Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-23

ANSW IoIh cry WAS COulpltltO, IL CoS
over S12, 600, 600. Five millions six hun
dred and sixty-three thousand dollars fol
f%urniturel For plastering and repairs,
81, $50, 0O0. For plumbing and gas works,
81. 3l,Sl7. For awnings, S23, 553. The
bills for three months coming to the nick
little sum Of Sl3 ,15l, 1913. 80. There was
not an honest brick, or stone, or lath, OF
nail, or foot Of plumbing, or inch OF plas'
tering, or ink stand, or door knob in the
whole establishment.
Another remark needs to be made, and
that is that people ought not to go into
places, into business, or into positions
where the temptation is mightier than
their character. If there be large sums
Of money to be handled and the man is
not sure of his W integrity you have no
right to run an unseaworthy craft into an
euroclydon. A man can tell BY the sense
Of weakness or strength in the presence
of a bad opportunity whether he is in a
safe place. How many parents make an
awful mistake when they put their boys
in banking houses and stores and shops
and factories and places of solemn trust,
without once discussing whether they can
endure the temptation. You give a boy
plenty of money and have no account of
it, and make the way down become very
easy, and you may put upon him a pres
sure that he cannot stand. There are
men who go into positions full Of tempta-
ton, considering only the one fact that
they are lucrative positions. ! say to the
young people here this morning, dishon.
esty will not pay in this world or the
world to come.
An abbot wanted 10 buy a piece of
ground and the owner would moi sell il,
but the owner finally consented to let ii
to him until he he could raise a crop, and
the abbot sowed acorns, a crop of 200
years! And | tell you, young man, that
the dishonesties which you plant in your
heart and life will seem to be very insig-
niticant, but they will o~vershadow you
with horrible darkness, o~vershadow all
time and all eternity. 1t will not be a
crop for 200 years, but a crop for ever
lasting ages.
! stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. 1t is a compliment to
you that you have been SO entrusted, but
| charge you in the presence of God and
the world, be careful; be as careful Of
the property of others as you are careful
VI Joul oWu. ADoNC oil hCCD yOul OWH
private account at the bank separate from
your account as trustee Of an estate, or
trustee Of an institution. That is the
point al which thousands of people make
shipwreck. They get the property of
others mixed up with their own prop
erty. they put it into investment, and
away it all goes, and they canno return
that which they borrowed. Then comes
the explosion and the money market is
shaken and the press denounces and the
church thunders expulsion. You have
no right to use the property of others TX
cept for their advantage, nor without
consent, unless they are minors. If with
their consent you invest their property
as well as you can, and it is all lost, you
are not to blame, you did the best you
could; but do not come into the delusion
which has ruined 80 many men, Of think
ing because a thing Is in their possession,
therefore it is theirs. You have a solemn
trust that God has given you. In this
vast assemblage there may be some who
have Incorporated trust funds. Put
them back. or, if you have SO hopelessly
involved them that you cannot put them
back, confess the whole thing to those
whom you have wrongeG, and you will
sleep better nights, and you will have the
better chance for your soul. What n
sad thing ii would be if, after you are
dead, your administrator should find out
from the account books, or from the lack
of vouchers, that you were not only
bankrupt IN estate, but that
you lost your soul. If all the
trust funds that have been misappropri-
ated should suddenly fly TO their owners,
and all the property that has been pur-
Joined should suddenly go back TO its
owners it would crash into ruin every
city in America.
A clustering young man arrived at a
hotel in the west and he saw a man on
the sidewalk, and in a rough way, az no
man has a right to address a laborer, said
to him: Garry this trunk up stairs
The man carried the trunk up stairs and
came down, and then the young man gave
him a quarter Of a dollar which was
marked. and instead of being % cents it
was worth only 20 cents. Then the
young man gave his card TO the laborer
and said; You take this up to Gov.
Grimes: | want to see him." "Ab,"
said the laborer, Il am Gov. Grimes"
con" said the young man, 'you-I-
excuse me- Then the governor said:
II was much impressed by the letter you
wrote me asking for a certain Office
in my gift. and | had made up my mind
you should have it; but a young al
who will cheat a laborer out of 5 cents
would swindle the government Of the
state if he got his hands on it. | don't
want you. Good morning, sir" 1t never
pays. Neither in this world nor in the
world to come will it pay.
do not suppose there ever was a bet
ter specimen Of honesty than was found
in the Duke of Wellington. He marched
with his army over the French frontier,
and the army was suffering, and he
hardly knew how TO get along. Plenty
of plumber all about. but he commanded
none Of the plumber to be taken. He
writes home these remarkable words:
1--WE are overwhelmed with debts. and |
can scarcely stir out Of my house on ac-
count Of public creditors, waiting to de-
mand what is due to them" Yet Mt that
very time the French peasantry were
bringing their valuables to him to keep.
A celebrated writer says of the trans
action: Nothing can be grander or
more nobly original than this admission.
This old soldier, after thirty years service,
this iron man and victorious general, es-
tablished in ar enemy's country at the
head of an immense army, is afraid of his
creditors! This is q kind of fear that has
seldom troubled conquerors and invaders,