Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-01-17

| your vest OF, and have signed, scaled
and delivered to you n document that
will, in the case OF your sudden do
parture, make for that lovely girl the
difference between n queen and pau
per. 1 have known men who have had
an income of 90, 600, a. 900 and 6. 900
year, who did not leave one farthing "a
the surviving household Now, that
mans death is defalcation. an gut
rage, a swindle. he did not die; he alb
seconded There are hundred thouS
and people in America today a-hun
| gered through the sin of improvidencs
| But" say some, my income is -
small / can not afford to pay the pre-.
MUM on a life insurance" Are You
sure about that? II you are sure, then
you have right to- depend on the
promise in jeremiah xix. IL: Leave
thy fathcrless children, will preserve
them alive; and let thy widows trust il
me-" But il you are able 10 remembes
you have no right to ask God to do fos
| your household that which you can do
| for them yourself For the benefit on
those young men excuse the practical
personality. beginning my life's work
| on the munificent salary of $500 a yeays
| and parsonage, and when the can
| was made / didn't know how in the
| world / would ever, be able to spend
that amount of money, and remember
| INDUCING in devout wish that
| l might not be led into worldli.-
ness and prodigality by such an over
plus of resources and at time wheu
articles of food and clothing wero high
er than they are now. L felt it a re.
| ligious duty TO get my life insured, and
| presented myself at an Office of one OF
! the great companies, andJ stood pale
| and nervous lest the medical examined
might have to declare that had con
sumption and heart disease and a hall
dozen mortal ailments, but when got
| the document, which / have vet in full
| force, / felt sense of manliness and
confidence and quietude aud reinforce
meDt, which is good thing for am
| young man TO have. For the. lack OF
that feeling there are thousands os
men today in Greenwood and Laurel
| Hill and Mt Auburn, aho might az
well have been alive and well and sup
porting their families. They got lii
tie sick, and they were so worried
about what would become of theiI
households in case of their demise that
their agitations overcame the skill OF
the physicians and they died for fear OF
| dying.
Another fact that You Ioay depend
| upon for perpetual poverty is the inca
| pacity of many TO achieve n livelihood
You can go through any communitJ
| and find good people, with more thar
usual mental caliber, who never have
been able 20 support themselves and
their households They are a mystery
to us, and we Say: IL do not know.
what is the matter of them, but Their.
is a screw loose somewhere" Some OF
these persons have more brain than
thousands who make a splendid sue
| cess Some are too sanguine of tenn
permanent, and they see bargains where
there are none. A common n.ipnow i,
to them gold fish, and a quail a fam
lingo, and a blind mule on n tow path
Bucephalus. They buy when thing,
| are highest and sell when thingS ara
| lowest Some one tells them of CITY
| lots out west, where the foundation a
the first house has not yet been laid.
They say: What an opportunity" and
they put down the hard cash for an or
namented deed for ten lots under
water.
They hear OF new silver mine open.
ed in Nevada, and they say: "Whs
chancew and they take the IN
money what they have in the savintzl
bank and pay it out for as beautiful o
certificate of mining stock as was ever
printed, and the only thing they VI
ever get out of the investment Isl
aforesaid illuminated Autograph.
are always on the verge of milliona
dom, and are sometimes worried as IS
whom they shall bequeath their excess
of fortune. They invest in aerial ma.
chimes, or new inventions in perpetual
motion, and they succeed in what
mathematicians think impossible, the
squaring of circle for they do every.
thing on the square and win the
whole circle of disappointment
They are good, honest, brilliant
failures They die poor, and leave
nothing to their families but a model
of some invention that would not
work, and whole portfolios of diagrams
OF things impossible. / can not help
but like them because they are SO
cheerful with great expectations But
their children are bequest TO the bw
reau of city charities. Others ADMIN
ister to the crop OF the worE[s's misfor
tune by being too unsuspecting. Honest
themselves, they believe all others are
honest They are heeced and scalped
anu 'lNlSecLeu Dy the SharperS in all
styles of business, and cheated ont oil
everything between cradle and grave,
and those two exceptions only because
they have nothing TO do in buyina
either OF them. Others are retained
for misfortune by inopportuue sick.
ness just as that lawyer was TO make
the plea that would have put him
among the strong men Of the profess
| sion, neuralgia stung him Just as that
physician was to prove his skill in an
epidemic, his own poor health impris
oned him.
Just as that merchant must be at thu
store for some decisive and introdue
tory bargain he sits with a rheumatic
! joint on pillow. the room redolent
with linimcnt What an overwhelming
statistic would be the story OF men an d,
women and children impoverished bv
sickness. Then the cyclonsA Then
the Mississippi and Ohio frcshetA
Then the stopping Of the factories
Then the curculios among the peach
trees Then the iusectiie devastation
OF potato patches and wheat fields
Then the epizootics among the horses
and the hollow-horn among the herds
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