'xllb' DAILY .
.iE AGE OF SWINDLE.
HE REV. Dn. TALM AGE'S SERMON
- AT THE TABERNACLE.
.Wliuo n Mitn't Itiikliifsit JAtn I to tin Not
lUUglon I a Hutnling Wlif-u It !
lllght to Itorrow.
Brooklyn, March 11. The hymn
Fun; at th' Tuhernat lo this morning
begiii.s: '
A cl'iu.l tit il in-. i n (iiouml
II'.M !.;: i:i l-ill hiii vi-.v;
J'myvt t!i- si : ..'T-iv'y lrl,
Alul oliv.ai'l i.i t'-.y t.y.
Ak, last (!.,- j;(.v. J. Do Witt
Tahiin-re, ). )., i;... p:, ii,r, had baptizi-d
by Fpri.ililir; J if, ihii mornm;.?. baptized
by i i i i ji 't.-.i- 'T, t !.: u lio i rt r-rrcil tlii.i
l:io k u I . ; !i-!ry bavin;; U rn built
under t!i" jki!;'I. Tl.c ml-jict of hi.-i
F'nnn'i v:;s: 'il:- A uf H in!lo," and
t!i 1 :t .!.' viii, 1!: Wlio.u trust
i,!n!l I ;i (-!!: r '.; v. i !.' iJr. Taluiae
K;il:
'i'iif lv. i i.i;) L Willful r.rrliitecl.s in all
the v. orl l an- !!' ! : I 1 h pider. The
tun' pi! 1 1 . a : r i:i i.MMf.nKTy ami Iho
i'n-r i.riii-. I.i a lai-,;:t.-r l; ....( fr flies. '
'f i a '. i,. !!. ; !. .!.;: r i 'ii :;ii.' when tlio
in:i ci.it!. i.'.:; ::;i-i slum . iio:i tlie
fIM"r'ii v. i). !. :;.. 1 willi dew, tin;
J.o.-.-.u'n. r j-'.:!l.-l:i-f . i ; I :i; lit enou;;h
for a ; :i i ! c .-;; i niatiiral
ll. lM' S t.UTi .lill. ill i'oi- the jxior
fly v. I.i !i. i.i J.: i v pttof that very
d:y, c.'.!!ir.s i '...r.d i. -:i:i'j lit atal
Int.. i.il :t :! ..le.yrd. The ily was
iill't IJ: i' I ii v.::-, a in-f liri';f, nii'l
would iv. 1 li.tlr'--. i :;L :t the n! !.er end
if tin; Ilif t . - ! li :'. 1 u a ; ii -i own
life ; ; i !'f v::if i 'own a
f 'I'l'ii; . i: '. : 'i . ; .(, l.'if aiil
i'::.' Jii li..il :: . : ; r : li.i- v!( iimi.fil
lly. S-: ? i : ;!'.. ,i t!lt-iM.!s of
thfSpi! l' '..' 1', f I.::: i . i i:-.11 .i::iis of
tlu-:.i ; ); r l i i.'ic th- y
fo::v vi i: I : !!: hiima.i , aiiil
it t.'a ; ..:.(. i i !i m t' tiirikf
a thivail a ; I :r i- : a !::iim.-iii hair.
JIir.t in: ! : ; . il i..st
ji:n is tin- r. v i:i '.-ii-r in thf
r.;.J.;if, l'::i h:rl o- : .. 1 lai.K-l that
it th :.';!::! !' ;. V.o!:'.i i: ijv, TV !l y t-aisn
for it ; i.:f. ! I U'. . .)'. I'. anihor of
my t :;t a: ! i' I. i-::l i i. of Iii.,
;.iy. a . '.;ii t v. : I.fti t!i- vin-;!cii.in
Tif .ill' t .i . -:i i i !, n i;h j.no'.hcr.
iir:il aa-iV : ; . ::! i'. ' j i '.o-ii w i;h
t';f : ::!iii' I !!::! i-r . :..! y iii.1 sain
r.-jii'!. .M.:--. ii .' i'. i I h:. : : many
'. '. r : i. 1 i '., il hit s!
