Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-07-18

Ell response TO the demands of this day.
They put in casket and tombstone that
which they ought to put in bread. They
wanted bread you gave them a tomb
stone.
One would think that the last two obli-
cations people would be particular about
would he to the physician and the under
tnkcr. Because they are the two last OBJ
legations those two professions are al
most always cheated. They send for the
doctor in great haste, and he must come
day and night. They send for the under
takcr amid the great solemnties, and Of
ten these two men are the very last to be
met with compensation. Merchants sell
goods, and the goods are not paid for.
They take back the goods. am told. But
there is no relief in this case. The man
spent all he had in Injuries and extrava-
gance while he lived. and then he goes
out OF the world and has left nothing
for his family, nothing for the obsequies,
and as he goes out of the world he steals
the doctors pills and the undertaker's
slippers. ! was reading in n New York
paper an account Of the obscQuies in a
family of very moderate estate, and the
aggregate was $4,000. A man in New
York Of moderate estate dies. He has
lived in extreme luxury. lie departs this
life. The family, DESTROYS OF keeping up
the magnifcencc orders the following
things; they were produced and never
paid for to this day:
Caskct. covered with Lyons velvet, silver
moIdings ..........'..............'. $3.50
Heavy plated handles. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. o.
Solid silver plate, engraved in Roman letters IS
Ten linen scsrfs.. 151
FLORAL decorations ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20
Music and quartet choir at the house........ 40
Twenty carriages ........".................. lao
Then Is other important expenditures
amounting to Observation-Disclosures. 336
Making an aggregate f......,.."..........s1S
And all that TO get one poor mortal 10
his last home and never paid for! Swim
died his family! Swinded the world!
lie is sWindling it now. 1t is one Of the
great curses of this day, the extrava-
gancc the wicked extravaganza. of the
country.
Gods Cause Impoverished.
And then look how the cause of God 10
impoverished. Men give so much some
times for their indulEonces they have
nothing for the cause OF God and reli-
gion. Twenty -two million dollars eX-
pended in this country a year for reli-
gious purposes. But what are the TWEEN
ty-two millions expended for religion
compared with the hundred millions ex-
pended on cigars and tobacco and then
two thousand millions of dollars spent
for rum? SO n man who had n fortune
Of SIJOOOO, or what amounted to that,
in London spent 1t all in indulgenCes,
chiefly in pluttOnies, and sent hither and
yon for all the dclicaCies and often bad
meal that would cost 500 or 5000 for
himself. Then he was reduced to
guinea, with which he bought rare bird,
had it cooked in hest style, ate it, took
two hours for digestion, walked out on
Westminster bridge and jumped into the
Thames-on large scale what men are
doing on a small scale.
Oh, my friends, let us take our stand
against the eXtravagances of society. DO
not pay for things which are frivolous
when you may lack the necessities. Do
not put one months wages or salary into
trinkct, just one trinket. Keep your
credit good 10y seldom asking for any.
Pay. DO not starve n whole year to af-
ford one Belshazzar's carnival. Do not
buy coat Of many colors and then in
six months be out at the elbows. Flour
ish not, as some people | have known,
who took apartments NJ a fashionable no.
tel and had elegant drawing rooms at
tached and then vanished in the night.
not even leaving their compliments for
the landlord. | tell you. my friends, in
the day of Gods Judgment we will not
only have to give an account for the way
we made our money, but for the way we
spent il. We have got to leave all the
things that surround us now.
Alas, If any of you In the dying hour
felt like the dying actress who asked that
the casliet of jewels be brought to her
and then turned them over with her pale
hand and said. Alas that have to leave
you so soon." Better in that hour have
one treasure Of heaven than the bridal
trousseau of Marie Antonette or to
have been seated with Caligula at ban
quet which cost its thousands of dollars
or TO have been carried to our last rest
ing place with senators and princes as
paIlhcarers. They that consecrate their
wealth, their time, their all, TO God shall
be held in everlasting remembrance, while
! have the authority of this book for an
nounciug that the name Of the wicked
shall rot.
Copyright 1901, Louis Klopsoh. N. "