The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-23

cred memories higher up and further
out, tossing and catching, tossing and
catching it until one day you clutch for
1T, crying: "Give me back my ringl' but
10, it has dropped into the yawning gulf,
and you suddenly find who has been
pitching and catching the ring, and you
cry out; ''Whence comest thouT' and he
answered: From going to and fro in the
domestic life of the city and from walk.
ing up and down in it; that is aIl.'' There
are thousands OF marriage relations
strained almost to the breaking, and /
recommend to all men and women who
are restless in the present marriage state
that they resume the old-time com tship
and take as much pains to make them
selves agreeable as they did five, or ten,
or twenty years ago before the wedding
march announced to the flushed and hut-
tering crowd that the bride and groom
were coming. According to the statisti cs
of Prof. Dikes, in one year in moral New
Hampshire there were two hundred and
forty-one divorces, in temperate Maine
four hundred aud seventy eight divorces,
and in good old Massachusetts, six hun.
dred divorces, and in the New England of
''steady habits" two thousand one hum
dred and thirteen. In one county of IL
linois eight hundred and thirty divorce
suits were begun in one year, and in
many places it seems as if a new arrange
ment had been made of the command
ments, and instead Of ten there were only
nine, the seventh commandment 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 conjugal partnership do you not
come to the conclusion that Satan is en-
gagged 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 or counting room and a good
many hands of Iaborers are busy among
wheels, and spindles, and fabrics. Oa
this visit he will first step into the m anu
facturer's office, and finding the owner
and proprietor of the great establi shment
all alone with his correspondence and
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 existence. These men
and women in your employ are OF very
common mold. Their appetite is coarser
and they do not need the luxuries you re-
quire. Their comfort and happiness are
of very little Importance. Put them
down on the very verge of starvation and
take all the profit into your own possess
sion, and if they do not like it tell them
to go 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 a bloated
bondholder anyhow. He has no
right to have any more than you
have. Why should he ride and you walkH
! Why should he have tenderloin steak
and you salt pork? Capital is the enemy
/ of labor. Let labor be the sworn foe of
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| him to terms? Wait until he has large
order to fill by contract, and then he can
not help himself. Go all together, with
! out a moments warning, and tell him
| you are going to stop. If he has moro re-
| sources than you know of and persists in
going on and getting new men, give them
/ a vOlley of brIckbats or put little
dynamite IN his office and blow
him and his factory all up
out there on the night skyl Great fire
| somewhere. What is it? The night is
| cold and Satan has made q 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 clio thing. ''Whence CONTEST thou,
Satanr' 'From going to and fro among
employers and employees and from walk
ing up and down among them. Hal hal
was the only one who made any thing
out of that strike. What a splendid fire
and lots of smokeI Hal Hal / like
smoke"
Another route Satan is apt to take In
his II avels is through the mercantile es-
Establishments. He steps in and says to
the clerks: How much salary do you
| get? Is that all? Why, you can't live on
| that You have a right to enough for o
! livelihood. A few quarters out of the
money drawer will never be missed, or
| here and there is 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 q
| 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
| 90 on that round with the boys, and you
| will have to wear that plain coat, whereas
/ you could have your overcoat fur lined
and take board at a tip-top place, and
| walk amid plush and tapestries positively
! Oriental While you are making up your
| mind I will just go through the different
| parts Of this great commercial establish
/ ment and try every one from the wealthy
| firm down to the errand boy" 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 Grip
| pied, and bright and promising boy is
| sent home to his mother in disgrace and
a young man is In Jail for embezzIem ent.
| Three lives ruined and three eternities.
! Whence comest thou, Satan? From go
! ing to and fro among mercantile houses
and from walking up and down among
them. l like to ruin splendid fellows and
/ blast parental hopes, and Of all the Iiq-
uors that L ever tasted fill my glass with
! a brewing Of agonizing tears. Come le
| us click together the rims Of our glasses
and drink to the overflow Of fifty thou
/ sand young men / ruined last yeari HUI
| zap Satan would rather have one young
| man than twenty old ones II he would
| win the septuagenarians aud the octoge :
narlans he could do but little harm with
them. But he says: "Give me
the young man, especially II
he be bright and generous and
social" He sees that young meI
have for good or bad been the mightiesi
influence in this world. fernando Cortet
conquered Mexico at thirty-twO. Gus
tavus AdoIphus became immortal In his
tory so early that he died at thirty eight
Raphael the most famous of painters
died at thirty-seven. William Pitt wal
Prime Minister Of England at twenty
four. Jesus Christ completed his earthl!
life at thirty three. Five years Of
! young mans life are Of more power fo
good or evil than the last fifteen OF an oil
mans life SO Satan is especial greed
for young men, and in going 10 and fro II
the earth he has especial temptation 70
them.
Another route that Satan on his activ
travels Is apt 10 take is for the desPoiltnl
Of the peoples souls. Il does nQt pa.
| him merely 70 destroy the bodies OF mel
: and women. Those bodies would soon .,
+ done any how: but great treasures ar
/ involved In this Satanic excursion. Or
this route he meets "a man who IL arouse'
, | by something Le has seen in the Bible
| and Satan says: "Sow 1 can settle al
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