The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-15
THE CHURCH DEBT.

rye Expresses His satisfaction With
mo Life of an Eccentric Millionaire.
pave been thinking the matter over
seriously, and | have decided that if [
mad )my life to live over again [ would
Ake TO be an eccentric millionaire.
have ecceutricity enough, but | can
not successfully push it without moro
have a great many plans which I
Wquid like to carry out in case | could
unite the two necessary elements for the
production of the successful eccentric
millionaire.
Among other things would be will
ing to bind myself, and give proper Sc
curity to any one who would put in
money to offset my eccentricity, that
would ultimately die. We ali know how
seldom the eccentric millionaire now
DIES. | would be willing to inaugurate
reform in that direction.
! think now that | would endow a
nome for men whose wives are no longer
able to support them. In many cases
the wife who was at first able to sup
port her husband comfortably finally
shoulders a church debt, and in irving
to lift that she overworks and impairs
her health so that she becomes an
invalid, while her husband is left to pine
away in solitude or dependent upon the
cold charities of the world.
My heart goes out toward those men
even now. and in case | should fill the
grave of the eccentric millionaire, / am
sug6 would do tho square thing by
-ss$.
The method by which our wives in
America are knocking the church debt
silly by working up their husbands
groceries mo ''angel food, " and selling
them belowactual cost, is deserving of
the attentionof our national financiers.
The church debt itself is deserving of
notice in thi country 1t certainly
thrives betterunder a republican form
of government than any other feature
OF our boasted civilization. Western
towns spring u everywhere, and the
first anxiety is tt name the place. and
second to incur achurch debt and es-
tablish a roller rhk.
After that a general activity in trade
is assured. OF colrse, the general hos
filthy of churcb AMI ri,,l- ,IT.lI ,,,o,,,,,+
ennui and listless,nss and tba cburnh
debt will encourage Il business boom
Naturally, the churh debt can not be
paid Without what i generally known
through the West as the festival and
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Then there is therow or social knock.
down-and- drao-out which ooes aIono
with the church debt. All these thinGe
add 70 the General Interest and to ac.
oniro INTEREST in one wav or smother i
tbe mission of fine q Il
7 once knew = most o1omn1arv woman
who became Greatly Interested in The
v,ininr ont of = cbHrcb dabt and who
did inaIlv succeed in whine ont tbq
dabt hnt in it's last eyniring death strnr.
ole # cave her q wine from which she
nevor Tecovcred She had sncrnndpd in
hogging the milk and the craom and
tho egGs and the sandwiches and fhl
nse If fba fishes and the .nra, and tbe
loon Of an ovstor and tbonsG Of a frooz
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To bo cold to mon who wore not in tbo
habit OF wearing bouquets, but she