Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-07-20
COTTAGE BY THE SEA.

COTTAGE BY THE SEA.
Second-It leads to thousand crimes.
The desire and the determination TO get
rich, and that shortly, is the power that
leads the man intrusted with money TO
risk that money in questionable transac-
tons. II is this haste TO be rich that
sketches for your cashier and your mer-
chant and your bank officer the wild
dreams of luxury which lead at last to an
outeract of criminality. Thecashier from
his desk dreams of a palace. of horses and
carriages, and the cottage by the sea. a
magnificent mansion in the city. He is
not willing to obtain his money by the
slow process Of work. He believes that
he can stake certain sum and win; with
the turn Of the wheel Of fortune can be
rich in day. He stakes other peoples
iIoney. and the result is crime. These
crimes are but simply eccentric and as-
thetic developments of the older crimes
against person founded on the same prin-
riple.
A highwayman is a highwayman be-
cause he determines to be rich suddenly
The burglar is burglar because he de
sires to get rich in a night. And the muir
derer DESTROYS his victim for his money
because he desires TO be rich immediate
". Highway robbery. burglary, muir
der for money. are the original brutal
elements out Of which the more aesthetic
modern developments Of hasty riches
have sprung. 1t is this mania that leads
to thousand crimes today against soci-
ETY.. The dive, the gambling den, the
saloon, the brothel. have as their funda-
mental inspiration the desire for sudden
riches. There are individual idiosyncra-
cies that develop them, but there are
of lives drawn to this whirl-
pool of vice and crime by the attractive
power of the evil eye of money. A man
believes that he can become rich rapidly
by keeping saloon. He is willing to
trade in human hearts and human blood
TO accomplish that purpose. A man is
willing to debauch his fellow man in a
gambling hell, believing that he may
acquire great fortune.
THE BEST MAN.
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and develops all that is cen
trail in self. 1t necessarily makes man
mean and selfish. 1t causes a man to en-
ter his hearts affection upon that one
thing. He esteems that to be his treas
ure of life. Where a mans treasure is,
there will his heart be also. 1t will hard
en- and make mean the poor man who is
afflicted with the mania as well as the
rich who have gone beyond the hope of
recovery. heard of an old farmer in
Maine who sent a son into the war. He
was killed in battle. The old man after
ward expressed his regrets. He said that
be had made great mistake; that he
ought to have had substitute He said
that he could not get man anywhere in
the country to do as much work on the
farm as that boy and that he was the
smallest eater he ever saw.
An old man who had emphasized this
thought in his life above all others went
to a meat market and decided to content
himself with a bone for soup. He asked
the market mana big. fat Dutchman,
Jolly and good natured-the price of a
bone which he eyed wistfully. The mar
ket man told him nothing at all; take
the bone along if he wanted it. The old
man, who was little hard of hearing. put
bis hand to his ear and asked. 'sCannot