'j'iltlV I i-i ! ' : ' .1 a li'ai'uhfll till!
iiliira::! Ma !: i:: . a i i.iy ol many
l;:f!l l::.iTi 11..' lr: n.i . :l i : i i r. . ! ; of o'.h-t-TH
i.i I . I- ' i i-.i'-iv i viiii. lit than
in tin ? 1 i-i f- f.f-i.
1 lie ii ii.-oi' :' :' h.ia'i-.: ami ili-ao'war-n:i'.v
f - wii'i thf i'mi. !.- iif
Iar;.;o v.-.'. .t--.-, aa.l t!i-i: vih r aiiii.l Kt
oilifi" uai'.! an 1 ' f-fii.- i.aiiil Uniii'il
ISiati-s ;ll.-als. Imvo ...alo a --I ilfiu-i? of
rime that m ' -.imi.- .. iuy I !p -irhtful
man an' I woiiin. ;!! . . vry j!iil
jinlhn.fi. t aii'! ( i.ii-'l a l j-.:;!:: What
thull l.o ih-!.f to t.;y i!..- .L:-:;:a? There
ij a inu:i:o i?i :.hi .i-i, :i tyj !:').. n. a. sir
occo. I si..ii'!l::u - a.-k wiy.-i- U' if it would
not huln th r t'-.-r fta-n ..:.!.j;i- w ills tibo
iUiT.t'i tin' -niKUiv I'lnctly to the exec -iitors
nivl oiiii -rs ( i th-' conrt, aal aj
lKi!:t thf wi.iw.i a: 'I rjih.s!i.-s a coin
r.uCoe to ': tiiat former Kt all
t!iai ciiil not I a !.' i.; i i'i'-::i. ThoMiniile
fact ii tha' thvii-are a la rue iniiiilKr of
l:ie: tailing !.a ;.'Jl lirivia; fast
liofres. ai'.-l a 'iioi-i-i -,?, f-::;c!!rii Huh
hull i-N ami eo:.r.iia.;r -;.;:a:iry .-! ats who
are in: worii. VI 'f ." r-.-tum toothers
ft:.ir jti't ri;-!;! ' s;jsm sii'hlea
lcvi t'li.'.." I . !. :'i.l wa!i : i'.liol -d air
tjfiu t ret lie (; :: li. - v.crM. and seem
a!.i O.:.t rea-'.y h i" i i t'c 1:. v.hcii in
two or tatve y:;r.i la.-y I :----oiii out
a;aki, lia.vi; cm; ;v-".ii-i-il wiili t'm-ir
ciiiirxn: , tli. : i , j .1 th":n nothing
l.ur l-' f'r. ls. a.--! o?ily Terence
between h' ! c-'lal c.iptcv of iroserity
ami the J .. :.i- t!:.;t iii' t-uvs are
I.iiU'illos i:; u ;-l el' a- v" i.:. ::nd their
lior.-es ; a. !:'!.' i-i t wy'.ny t- -oj-'ls loss
than th !r .r l;vc- in-tcail t f one
rotiatry .-i :.t (' ' i . e l.avo. I have
w-at.-'ieil mi.! have a- i ! tiiat nine out
of ton oi tho w. 1 V.:'. i i v. hat is called
l.ij!i Ihe. li:ive r--re .-terras aiar than
bc-i'ore i:- f:.ii:--. a;. I in taauy of these
casi-.- f.iili:i'e U i . i ;-- a :.;.:. ;-, :.i oc-rer-iie
the I'i'V! -i :t; of !.o:it-.t ii. "-: ; aa.l j.at th.
wcvl.l o';" ihe t v. hh ihey raetke a
l.irge wi.:.i!. There i; -.aie'-hirg wo?
