or raised in pens which shtr^,
have a plank floor not less than tj ) *■
feet above the ground and laid so
to slant to one side for drainage, MMfjjT •
to be kept clean and free from lilXe^ 1
on said floor and underneath. fty/jj
No pen shull be allowed within ytj 'j
hundred feet of any well or cisterjA^/
nearer than one hundred feet of,
residence. /fyAj
No drove hogs or hogs for suler*4^ 1
be allowed in pens, lots or buK
adjoining or fronting on any
striW. or any marsh,. ...
negrfRjy residence, or shall ^ ^
gs artfjy
8$
e.i
i
JiaL or any marshy or damj *
irVyy residence, or shalk^
plncV in which hogs are , ^
)wcd lo become foul or
or placf
allowed lo become foul .
ble from neglect. fl
That all phtaesjGierc hogs Si]
lowed under p^
tions must bfl
offensive, or tj
dared a nub
maintaining sj
ficution by a jn!
member of th!
shall be lined in
one hundred doll^
thirty days impl
duv said nuisance!
or to work on (lit
provided for in
71, chain gang^ril
Attest L. BAKERJ
Town Of
k*M*nmce