The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-02-11
SWlNDLE Is ABROAD.
d.. Talmage breaches on the Prev.
alence of Crime.
Everywhere Are Men who Have
Abused the Trust Reposed -
Them-Ths Evils Of Spec
aIation.


CMashing'on. Feb & Copyright. isss)
INA X many OF DR.. Talmages dis
courses recommends right doing for
2 world as wen as preparation for
me heavenly world Text, job. 8, IA;
whose trust shall be q spiders web"
Ihe two most Skillful architects In
the world are the bee and the spider.
The one puts up a sugar mandatory
and the other builds Q slaughter houss
for hies On a bright summer morn
ing, when the sun comes out and shines
upon the spiders web, bedecked with
dew. the gcssamer structure seems
bright enough for q suspension bridge
for aeral beings to cross on. But alas
for the poor fly which In the latter
part OF that day ventures on II and
Is caught and dungeoned and Destroyed
The fy was informed that It was q
free bridge, and would cost nothing,
but At the other end Of the bridge the
toll paid was its own life. The next
day there comes down a strong wind,
aud away goes the web and the ma
rnuding spider and the vict.mIzed ay.
So delicate r the silken threads Of
the spiders web that many thoukandr
Of them are put together before they
become Visible 10 the human eye anc
II takes 100000 Of them TO make
hreeo rs lsrgeas the human hair. Nos
eruei as well a. most ingenious L. the
spider. A prisoner in the Bastile
france mao one 20 trained that a. tn
o1no o. ue 'ioan II every DAY can't
.oI ~ meai OF mes The author o.
VINO was learned scientist o.
\ Gay mao no oouht watched the 70
r4cious process OF this one insect witt
r Ano saw SPIDER arc ny awep
So"1 ., me same ofoom OF scattered
y same "lnd- Alas hat The woriS
ua many oeslgnlns spiders and vic
uml-eo mes Ihere has not been
@ ~nen tne utter ana black IRE
sPonty OF many men having th'
nnAnelai interests OF other n sharg'
n1s peer more than IN these Las
ie" years Inc bankruptcy OF bank
4no olSappearance OF administrator
Win the iunds OF large estates, and th'
oisoroered accounts OF United State
olnciaIS nave sometimes made q pes
nfenee OF crime that solemnizes ever,
thousnuui man n Woman n lead
every pmAnthroPist And CnrisaAn u
asa mnat snAl De done 70 stay tn
Plaguef
lhere Is ever and anon . monsoon o
swlno4e abroad, a typhoon, Q sirocco
! sometimes ask myself IL It would no
De better Tor men making wills TO be
queath the property directly 70 the ex
eeuiors and officers Of the court and ap
point the widows and orphans . com
mittee to zee that the former got q
That did not belong to them. The simple
TACT Is that there are . large numbei
OF men sailing yachts and driving fasl
horses and members OF expensive club
houses and controlling country scat
who are not worth Q dollar II they re
urn TO others their just rghta Under
some sudden reverse they fail. and
with afflicted air seem TO retire from
The world, and seem almost ready fos
norsstic life, when In two or three
years they blossom out again. having
compromised with helrersditors-tAat
g. paid them nothing but reEret-and
the only difference between As second
chapter Of prosperity and the Arst Il
that their pictures ere MurtIlos instead
OF kensettS Gnd their horses 90 0 mile
In 20 seconds less than their predeces-
SorS, and instead OF orr country seat
they have threA. l have watched and
have noticed that nine out Of ten OF
those who fall in what u called high
life have more means after than be-
fore the failure, and In many Of the
cases failure Is only q Stratagem TO e.
cape the payment Of honest debts and
put the world OF the track while they
PRACTICE q large swindls. There Is
something woefully wrong In the fact
that these things are poadble.
First Of all, 1 charge the blame on
careless, Indifferent bank directors and
boards having in charge great financial
institutions. 1t ought not to be posi-
bic for q president or cashier or prom
inent officer Of . banking institution 70
Ewindle II year after year without de-
lection. l will undertake 10 say that
II these frauds are carried on for two
OF three ysHrs without detection either