The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-09-03


While once in awhile Henry Irving OF
an Edwin Booth or a Joseph jefferson
thrills great audience with tragedy, YOU
know as well as ! do that the vast major
ity of the theatres are as debased az de-
based they can be as uncean 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 a hundred millions paid in this
country for cigars and tobacco n year!
About 50 600 600 600 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 a possibility These cx-
travagances also account, az / have al
ready limited for the positive crimes, the
iorgeries, the abscondings Of the officers
of the banks. The store on the business
street swamped 10y 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 IL 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-
lty. In the presence of the American peo-
pie, so far as l can get their attention. [
want 10 arralgn this monster curse of ex-
Aa'"s"uVe' ana want YOU 10 pclt II with
your scorn and hurl at 1t YOUR anathema
/ know It cuts close. | did not know
but some OF YOU in high dudgeon would
get up and 60 out. You stand it we'll
some of YOU make a great swash in life,
and after awhile YOU viii die and minis
tiers VIII be sent for to come and stand By
your coffin and lie about your excellences.
out they Will not come. If you send for
me, ! will tell YOU what my text will be:
lie that provideth not for his own and
Mo nrsIN 8. q
Is worse than an !nfdel!"
What an apportionmentl 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 so great before they get un.
der ground they are insolvent.
There are families that 90 into penurv
IN wicked response to the demands of
TINS day. They put in casket and tomb
stone that which they ought to put in
bread. They wanted bread; you gave
them tombstone.
One would think that the last two oh.
hgations people would be particular about
would be the physician and the under
taker. Because they are the two last OBJ
hgations. those two professions are almost
always cheated. They send for the doctor
night. They send for the undertaken
amid the great solemnities. and often
tneSe TWO men are the very last to be met
with compensation. Merchants sell goods.
ana the goods are not paid for They take
back the goods, / am told But there is
no relief in this case. The man spent ali
he had IN luxury and extravaganza while
he lived, and then he goes out of tbe
world, and has left nothing for his family.
noth,Rs Tor the obsequies and as he goes
out OF the world he steals the doctors
pills and the undertallers slippers. was
reading IN New York paper an account
OF tue oDsequleS IN family of very moder-
ote estate, and the aggregate was $1,000.
- man IN New y orlS of moderate estate
dies, He has lived in extreme luxury,
He departs this life The family, desiro1s
OF Keeping up the magnifcence. orders the
following things They were produced and
never paid for to this day:
Caslet, covered with Lyons velvet.
silver holdings .. ee5o
Heavy plated handles. ca
soma silver plate, engraved in Roman
~ SIIets ''''.... ................. 70
Ten linen scarfs..... 1s0
FLORAL decorations " 055
Muse and quartet choir at the house 40
twenty carriages ................ 40
Then fifteen other important expen-
ditures amounting to 32s
Making an aggregate OF. sl876
And all that to. get one poor mortal to
ms Iast home and never paid forl Swim,
Hleu ms family. Swindled the world He
is sWindhng II now. 1t Is one of the great
curses OF tins 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 bate
nothing for the cause of God and RELIGION
twenty-five million dollars expended i'm
inns country year for religious purposes.
nut what are the twenty-five millions ex
pended Tor religion compared with the
hundred millions expended on cigars and
IQu3cco and then two thousand millions
oil dollars spent for ruml So a man yybo
hdd fortune OF $3.50 900 or what amount
ca 70 that In London spent il all i'm i'm
Itu.lsences' chiefly IN gluttonies, and sent
Wther and yon for AN the deIicacios orJ
often had meal that would cost slO0 on
SzOO Tor himself. Then he was reduced h
one guinea, with which he bought A rare
birq, had NJ cooked in best stvle ate ~
'ook Two hours Tor digestion, walked ont
on Westminster bridge, and jumped into
the Thames a large scale what NOR
are dong on a small scale
On, my friends, let us take our stand
against the eXtravagances of society. Dc
hQI pay Tor things which are frivolous
Whcn you may lack the necessities DE-
not put one months wages OF SALARY int
iTnket' just one trinket. Keen vout
cIedlt good by seldom asking for anv
10 not st1rve a whole year to afford ons
be'shaHlar 8 carnival. Do not buy a coat
OF many colors. and then in six months he
OUT an the elbows. Flourish not. as some
people / AVE known, who took aport
menis at a fashionable hotel and had Gle
CANT drawing rooms attached and theD
vanished nm the night. not even lcavino
their compliments for the landlord
tell you. my friends, in the dav nj
Tod g judgment we shall not only have a.
give an account for the way we made orr
money, but for the way we spent N We
have got to leave all the things that sur
round us now
Alas, If any of you in the diving hon,
lelJ IKE the dying actress who asked tbat
me casket of jewels be brought TO hor and
then turned them over with her male banJ
ana sald, Alas, that i have to leave Won
so soon!' Better in that hour have one
treasure OF heaven than the bridal 49,.
seau of a Marie Antoinette. or to -,
been seated with Cahgula AZ n bsrg,,ot
Wmcb cost ITS thousands of dollars. on IA
nave been carried to our last restine
place with Senators and princes as pait
bearers They that cOusecrate Their
wealth, their time, their all, to God sbelj
ne held ln everlasting remembrance.
while j have the authority OF this booL
for, ANNOUNCING that the name of De
wicked shall rot.
Dog Hring' Cat 90 Town.
There was establishment recently a
the home OF Mrs Harriet Harvey
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