The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-06

! when the doctor was in bis sublime
! flights of eloquence there was distinctly
visible halo or Sn Illumination all
around his angelic countenance. There
was an old man by the name or Mar
shall Martin who was rich and misery
and loved his money with an idolatrous
! devotion. He had loaned out thousands
of dollars at a usuriOus rate of interes {
and had oDpres many an unfortunate
| debtor. Carelessly he dropped IN to
hear DIR. Capers preach, and as his
| sermon was about covetousness and the
| inordinate love of money. Martin be-
| came overwhelmed and alarm ed-so
much so that he actually made restitu-
ton to every one who hid paid
him usury, and it took several thousand
dollars TO do it. He advertised in the
newspaper and called up n them to
come forward and get their money
back. l wish that another Capers
would rise up and get after Jay Gould
and those who get up corners in the
necessaries of life and get after a good
many more who don't live so far away.
Maybe our farmers would take new
start then. But restitution is rare
thing in this sublunary world. Con- !
science money is very much like what a |
great lawyer said to his client vino had |
paid him a thousand dollars as a re- |
tainer. The case was settled the same |
day without litigation. The lawyer |
had done noIhiug-he had not even !
opened a book or began the suit
and when his client suggested that |
he thought he ought to refund part i
of the money. he looked surprised and |
said: my friend, there are many
kinds of funds, but refund is unknown |
to the legal profession.
My Memphis friend told me about
old John Bass. of Troup county. who
was good Old hardshell Baptist, but in
an evil moment was pursuaded to buy
a lottery ticket. Sure enough, it drew
a prize of 81 500. Before he received the
the brethren heard of his sin.
and notified him to appear, and be tried
for gambling. The day he was to be
tried, he went to town early, to see if
the money had come 1t was there. and
he got it. Never before had he had as
much as fifty dollars at ore
time, and SO he was crazy with de-
light. He stuck the roll of bills in his
bosom, and took big drink of whisky,
aud rode back to the church, and up to
q window, and asked what they was all
a doing in there. They told MIN they
were trying him for betting agin a lot
terry. He pulled out the big roll, and
tina bet. too, and | ID druther stay out
side with the money than inside with
Quit" We'll, it ruined him, just like it
ruins every body, who gets something
for nothing
The age in which we live is progress
i've and aggressive, but it will not pro-
ducs such orators and preachers as
there were forty and fifty years ago. 1t
produces better doctors and teachers
aud farmers and merchants and me-
chanics, but not such statesmen or
pulpit orators. Kentucky has no logger
a Clay and Breckenridge and Marshall.
Tennessee has no Gentry or Maynard
or johnson or Haskell. Mississippi, no
Foote or Pc Alabama. no
Yancey. Georgia, no Toombs or Hill or
Stephens or Johnston or Cobb. South
Carolina mo Calhoun or Cheves
or HayDe or Ruteldge. North Caro-
lima no Macon or Mangum or Badger.
Virginia no Jefferson or Patrick Henry
or Madison.
| know that the masses of the people
have advanced, and therefore there is
not such contrast between them and
the great men as there used to be, but
it is still certain that the most notable
men of the day will not compare with
those l have mentioned. We have
some great preachers. but none to
compare with Capers, and Styles. and
Pearce, and Bascomb, and the blind
preacher, Waddell, whom William
Writ made famous. This is unitarian
age, and everybody is in a hurry.
There was time when men of brains
lad Iajsura and SoIOmOn savs tbot in |
eisure there is wisdom. :
"But when a man is on q strain
1t chills the temper of his BRAIN"