The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-01-13

business failing. AL other styles OF
business at times fail. Dry goods stores
go under. Hardware stores go under.
Grocery stores go under. harness
makers fail, druggists fail, bankers fail.
butchers fail, bakers fail, confectiJn-
crs fail, but the liquor dealers lever.
1t is the only secure business | know OF.
Another warranty that my text will
prove true in the perpetual poverty of
the world is the wicked spirit of i'm
providence. A vast number of people
have such small incomes that they can
not lay by in savings bank or life in
surance N cent a year. 1t takes
every farthing they a earn to spread
the table and clothe the family and
educate the children, and if you blame
such people for improvidence, you
enact a cruelty. On such n salary as
many clerks and employees and minis
tiers of religion live, and on such wages
as many workmen receive, they can
not. in twenty years, lay up twenty
cents But You know and / know many
who W. competent income aud could
provide somewhat for the future, who
live up every dollar, and when they die
their children go to the Door house or
on the street. BY the time the wife
gets the husband buried, she is in debt
hat ,yh;ch she can norar wv
,Vl;I. a.. -, Ill H. -
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he Ill, nnan tho nhar;,;as 80 rs
yyorld M not s.rd for mo 60 oona "a
oondu., tha ohsaouias 81 - ann.
snnh oarc,ss ,ha ha,u,;f,i I,
lord - for instead Of that 7 yvilI tn
over the leaves of the RihIs to First
Timothy. v. IL. where il saws. az ,ny
,r,y;d. not for b;s own ond aSnao;,uv
To- ,hoso ~ H. own - h. IL ~
n;aa ,b. ta;,h al - 80,
Gdcl" or I viii turn 70 .J.remi,b VIII
10 where IL savs. n shall he hur;ed
with tho bur;,l of a, ass drawn ,nd
COS, for,b ha,,na ,h. r,,.s 80 -.
Ian, Io.nno, ;,,on;na
f,ir nj, ,,eon.r tbinr ,h,n - -
get his sins hardened ,t the last min.
nte and then oo 70 Ua,v.n and I;vo in
n mansion and go riding about in =
Golden chariot over the go,den streets
while his wife and children. whom he
might have provided for. are begging
for cold victuals at the basement door
of an earthly city.
1t seems to me there ought to be a
poor house somewhere on the outskirts
of Heaven where those guilty of such
improvidence should be kept on thin
soup and gristle, instead of sitting
down at the Kings banquet. | have
known men who have had an income
of So, 900, 81, 600, So, 900 n year, who did
not leave one farthine to the surviving
household. Now that mans death is a
defalcation, an outrage, a swindle. He
did not die: he absconded. There are
a hundred thousand people in America
to-day a-hungered through the sin of
improvidence.
beginning nv life's work on the mn
nificent salary of $500 a wear and a
parsonage, and when the call was
placed in my hands l did not know how
in the world | would ever he able to
spend that amount of money, and l re-
member indulging in a devout wish
thai / might not be led into worldli-
ness and prodigality by such an over
plus Vi TtSOuTCcS, anu Ut a tlUlG When
articles of DOC and clothing were
higher than they are now, l felt it a re-
lipious duty TO get nv life insured and
I nresented mvself NJ an oNBce 81 ono
Of the GREAT comnan;es and 7 500
male and nervous lest the medical ex-
aminer might have tn declare that I
had consumntion and heart disease
and n half dozen mortal ailments
but when l got the document which I
have vet in full force. I felt n sense of
manliness and confidence and uuietude
and reinforcement, which is a good
thing for any young man to have. For
the lack of that feeling there are
thousands of men TODAY in Greenwood
and Laurel Hin and Mount Auburn
who MIGHT os well have been alive and
well and ~supportinp their families.
They got a little sick. and they were a
worried about what would become of
their household In case NJ their do.
mic. ,hat tho;r og;t,t;ors oraroano,h a
Lii 81 Oh. rhrs;c;ans ga thom AL
Cor f.,rof dv;ng
Ano,ber face that Won NAV 5.,.na
,non for nernetuaI nover,v ic Oh. in.a.
nao;tv % m,pv 20 acbisr., TvaI;hood
Won can 90 tbrouob .ny .ommrn;.n
and And GOOD neonIe With NOR thar
uspaI mental caIiber who meyer b,ye
been able to s~upnort Themselves and
their bousebolds They are a mystery
tn ne. and we saw. 81 do not know
what ia the matter of them mt there
ia a screw loose s~omeybere, Some ~
these persons have mora bra;p
than thousands wbo m.La :,
sn,andid success some ara too
s%angr;pa ~ tsmnar.ment and
the1 see baro,;ns ,vbero thar ava
non. A oommor r;nnou 10 60 -
coid- fish. and a anal a famingo and .
blind mule on n tow ma a Rucepbalus.
hey INV when things are highest and
sell when THINGS are lowest. They ara
good. honest. brilliant failures. They
die moor. and leave nothing to their
families Init n medal of some invention
that would not work. and wbola mort.
folios of diagrams of things impossible.
1 cannot help but like them. becau Sc
thew are SO cheerful with great expec.
tations. But their children are a be.
quest to the bureau of CITY charities.
Others administer to the crop of the
worlds misfortune bv being too upsus.
pectinp. Honest themselves, they be.
lieve all others are honest. They are
feeced and scalped and vivisected nv
the sbarners in all STYLES of business.
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