Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-08-18


pitai, that in the building OF it has not
mad political job? long before the
new courthouse in New York city wa
completed It cost over ST., 0l0,ooA Five
million six hundred aul six,y.three
Thousand dollars for furniture! For
! clustering and repairs, S2,s,0,o0o For
! plumbing and gas WORKS, Sl,2I,St1.
For awnings, S25,5Ss. The bill for
three mouths coming to the nice little
sum of Sl3,l5l,l9S, 50. There was not
an honest brick, or stone, or lath, or
/ nail, or foot OF plumbing, or iSh OF
! plastering, or inistand, or door knob
! IL the whole establishment.
! That bad example was followed in
/ many of the cities, which did not steal
I quite SO much because there was not
! So much TO steal, There ought to be a
+ closer inspection, and there ought to
! be less opportunity for esnbezaiement
| Lest man shall take ive-ccnt piece
{ that does not belong to him, the con-
| ductor Of the city horse-car mast sound
! his bell at every payment; and we are
very cautious about small otfenses, but
) give plenty of opportunities for sim
ners on large scale to escape. For q
! boy who steals IA lohf of bread from
corner grocer to keep his mother from
starving to death, prison; but for de-
| frauderS who abScond with half n mil
! lion dollars, Il castle on the Rhine, or,
waiting until thu otfcuSe is forgotten,
! castle on the lludSon!
! On! is it not high time that we preach
! the morals of the Gospel Mr.. Froude,
the celebrated historian, has written
/ Of hls own country these remarkable
words: From the great house in the
! city of London To the village grocer,
: the commercial life of England has
/ been saturated with fraud. So deep
| has 1t gone that q 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 pretcnds to be. We have false
/ weights, false measures, cheating and
/ shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
have seen all this grow up in absolute
| indifference. Many hundreds of ser.
/ mons have heard in England on the
| Divine mission of the clergy, OF
I bishops, and on justification, and the
theory Of good works, and verbal in
, spiraton, and the efficacy of the sucra-
m>nts; but, during all these 80 won
/ derful years, never one that | can
recollect on com non honesty"
Now, that may be an Exaggerated
statement of things in England but
am very certain that in all parts of the
earth we need to preach the moralities
of the Gospel right along beside the
faith of the Gospel.
My nearer, what are you doing with
that fraudulent document in your
pocketP My other nearer, how are you
getting along with that wicked scheme
you have now ON foot? Is that
pool ticket" you have in your
pocket? Why, . young man, were
you last night prarticing in copying
your employers signature? Where
were you last night? Are your habits
as good as when you left your fathers
house? You had IA Christian ancestry,
and you have had too many prayers
spent on you to go overheard Dr.
Livingstone, the famous explorer, was
descended from the llighandcrS, and
| he said that one OF his ancestors,
one of the II!gh,andrrs, Que day
called his family around him. The
highlander WAS dying; he had his chill.
dren aruaAl MS d'athbcd lie said;
NOW, my L1dS, | have looked ali
through our il org as far back as
can find il, aud nav" never found a
dishonest man in all the line, aud
| TIA, ;,,I, q,
| good blood. You nave no excuse for
doing wron.E. My lads, b. honest"
Ali, my frirh,ts, tie honest before
God, be honest before your fellow men,
be honest beiort your soul. 1t there be
those who have wandered away, come
back, come home, co.u" now, one and
all, come into the Kingdom OF God.
am glad some one has set TO music
that scene in August, 1888 |, when Q
| young girl saved from death n whole
rail train of passengers. Some of you
remember that out west in that year
on stormy night a hurricane blew
down part of railroad bridge. A
freight train came along, and il
crashed into the ruin, and the
engineer and conductor persisted.
The was girl living in her IA
theirs cabin, near the disaster, and
she heard the crash of the freight
train, aud she knew that in few mo-
ments an express was due. She
lighted lantern and clambered up on
the one beams of the wrecked bridge on
to the main bridge, which was trestle-
work. aud started to Cross amid the
tnunder and the lightning of the TEN.
pest, and the raging of the torrent be.
meath. One misstep and it would
have been death. Amid all that
horror the lanterns went out.
Crawling sometimes, and sometimes
walking over the slippery rails, and
over the trestlework, she came to the
other side Of the river. She wanted TO
get to the telegraph station, where the
express train did not stop, where the
danger might be telegraphed to the
station whore the train did stop. The
tram was due in few minutes. She
was one mile off from the telegraph
station but fortunately the tram was
| late With cut and bruised feet