The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-22

f0rty.one divorces, in temperate Mains
four hundred and seventy seight divorces,
and In good old Massachusetts six h1u.
| dred divorces, and in the New England OF
'steady habits" two thousand one huus
| drsd 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 IL a new arrauge:
| mont had been made OF the command
| ments, and instead Of ten there were only
| nine, the seventh commandment baving
been left out. When you sec how many
husbands and wives are parted By law
and know Of so many who would like to
| dissolve conjugal partnership, do You not
cu,n. 70 the conclusion that SataH Is en-
gagged in mighty inaustries'
AnotnCt tl4tc TIA. Satan Is apt to take
in his active travels is The tsctorleS and
| other establishments where capital cits
In the Office or counting room and good
many hands Of laborers are busy among
| whe6ls;, and spindles, aud fabrics. On
| this Visit hs will first step into the III anu
facturer's Office, ard finding the owner
! apd proprietor OF the great estshi skmert
all alorc with his correspondence fnh
account books, says - him: you are not
making as much money as ycu ought.
| You furnish all the brains. Were it nc:
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 1uxtries you re-
| qdire. pher conf ort and happiness are
of very little Importance. Put them
| down on the very verge OF starvation and
taRe all the profit into your own possess
| sion, ana il t,+ey do not like it tell them
| to go where they can DO Better" Having
done his work in the counting room Setan
steps right out among the workmen. He
gays. you work too many hours and
| Joif do your work better than it needs to
| be tone: You are serving . bloated
bondholder Arvhcw: He has no
right to have any trore thau you
have. Why should he ride and yGt 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 termsf 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 more re-
| sources than you know of and persists in
going on aud getting new men, give them
volley of brlckDats or put little
dynamite IN his Office aud blow
him and his factory all up
with the same explosion" Look
out there on the night sky! Great fire
somewhere. What is ii? The night is
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 clio thing. ''Whence comest thor.
Satan?" 'Fr ON going to and fro among
employers and employees and from walk
| ing up and down among them. Hal ha!
/ was the only one who made any thing
| out of that strike. What a splendid fire
aud lots Of smokei Ha! Ha! l like
smoke"
Another route Satan is apt to take in
his II avels is through the mercantile es-
| tablishments! He steps in and says to
the clerks: How much salary, do you
get? Is that all? Why, you eau: live on
that! You have a right to enough for d
! livelihood. A few quarters out of the
money drawer will never be missed, or
here and there is remnant of goods you
| could take home without being found out;
or you could change those account books
| d little; and you could make that figure
eight q naught and that figure five d
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 60 to the theater, and you can't
| 60 on that round with the boys, and you
will have to wear that plain coat, whereas
| you could have your oYertoat fur lined
and take board at tip-top place, and
walk amid plush and tapestries positively
nria ka1 alrtr
mind l 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 crip-
| pied, and bright and promising boy is
| sent home to his mother in disgrace and
| young man is in Jail for embezzlem ent.
| Three lives ruined and three eternities.
Whence contest 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 liq-
| uors that l ever tasted fill my glass with
| a brewing of agonizing tears. Come! le t
us click together the rims of our glasses
and drink to the overflow of fifty thou
sand young men ruined last Year! HUI
| zam Satan would rather have one young
| man than twenty old ones. If he would
win the septuagenarlans and 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 men
have for good or bad been the mightiest
| influence in this world. fernando Cortes
conquered Mexico at thirty-two. Gus
| tavus Adolphus 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 was
Prime Minister of England at twenty
four. Jesus Christ completed his earthly
life at thirty-three. Five years of a
young mans life are of more power for
good or evil than the last fifteen of an old
mans life. So Satan is especial 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 merely to destroy the bodies of men
| and women. Those bodies would soon be
| done any how; but great treasures are
| involved in this Satanic excursion. On
this route he meets man who is aroused
| by something he has seen in the Bible,
and Satan says: snow l can settle all
| that, the Bible is an imposition; it has
been deluding the world for centuries;
do not let it deiuded you. 1t has no more