The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-16

notorious for their ltbertinism as the night
II. famous Tor its darkness who move In
what 3 called high social posltioo. There
arc hundreds OF out and out rakes IN
American society whose names arc men
toned among the distinguished guests at
the great levees. They have annexed all
the known vices and are longing for other
worlds OF disbolism 20 conquer. Good
morals are not necessary In many OF the ex-
alted circles Of society. HtNH
Neither Is intelligence necessary. You
md In that realm men who would not know
an adverb from an adjective II they met It
a hundred times In day, and who could
not write letter Of acceptance or regrets
without the aid OF secretary. They buy
their Libraries by the square yard, only
anxious to have the binding Russian. Their
I ignorance Is positively sublime, making
English grammar almost disreputable. And
yet the finest parlors open before them.
Good morals and intelligence are not neces-
sary. but wealth or snow OF wealth Is
positively Indispensable. 1t does not make
any dfnerence how you got your wealth, II
you only got II. The best way for you to
get into social position is for you to buy a
large amount on credit, then put your
property In your wifes name, have a few
preferred creditors. and then make an as
signment. Then disappear from the COM
munity until the breeze Is over and come
oacA anu start IN the same business. Do
you not see now oeautlfully that Will put
out an tue people VINO are In competition
with you and trying to make an honest liv-
ingl How quickly 1t will get you into high
sociai positionf what Is the use OF toiling
forty or fifty years when you can by two or
three bright strokes make great fortune?
All, my friends, when you really lose your
money how quickly they will let you drop,
and the higher you get the harder you Will
| oiop'
There are thousands to-day In that realm
who are anxious to keep In It. There arc
thousands in that realm who are nervous
are changes going on every year, and every
month, and every hour which involve heart
! breaks that are never reported. High So
ciai lie Is constantly In futter about the
delicate question as to whom they shall let
In and whom they shall push out, and the
battle Is going on-pier mirror against pier
mirror, Chandelier against chandelier, wine
cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equipage against equipaGe. Un-
certainty and Insecurity dominant In that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture ut
apremium and life not worth living!
A lie OF SIM lie OF pride, life OF In
duigence, life OF worldliness, life de-
voted TO the world, the flesh and the devil
IS a failure, dead failure, an Infinite
failure. care not how many presents you
SEND 10 that cradle or how many garlands
you send to that grave, you need to put
right under the name on the tombstone
TINS inscriptions: Better for that man II he
had never been born.'
But shall show you life that is worth
living. young man says: 81 am here.
l am not responsible for my ancestry.
others decided that lam not responsible for
my temperament God gave me that. But
mere am In the evening OF the nineteenth
century, at twenty years OF age. l am
mere, ana must take an account of stock.
mere nave pody, which Is divinely con-
structed engine. / must put 1t to the very
pest uses. ana ! must allow nothing to
feet, and they mean locomotion. Two
eyes, and they mean capacity to pick out
my own way. Two ears, ana they are tel
ephohes OF communication with all the out q
SIDE world, and they mean capacity to
eaten the sweetest music and the voices Of
lriehdshlp-the very best music. tongue,
with almost infnity OF articulation. Yes,
hands with which to welcome or resist or
my or smite or wave or bless-hands to
heiy myself ana help others.
here Is world which after G0OO years OF
batting with tempest and accident is still
grander than any architect, human or an
gelic, could have drafted: have two
lamps 10 llght me-a golden lamp and
sliVer lamp-a golden lamp set on the
sapphire mantel OF the day, silver lamp
SET on the JET mantel OF the night. Yea,
nave that Mt twenty OF age which deiles all
inventory OF valuables-a soul with capac-
NY 10 choose or reject, to rejoice or to
suner, TO love or TO hate. Plato says 1t IL
immortal. seneca says 1t Is immortal.
SonLuclus says II Is immortal, An old
pook among tho ramily relies, a book with
leatherh cover almost worn out ana pages
almost opiterated by OFT perusal, joins the
0ther DOCKS IN saying am immortal. l
nave eighty years lor lifetime, sixty years
YET 10 nve. l may not i've an hour, but
tneh must lay OUT my plans intelligently
ana LOT long ire. sixty years added
TO the twenty nave already hved-that
VIII prihs me 10 eighty. must remember
tnat these eignty years are only a brief
prelace 10 tne iiVe hundred Thousand mill
IONS OF !ulhtiiiiohs OF years which Will be
my cnlel residence and existence. Now, l
uhuerstand my opportunities ana my re-
spohslDlilties, IL there Is any being In the
universe al wise ana all Deneicent who can
heIp aman IN such luncture, want him.
me young man enters life. He Is buff
leted, ne Is trieu ne Is perplexed. grave
opens on TINS SIDE ana a grave opens on
tnat size. lie Ialls, Dut he rises again. He