Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-11

their own HEARTS blood, who little while
ago had, by father and husband, left them
a competency. What is the matter? The
administrators or the executors have sscri-
feed it-runniDg risks with il that they
would not have dared to encounteri in their
own private affairs. How often it is that
man will earn livelihood by the sweat
of his brow, and then die, and within
few months all the estate goes into the
stock gambling rapids of Wall street
How often 1t is that you have known the
man to whom trust funds were committed,
taking them out of the savings bank and
from trust companies, and administrators,
turning old hOmes.eAds into hard cash,
and then putting the entire estate into the
vortex Of speculation. Embezzlement is
an easy word to pronounce, but it has ten
thousand ramifcatious of horIor
POLITICAL JoBBRRY.
There is not city that has not suffered
from the abuse of trust funds. Where is
the court house OF the city hall or the Jail,
or the postofiice, or TIE hospital, that in
the building of it has not been political
job?
Long before the new court house in New
York city was completed, it cost over $12,-
000, 600. Five millions six hundred and
sixtry-three thousand dollars for furniture.
For plasteIing and repairs, 81, $4,000
For plumbing and gas works, 1921, ,s17.
For awnings, S23, ,553 The bills for three
months coming to the ce little sum of
S13, 151, 19S 80. There was not an honest
brick, or stone or lathe, or nail, or foot of
plumbing, or inch of plsstering, or ink
stand, or door knob in the whole establish
ment.
That bad example was followed in
many Of the cities, which did not steal
quite so much, because there was not so
much to steal. There ought to be closer
inspection, and there ought TO be less Op-
pOItunity for embezzlement List man
shall take five cent piece that does not
belong to him, the conductor on the city
horee car must sound his bell at every
payment, and we are very cautious about
small offenses, but give plenty of opportu
nifty for sinners on large scale to escape. !
For boy who steals loaf Of bread from
corner grocer to keep his mother from
starving to death, a prison; but for de-
frauders who abscond with half a million |
of dollars. a castle on the Rhine, CT, wait |
ing until the offense is forgotten, then
castle on the Hudsonl
SENSIBLE ADVICE.
stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. 1t is a compliment TO
you that you have been so intrusted, 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 of
your own. Above all, kesp your own pri
vate bank account separate from your &c
count as a trustee of an estate, or trustee
of an institution. That is the point at
which thousands of people make ship
wreck. They get the property of Others
mixed up with their own property, they
put it into investment, and away it goes,
and they cannot return that which they
borrowed. Then comes the explosion and
the money market is shaken and the press
douou...,as and the church thunders expul-
sion. You have no right to uss the prop
erty of others except for their advantage,
nor without consent, unless they are min
ors. If with their consent you invest their
property as we'll 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 so many men,
of thinking because thing is in their pos
session, therefore it is theirs. You have
solemn trust that God has given yOu. In
this vast assemblsge there may be sohe
who have misapprOpriated trust funds.
Pat them back, or, If you have so hope
lessly involved them that you cannot put
them back, confess the whole thing to
those whom you have wronged, and you
will sleep batter nights, and you will have
the better chance for your soul. What a
sad thing it would be if, after you are
dead, your administrator should iiud out
from the account books, or from the lack
Of vouchers, thai you were not only bank
rupt in estate, but that you lost your soul.
If all the trust funds that have been mis-
appropriated should suddenly fly to their
owners. and all the property that has BEEN
pu,lcined should suddenly go back TO its
owners, il would crash into ruin every city
in America.
THE BRIDGE IS DOWN.
All my friends, be honest before God,
be honest before your fellow men, be hon
est before your soul. If there be those
here who have wandered away, come back,
come home, come now, one and all, not one
execution in all the assemblsge, come INTO
the kingdom of God. Come back on the
right track. The door Of mercy is open
snd the infinite heart of God is full OF
compassion. Come homel Como home
On I would be we'll satisfed if / could
save some young man this morning, some
Young man that has been going astTay and
would like to get back
am glad some one has get to music that
scsne in August of 1881, when young
oirl saved from death whole train OF pas
sengers. Some of you remember tnst out
west. in that year on stormy mgnti
hurricane blew down part OF railroad
bridge. A freight train came along and 1t
crashed il to the ruin, and the engineer
and conductor persisted. There WAS girl
I;v;ng in her fathers cabin near the
disaster. and she heard the crash oil
the freight train, and she knew that IN
few moments an express train was due
She lighted a lantern and clamOred up on
the one beam of the wrecked bridge on to
the main bridge, which was trestle work,
and started TO cross amid the thunder and
the lightning of the TEMPEST and the rag
mo of the torrent beneath. One mlsstep
and il would have been death. Amid al
| ,bat horror the lantern went out. CraWl-
inc sometimes and sometimes walking over
the slippsry rails and over the tres,le
work she came to the other side oil the
liver She wanted to get to the Telegraph
station. where the express tram did nou
ston so that the danger might be tele-
oro,bed 10 the station where the tram dld
s,on The train was due in five minutes.
She was one mile off from the Telegraph
gtat;on. bat fortunately the train was late
with cut and bruised feet she new IKE
tbe Wind. Coming up to the Telegraph
ststiop. painting with almost death
Sl'''' exhaustion. she had only
10Th 10 shout "The bridge Is
down. - when she dropped unconscious ana
could hardly be resuscitated. Inc message
,.ss sent from that station to the next sta
80, and the train halted, and that plgnt
sbat IU brave girl saved the lives of hundreds
- Messengers and saved many homes from
u'2S, Brt every street is track, and every
..,-Io of business is a track, and every day |
- rack. and multitudes under the power
90 tsmptation come sweeping on and
Swaepine down toward perils raging and
terriic. God help US to go cut and stop
.bs train. Let us throw some signal. Let
- Owe some warning. By the throne OF
ca let MS flash some influence to stop the
downward progress. Beware! Beware
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