Milford chronicle., 1901-07-19

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WASHINGTON, July An this dis
course DIR. Talmage shows the causes OF
the great financial disturbances which
take place every few years and arraigns
the people who live beyond their means;
text. jeremiah xvii, II, "As the partridge |
stitch on eggs and hatcheth them not, so |
he that gettcth riches, and not by right, |
shall leave them in the midst of his days |
and at his end shall be a fool"
Allusion is here made to a well known |
fact in natural history. If a partridge or
a quail or robin brood the eggs Of an |
other species, the young will not stay
with the one that happened to brood
them, but at the first opportunity Will
assert with their own species. Those of
us who have been brought up in the
country have seen the dismay of the
farmyard hen, having brooded aquatic
fowls, when after awhile they tumble in
TO their natural element, the water SO
my text suggests that man may gather
under his wings the property Of others,
but it will after awhile escape. 1t will
leave the man in n sorry predicament
and make him feel very silly.
What has caused all the black days Of
financial disasters for the last 60 years?
Some say 1t is the credit system. Some
thing back OF that. Some say it is the
spirit of gambling ever and anon becom-
/ ing epidemic. Something back Of that.
/ Some say it is the sudden shrinkage in
| the value Of securities, which even the
most honest and intelligent men could not
/ have foreseen. Something back Of that.
will give you the primal cause Of all
these disturbances. 1t is the extrava-
| gance Of modern society which impels a
| man to spend more money than he can
/ honestly make, and he goes into wild
| speculation in order to get the means for
| inordinate display, and sometimes the
man is to blame and sometimes his wife
and oftener both. Five thousand dollars
income, $4,000, $4,000 income, is not
enough for n man to keep up the style Of
living he proposes, and therefore he
steers his bark toward the maelstrom.
Other men have suddenly snatched up
$4,000 or 100000. Why not he? The
present income of the man not being
large enough, he must move earth and
] hell to catch up with his neighbors. 9th
ers have a country seat; so must he
I Others have an eXtravagant caterer; SC
must he. Others have a palatial resi-
2 dence; so must he.
{ Extravaganza is the cause of all the
i defalcations of the last GO years, and, il
i you will 60 through the history Of all thu
, great panics and the great financial dis
: turbances, no sooner have you found th
$ story than right back of it you will fine
}. the story of how many horses the maj
h had, how many carriages the man had
t, how many residences in the country til
e man had, how many banquets the ma
s gave-always, and not one exception 70
the last o. years, either directly or ind
lie rectly extravaganza the cause.
r. The ReGnements of Life.
e Now for the elegances and the refine
p ments and the decorations of life. Gus
u my vote. While / am considering tn
y. subject a basket of flowers is handed in
al flowers paradisiacal in their bcaut,
White Gala with n green background {
- begonia. A cluster of heliotrOpes ne
Ting in some geranium. Sepa and p
g rianth bearing on them the marks
Coils finger. When / see that basket
flowers, they persuade me that God low
beauty and adornment and dccOratio
3 God might have made the earth so as
| supply the gross demands of sense, b
8 left Il without adornmept or attractio
s Instead of the variegated cOlOTs of I
3 seasons the earth might have worn an Il
3 changing dull brown. The tree mig
: have put forth its fruit without t
5 prophecy Of leaf or blossom. Niaga
s might have come down in gradual desce
8 without thunder and winged spray.
3 Look out of your window any morni
y after there has been a dew and s
whether God loves jewels. Put a crys
- Of snow under a microscope and see wi
God thinks Of architecture. God co
Z manded the priest Of olden time to ha
his robe adorned with a wreath of g
and the hem of his garment to be
-, brOidered in pomegranates. The ca
II. sleeps, and God blankets 1t with the b
liants of the night sky. The world wax
and God washes it from the burnisl
- LAYER Of the sunrise. So have not mi
patience with man who talks as thO'
decoration and adornment and the
ganccs Of life are y sin when they
net diyinely recommended. But there i
line TO be drawn between adOrnment
boy decorations that we can afford and IL
, ON we cannot afford, and when a man eros
rate that line he becomes culpable. ] car
dies tell you what is eXtravagant for !
,I ~; You cannot tell me what is extravag
I in for me. What is right for q queen ]
lies be sQunndering for a duchess. W
INNS may be economical for you, man '
II r,I -fr,
e for me, with smaller income. There is
Dllls iron rule on this subject. Every man
nrni fore God and on his knees must j
ng in what is extravaganza and when
goes into expenditures beyond his m
DEL he is extravagant. When q man
anything he cannot pay for, he is
. travagant.
There are families in all our cities
can hardly pay their rent and who
all the merchants in the neighbor
-..,,h and yet have an apparel unfit for
-, circumstances and are all the time SO
lction 80 near shore that business misfortu
Ork- an attack o. sickness prepares then
'rA pauperism. You know very well
ARE. are thousands of families in our
cities who stay in neghborhoods
. they have exhausted NIL their capaci
get trusted. They stay ip the neig
hoods until the druggists will let
have no more medicines. and the but
will sell them no more meat, an
bakers will sell them no more bread
,,.,,o,.,, the grocerymen will sell them no
/, pain. sugar. Then they find the regio
d. An healthy, and they hire a carman,
crown they never pay, to take them to
new quarters where the merchant
druggists, the butchers, the baker
the grocerymen come and give the
MO best rounds of beef and the best
IN ~ and the best merchandise of all sol
-kInan. til they find out that the only com
action. ton they are going to get is the acc
TY. ance of the patrons. There are
sands Of such thieves in all our big
You see l call them by the right
I'd, Del. for if man buys anything ne dc
v,oo,, fo nav for 10 ic a thief