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...Prince's efforts to stop this were helpless. Nothing short of the derailment of the coach would have stopped it. ... There was not one man in that saloon who would not have gone gladly to the devil for the Prince that night...
History's well-known prerogative of repeating itself is demonstrated in the researches of Mr. A. B. Hulbert, in the Atlantic Monthly. As the title of the article, "The Habit of Going to the Devil", indicates, this is not the first era in which moralists make a good living by denouncing the trend of the times. Mr. Hulbert lists quotations from American periodicals of about a century ago, all bemoaning the younger, generation, the spread of lawlessness, immorality, irreligion--in fact the conventional topics of the modern reformer. Thus from the annals of 1829 one learns the sad state...
...when Moby Dick* was a virile old devil. But intelligence from British Columbia marks the passing of the masthead muezzins. A Victoria whaling company has chartered seaplanes to be carried on shipboard to the whaling grounds, launched overside and sent spinning over the ocean in far circles. High over the sea, air observers can "spot" a whale even though he lurk far below the surface; can flash his nautical bearings even to an invisible whaleship and keep leviathan in sight until the harpoons arrive...
...whom buy goods on the installment plan. I disapprove of this practice, for, as I said last week, 'The only profit out of installment buying goes to the men who make the sales, and sometimes to the banks who handle the papers, but never to the poor devil who owes and must...
Artist Spencer, though a Harvard man, never cared for Boston. He was born in Harvard, Neb., lives now in New Hope, Pa., has studied under Chase and Henri, is a member of the National Academy. His picture "Mountebanks and Thieves" depicts U. S. slum life with its gay devil-may-care foreground, and the gaunt bleak tenements, brooding, relentless in the background...