Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-15

into positions full Of temptation. consid-
ering only that they are lucrative posi-
tions.
An abbot wanted to buy q piece OF
ground, and the owner would not sell 1t,
but the owner finally consented to let 1t to
him until he could raise one crop, and the
abbot sowed acorns-a crop Of 200 yearsl
And tell you young man, that the dis
honestiss which you plant In your heart
and life will seem to be very Insignificant,
but they will grow up. until they over
shadow you with horrible darkness, over-
shadow all time and all eternity. 1t Will
not be crop for 200 years, but crop for
everlasting ages.
address many who have trust fands.
It is a compliment to you that you have
been SO entrusted, but charge you, In the
presence OF God and the world, be careful;
be as careful Of the property Of others as
YOU are careful Of your own. Above all,
keep your own private account at the bank
separate from your account as trustee OF
an estate, or trustee OF an institution:
That Is the point at which thousands OF
property Of others mixed up with their
own property, they put It into investment,
and away It all goes, and they cannot re-
turn that which they borrowed. Then
comes the explosion, and the money mar
ket is shaken, and the press denounces,
and the Church thunders expulsion.
A clustering young man arrived at a ho-
tel in the West, and he saw man on the
sidewalk whom he supposed to be labor
er, and in a rough way, as no man has
right to address laborer, said to him,
Garry this trunk upstairs" The man
carried the trunk upstairs and came down,
and then the young man gave him a quar-
ter of a dollar which was clipped, and in
stead OF being twenty-five cents 1t was
worth only twenty cents. Then the young
man gave his card to the laborer ana said.
want to see him." "Ah," said the laborer,
II am Governor Grimes" "Oh," said the
young man, "you-I-excuse me-" Then
the Governor said: "I was much impressed
by the letter you wrote me asking for
certain office In my gift, and had made
up my mind you should have 1t, but
young man who will cheat laborer out of
five cents would swindle the government Of
the State II he got his hands on 1t. don't
want you. Good morning. sir"
do not suppose there was ever better
specimen Of honesty than was found in the
Duke OF Wellington. He marched with his
army over the French frontier, and the
how to get along. Plenty OF plunder all
about, but he commanded none OF the
plunder to be taken. He writes home these
remarkable words: "We are overwhelmed
with debts, and can scarcely stir out Of
my house on accout OF public creditors,
Yet at the very time the French peasantry
were bringing their valuable3 to him to
keep. A celebrated writer says of the
transactions: Nothing can be grander or
moro nobly original than this admission.
This old soldier, after thirty years service,
this iron man and victorious general, es-
tablished In an enemy's country at the
head OF an immense army, Is afraid OF his
creditors! This is kind OF fear that has
seldom troubled conquerors and invaders,
and doubt IL the annals OF war present
anything comparable to its sublime sim
plicity."
oh! is it not high time, that we preach
the morals OF the Gospel right beside the
faith Of the Gospel Mr.. Froude, the cele-
brated English historian, has written OF
bis own country these remarkable words:
From the great house in the city OF Lon
don to the village grocer. the commercial
life OF England has been saturated with
fraud. SO deep has it gone that strictly
honest tradesman can hardly hold his
ground against competition. You can no
longer trust that any article you buy is the
thing which it pretends to be. We have
false weights, false measures, cheating, ana
shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
has so,an all this grow up in absolute indif-
ference. Many hundreds OF sermons have
heard in England on the divine mission of
the clergy, on bishops. and on Justification,
and the theory of good works, and verbal
inspiration, and the efficacy of the sacra-
ments; but during all thess thirty wonder
full years, never one that l can recollect on
common honesty"
My hearer, what are you doing with that
fraudulent document in your pocket? My
other hearer, how are you getting along
with that wicked scheme you have now on
foot? Is that spool ticket" you have in
your pocket? Why. young man, were
you last night practicins In copying your
employers signature? Where were you
last night? Are your habits as good as
when you left your fathers house2 You
had Christian ancestry. perhaps, and you
have had too many prayers spent on you to
go overheard. DR.. Livingstone, the famous
explorer was descended from the High
landers, and he said that one OF his ances-
tors. one OF the Highlanders. one day called
his family around him. The Highlander
was dying; he had his children around his
death-bed. He said: 'Now, my lads, have
looked all through our history as far back
as can find 1t, and l have never found
dishonest man in all the line, and I want
you to understand you inherit good blood.
You have no excuse for doing wrong. My
lads, be honest"
All, my friends, be honest before God, be
honest before your fellow-men. be honest
before your soul. II there be those who
have wandered away, come back, come
home, come now, one and all, come into
the Kingdom Of God.
am glad some one has set to music that
scene In August, 1881, when young girl
saved from death a whole rail train Of pas
sengers. Some Of you remember that out
West in that year on a stormy night q hur-
ricane blew down part OF q railroad bridge.
A freight train came along and 1t crashed
into the ruin, and the engineer and con-
ductor perished There was a girl living
in her fathers cabin, near the disaster, and
she heard the crash OF tho freight train,
and she knew that in few moments an
express was due. She lighted lantern
and clambered up on the one beam of the
wrecked bridge on to the main bridge, which
was trsstle work, and started to cross amid
the thunder and the lightning of the tenn
pest and the racing OF the torrent beneath.
One misstep and 1t would have been death.
Amid all that horror the lantern went out.
Crawling sometimes, and sometimes walk
ing over the slippery rails, and over the
trestle work, she came to the other side of
the river. She wanted to get to the tele-
graph station, whore the express train did
not stop, so that the danger might be
telegraphed to the station where the train
did stop. The train was due in few min
utes. She was one mile of from the tele-
graph station. but fortunately the train
was late. With cut and bruised feet she