Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1880 — Dangerous Companions. [ARTICLE]

Dangerous Companions.

SiJT iTthe ana uneves who are dangerous com panions to the green boys Justin from the country. Oh, dear.no! It is your respectable young men that have learned to sip discreetly In all sorts of forbidden fountains, and nibble here and there carefully of the forbidden fruit They are held as a pattern. They drink, but are never drunk. They have exactly the knack of seeing end knowing all that is to be known in the ways of wickedness, and yet keeping every step with the righteous. Some of them are church members and Sunday school teachers; some are regular shrewd business men. They are never going to hurt themselves, they tell you, but tihey believe in a certain freedom. They never could see the sense of temperance pledgee. For their part they don’t need them, and if there Is anything they abominate it is your radical, straight-laced people, who keep always in the dusty turnpike for fear of the precipice. - ■ —— ♦ ■ » If a man have love in his he>rt, he may talk in broken language, but it will be eloquence to those who listen. If a man is determined to do the best he can, whether ho drives a cart, conducts a bumness of a million dollars, or preaches the gospel, ho cannot fail Frivolity under whatever form it ap pears, takes from attention its strength, from thought its originality, from feel ing its earnestness. A Cleveland man is so afflicted with insomnia that he has to go to church to get sleep.