fuiiy w.-i.-v: in ;!:e fact th-a ti:e.;2 tilings
rae '. -. ,
I ir.-t .f ;.'.!. I a-. r,;o thf hhano ca
cariijs, itsih.'o ..-.-.t Um'i liavctors anl
lo;-.ru.- havii; x iu char; e ; ".'.at ha. racial
instua'ii : . It t .:.-'! not he .-.-ihle
for a i :v-i at o,- e or laaaacnt
eLiCi-r of a hank:.: ; i ' a i.-.-.wiau!o
it j car r .-r--. i.h ai ! :u iin. I
will i:i!3: :.'!:.' ; :.:; t. at ii' l!; -se franls
iirecavt-i. i i f : '. ' or i:ae ears
wiiho'.'.r. il. . :' :. ' '. : r 1.e t::rec:ors
f.ve par'.ae:-.- i:. ' .; a.ay a1'. ' j i-aeieJ
jart of tl.-- ; :. or :-..-y ar.- ;'U-hy of a
tn:l;:.'-Ie ia .i '. h a" w h.v.i ( h-t
wiil li-.-M la .: : ; i- s a ;!' nj l.e lseluS
thf? a-.kae..vh-i: I t .laaiirs. V. hut
li-ht have j r-.- ..: -...-.: l iwaa-.; i;:ea to
allow tin lr i. : s t l a .:t:.-Il.:ul &-i
tlitvctoT--, i.: a !". : el..! ia-fltutlea, fothai
xm.-oi,hl ;t: 1 are ta relr in
ciiieeil to ' ; " ih- y ia or bu;'
the !!: Il; : . wl. a ii: y, the iatl
lis.ae.1 -:i.-..- v a.v ol ' A n.. thing for
the safety ef th.-i::--.lr:tl :.: It is a case
of deetj li a m .-: r ; :. la :ihle. -Jany
jH-ople w!:h a : :r.-l :i of la-.aey not
neeaeu for iarta- O.r a o a! hv.agh it
Htzy l-e u V:vA i n lar oa n: '.!.-: -i.-asahl-V
ere w iiiio'jt irici-ia e -ar '.t-':!t t'aJvi
them. :ia'l they :.vj p.;:ivlel solely by
the characi- r of Ihe whose
names are uuocai-.wl wiih tin
institution. AVh.eu tl:"; trash ir.ir.e, ami
wish the overthrow of the banks went
the sruall earnings aa l i.mit.-.l fortunes
of wi'loV6 and craliaiiS, cal the help
jesslv ag'l, the c'.ireciors tt..l with
Idiotic stare, and to the iaoiiiry of thfl
frenzied dviwitoi-5 r.n i c:o..Lhel Iers who
bad lost their ail. and to the arrai.rmaeat
of an indignant pal he had nothing to
pay exee't: "We thought i- was all
right. Vie i lit I n t know there was any
thing wrong going on." It waf their
lutv to know. Tht-; o-.l ia a i::t:aa
" u hi'tli de'.adi Lhf iHjk-vvilh the idea
that tht v were car inV.y obs-rvant: Call
ing th.-in chta directors, they did not
dirwt. Tluy lial oa.j.ortuaity of r.a
dithig n-cear.H and i:aieeurg the
lok?. 2o time to do so? Tb-n
ihfy lml no boInei to iwcept tlie
ry.jtIon. It fecms to mo llio firide
of F)tne moniod men to bo directors in a
great many institutions, and all they
know ii v. helhuOor npt they get their
dividcTids rgulaiTy, and their names are
used a.i dfi-oy ilui-ks to bring others near
enough to Ixj inade game of. "What llnt
of all is needed in that Q.OUO bank
dint-tors nnd insurance crmipany direct
ors resign or attend to their bunnies an
diroctorH. The business world will bo
full of fraud just an long oh fraud in so
easy. When you arrt the -resident
and wen-tary of u kmk for an embezzle
ment carried oti for many yearn, have
j.lenty of Hlicriffa out the name day to
arrorill the directors. They are guilty
either of neglect or complicity.
