Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-08

courthouse or the CITY nail Or the jail or
the postoffice or the hospital that in the
building of it has not had a political
job? Long before the new courthouse in
New York city was completed it cost
over $12, 900, 600. Five million six hun
dred and sixty three thousand dollars
for furniture! For plastering and re-
pairs, 2,37O, 900. For plumbing and
gas works, 81, 231,817. For awnings,
$23, 553 The bills for three months
coming to the nice little sum of $13,-
151, 1913. 80. There was not an honest
brick or stone or lath or nail or foot Of
plumbing or inch of plastering or ink
stand or doorknob in the whole estab-
lishment.
That bad example was followed in
many Of the cities, which did not steal
quite so much because there was not SO
much to steal. There ought to be clos
err inspection, and there ought to be less
opportunity for embezzlement. Lest
man shall take 5 cent piece that does
not belong to him the conductor on the
city horse car must sound his bell at ev-
cry payment, and we are very cautious
about small offenses, but give plenty Of
opportunities for sinners on a large scale
to escape. For boy who steals loaf
of bread from a corner grocer, to keep
his mother from starving to death, a
prison, but for defrauders who abscond
With 5000, 900 castle on the Rhine,
or, waiting until the ofense is forgot
ten, castle on the Hudson
Beware Of Temptation.
Another remark needs to be made, and
that is that people ought not to go into
places, into business or into positions
where the temptation is mightier than
their character. IF there be large sums
of money to be handled and the man is
not sure Of his own integrity, you have
no right to run an unseaworthy craft in
a hurricane. A man can tell by the
sense of weakness or strength in the
presence of bad opportunity whether
he is in a safe place. How many par
ents make an awful mistake when they
put their boys in banking houses and
stores and shops and factories and places
of solemn trust without once discussing
whether they can endure the tempta-
ton! Yon give the boy plenty of mon
ey and have no account of it and make
the way down become very easy, and
you may put upon him a pressure that
he cannot stand. There are men who go
into positions full Of temptation, con-
sidering only that they are lucrative
positions.
An abbot wanted to buy piece of
ground, and the owner would not sell
it, but the owner finally consented to
let it to him until he could raise one
crop, and the abbot sowed acorns, a crop
of 200 years. And I tell you, young
hot Oh ;o[,
plant in your heart and life will seem
to be very insignificant, but they will
grow up until they will overshadow
you with horrible darkness, overshadOw
all time and all eternity. 1t will not be
a crop for 200 years, but crop for ever
lasting ages.
I address many who have trust funds.
1t is compliment to you that you have
been so intrusted, but I 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 &C
count 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 people make ship
wreck. They get the property of others
mixed up with their own property,
they put it into investment, and away it
all goes, and they cannot return that
which they borrowed Then comes the
explosion, and the money market is
shaken, and the press denounces, and
the church thunders expulsion.
You have no right to use the property
Of others except for their advantage,
nor without consent unless they are
minors. If with their consent you in
vest their property as well as you can
and it is all lost, you are not to blame.
You did the best you could. But do not
come into the delusiOn, which has ruined |
SO many men, of thinking because a
thing is in their possession therefore it
is theirs. You have solemn trust that
God has given you.
In any community there may be some |
who have misappropriated trust funds
Put them back, or, if you have so hope
lessly involved them that you cannot
put them back, confess the whole thing |
to those whom you have wronged, and |
you will sleep better nights, and you
will have the better chance for your
soul. What sad thing it would be if
after you are dead your administrator
should find out from the account books
or from the lack of vouchers that YOU
were not only bankrupt in estate, but
that you lost your soul
Small SwindIes.
A clustering young man arrived at
hotel in the west and he saw man on
the sidewalk whom he supposed to be
1aborer, and in rough way, as no man
has a right to address laborer, said to
him, Garry this trunk up stairs.'' The
man carried the trunk up stairs and
came down, and then the young man