. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . their knowledge whether you areruined or not ? Now let me give you another fact. People say I have noargument; that I do not use logic. Well, I draw my argu-ments from facts, and illustrate my arguments by can speak from a personal knowledge ofthe facts in the following incident; for Iknow one ofthe parties:A young manwent throughcollege withthe highesthonor; hisrecord andcharacterwere cleanand thetime he grad-uated he met with a great misfortune in having a legacyleft him of forty thousand dollars. Now, he said, befo
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . their knowledge whether you areruined or not ? Now let me give you another fact. People say I have noargument; that I do not use logic. Well, I draw my argu-ments from facts, and illustrate my arguments by can speak from a personal knowledge ofthe facts in the following incident; for Iknow one ofthe parties:A young manwent throughcollege withthe highesthonor; hisrecord andcharacterwere cleanand thetime he grad-uated he met with a great misfortune in having a legacyleft him of forty thousand dollars. Now, he said, beforeI buckle down to lifes work, I will see the world. And hedid so. He was of a nervous, susceptible temperament; heboarded in one of the best hotels, and commenced will not follow his course. After he had been there sometime, the landlord said to him, Look here, you and I knoweach other; we are men of the world, and it is always busi-ness before friendship. Now, you know the kind of houseI mean to keep. I have lady boarders with me, and they. adams exit fhom the closet. 108 LOWER AND LOWER. may be fastidious; but that has nothing to do with complain of your coming in late at night and mak-ing a noise. That will not do ; 1 think you had better find sonic other quarters. We arc friends ji^st the same asever, hut I think it would be better for lis both it you shiftyour quarters. .And he did. Now, young men, where didhe go? Did he go to a more respectable house? No; he went to a less respectable house. Every step a man takes inthis course is down, never up; never, never! He went where he could make a little more noise without troubling any-one. When he was too noisy for that house, they orderedhim away. He went to a lower and a lower and a lower place, everystep still lower. Eight years passed away. He was seatedin a grog-shop, — well, 1 can hardly describe it,—it was aplace where they kept bunks for men to sleep off the drink,and where a certain kind of food
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