The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-01

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that the color has gone out Of her
cheek, and there are seveI 4 wrinkles
about her temples, and . trinkling OF
frost on her locks? Besid that you
have advanced in intellt nee, while
she has stood still or gone ..ack. How
hard it is that you should tbe chained
to such dullness and imbecilityr, Then
he turns and a y to his wife: 'That
man neglects you; you have . right to
be jealous. He likes his cigar and his
club, and anything and everything bet
ter than you. Why not get a divorce?
Marriage is only a civil contract any
how, and not a divine alliance. Let
me have that ring. 1t means nothing,
and you might as well give it to met
The ring is handed ouer to Satan, and
he losses it up and down, like q play
thing, over the mouth Of perdition, and
says: 81 will hand it back, only let
me have it a little while.v And he
keeps tossing that ring, with all its
sacred memories, higher up. and fur
ther out, tossing and catching, tossing
and catching IT until n day you
clutch for 1t, crying: "Give mt back
my ringl" but 10, 1t has dropped into
the yawnlng gulf, and you suddenly
find who has been pitching and catch
ing the ring. and you cry out:
whence contest thou?" and he an.
swers: 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 re-
lations strained almost to the breaking,
and l commend to all men and women
who are restless in the present marriage
stnie that they resume the 0ld-tin1e court
shap, and takes as much pains to make
themselves agreeable as they did five or
ten or twenty years ago, before the
wedding march announced to the flush
ed and tiuttering 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 PAL divorces; in temperate
Maine, 47S divorces; in good old Mass
achusetts. 600 divorces. and ip the
New England of .ssteady haNts4l
2,113. In n county of Illinois $3.50
divorce suits were begun nEaz3ssa
and in many places 1t seems as IL 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 pf<sU
many who would like to dissolve con-
jugal partnership, do you not come to
the conclusion that Satan is engag. d in
mighty industries?,
tlo .n.fa t1nNf Cnfnu b MT -
take in his active travels is
THE FACTORIES
and other establishments where canifSl
sits in the office or counting-room and
atgood many hands of laborers akeAaasyy
wheels and spiDdles and les,
On this visit he will first stepg;f3 rIr9
manufacturer's~ and findls6f the
owner and proprieteA~ thel Ecat
establishment all alone with his Cores
pondence and his account-books, says
him: 'You are not making al much
money as you ought. You furnish all
the brains. Were it not for your en-
terprise 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 re-
quire. Their comfort and happiness
are of very little Importance. Put
them down on the very verge of starva-
ton and take all the profits into your
own possession, and If 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: ~ GU work too many hours
and you do your work better than ii
needs to be Gone. You are serving a
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 terms? Wait
until he has a large order to fllslyrconS
tract, and then he cannot help himself.
Go althogsther, without q moments
warning. ard tell him you are going to
stop. If he has more resources than
you know of, and persists in going on
and getting new men, give them a vol
ley of brickbats or put a little dyna-
mite in his office and blow him and his
factory all up with the same explosion"
Look out there on the night skyi Great
fire somewhere. What is itp The
night is cold and Satan has made a Dig
bonfire of that factory 10 warm himself
by. The capitalist has lost heavily,
and the workmen and their families
are without bread and clothing.
.sWhence CONTEST thou, SatanPn
'sFrom going to and fro among en-
ployers and employees, andi from walk
ing up and down among them. Ha!
Hal / was the only onq who made
anything out of that strike. What a
fire and smoked Ha. Hal l like
smoke"
Another route Satan is abt to take in
his active travels is through
MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENTS.
He steps in and says TO the clerks:
'How much salary do you get? Is
that all? Why, you can't live on thatl
You have a right'to enough for a live
lihood. 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 a nought and
that figure five a three, and il 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, their you
can't 20 to the theatre, and you can't
90 OIL that round with the boys, and
YOU will lave 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 tapes
tries positively Oriental While You
are making up your mind l viii 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 sArANI4 VISIT
is that one of the partners has drawn so
much out of the concern that the
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