Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-07-19


send for the doctor In great haste, and
he must come day end night. They
send for the undertaken amid the great
solemritieS. and cfteu these two men
are the very last TO be met with com
peuSation Merchants sci. 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 spen,
all he had in luxuries and extravagance
while he lived. and then be goes out or
the world and has left nothing for his
family. nothing for the obSequles. and
as be goes out OF the world he steals
the doctors pills and the undertaker's
slippers, was reading IN New York
paper an account OF the obsequies in a
family OF very moderate estate. and the
aggregate was $1,000. A man in New
York of moderate estate dies. He has
lived in extreme luxury. lie departs
this life. The family. DESTROYS of keep
ing up the nlagnli;cence. orders the fol-
lowing things. They were produced
aoS never paid for To this day:
Caske;. covered with Lyons velvet, silver
u'oiungs ..........-....-.......... $3.50
Heavy plated handles. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. co
Solid silver plate. engraved In Roman letters IS
Ten linen srSrfS. $50
Floral decorations OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. a25
Music and quartet choir AZ the house. 30
twenty cariases -...-.-.--...--.--.......... lao
Then Is other important expenditures
amounting to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50
Making an aggregate of.-.....,............sl,S 76
And all that to get one poor mortal
TO his last home and never paid forl
Swindled his family. Swindled the
world. He is swindling Il now. Ii is
one of the great curses OF this day, the
extravaganza. the wicked extravaganza,
of the country.
nust Account to God.
And then look how the cause OF God
is impoverished. Men give so much
sometimes fer their indulgences they
have nothing for the cause OF God and
religion. Twenty-Five million dollars
expended In this country a year for
religious purposes: but what are the
twenty-five millions expended for re-
liGion compared with the hundred mil
IONS expended on cigars and tobacco
aud then two thousand millions OF dol
lars spent for rum! So a man who had
fortune of SI50.000 or what amount
ed to that IN London spent II all In in
dulgences. chiefly in gluttonies. and
sent hither and yon for all the deli
cacies and often had n meal that would
cost 500 or 5000 for himself. Then he
was reduced to guinea, with which he
bought rare bird, had il cooked in
best style, ate il. took two hours for
digestion, walked out on Westminster
bridge and jumped into the Thames
on large scale whit men are doing ON
n small scale.
Oh. my friends, let us take our stand
against the eXravagances of society.
Do not pay for things which are frivo-
lous when you may lack the necessi-
ties. Do not put one months wages or
salary into trinket, just one trinket.
Keep your credit good by seldom ask
ing for any. Payl Do not starve n
whole year TO afford one Belshazzar's
carnival. Do not buy coat of many
coiorS ard then In six months he out Mt
the elbows. Flourish not. as some peo-
pie L have known, who took apart
ments at fashionable hotel and had
elegant drawing rooms attached and
then vanished i'm tie night. not even
tN-'' AhS thch compliments Tor the land
lord tell you. my friends, in the day
of Gods judgment we shall not only
have TO give an account for the way
we made cur money, but for the way we
spent IL. We have got to leave all the
things that surround us now.
Alas. IL any OF you In the dying hour
felt like the dying actress who asked
that the caskct OF Jewels be brought To
her and then turned them over with
her pale hand and said. "Alas. that I
have To leave you so soonr' Better IN
that hour have one treasure of heaven
than the bridal trousseau OF Marie
Antoinettc. or 10 have been seated with
Caiigula ut banquet which cost Its
thousands Of dollars, or TO have been
carried TO our last resting place with
senators and princes as pallbearcrs.
They that consecrate their wealth. their
time. their all. TO God shall be held I'm
everlasting remembrance. while I have
the authority OF this book for announc-
ing that the name OF the. wicked shall
rot.
copyright. 1901. Louis Elopsch. N. VI