"Oh," Home ono will nay, 'belter
preach the gosM-l ami let business mat
ters alone." I reply: If your gosjicl
does not inspire comnton honesty in the
dealiiif.s of men, the sooner you close up
your gosjK'l and pitch it into the depths
of the Atlantic ocean the lx-tter. An
orthodox swim Hi r is worse than a hetero
dox swindler. The recitation of all the
t .r. i-hi-ms and creetls ever written, and
iiajiKing irom all the communion
chalices that ever glittered in the
churches of Christendom will never 6avo
your soul unless your business character
coi re.s'oiids with your religious profes
sion. Some of the worst scoundrels in
America have been memlx-rs of churches,
arid they ;ot fat on sermons about
heaven when they most needed to have
the pulpits preach that which would
either bring them to rejK-ntance or th nu
tter Ihoiu out of the holy communions
where their presence was a sacrilege and
an infamy.
We must esjccially deplore the mis
fortune of banks ia various parts of Ihia
country in that they damage the banking
institution, which is the great conven-ieii'-e
of the centuries, and indispensable
to comim-rce and the advance of nations.
Wi:h oae hand it blesses the lender and
v. ii 1 1 th'1 other it blesses the lxirrower.
The bank was liorn of the world's neccs-:-:ti
"s and is venerable with the marks of
thousands of years. Two hundred years
before Christ the bmk of Ilium existed
aad paid its dejiositors 10 per cent. The
bank of Venice was established in 1 171,
and was of such higli credit that its bills
were at a premium above coins, which
were frequently clipiel. Bank of Genoa,
founded in l:M.j; Bank of Barcelona,
I !01; Bank of Aj nsten lam, 1099: Ifcinkof
Hamburg, founded 1019, its circulation
haMcd on great silver bars kept ia the
vaults; Bank of England, started by
William Patterson in 1(112, up to this
day managing the stujiendous debt of
F.ngland; Bank of Scotland, founded in
10!-,; Bank of Ireland, 1783: Bank of
North AmericSi, planned by llobcrt Mor
ris, 1771, without whoso financial help
ail the bravery of our grandfathers would
not have achieved American independ
ence. But now we have banks in all
our cities and towns, thousands and
thousands. On their shoulders are tho in
teitsts of private individuals and great
-or; orations. In them are the great
arteries through which run the currents
of the nation's life. They have been the
res- aiccs of the thousands of financiers
ia days of business exigency. They
f taad for accommodation, for facility, for
individual, state and national relief. At
their head and in their management
there is as much interest and moral
worlh" as in any class of men perhaps
move. How nefarious, then, the be
havior of those who bring disrepute upon
this venerable, benignant and God
honored institution.
We also deplore abuse of trust funds,
1 cause they lly in the face of that divine
goodness which seems determined to
bless this land. We are having the
eighth year of imexanipled national har
vest. The wheat gamblers get hold of
the wheat, and the corn gamblers get
hold of the corn. The full tide of God's
mercy toward this land is put back by
those great dykes of dishonest resistance.
When God provides enough food and
clothing to feed and apparel this wdiole
nation like princes, the scrabble of dis
honest men to get more than their share,
and get it at all hazards, keeps every
thing shaking with uncertainty and
everlxxly aking: "What next?" Every
week makes new revelations. How
nut ny more bank presidents and bank
cashiers have been speculating with
other people's money, and how many
more bank directors are hi imbecile
eilence, letting the perfidy go on, tho
great and patient God only knows ! My
opinion is mat we nave got near mo
bottom. The wind has been pricked
frora the great bubble of American
i peculation. The men who thought that
the judgment day was at least 5.000
;-cars off, found it in 1S83, 1SS7, 18SG;
end this nation has been taught that men
r.iurt keep their hands out cf other peo
ple':; pockets. Great businesses built on
borrowed capital have been obliterated
tr.-.d men who had nothing have lost all
they had. I U-lieve we are started on a
higher career of prosperity than this land,
has ever seen, if, and if, and if.
If the ilrst men, and especially Chrisr
tiaa men, will leara never to Sjieculate
upon liorrowed capital. If you have a
r.iii.d to take your own money and turn
it all into kites, to fly them over every
commons ia the United States, you do
;' iety no wrong, except when you tum
hie yoar helpless children into the poor
house for tho pablic to take care of. But
you have no right to take tho money of
; others and turn it into kites. There is
' one word that has deluded more people
; lato bankruptcy and state prison and
i perdition than ary other "word in com
mercial life, and that is the word liorrow.
