Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-26

DER the same temptatlOn yOu
might have fallen. The reason
some men do not steal $500, 900 Is be-
cause they do not get a chance. Have
righteous Indignation you must about that
mans conduct, but
TEMPER 1T WITH MERCY.
But you say; ~ am SO sorry that the
innocent should suffer" Yes, am, too
sorry for the widows and orphans who
lost their ell by that defalcatlon. / am
sorry also for the business men, the hon
est business men, who have had their al
fairs all crippled by that defalcation.
am sorry for the venerable bank presi-
dent 10 whom the credit of that bank WAS
a matter ofpride. Yes, am sorry also
for that mao who brought all the dis
tress; sorry that be sacrificed body, mind,
soul, reputation, heaven, and went into
the blackness of darkness forever.
You defantly say 81 could not be
tempted In that way" Perhaps you
may be tested after awhile. God
has very good memory, and lie
sometimes seems to say, HThis man
power and goodness he shall be tested;
he is 80 full of bitter Invectiye against
that unfortunate it shall be shown now
whether he has the power to stand"
Fifteen years 90 by. The wheel Of for
tune turns several times, and you are in
a crisis that you never could have antici-
pated. Now, all the powers OF darkness
come around, and they chuckle, and they
chatter, and they say: "Ahs. here is the
old fellow who was so proud OF his integ-
rity, and who Dragged he couldn't be
overthrown by temptation, and was so
uproarious in his demonstrations Of
indignation at the defalcation fifteen years
ago. Let us see" God lets the man 20.
God, who had kept that man under His
protecting care, let's the man 90 and try
for himself the majesty OF his integrity.
God letting the man go, the powers of
darkness pounce upon him. | see you
some day in your Office In great excite
ment. One of two things you can do. Be
honest, and be pauperlzed, and have
your children brought home from school,
your family dethroned In social influence.
The other thing Is, you can step a little
aside from that which is right, you can
only Just go half an inch
OUT OF THE PROPER PATH,
you can only take little risk, and then
you have all your finances fair and right.
You have large property. You can
ANo'S q iOlAAhS AOl YOUR NulluEtu huN tu~
dow a college, and build public library
In your native town. You halt and wait,
and halt and wait until your lips are
white. You decide to risk IT, Only a
few strokes of the pen now But oh,
how your hand trembles, how dreadfully
1t trembles! The die is cast BY the
strangest and most awful conjunction Of
circumstances any one could have
imagined, you are Frustrated. Bank
ruptcy, commercial annihllatlon, expos
ure, crime. Good men mourn aud
devils hold carnival and you
see your own name at the
head of a newspaper column in a whole
congress OF exclamation points; and
while you are reading the anathema in
the reportorial or editorial paragraph il
occurs to you how much this story is like
that of the defalcation fifteen years ago,
and clap of thunder shakes the window
sill, saying "With what measure We
mete, 1t shall be measured to you again!''
You look in another direction There
Is nothing like an ebullition OF temper to
put man to disadvantage. You, man
with calm pulses and fine digestion and
perfect health, cannot understand how
| anybody should be capslzed in temper by
an inflnitessimal annoyance. You say
81 couldn't be unbalanced In that way
Perhaps you smile at provocation thai
makes another man swear. You pride
yourself on your imperturbability You
say with your manner, though you
have too much good taste to cay 1t with
your words, 81 have a great deal NOR,
sense than that man has; l have s
great deal more equipoise OF temper thar
! hat ha i 10, ,
puerile exhibition of myself as that maj
has made"
My brother, you do not realize that tina
man was born with keen nervous or
| ganization that for forty years he ha
been under depicting process, tina
sickness and trouble have been helpiu.
undo what was left of original health
fitness, that much of his time II ha
been with him like filing saws, that hi
nerves have come to be merely
A TANGLE OF DISORDERS,
and that he Is the most pitiable object OF
earth who, though he Is very sick, doe
not look sick and nobody sympathizes
Let me see. Did you not say that yoI
could not be tempted TO an ebullition O
temper. Some September you com
home from your summer waterlng-plac
anu gOu nave insult, away DdCh III YOU
liver or spleen, what we cal
in our day malaria, but wha
the old folks called chills an
fever. You take qulnine until your ear
are first buzzing beehives and then roar
ing Niagaras. You take roots and herbs
you take everything. You get well. Blu
, the next day you feel uncomfortable, an
, you yawn, and you stretch, and 20
! shiver, and you consume, and you suffel
, Vexed more than you can tell, you cannC
, sleep, you cannot eat, you cannot bear t
/ see anything that looks happy, you g
out to kick the cat that Is asleep in th
sun. Your children's mifth was ono
music TO youi now 1t is deaiening, 70
say; "Boys, stop that racket" Yo
} turn back from June to March In tb
} family and in the neighborhood your POI
ularlty is g5 per cent. of. The worl
{ says: "What Is the matter with that dii
agreeable man2 What a woOegone couI
, tensnce! can't bear the sight of him.
, You have got your pay at last-got you
: psy. You feel just as the man felt, thS
man for whom you had no mercy, an