Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-08

| cate of mining stock-as was ever print
ed, and the only thing they will ever
get out Of the investment is the aforesaid
illuminated lithograph. They are al
ways on the verge Of millionairedom
and are sometimes worried as to whom
they shall bequeath their excess of for
tune They invest in aerial machines
or new inventions in perpetual mott on,
and they succeed in what mathemati-
clans think impossible, the squaring of
a circle, for they do everything on the
square and win the whole circle of dis
appointment. They are good honest,
brilliant failures. They die poor, and
leave nothing to their families but
model of some invention that would not
work and whole portfolios of diagrams
of things impossible. l cannot help
but like them, because they are so
cheerful with great expectations. But
their children are bequest to the bu
| reau of city charities. Others admin
lister to the crop of the worlds misfor-
tune by being too unsuspecting. Honest
themselves, they believe all others are
honest. They are feeced and scalped
styles of business and cheated out of
everything between cradle and grave,
and those two exceptions only because
they have nothing to do in buying
either of them. Others are retained for
misfortune by inopportune sickness.
| Just as that lawyer was to make the
| plea that would have put him among
the strong men of the profession, neu-
ralgia stung him. just as that physi-
clan was to prove his skill in an epi-
demic, his own poor health imprisoned
him. Just as that merchant must be
| at the store for some decisive and intro
| ductory bargain, he sits with q rheu-
matte joint on pillow, the room redol-
| ent with liniment. What an over
| whelIning statistic would be the story
| of men and women and children i'm
poverished by sicknessesl Then the cy.
clones. Then the Mississippi and Ohio
freshets. Then the stopping of the
factories. Then the curculios among
the peach trees. Then the insectile
| devastation of potato patches and wheat
fields. Then the epizootics among the
| horses and the hollow horn among the
herds. Then the rains that drown out
everything and the droughts that burn
up half continent Then the orange
! groves die under the white teeth of
| the hoar frost. Then the coal strikes,
and the iron strikes, and the me-
chanlcs' strikes, which all strike
labor harder than they strike capital.
Then the yellow fever at Brunswick and
Jacksonville and Shreveport. Then
the cholera at the Narrows. threatening
to land in New York. Then the Charles
ton earthquake. Then the Johnstown
food. Then hurricanes sweeping from
Caribbean sea to Newfoundland. Then
there are the great monopolies that gull
ley the earth with their expressions.
Then there are the necessities of buying
coal by the scuttle instead of the ton,
and -four by the pound instead of the
barrel, and so the injustices are multi =
piled. In the wake of all these are over
whelming illustrations of the truth of
my text, "Ye have the poor always
with you."
CELEsTIAL INSURANCE.
Remember fact that no one empha-
sizes-a fact, nevertheless, upon which
l want to put the weight of an eternity
of tonnage--that the best way of insur-
ing yaurself and your children and your