Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-09

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal
New York, Nov.3.-It was a queer, quaint
Ole saying. And yet, somehow, all day
long | seemed to see it. II came about in
this way | picked up the book in the
morning TO look ut IL for second while
my coffee cooled, and read "The tongue
is divine organ, but the devil often plays
upon it," Then IL printed itself right be-
fore me. | took up the morning paper,
and read q speech made in the Senate; a
speech that went all around every place,
took in most of the words found in the
dictionary, one or two outside of 1t, and it
all meant--nothing. And the nation, and
when one says the nation one means the
people who gain their bread and butter by
the sweat of their brow, was paying this
speaker of many words to make good laws
for 1t, and to bring back the prosperity
that is the right of the youngest, finest,
most prolific country in the world Then
read how the Senators talked all night
how somebody who made a speech had
had innumerable books of statistics for
reference, no end of secretaries to help
him in his work and that he represented,
OIL so many thousands of people who to,
day are suffering and almost starving, and
who believed that this one man would give
his word to make things better, TO bring
prosperity to the community, and to give
to the honest man what he desires-work.
BUT THEY TALK, AND TALK, AND TALK.
And nothing comes of 1t. They bring
up old personal feelings; they exploit their
knowledge of words; and they do abso-
lutely no good. And the people endure it.
Why don't some man get up and tell the
needed for it, 1t could be told in half an
hour. II Is probably very funny to the
Senate to loaf and lounge, and make ln-
ane speeches that show either their wis
dom or Ignorance but tho men of history;
the men worth anything, have been the
men of few words aud many actions. You
and /, my friend, each in our own way,
have to work, and you and | support this
band of chatterers who are as absolutely
useless as men, so.called, can very well be.
They don't represent your opinions or
mine; they don't represent anything but
their own inordlnate vanity and their own
extreme ignorance. Instead of making
the committee rooms Of the Senate more
luxurious, wouldn't it be d good idea to
have painted in great golden letters on the
wall of the Senate chamber itself: THE
tongue is divine organ, but the devil
often plays upon it.
II was at church the other day; great
preacher was TO speak. His voice was clear,
his English good, and his knowledge of
how to speak with appropriate gesture and
effective movement OF the hands COM
pared we'll with the great actors. And his
hell in which he claimed to believe. And
nervous women cried, and hysterical
girls were frightened, and men thought
ii this was religion they wanted none OF 1t.
He told how, even for stealing loaf of
bread, man would suffer endless tor
ments; he told how, for the wretched
women who had made mistake, there
would be a burning of conscience and
body that would never cease; happiness,
laughter, and merriment which he called
tiippancy, he disapproved Of. He damned
everything so generally that he almost OBJ
jected to the sunshine. He portrayed the
intense suffering that would come ment-
ally and physically; he talked for As min
utes, and never once did he mention
escrey or happiness.
UNcHARITABLE PEOPLE.
And woman who sat next to me cried
ms she thought of child who had died
when she was fifteen years old, and never
having been converted, was according to
this theory, absolutely burning. And she
things-"She was always such a delicate
little thing; she was always so easily fright
ened; and to think ! am not even with her
to help her bear the pain"
And a young man, as he walked out,
looked up at the sunshine and said :
"Well, as / am to have nothing but hell in
the future, / might as well have some fun
here, and the beginning of 1t will be that
Ill stop listening to sermons"
And1? wondered why, instead Of all
the dainty arabesques that were painted
back Of the pulpit there was not printed
organ, but the devil often plays upon it,"
4 young man belonged to a swell club.
He saidit was very jolly club. He liked
to go there at night after the theatre and
talk to the fellows. He said he heard all
the news; but one night while he was very
Il t.,fr nd III "a
name Of a woman mentioned. That was
by no means uncommon. He had fire.
quently listened to very spicy stories about
no end of women, but this one happened
TO be his sister. Nobody knew it, for she
had lived most of her time in Paris, and
he hadn't reached the point when he dis
cussed the women of his family at a club
Well, whom he came 10 think IL all over
nobody had absolutely stated q fact abou
her, but those gossips TO whom be had sc
often listened with delight have way Of
saying things that may be construed tt
suit tie taste Of the nearer. This was wha
he heard: "a pretty woman, amt she?'
Eyes. but who appreciates the beauty 2'
well, you know, she hasn't been ovei
here long enough for us to find out.
saw her in most fetching frock the othe
morning, about 10 o'clock, coming out O.
church."
ooh, did you? So many clever womer
do that kind of thing; nobody can say
anything about meeting fellow-woF
SHIPPER"
Pretty good Jimmy, a fellow -wor
shiperl But to return to her; do yol
think she will make q hit here2"
"Well, of course, that depends entirel.
onion, we'll, on her good taste"
Somebody told me that her husban,
believed she was in love with him.
"By George she must be clever womai
I'll make it point to be introduced to he
tomorrow night"
The listener to all this was burning witt
rage. But what could he say2 He, him
self, had assisted at tearing reputation
down in just such a way; and yet, IL b
Bpoke to one of these men, they woul,
deny having said anything derogatory t
bis sister, and after his departure, if h
bad given burst to fit of temper, the
:. would have commenced to quote thes
Rbominable old proverbs, "Who excuse
himself, accuses himself" Or, "Wher
There is so much smoke, there must be
little fire."
Don't you suppose this man saw the d.
Jirability of having printed on the clu
wine card, on its menu, on the walls OF il
rooms, 1.-THE tongue is divine organ, bu
lhe devil often plays upon it."
1t all
BEGAN AT THE LUNCHEON TABLE.
She hadn't seen very much of women
4 luncheons, and SO when she went to tn
trst one and heard some pretty quee
4 jhings said, she looked a little startled; bu
Der fright was quieted by a typical talkel
Who announced: my dear, we are a
women together" And then they bega
10 talk about a woman she knew.
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