That one word ia responsible for all tho
: defalcations and embezzlements ami
financial consternations of tho last
twenty years. When executors conclude
to speculate with the funds of an estate
comnnttcd to their charge, they do not
purloin; they 6ay they only borrow.
When a banker makes an overdraft,
upoa bis institution, he does not commit
a theft; he only borrows. When the
officer of a company, by flaming ad
vertisement in some religious papers,
and gilt certificate of stock, gets a multi
tude of country people to put their 6m all
earning? into an enterprise for carrying
oa some undeveloped nothing, he' does
jut fraudulently take their money, he
only borrows. When a young man with
easy access to his employer's money
drawer, or the confidential clerk by close
propinquity to the account books, takes
a few dollars for a Wall street excur
sion, he expects to put it all bade; La
wHlput it all back rery booh. He only
IxirrowB. What is needed Is some man
of gigantic limb to take his place at the
curbstone in front of Trinity church, and
when that word borrow comes bounding
along, kick it clean through to Wall
street ferryboat, and if, striking on that,
it bounds clear over till it strikes Brook
lyn Heights or Brooklyn Hill, it will be
well for the City of Churches.
Why, when j-ou are going to do wrong,
pronounce so long a word us borrow, a
word of six letters, when you cau get a
hhorUT word more descriptive of the
reality, a word of only five letters, the
word steal ?
There are, times when we all borrow,
and borrow legitimately, and borrow
with the divine blessing, for Christ in his
sermon on the mount enjoins "from hiui
that would borrow of thee turn not thou
away." A young man rightly borrows
money to get his education. Purchasing
a house, and not able to pay all down in
cash, the purchaser rightly lwrrows it on
mortgage. Crises come in business
when it would be wrong for a man not to
borrow. Bc.t I roll this warning through
all these aisles, over the backs of all these
Iews, never borrow to seculate; not
a dollar, not a cent, not a farthing.
Young men, young men, I warn you by
j our wordly prosects and the value of
your immortals souls, do not do it.
There are breakers distinguished for their
shipwrecks the Hanways, tho Needles,
tho Caskets, the Douvers, the Anderlos,
tho Skerries and many a craft lias gono
to pieces on those rocks; but I have to
tell you that all the Hanways, and the
Needles, and the Caskets, and the Sker
ries are as nothing compared with the
long line of breakers which bound the
tx-ean of commercial life, north, south,
east and west, with the white foam of
their despair and the dirge of their dam
nation the breakers of borrow.
If I bad only a worldly weapon to uso
on this subject I would give you the fact,
fresh from tho lughest authority, that 00
xt cent, of those who go ' into spocula
tion in Wall street lose all; but I have a
better warning than a worldly warning.
From the place where men have per
ished body, mind and soul standoff,
stand off! Abstract pulpit discussion
must step aside on this question. Faith
and reix ntance are absolutely necessary,
but faith and repentance arc no more
doctrines of the Bible than commercial
integrity. Render to all their dues.
Owe no man anything. And while I
mean to preach faith and reientaiice,
more and more to preach them, I do not
mean to spend any time in chasing the
Ilittites and Jebusites and Girgashites of
Bible times, when there are so many
evils right around us destroying men and
women for time and for eternity. The
greatest evangelistic preacher the world
ever saw, a man who died for his evan
gelism, peerless Paul wrote to the
liomans, "Provide things honest in the
sight of all men;" wrote to the Corin
thians, "Do that which is honest'
wrote to the Philippians, "Whatsoever
things are honest;" wrote to the He
brews, "Willing in all things to live
honestly." Tho Bible says that faith
without works is dead, which being liber
ally translated, means that if your busi
ness life does not correspond with your
profession, your religion is a humbug.
Hero is something that needs to be
sounded. into the ears of all the young
men of America, and iterated and reiter
ated, if this country is ever to be deliv
ered from its calamities, and commercial
prosperity is to be established and per
petuated, live within your means.
