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domestic life. There Is no greater sport fol-
him than conjugal quarrel. 1t does moi
make any difference how long the marriage
ring has been on the finger Of the right hand,
he will try to pull OFF the signet He says
to the husband "Wbat q plain wife
you have compared with what she once was!
Don't you see that the color has gone out OF
about her temples and sprinkling of frost
on her locks! Besides that, you have
advanced in intelligence while she has stood
still or gone back. How hard it is that you
should be chained to such dullness and
imbecilty:" Then he turns and says to the
wife: "That man neglects you, you have a
right to be Jealous, He likes his ciger and
his club and anything and everything better
than you. Why not get divorce? Marriage
is only civil contract, anyhow,
and not divine alliance. Let me have that
ring. 1t means nothing and you might
as we'll give it to me-" The ring Is handed
like plaything over the mouth OF perdition
and says: II will hand it back. only
let me have it little while" And he
keeps tossing that ring with all its sacred
memories higher up and further out.
tossing anil catching, tossing and catching it
until one day YOU clutch for it, saying
"Give me hack my ring!" but 10, it has
dropped into the yawning eulf and you sud
denly find who has been pitching and catch.
whence comest thou| and he 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
%I 0ll
as 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 fluttering
crowd that the bride and groom were coming.
According to the statistics Of Professor
bikes. in one year in moral New Hampshlre
there were 24l divorces: in temperate Maine,
47s divorces: in good old Massachu-
setts, 600 divorces, and in the New
England Of STEADY habits, " BIB. In one
county of Illinois $50 divorce suits were
begun In one year. and IN many places it
seems as if a new arrangement had been
made of the Commandments, and instead Of
ten there were only nine, the seventh COM
mandment having been left out. When you
see how many husbands and wives are
parted by law, and know of so many who
would like to dissolve coniugal partnership,
do you not come to the conclusion that Satan
is engaged in mighty industriess
Another route that Satan is apt to take in
his active travels is the factories and other
where capital sits in the office
or counting room and good many hands OF
inborerS are busy among wheels and spin
dies and fabrics On this visit he will first
step into the manufacturers office and
finding the owner and proprietor OF
the great establishment all alone with
his correspondence and his account books
says to him: "You are not making as much
money as YOU ought. You furnish all the
brains. Were it not for your enterprise this
establishment would not be in ex-
in your employ are Of very COM
mon mold. Their appetite is coarser
and they do not need the luxuries 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, and II
they do not like it tell them to 60 where they
can do better" Having done his work in
the counting room Satan steps right
out among the workmen. He 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 walk?
Why should he have tenderloin steak and
you salt pork? Capital is the enemy of labor.
Let labor be the sworn foe Of capital.
Why don't you strike and bring him to
terms3 Wait until he has large order to
fill by contract and then he cannot help HIM
self. Go all together, without moments
and tell him you are going to stop:
If he bas more resources than you know of and
persists in going on and getting new men,
give them a volley Of brickbats or put o
little dynamite in his Office and blow him and
his factory all up with the same explosion"
Look out there on the night sky! Great fire
somewhere. What is it? The night Is cold
and Satan has made big bonfire of that
factory to warm himself by. The
capitalist has lost heavily and the
and their families are without
bread and clothing. Whence comest thou.
Satan" "From going to and fro among
employers and employees, and from walking
up and down among them. Ha! ha! was
the only one who made anything out of that
strike. What a splendid fire and lots OF
smoke Ha! ha! like smoke"
Another route Satan is apt to take in his
active travels is through the mercantile es-
He steps in and says to the
CLERKS. How much salary do yon ge5: Is
that ala Why, you can't live on that! You
have right to enough for q livelihood,
A few quarters out Of the money drawer will
a remnant of goods you could take home
without being found out. Or you could
change those account books a little and you
could make that figure eight naught and
that figure five a three, and if you do not
feel exactly right about doing that you can
some day pay it back, which you can do
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 aad you will have to wear that plain
coat, whereas you could have your overcoat
and walk amid plush and tapestries positive
" Oriental. While you are making up your
mind will Just go 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 or 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 young. MN is IN lsll 1or
Three lives ruined and three
eternities. Whence conest thou, Satans
:sFrom 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 I ever tasted fill my glass with
brewing of agonizing tears. Come! let US
click together the rims of our glasses ana
drink to the overthrow Of the fifty thousand
young men I ruined last yearl Huz=a"
Satan would rather have one Young man
than twenty old ones If he would win tre
saptuagen&rians and the octosenarinn,s
he could do but little harm with
them. But he says: "Give me a
young man, especially if he be bright ana
generous and social" He sees that young
mer have for good or bad been the mightieS5
influence in this world. Hernando Cortas
Mexico at thirty-two. Gustavus
Adophus became imm 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
ister of England at twenty four. Jesus Christ