| Show hints to loafers and others considering 0 the attending circumstances there has been less loafing in the streets and in and about the stores shops and public places in this city during the winter than might have been expected and far less than there was last winter tho there has hs been quite enough 0 and more than there ought to have haven been in a city where a majority of the people profess to be saints I 1 more of the young men and boys have been attending school or have otherwise been strive striving 0 to treasure up useful knowledge t than in any previous winter since this people have adjourned in these i valleys alleys at least so aar far i as our observation has extended an improvement which many have witnessed with pleasure and which we trust will citi cAti continue nue and not J cease when the wintry season beason eaon shall have 1 passed away 1 however it is wit with t that hat we have witnessed more loafing andreen and been seen more young men idling away eveir oti time jime me within the past week than usual and oh ol more than on one 9 q bocc cc a sion within a few jew dats days da have ie e seen those thode who have not fully arri arrived vedat at tho the ili lii 1 ige age age of mail mall manhood in a state of partial gnoj complete inebriation bria tipp tion a sad sail si s ht indeed and one we would be glad giad to ryer dyer nyer see seh agaibi a gin ain if young yo ung men who rho have an insatiate thirst for W intoxicating I 1 f q did aid jake take th the i advice advie of those who have to apo effects of giving way to tem temptation p tation under such circumstances ib ey buld give all ali places where such beverages are i ended a vide wide berth inalou aigy or be bese seen ell eil idi idl lounging glue al about ili liquor shops day aft erday nor Fasso associate cite vi ifft those who persistently persistent follow the road to death ath r it is the tiie duty of or parents guardians il and an friends to coun seland admon akmon admonish i li alse those over whom they have any contro control lw h tippey see them pursuing a co course urse uise that will lead them theato to destruction and and ana to bersu e m if possible to desist from whatever course they the or may be b pursuing thatis that is not elgh right an and which if i continued 1 in in will sooner or oi later lator bring 0 upon them degradation degia degla dation anatoe and ana woe I 1 if those immediately imm irately interested inter god sod would in ini that r respect do the their ar duty some of 0 the f few boys apu and middle aged men who have not seen fit as yc yet to comi commence hien fien e the work of I 1 improvement would shortly do so in all probability babi lity and the th humber dumber of that class would gradually diminish till there would be but few left who regardless of consequences would spend their time in idleness and A i drinkin drinking and brawling about the streets to the annoyance of those w v ho 0 dbr deprecate ecate ae their Wv 1 vagrant agrant and evil practices I 1 that in many t things lings there has been a material chan chane change chanc c for the b eit eft er within with in the 1 last ds t f few MY months all will admit who have been bech watching passing events event I 1 s but but there is need neel edof eddi of furth further er improvement yel yet ye taid arid arld alid if afew a few old and ancl middle middie aged apa men would set st about the work of reformation by vacating the be streets and public places where they are occasionally seen not altogether in a stae of soberness the example ani pie would not cot be lost but would have a 6 salutary effect upon others not go 0 in life th the 0 examples that have been bich te secand tand band the temptations that have been placed before the youth inthis in this city within the last tw two 0 years have not had as much influence to turn them I 1 aside from the path of virtue and ana rectitude as was anticipated by the missionaries who came here to effect that object and it affords pleasure suid to see those who have in an a n evil hour been overcome and partially surrendered surrender ed to the adversary occasionally throwing yoke and reforming by ceasing from the evil practices which for a time they have to some extent been engaged in and resume their in the ranks of those who are battling for cause of truth against the powers of ot that have so long prevailed over the inhabitants of the earth I 1 N no unnecessary obstacle should be to prevent the erring from reforming whenever they become convinced that the ways darkness are not as pleasant as the ways truth and light they should be dealt with so iong long long iong 0 as there is any reasonable for reform that principle has been upon extensively by the tho city authorities the mayor to the tho poli poll cafor for foz a long time other wise several fast young men who occasionally disturb the peace would ld have found lodgings in the lockup lock up oftener than they have however in our opinion it is about time to draw the reins a little tighter and to insist that the rules and regulations for the preservation 0 of apace peace and good order should be more I 1 strictly observed I 1 try it city fathers and if loafing drinking carousing r ac do da not thereafter 1 measurably cease then thin there is no use in hi ap ply plying ng the rod roa to a fools back for which it was made maae |