I have the highest commercial author
ity for saying that when the memorable
trouble broke out in Wall street four
years ago there were $225,000,000 in
suspense which had already been spent.
Spend no more titan yon make.
And let us adjust all our business and
our homes by the principles of the Chris
tian religion.
Our religion ought to mean just as
much on Saturday and Monday as on the
day between, and not bo a mere peri
phrasis of sanctity. Our religion ought
to first clean our hearts, and then it
ought to clean our lives. Religion is not,
as some seem to think, a 6ort of church
delectation, a kind of confectionery, a
sort of spiritual caramel, or holy gum
drop, or sanctified peppermint, or theo
logical anaesthetic. It is an omnipotent
principle, all controlling, all conquering.
You may get along with something less
than that, and you may deceive yourself
with it ; but you cannot deceive God, and
you cannot deceive the world. The keen
business man will put on bis spectacles,
and he will look clear through
to the back of your head and see
whether your religion is a fiction
or a fact. And you cannot hide
your samples of sugar, of rice( or tea,
or coffee if they are false; you cannot
hide them under tho cloth of a com
munion table. All your prayers go for
nothing so long as you misrepresent your
banking institution, and in the amount of
jour resources you put down more
specie, and more fractional currency, and
more clearing house certificates, and
more legal tender notes, and mere loans,
and more discounts than there really are,
and when j qu give an account of your
liabilities you do not mention all the un
paid dividends, and the United States
bank notes outstanding, and the indi
tidual deposits, and the obligations to
ether banks and bankers. An authority
more scrutinizing than that of any bank
examiner will go through and through
and through your business.
I stand this morning before many who
have trust funds. It is a compliment to
j ou that you have been so intrusted ; but
I charge you, iii the presence of God and
the world, be careful, be as careful, of the
property of others as you are careful of
your own. Above all, keep your own
private account at the bank separate from
your account as trustee of an, estate, or
trustee of an institution. Tiiat is the
point at which thousands of people make
shipwreck. They get the property of
others mixed vip with their own rropert",
they put it into investment, aha awav "it
au goes, ana mey cannot return that
I which they borrowed. Then comes the ex
' plosion, and the money market; is shaken,
' and tho 'press denounces, ana the church
thundert expulsion. You have no right to
use the property of others, except for
their advantage, nor. without consent, un
less they are minors. If, with their pon
6ent, you invest their, property as well as
vou can, and it is all lost, you are not to
blame; you did the, best you could, but
do not come into the delusion which has
- ruined so many men, of thinking because
a thing U In their posaeftelon, therefore It
is '.heirs. You have a solefem trust that
God has given you. In this vast assem
blage thero may be Home who have mis
appropriated trust funds.. Put them
back, or, if you have bo hopelessly in
volved them that you canunot
put them back, confess .the whol.
thing to those whom you have wronged,
and you will sleep better nights,
and you will have the letter chance for
your soul. What a nari thing it would
lie if, after you are dead, your adminis
trator should find out from the account
looks, or from the lack of vouchers, that
you not only wero lankrupt in estate,
but that you lost your soul. If all the
trust funds that have been misappropri
ated should suddenly fly to their owners,
and all tho property that has been pur
loined should suddenly go back to its
owners, it would crush into ruin everj
city in America.
A missionary m one of tho islands of
the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and
tho next morning ho looked out of his'
window, and he saw his yard full of goods
of all kinds. He wondered and asked the
cause of all this. "Well," said the na
tives, "our gods that we liavo been
worshiping permit us to steal, but ac
cording to what you said j-esterdaj', the
God of heaven and earth will not allow
this, so we bring back all these goods,
and we ask you to help us in taking
them to tho places where they belong."
If next Sabbath all tho ministers in
America should preach sermons on the
abuse of trust funds, ami on the evils of
purloining, and tho sermons were all
blessed of God, and regulations were
made that all the th!- ' - M
taken to the city halls, it would not In
long before every city hall in America
would be crowdetl from cellar to cujiola.
Let mo say in the most emphatic man
ner to all young men, dishonesty will
never pay.
