The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-18

1ty OF the theatres are as dcbascd as de-
based they can be, as unclean as unclean
they can be and as damnable as damnable
they can be. Three million dollars--the
vast majority OF those dollars going in the
wrong direction.
Over hundred millions paid in this
country for cigars and tobacco a yeari
About 100000 900 paid for strong drink
in one year in this country With such
extravaganza, pernicious extravaganza,
can there be any permanent prosperity?
Business men, cool headed business men,
is such a thing possibility? These ex-
travagances also account as / have al
ready limited, for the positive crimes the
forgeries, the abscondings of the officers
OF the banks. The store on the business
street swamped by the residence on the
fashionable avenue. The fathers, the hus-
bands craft capsized by carrying too
much domestic sail. That is what springs
the leak in the merchants money till.
That is what cracks the pistols of the sui
cides. That is what tears down the banks.
That is what stops insurance companies.
That is what halts this nation again and
again In its triumphal march of prosper.
ity. In the presence of the American peo-
pie, SO far as | can get their attention, l
want to arraign this monster curse of ex-
travagance. and want you to pelt it with
your scorn and hurl at II your anathema
| know it cuts close. | did not know
but some OF you in high dudgeon would
get up and go out You stand il well
Some of you make great swash in life,
and after awhile you will die, and minis
tiers will be sent for to come and stand by
your coffin and lie about your excelences,
but they will not come. If you send for
me, | will tell you what my text will be:
He that provideth not for his own. and
especially for those in his own household,
is worse than an infidell"
What an apportionment Twenty thou
sand dollars for ourselves and one cent
for God! All, my friends, this extrava-
gance accounts for a great deal of what
the cause of God suffers.
And the desecration goes on even TO the
funeral day. You know very well that
there are men who die solvent. but the
expenses are so great before they get un.
der ground they are insolvent.
There are families that 60 into penury
In wicked response to the demands OF
this day. They put in casket and tomb
stone that which they ought to put in
bread. They wanted bread; you gave
them a tombstone.
:. One would think that the last two OBJ
hgationss people would be particular about
would be the physician and the under
ttaker. Because they are the two last oh.
hgations; those two professions are almost
always cheated They send for the. doctor
IN great haste, and he must come day and
night. They send for the undertaken
amid the great solemnities and often
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 luxury and extravaganza while
ne iived, and then he goes out of the
world, and has left nothing for his family.
nothing for the obseques, and as he goes
out OF the world he steals the doctors
pill; and the undertaker's slippers. was
. reading in New York paper an account
of the obsequies in a family of very moder.
ate estate, and the aggregate was $4,000.
a man in New York of moderate estate
dies, He has lived in extreme luxury.
He departs this life. The family, desirous
OF keeping up the magnifcence, orders the
Following things. They were produced and
never paid for to this day:
Casket, covered with LYONS velvet
silver holdings .................... $3.50
neaVy plated handles. es................ 90
oolid silver plate, engraved in Roman
ietters .................. rs
Len nnen scaris.. ..................... $50
Floral decorations ... 025
Music and quartet choir at the house 90
Then fifteen other important expen-
ditures amounting to- 336
Making an aggregate Of. .SlS76
And all that to get one poor mortal to
ms last home and never paid forl Swim
died his family. Swinded the world. He
Is swinding it now. IL is one of the great
curses oil this day, the. extravaganza, the
wicked extravaganza, of the country
And then look how the cause OF God is
impoverished; Men give so much some
times for their indulgences they have
nothing for the cause of God and religion
twenty-five million dollars expended in
THIS country year for religious purposes;
but what are the twenty-five millions ex.
pended for religion compared with the
hundred millions expended on cigars and
tobacco and then two thousand millions
OF dollars spent for rum. So a man who
had fortune of $750000 or what amount
ed to that in London spent it all in in
dulgences, chiefly in gluttonies, and sent
hither and yon for all the delicacies and
often. had meal that would cost 500 or
500 for himself Then he was reduced to
one. guinea, with which he bought rare
bird, had it cooked in best style. ate it.
took two hours for digestion, walked out
on Westminster bridge, and jumped into
ene inames--on large, scale what men
are doing on 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
tiihhct, just one trlnKet. Keen VOur
credit good by seldom asking for any.
DO not starve whole year to afford one
belshazzar's carnival. Do not buv coat
oil many colors, and then in six months be
out at the elbows. Flourish not as some
people i have known, who took aport.
ments at a fashionable hotel and had ele.
CANT drawing rooms attached and then
vanished IN the night not even leaving
Their compliments for the landlord
tell you, my friends, in the dav of
Gods judgment we shall not only have 70
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 sur.
round us now.
Alas, il any of you in the dying hour
,ieit IKE the dying actress who asked that
the casket Of jewels be brought TO her and
then turned them over with her pale hand
and said. Alas, that have to leave Won
so soon!" Better in that hour have one
treasure OF heaven than the bridal trous.
seau of Marie Antoinette. or to have
been seated with Caligula at banquet
which cost its thousands of dollars. or 10
have been carried to our last resting
place with Senators and princes as pali.
bearers. They that consecrate their
wealth, their time, their all, to God shall
be held in everlasting remembrance.
while l have the authority of this book
Tor announcing that the name of the
wicked shall rot.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
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