The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-16
4Carrv thig trunk np-stairs. .

The man carried the trunk upstairs
and came down, and then the young man
gave him q quarter of dollar which was
marked, and instead of being twenty-five
cents it was worth only twenty cents.
Then the young man gave his card to the
laborer and said:
s'You take this up to Governor Grimes; ]
l want to see him."
s'Ah," said the laborer, 81 am Governor
Crimes"
son." said the young man, ''you-I-
excuse me-"
81 was much impressed by the letter
you wrote me asking for certain office
in my gift, and had made up my mind
you should have it; but young man who
would cheat a laborer out of five cents
would swindle the Cover nment of the
State if he got his hands on it. 1 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 better
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 hard
ly 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
We are overwhelmed with debts, and 1 can
scarcely stir out of my house on account of pub
lie creditors. waiting to demand what is due to
them.
Yet at that very time the French peas
antry were bringing their valuables to
him to keep. A celebrated writer says of
! the transaction:
| Nothing can be grander or more nobly orig
! inal than this admission. This old soldier,
after thirty years service, this iron man and
victorious general. establ shed in an enemy's
| country at the head OF an immense army, is
| afraid of his creditors! This is a kind of fear
| that has seldom troubled conquerors and in
vaders. and doubt if the annals of war pre-
| sent any thing comparable to its sublime sim
plicity.
| Oh! is it not high time that we preached
the morals of the Gospel, right beside the
faith of the Gospel? Mr.. FrOude, the cell
ebrated English historian, has written of
his own country these remarkable words:
From the great house in the City Of London
| to the village grocer the commercial life OF En-
gland has been saturated with fraud. So deep
has it gone that a strictly honest tradesmen
can hardly hold his ground against competition.
You can no longer trust that any article you
buy is the thing which it pretends to be. We
have false weights, false measures. cheating
and shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
have seen all this grow up in absolute indfer-
enee. Many hundreds of sermons have heard
in England, many q dissertation on the mys-
teries of the faith, on the divine mission of the
clergy, on bishops and justification, and the
theory of good works. and verbal inspiration,
and the efficacy of the sacraments; but, during
all these thirty wonderful years, never one that
lean recollect on common honesty.
Now, that may be an exaggerated state
ment of things in England, but [ am very
certain that in all parts of the earth we
need to preach the moralities of the Cos
pei right along beside the faith of the
Gospel.
Ny hearer! What are you doing with
that fraudulent document in your pocket
My other hearer! How are you getting
along with that wicked scheme you have
now on foot? Is that spool ticket" yoJ
have in your pocket? Why, o young man
were you last night practicing in copying
your employers signature? Where were
you last night? Are your habits as gooC
l as when you left your fathers house? YoI
had Christian ancestry, perhaps, ant
you have had too many prayers spent OF
! you to go overheard.
J DR.. Livingstone, the famous explorer
; was descended from the Highlanders, ant
, he said that one of his ancestors, one o
} the Highlanders. one day called his fami
} ly around him. The Highlander wa
} dying; he had his children around hi
, death-bed. He said: ''Now my lads,
J have looked all through our history as ia
t back as / can find it, and l have neve
5 found dishonest man in all the line, an
f I want you to understand you inherit goo
: blood. You have no excuse for doin
/. wrong. My lads, be honest"
d All, my friends, be honest before Goo
Y be honest before your fellow men, b
It honest before your soul. If there be thos
It here who have wandered away, com
= back, come home, come now, one and al
y not one exception in all the assembIagt
: come into the kingdom of God. Com
is back on the right track. The door {
S mercy is open and the infinite heart {
God is full of compassion. Come hons
If Come home! Oh, would be well Statistic
t, If l could save some young man TIL
it morning, some young man that has bee
d going astray and would like to get back.
o l am glad some one has set to must
g that scene in August of 1881, when
1T young girl saved from death a whole ra
y train of passengers, Some of you II
il member that out West, in that year on
Ie stormy night, hurricane blew down pal
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70 came along and it crashed into the ruiz
g and the engineer and conductor perishe
There was a girl living in her father
10 cabin near the disaster, and she hear
10 the crash of the freight train, and ST
knew that in few moments an expires
ID train was due. She lighted lantern an
le clambered up on the one beam of Il
IF wrecked bridge on to the main bridg
N which was trestle work, and starte
m to cross amid the thunder al
90 the lightning of the tempest ar
at the raging of the torrent beneath. Or
p misstep and it would have been deaf
RS Amid all that horror the lantern went OF
ay Crawling sometimes and sometimes wal
Ill ing over the slippery rails and over t
at trestle WORK, she came to the other side
he the river. She wanted to get to the tel
is graph station, where the express train d
he not stop, so that the danger might be tel
40 graphed to the station where the train d
pit stop. The train was due in FIVE minute
1T, She was one mile off from the telegra1
n station, but fortunately the train was la1
as With cut and bruised feet she flew like t
to wind. Coming up to the telegraph st
do ton, painting with almost deatb'y e
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