The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-29

| is only civil contract, anyhow,
and not a divine alliance. Lot me have that
ring, 1t means nothing and you might
as we'll give it to me-" The ring is handed
over to Satan aud no tosses 1t up and down
like plaything over tho mouth of perdition
and says: 81 will hand it hack, only
let me have it little while" And he
keeps tossing that ring with all its sacred
memories higher up and further out.
tossing and catching, tossing and catching it
until one day you clutch for it, saying
"Give mo back my ringl" but 10, it has
dropped into the yawning gulf and you sud
denly find who has been pitching and catch
Ing tho ring and You cry out; From
whence CONTEST thouf ana no answers:
"From going to and fro in the
domestic life OF the city and from
walking up and down In it; that Is all"
There are thousands of marriage relations
strained almost to the breaking, and COM
mend to all men and women who are rest
| less IN the present marriage state that they
resume tho old time courtshp, and take
us much pains to make themselves agreeable
as they did five, or ten. or twenty
years ago, before the wedding march
announced to the flushed and nuttering
crowd that the bride and groom we're coming.
| According TO the statistics of Professor
bikes, in one year in moral New Hampshire
there were 24l divorces in temperate Maine,
AS divorces; in good old Massachu-
sets, GOO divorces, and in the New
England Of STEADY habits" BIB In one
county of lliinois $50 divorce snits were
begun In one car, and IN many places it
seems as il aew arrangement hal been
| made of the Commandments, and instead OF
ten there were only nne the seventh cont
mandment having been left out. When you
SEQ how many husbands and wives are
parted by law, and know of so many who
would like to dissolve onjugal partnership,
do you not come to the conclusion that Satan
is engage in mighty industries?
| Another route that Satan is apt to take in
his active travels is the factories and other
establishments where capital sits in the office
lahorers are busy among wheels and spin
dies and fabrics On this visit he will first
step into the manufacturers office and
finding tho owner and proprietor OF
the great establishment all alone with
his correspondence and his account books,
says to him: lyon are not making as much
money ms You ought. You furnish all the
brains, Were it not for your enterprise this
establishment would not be in ex-
istence. These men and women
in your employ ara of very conf
mon mold. Their appetite is coarser
and they do not need the Injuries you
require. Their comfort and happiness are
of very little Importance, Put them down
on the very verge of starvation and take all
| the profits into your own possession, ana il
| they do not like it tell them to so whore they
| can do better" Having done his work in
the counting room Satan steps right
out among tina workmen lio says; you
| work too many hours and you do your work
| better than it needs to be done You are
serving bloated bondholder anyhow He
has no right to have any more than you
have. Why should he ride and you walks
| Why should he have tenderlon steak aud
you saltporks Capita! is the enemy Of labor.
Let labor be the sworn foe of capital.
| Why don't you strike and bring him to
terms' Wait until he has large order to
| fill by contract and then he cannot help him
SELF Go all together, without a moments
| warning, and tell him you are going to stop.
III he has more resources than you know of and
| persists in going on and getting new men,
| give them a volIey of brickbats or put a
| little dynamite in his Office aud blow him and
his factory all up with the same explosion"
Look ont there on the night sky Great fire
somewhere What is it, The night is cold
and Satan has made a big bonfire of that
| factory to warm himself by. Tho
capitalist has lost heavily and the
workmen and Their families nre without
bread and clothing. "Whence contest thou.
| Satan" "From going to and fro among
| employers and employees. and from walking
| up and down among them Hal hal was
the only one who made anything cut of that
strike. What splendid fire and lots OF
| smoke, Hal ha! like smoke"
Another route Satan is apt to take in his
active travels is through the mercantile es-
| Establishments: He sters in and says to the
clerks, "How much salary do yon get! Is
| that all! Why, you can't live on that! You
/ have a right to enough for livelihood,
| few quarters out of the money drawer will
| never be missed. or here and there is
remnant of gools you could take home
without being found out. Or you could
nho hos ,,,t hnA Il
| could make that figure eight a naught and
that figure five a three, and if you do not
| feel exactly right about doing that you cal,
/ some day pay it back, which You can dc
| perfectly easy. Don't feel like running the
risk? Well then you can't go to the theater
and you can't go on that round with the
boys and you will have to wear that plain
coat, whereas you could have your overcoau
| fur lined, and take board at a tiptop place
and walk amid plush and tapestries positive
| ly Oriental. While you are making up your
mind l will just 90 through the different parts
of this great commercial establishment
| and try every one from the wealthy firm
down to the errand boys" The result of
that Satanic visit is that one of the partners
has drawn so much out of the concern that
| the whole business is crippled and bright
and promising boy is sent home to his mother
in disgrace and a young nan is in Jail for
| embezzlement. Three lives ruined and three
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"From going to and fro among mercantile
houses and from walking up and down
| among them. like to ruin splendid fellows
and blast parents hopes, and of all the liquors
that | ever tasted fill my glass with a
| brewing of agonizing tears. Comet let us
| click together the rims of Our glasses and
drink to the overthrow of the fifty thousand
young men | ruined last year, Huzzan
Satan would rather have one young man
than twenty old ones If he would win the
septuagenarians and the octogenarians
he could do but little harm with
them. But he says: "Give me a
young man, especially if he be bright and
men have for good or bad been the mightiest
influence in this world. fernando Cortes
conquered Mexico at thirty two. Gustavus
Adolphus became INN ortal in history so
early that he died at thirty eight. Raphael,
the most famous of painters died at
thirty-seven William Pitt was Prime Min
lister OF England at twenty four. Jesus Christ
completed his earthly life at thirty three.
Five years in young mans life are of more
| power for good or evil than the last fifteen
of an old mans life. So Satan is especially
| greedy for young men, and in going to and
| fro in the earth he has especial temptation
for them.
| Another route that Satan on his active
travels is apt to take is for the despoling of
the peoples souls: 1t does not pay him
merely to destroy the bodies Of men and
women. Those bodies would soon be
gone anyhow; but great treasures are
involved in this Satanic excursion.
| On this route he meets man
who is aroused bv something he has
seen in the Bib and Satan says: ''Now /
can settle all that; the Bible, is an imposi-
ton; it has been deluding the world for
| centuries do not let it delude you 1t has
no more authority than the Koran of the
Mohammedan or the Shaster of the
Hindoo. or the Zenda-Vcsta of the
Persianl" He meets another man
who is fastening towards the kingdom
Of God and says; why all this precipta-
tione Religion is right. hut any tirne
within the next ten years will bs soon
enough for you A man with stout
chest like yours and such muscular
development need not be bothering him
mself ahont the next worll." But Satan
says nothing to him about the fact that the
professor who gave his whole life to the
study OF health and could lift more pounds
than any American died at about forty,
and that another learned man who proved
conclusve!y that il we observed all
the laws of health we need never die,
| expired before he got his book on that
sub ioct published Satan meets another man