Evening journal., 1894-02-23


are alive, It is really done andswell done,
but If you wait till you are dead there IS
but a barren result and a divided profit.
You get credit for the intention, aud The
lawyers get the money. The stomachs OF
the lawyers Of this land are distended TO
utter discomfort with the eleemosynary
architecture that they have swallowed. In
all this world there is no Joy like to the
Joy a lawyer feels when he sees a good
hearted, inconsiderate person erecting a
free library, or a town hall,-or hospital
in his will. He smiles the smile that only
he knows how to smile and goes into train
Ing for the anaconda act.
On Lawyers.
perhaps no one has ever known dead
man to try TO do even the least little simple
thing without making a botch Of it. The
truth T., a dead man ought TO lie still and
keep quiet and try to behave. But you
can't teach him that. You can't teach him
any useful thing Everything about hin
is perishable but one thing and that is hi.
inability to accept the fact that circum
stances over which he has no control have
limited his activities.
"And first and last and all the time it i.
impossible to make him understand that
there IS nothing very large or fine or gen
erous in spending his own money on him
self and building hospitals with his chill
dren's cash. Why, some people do seem Il
get duller and duller the deader they get
Oh, we'll, perhaps it's no matter. II is th
way they are made. Probably the mistak
was in making them at ALL ] mean, If ]
was q mistake i am no judge Of that, bu
] wouldn't leave it to them.
at was pleasant and patriotic though
TO dedicate this building and confirm thi
grace TO Egirhaven on the natal day O
Washington --George Washington, first o
Americans; George Washington the iathe
of his country; George Washington, tn
father of those who cannot lie. The famil.
has dwndled good deal But ] am LEI
yet, and when look back over the vast
of years, and call up the faces Of the other.
and know that / shall seq them no more i
this life. and that / must remain now soil
tary and fotlornly conspicuous to the last
the sole remnant Of that old noble stock
it makes me feel sad and so lonesomei
His Debt to Washington.
"What I owe to Washington no word
Of mine can tell. lie was my model fror
my cradle up All that 1 am, moral
speaking. ] owe to bis example. Even
my tenderest youth his spirit was eve
near to guide and suocor me. The fir.
time ever stole a watermelon in my life
think il WIS the first time-it was th
thought OF Washington that moved me {
rA,ke restitution, restored me TO the pat
D. rectitude, made me morally who
again.
"When found out twas a green waite
melon, / was sorry-not superfioially, bu
/ deeply and honestly sorry. Then came tl
| thought of Washington, and / said to NJ.
self, What would Washington dop Thi
| is what / said To- myself w hat woul
! George Washington do If he had stolen
/ watermelon-green one? lie would NAL
/ restitution-that is what he would do
"And that is what ] did. rose up spiri
! ually refreshed and strong, and carried q
| watermelon back to the farmers wago
and restored 10 10 him, and said the mer
was not mine, but Washington's Al
that inspirating something, that electr
! thrill. that cXaltation which rewards du
! done-a moral victory, moral heroisr
added to ones stock OF dear aud preciol
memories.
II told the farmer he ought TO he ashar
ed of himself. going around working &
green vatermelons on people that had co
fdence in MIN, and made him give mo
ripe one for IL. And he was ashamed az
said be- wouldn't ever do 10 again. S1
forgave him. for when person has do
wrong and acknowledges h and is ashai
ed of 10. that is enough for me. 10 W
Washington that saved me that time. ]
has been my guardian angel ever since a.
has had an active career. ] am glad al
proud TO have an opportunity at least
help celebrate his memory aud do honor
his noble name.
Moral at the End.
I'm the distribution OF the privileges
this platform I was appointed to temI
the glare Of the gay and thoughtless o
tory OF these others with the wholesoi
/ sl,,d,rs ,f n fe,y words of sober adj vice