St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-18
THE BOMB OF JOB.

There is no doubt there are occasion.
ally men and women who appear to
have been born into this world only to
be pursued by the demon OF misfortune.
There is within the circle of every ma
ture mans acquaintance some one who
is, or seems to be. pursued by a Nemesis
SO remOrSelesS, so uGrelnitting. so re-
vengetul. that his neighbors stand in
awe, and can only wonder what he or
his ancestors have done to deserve so
terrible penance from Providence. He
may be moral man and good citizen.
vet his house burns, his goods are de-
stroyed by a cyclone, and all of his
well-lald plans are brought to
naught by forces utterly beyond his
control. He may be strong. alert and
healthy. but disease attacks his chill
dren in early youth, and they pass to
the eternal silence of death before
reaching maturity. He may be pIous,
enterprlsing, economical as to self, but
bountiful to others; yet hail and drouth
assail his crops. the murrain carries off
his cattle, and thieves plumber him of all
his valuables in night. In the midst of
discharging all human duties unselfsh-
Iy, disease takes hold upon MIN, finan-
cial ruin that no foresight might guard
against finds his treasure box, his chill
dren are transformed in day from
angels to ingrateS-and all the ills hid
den anti confined in the Pandora's box
of hard luck are turned loose in an hour
to destroy his comfort and happiness.
In all ages genius has delighted to
portray and draw lessons from this
unique and paradoxical behavior of
just Providence. From job to the vicar
Of Wakefield. chaste and patient spirits
have striven to impress upon the i.npa-
tient and rebelliouS soul Of unregener-
ate man, the real, living. fruitful actual
ity Of the divine apothegm, Whom
the Lord loveth He chastenelh."
Then, there is another class who are
constantly pestered with the disasters
which are liable to follow in the close
wake of bad, or negatively careless
habits. Their fate seems to be clouded
because they have not sufficient
strength to resist the commonest and
vulgarest of life's unceasing tempta-
tons. Destitute OF a set purpose in
life, they are content tO.seek the sunny
places for enjoyment, and are thought
less of the unborn storms of life, held
growing in the womb of the future.
When these have ''sinned away their
day of grace" and they are saluted
with the wintry winds of adversely, it
is rare that their patience and fortitude
survives the era of their coarse and
ephemeral prosperity. To this class. in
their selfwrought misery, the actual
injustice of the world appeals most
strongly. Blind to their own moral
shortcomings in the past, they stand
upon the street corner and howl out i'm
precautions and indictments aginst the
injustice of the world; and when their
noisy acclaim finds no ready response
from their fellows. they grow desperate,
and quit the world they have learned to
hate through tine gate of suicide, or,
worse still. become assassins of the in
nocent through the agency of the dyna.
mite bomb.
Who can conceive of Job revenging
himself upon the world for his count
ess msfortunes by indiscriminateiy
assassinating young and old. virtuous
and vicious? What kind of a spectacle
would the good DR.. Primrose present,
uttering from his pulpit Shrek
against fate and a curse against God,
while casting revengeful bomb into
the midst of his amazed congregation,
carrying death to Innocent women and
harmless little ones? What generous
heart does not grow stronger and more
righteous while reading Of the splendid
manful sacrifices of Jean Valjean-mis-
understood, misinterpreted. prosecuted,
hunted like a wild beast FROM sturdy
young manhood to grand old age; and
yet, victorious forever over himself.
and slowly strangling within his own
bosom the savage that is ceaSelessly
prompting him to revenge and murder?
The French chamber of deputies has
finally commenced crusade against the
bomb-throwers upon right lines by pass
ing law forbidding public trials to
those wholesale assassins who are FORM
ing the bad habit of indiscrilninate MUIR
der-of letting their bombs fall, like the
rain Of God, alike on the just and the
unjust. The bomb.thrower should not
be permitted public trial, where he
may air his insane theories and pose
and parade as victim of unjust laws.
Let him be tried honestly tried-ln
private, with only his judges and the
men of law present to listen to his way
ward rawlings. Let him be banished
from the supporting sympathy of his
half-trained fellows. and enter the
silent portals of eternity alone. In
deed, perpetual segregation from his
fellows during life would seem to be
proper punishment for him. rather than
o sudden aud violent death at the hands