Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-19


man oil a property, you must serve upon
Inn a writ OF eiec,mcnt, giving HIM a
certain time TO yaCate the premises, but
when
Comes to us and serves a writ OF eject
mcnt he does not give us one second OF
~forcwarning. He says: 'OI this place.
You have no right any longer in the pos
session" We might cry out: Il gave
you a hundred thousand dollars for that
property" the plea would be no avail.
We might say: 1--WE have a warrantce
deed for that property the plea would
be of 10 avail. We might say: I'VE
have a lien on that ~store-house,' that
would do us no good. Death is blind,
and he cannot see "A seal and cannot read
an indenture. SO that, first and last, |
want to tell you hat when you propose
that | give up my soul for the world, you
cannot give me the first item of title.
Having examined the title of property,
your next question is about insurance.
You would not be silly enough TO buy a
large warehouse that could moi possibly
be insured. You would not have any
thing to do with such a property. Now,
| ask YOU what assurance can you give
III lIli tlli0 NOtlU 1 lIot sums ~ ~
burned upy Absolutely non Geolo-
gists tell rs that it is already on fire; that
the heart of the world is one great living
coal; that it is just Ikea ship on fire at
sea, the flames not bursting out because
the matches are kept down. An yet you
propose to palm on me in return for my
soul, Il world for which in the first place
YOU give no title, and in the second place
fnp N.ItAI xrn,, a 81 i,yn M IngIt - moo
ooh" you say, the water of the oceans
will wash over all the land and put out
the fire" oh no. There are inilamma-
bic element in the water. hydrogen and
oxygen. Call of the hydrogen and then
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans would
blaze like heaps Of shavings. You want
me TO take this world for which you can
give no possible insurance.
DISAPPEARANCE OF WORLDS.
Astronomarsha have swept their telescopes
through the sky, and have found out that
there have been thirteen worlds, III the
last two centuries that have disappeared.
AT first they looked iustlike other worlds.
Then they got ashen, showing they were
burned down. Then they disappeared,
showing that even the ashes were scat
tered. And if the geologist be right in
his prophesy. then our world is TO 90 in
the same way. And yet you want ne to
exchange my soul for ii. All, no; 1t is a
world that is burning now. suppose you
brought an insurance agent 10 look at
your property for the purpose OF giving
you a policy upon it, and while he stood
in front of the house he should say:
That house is on fire now in the base
mcnt." you could rot get any insurance
upon it. Yet YOU talk about this world
as though 1t were a safe investment as
though You could ret some insurance
upon it, when down in the basement il is
on fire.
remark, also. that this world is a
property, with which everybody who has
taken it as a possession has had tro;.hle.
Now. | know Il large reach of land that
is not built on. | ask what is the matter,
and they reply that everybody who has
had anything to DO with that property
got into trouble about il. 1t is Just SO
with this world; eyerybody'tha has had
anything 10 do with il, as a possession,
has been in ~perplcXity. How was it
with Lord Byron? Did he not sell his
immortal soul for the purpose OF getting
the world? Was he satisfied with the
possession? Alas alas! the poem graph
ically describes his case when it says:
"Drank every cup Of Joy.
Heard every trump Of fame;
Drank early, deeply drank,
Drank Graughts which common mill ion
might have qucnched,
Then died Of thirst because there was no
more 70 drink"
THIS WORLD A CHEAT.
Oh. yes, he had trouble with it; and SO
did Napoleon. After conqucring nations
by the force of the sword, he lies down
to die, his entire possession the military
boots that he insisted on having upon his
feet while he was dying, SO 1t has been
with men who had better ambition.
Thackcray, one of the most genial and
lOvabic souls. after he had won the APP
plause of all intelligent lands through his
wonderful genius, sits down in a rcstaur-
ant in Paris. looks 10 the other end of the
room. and wonders whose that f0rlorn
and wrctched face is; rising up after "A
while. he finds that it is Thackcray in the
mirror. Oh, yes, this world is q cheat
Talk about a man gaining the world
Who ever gained half of the world? Who
ever owned a hemisphere? Who ever
gained n continent? Who ever owned
Asia? Who ever gained a city? Who
ever owned Brooklyn? Talk about gain
inc the world, No man ever gained 1t,
or the hundred thousandth part Of it.
You are demanding that sell my soul.
not for the world, but for "A fragment OF
it. Here is a man who has had a large
estate for forty or fifty years. He lies
down TO die. You say: That man is
worth millions and millions Of dollars
Is he? You call up "A surveyor, with his
compass and chains. and you say
There is "A property extending three
miles i'm one direction, and three miles III
another direction" is that the way tC
measure that mans property? No, You
do not want any surveyor, with his com.
pass and chains. That is not the way tc
measure that mans property now. 1t is
an undertaken that you need, who VII
come and put his finger in his vest
pocket. and take out a tapc'line, and he
will measure five feet nine inches ono
way, and two feet and a half the Othel
wav. That is the mans property. Oh
no. | forgot: not 81 much as that, for ht
does not own even the place in which n,
lies in the cemetry. The deed to that be
longs To the executors of the hire. Oh,
what a property you propose to give mt
for my soul! If you sella bill of goods
YOU 90 into the counting room. and say
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