Stop!
A Handy Monitor and
Pocket Conscience.
THE NEW “COLTON’S LACON.”
By Author of NEVER and ALWAYS.

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Introduction.

The pining need of a work of this kind—aninstructive sharpener in book-form, as itwere, of the moral faculty—has long been soseriously felt that the author eagerly hastens tosupply it.

In “Never” and “Always,” his appealwas rather to the externalities of life. In“Stop,” his aim is to regulate the very springsof impulse, deliberation and resolve. In other4words, there is not a temptation that he wouldnot strip of its disguise, not an unworthy motivethat he would not pulverize as with a correctiveclub, not a misleading conceit that he wouldnot skewer to its squirming source.

Although the pearls of thought and monitorygems herewith presented are intended mainly foryoung men just entering upon the great work oflife, there is neither man nor maid, stripling norpatriarch, saphead nor sage who may not scramblefor them with avidity, and glory in their possession.

Young man, are you hesitating in the choiceof a vocation? A reference to the admonitionsunder this head in “Stop” may be the means ofyour becoming a Millionaire, a Police Magistrate5or an ornament to society. Are you in love, orwilling to be? A consultation of the advice atyour command may place you in such hobnobbing,soul-wedded relations with the rosy god as shallcause you to charm