The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-09-03
FOLLY OF EXTRAVAGANCE
DR.. TaImage Says Causes the Great Fl.
nanciaI Disturbances Which Take
Place Every Few Years.
PEOPLE WHO LIVE BEYOND THEIR MEANS
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every few years, and arralgns the people
who live beyond their means; text, Jcrc-
mish xvii, IL, AS the partridge stitch on
eggs and hatcheth them not. so he that
getteth riches and not by right shall leave
them in the midst of ms days aud at his
end shall be fool"
Allusion is here made to a well-lIuown
fact in natural history. If a partridge or
quail or a 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 viii as
sort with their own species. Those of MS
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 into their nat
ural element, the water. So my text sug-
gests that n man may gather under his
wings the property of others, but it Will
after awhile escape; 1t will leave the man
I'm sorry predicament and make him feel
very silly.
What has caused all the black days of
financial disasters for the last sixty years.
Some say 1t IS the credit system. Some
lhing back of that. Some say it Is the
spirit OIL gambling ever and anon becoming
Npidemic Something back of that. Some
ny it is the sudden shrinkage in the value
u securities, which even the most honest
Ind intelligent men could not have fore
Veen. Something back of that. i will
pve you the primal cause OF all these dis
hodern society which impels 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. So
600, $4,000 income is not enough for
man to keep up the style of living he pro-
poses, and therefore he steers his bark to-
ward the maestrom. Other men have
1 H. L.. IN non Nf,I
why not he! The present income of the
man not being large enough, he must move
earth and hell TO catch up with his neigh
bors. Others have a country seat-so
must he; others have an eXtravagant ca
terer-so must he: others have a palatial
residence-so must he.
Extravaganza is the cause of all the de-
falcations of the last sixty years. and If
you will go through the history of all the
great panics and the great financial dis
turbances no sooner have you found the
story than right back of 1t YOU will find
the story of how many horses the man
had, how many carriages the man had
how many residences In the country the
man had, how many banquets the man
gave-always, and not one exception for
the last sixty years, either directly or in
directly extravaganza the cause.
Now, Tor the elegances and the refine
ments and the decorations of life / cast
my vote While / am considering this
subject basket of flowers is handed in
flowers paradisaical in their beautv-white
Gala, with a green background of bego-
ma; cluster of heiotropes nesting i'm
some geranlums; sepal and perianth bear.
ing on them the marks of Gods finger
When l see that basket of flowers. they
persuade me that God loves beauty and
adornment and decoration. God might
have made the earth so as to supply the
gross demands of sense, but left it with
out adornment or attraction. Instead of
the varlegated colors of the seasons. the
earth might have worn an unchanpinp dull
brown. The tree might have put forth its
trmt without the prophecy of leaf or bios
som. Niagara might have come down in
gradual descent without thunder and
winged spray.
Look out of your window any morning
after there has been a dew and see
whether God loves jewels. Put n crystal
OF snow under microscope and see what
God thinks of architecture God com
manded the priest of olden time to have
his robe adorned with a wreath of gold
and the hem of his garment to be embroid-
ered IN pomegranates. The earth sleeps
and God blankets 1t with the brlliants of
the night sky. The world wakes. and God
washes 1t from the FURNISHED laver of the
sunrise. SO / have not much patience
with man who talks as though decora
ton and adornment and the c,egances of
life are a sin when they are divinelv rec
ommended. But there Is a line to be
drawn between adornment and decora-
ton that we can afford and those we can
not auord. and when a man crosses that
line ne becomes culpable. ! cannot tell
you what is eXtravagant for YOU You
cannot tell me what is eXtravaoant for
me. What IS right for n queen NAV be
squanderng for a duchess. What may be
economical for you. a man with larger in.
come VIII be wicked waste fOr me with
smaller income There is no iron rule ON
TINS subject. Every man before God on
his knees must judge what is evtrava.
gance. ana when a man goes into eXpen-
dltures beyond his means he is eVtrava.
giant. When man buys ANYTHING 3.a can.
not pay for, he Is eXtravagaut
mere are families IN all cur cities who
can hardly pay their rent and who owe All
the merchants in the neighborhood and
yet nave an apparel unfit for their cir
cumstances and arc an the time sailing
so near shore that business misfortune or
an attack OF sickness prepares them for
pauperlsm. You know very we'll there are
thousands Of families iu orr great cities
VINO stay in nelghborhoods until they
nave exhausted an their clpacitv To- cot
trusted. They stay in the neighborbo6ds
until the druggists viii let them have no
more medicines. and the butchers will sell
them no more meat and the bakers will
teH them no more bread and the gro.
ScIIFman WI sell them no more sugar
ihcn they hnd the region unhealthy. and
they hre q carman. whom they never
pay, 70 take them TO some new quarters.
Where the merchants. the druggists the
butchers. the bakers and the grocervmcu
come and give them the hest rounds of
Deei ana the best merchandise of an sorts
unti they ind out that the ONLY compen.
sauon they are going to get is the &C.
Qumntance OF the patrons There arc
thousands OF such thieves iu al, our big
cities. on see, / call them bv the riqht
name Tor p ii a man buys anything be
does not mean 90 pay for ne b. thief.
Ot course sometimes men aye flung of
misi9f tunee. aud they cannot paw j know
men VINO are just as honest in having
iahed as other men are honest boz succeed
ing j suppose there ie hardly imam who
has gone through liio uut there have been
some times when DE has been -o burt of
misfortune he could not meet his obIg4-
hous but all That i put aside There
are multitude of people who buy that
which they never intend to- pay for. for
winch there is no reasonable expectation
they VIII ever De able TO pay Now if
You have become oblivious of honesty and
mean 90 dciraud. why not save the MGR
chant as much as YOU can? Why not 20
some day 90 his store aDd when nobody
psi looking just shoulder the ham or the
spare RIB and in modest silence steal
away
That would be less criminal. because in
the other way YOU take not only the mans
goods. but You take the time of the mcr.
chant and the time of his accountant and
you take The time OF The messenger who
brought you Che goods Now. if Won must
steal. steal BOB a way 90 Do AS little dam.
sQe 20 the trader as possible
John Randolph arose Bro the American
Senate when "a question OF national finance
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