The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-11-22

cllltyI Then he turns ana SuyS 70 the VINES
THAT man neglscts You, you have right
and anything and everything better than
you. Why not get divorce? Mar
rage is only n civil contract anyhow,
and not divine alliance. Let me
have that ring. 1t means nothing and you
might @ well give 1t to me- The ring is
handed over to Satan and he losses it up and
down like plaything over the mouth OF per-
dition and says, II win hand it back, only let
me have it a little while" And he keeps toss
ing that ring with all it's sacred memories
higher up and farther out, tossing and catch
ing it until one day you clutch for 1t, crying,
"Give back my ringl" but 10, it has dropped
into the yawning gulf and you suddenly ind
who has been pitching and catching the ring.
and cry out. whence contest thou?' and he
answers, s'From going to and fro in the do
ines &c life OF the city and from walking up
ard down in it: that is all" There are thou
sands of marriage relations strained almost
to breaking, and commend to all men and
women who are restless in the present mar
riage state that they resume the old-time
courtship and take 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 ana
fluttering crowd that the bride and groom
were coming. According to the statistics OF
Prof. bikes, in one year in moral New Hamp-
shire there were PAL divorces; in temperate
Maine, ATS divorces in good old Massachu-
setts, GOO divorces, and in the New England
of STEADY habits, 2,113. In one county OF
Illinois $40 divorce suits were begun In one
year, and in many places it seems as II a new
arrangement had been made OF the command
ments and instead of 10 there were only nine,
the seventh commandment having been left
out, When you see how many husbands and
wives ara parted by law, and know of SO
many who would like to dissolve conjugal
partnership, do you not come to the con-
clusion that Satan is engaged in mighty in
Gustries?
Another route that Satan is apt to take in
his active travels is the factories aud other
establishments where capital sits In the office
or counting room and good many hands
of laborers are busy among wheels and spin
dies and fabrics On this risit he will first
step into the manufacturers Office, and find
ing the owner and proprietor of the great es-
Establishment all alone with his correspondence
and his account hook, 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 existence. These men and women in
your employ are of very common mould.
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 ofstarva-
ton and take all the profits into your own
possession, and if they do not like it; tell
them to GO where they can do better" Hav-
ing 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 a bloated bond
holders anyhow. He has no right to have
any more than you have. Why should he
have tenderloin steak and you salt pork?
Capital is the enemy of labor. Let labor be
= 1rr rs~o If fo1 dnn'f ron
strike and bring him to terms? Wait until
he has large order to fill by contract and
then he cannot help himself. Go all together,
without moments warning, and tell him
you are going to stop. If he has more re-
sources than you know of and persists in
going on and getting new men, give them
volley of brickbats or put 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 some
where. What is it? The night il cold
and Satan has made big bonfire
of that factory to warm himself by.
The capitalist has lost heavily and the work
men and their families are 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 Ha! l was the only one
who made anything out of that strike.
What a splendid fire and lots Of smoke! Ha!
H a! like smoke"
Another route Satan is apt to take in his
travels is through the mercantile establish
ments. He steps in and says to the clerks:
"How much salary do you get? Is that all?
Why yon can't live on that! You have a
right to enough for a livelihood. A few
be missed, or here and there is a remnant of
goods you could take home without being
found out. Or you could change those ac-
count books q little and you could make
that figure eight q naught and that
figure FIVE three and if you dc
not feel exactly right about doing
that you can some day pay it back, which
running the risk? Well, then you can't go to
the theatre and you can't go on that round
with the boys and you will have to wearthat
plain coat whereas you could have your over
coat fur lined, and take board at a tiptop
place and walk amid plush and tapestries
positively oriental. While you are making up
your mind l will just go through tho differ
emit parts of his great commercial establish
ment and try every one from the wealthy
firm down to the errand boys" The result
of that Satanic visit is that one ofthepart-
ners has drawn so much out ofthe concern that
the whole business is crippled and a bright
and promising boy is sent home to his moth
er in disgrace and a young man is in jail for
ENLIGHTENMENT Three lives ruined and three
eternities. Whence eomest thou. Satan?
"From going to and fro among mercantile
houses and from walking up and down
among them. like to ruin splendid fellows
and blast parental hopes, and of all the
liquors that / ever tasted fill my glass
with brewing of agonizing tears.
Come let us click together the rims of our
glasses and drink to the overthrow of the
5000 young men Iruined last year! Huzza!"
Satan would rather have one young man
than 90 old ones. If he would win the sep
49, ov,I IL .o%<~, - he.
could do but little harm with them But he
says: "Give me a young man, especially if
he be bright and generous and social" He
sees that young men have for good OF bad
been the mightiest influence in this world.
fernando Cortez conquered Mexico at 80.
Gustavus Adolphus became immortal in
history so early that he died at 3S. Raphael,
the most famous of painters, died at 81.
William Pitt was prime minister of England
at "a. Jesus Christ completed his earthly
life at 33. Five years in y Dung mans life
are of more power for good or evil than the
last Is of an old mans life. So Satan is es-
pecially 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 despoiling of
the peoples souls. 1t does not pay him mere
ly to destroy the bodies of men and women.
Those bodies would soon be gone anyhow,
DuO SEctbO oIctiouIco nit lutOIycO ~ Culb 90
tanic excursion. On this route he meets
a man who is aroused by something he has
seen in the Bible, and Satan says: "Now,
can settle that; the Bible is an imposition;
it has been deluding the world for centuries:
do not let it delude you. 1t has no more au-
thority than the Roran of the Mohammedan
or the Shaster of the Hindoo, or the Zend
Vaesta of the Persianl" He meets another
man who is Fastening towards the kingdom
of God md says why all this precipita-
tionP Religion is right, but any time
within the next 10 years will be
soon enough for you. man with stout
chest like yours and such muscular develop
ment need not be botheripg himself about
the next world" Bht 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 40, and that another
learned man who proved conclusively that
if we observed all the laws of health we need
never die expired before he got his book on
that subject published. Satan meets another
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