An abbot wanted to buy a piece of
ground and tho owner would not sell it,
but tho owner finally consented to let it
to him until he could raise ono crop, and
the abljot sowed acorns, a crop of 200
years! And I tell you, j-oung man, that
the dishonesties which you plant in jour
heart and life will seem to be very insig
nificant, but they will grow up until thej
will overshadow you with horrible dark
ness, overshadow all time and all eter
nity. It will not be a crop for 200 years,
but a crop for everlasting ages.
I have also a word of comfort for all
who suffer "from the malfeasance of
others, and every honest man, woman
and child does suffer from what goes on
in financial scampdom. Society is. so
bound together that all the misfortunes
which good ieople suffer in business
matters come from the misdeeds of
others. Bear up under distress, strong
in God. He will see j'ou through,
though your misfortunes should be cen
tupled. Philosophers tell us that a col
umn of air forty-five miles in height
rests on every man's head and shoul
ders. But that is nothing compared with
the pressure that business life has put
upon many of j ou. God made up his
mind long ago how many or how few
dollars it would be best for j'ou to have.
Trust to his appointment. The door will
soon open to let you out and let you up.
What shock of delight for men who
for thirty years have been in business
anxiety when they shall suddenly awake
in everlasting holiday. On the maps of
the Arctic regions there are two places
whose names are remarkable given, I
suppose, by some polar exiedition:
"Cape Farewell" and "Thank God Har
bor." At this last the Polaris wintered
in 1871, and the Tigress in 1873.
Some ships have passed the capo,
yet never reached the harbor. But from
what I know of many of you, I have con
cluded that though your voyage of life
may be very rough, run into by iceln'rgs
on this side and icebergs on that, j"ou will
in due time reach Cape Farewell am7,
there bid good-by to all annoyances, an :
soon after drop anchor in the calm an i
imperturbable waters of Thank God
harbor. "There the wicked cease from,
troubling, and the weary are at rest."
St. Petersburg's "Thieves' Market."
The most interesting shops in Russia
arc ia what is called the thieves market,
where you may be sure that everything
j'ou see is stolen property. There is a law
under which a merchant in tho thieves'
quarter is permitted, to bin- at his own
risk from any one who comes to sell, and
after a certain time has been given the
owner and the police to recover his prop
erty he may expose the article for sale to
the public. The pawaishops are coa
ducted by the government, and thero all
unredeemed pledges are sold at public
auction after n year and a daj- liavo ex
pired, but tho purchaser is not allowed to
e?:aniine the goods nor purchase what he
wilLs. All articles are put up in the ordyr
of their numliers, like unclaimed jiack
ages at an express pffi, and if one want?
to bid. on a" particular article he mutt
wait till it is reached on the list. In the
thieves' market, however, there is no
pawning. Everything is purchased out
right or left by the thief with the mer
chant for sale on commission.
Usually a thief wla has an article to
sell is compelled to wait thirty days be
fore )xe receives his pay, and, in the
meantime, the owner bias the right to
recover by proving his property, through
the police, and paying the merchant a
fee for his services; but very shrewd
means are taken by the Jews that invest
this, quarter to evade the recovery of such
articles. The theives with articles for said
are usually the servants of tho higher
classes, who pilfer their masters and mis
tresses of orr,ampit3, clothing, china,
books and; other articles, which are not
missed till long after the limit of exemp
tion from recovery. Jn. these shops the
bric-a-brac Tnu.nte? ?an find a mine of
Curot and jewelry that? can be purchasi',
very pheap. I found china that .'al been
stolen from the Winter iace and other
imperial residences, and was told that
tetter an entertainment the thieves'
quarter was always full of it, the
waiters carrying it away under
their coats. We knew it was genuine
by th6 marks and the pattern, for we
has been through the china closets of the
palace the day before. All sorts of cloth
ing, hats, boots, shoes, shirts, cravats,
dresses, skirts, stockings" and every con
ceivable article that enters into the use of
men and women can be purchased in the
thieves' quarter, and the buyer need ask
, no question. An article exposed for sale
, there that has not been stolen is as rare
as an honest dealer. William Eleroy
J Curtis ia Chicago News.
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