Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life — John Shaqi
Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of LifeDreiser, Theodore
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Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life
Dreiser, Theodore
American essays -- 20th century
(5) A millionaire politician and horse-racer erected a
fifteen-thousand-dollar monument to a horse.
(6) An uneducated darkey, trying to make his way North, climbed upon the
carriage trucks of a Pullman attached to a fast express and was swept
North into a blizzard, where he was finally found dying of exhaustion,
and did die--arms and legs frozen--a victim of an effort to better his
condition.
Puzzle: locate Divine Mind, Light, Wisdom, Truth, Justice, Mercy in
these items.
By these same papers, covering several months or more, I saw where:
(1) Several people died waiting in line on bundle day for bundles of
cast-off clothing given by those who could not use the clothes any
longer--not such people as you and I, perhaps, but those who were sick,
or old, or weak.
(2) Mr. Ford, manufacturer of automobiles, was convinced that he could
reform any criminal or bad character by giving him or her plenty of work
to do at good wages and with the prospect of advancement; also that he
was earning too much and wished to divide with his fellow man.
(3) August Belmont and J. P. Morgan, Jr., noting this item, concluded
that they could not do anything for any one, intellectually, financially
or otherwise.
(4) An attendant in an Odd Fellows Home, having tired of some old
patients, chloroformed them all--a purely pagan, event and not possible
in an enlightened age and a Christian country.
(5) A priest, having murdered a girl and confessed to it, no way was
found to electrocute him because of his cloth. Men whose services and
aid he contemned insisted that he must be proved insane and not be
electrocuted, though he did not agree with them.
(6) A young soldier and his bride, but one day married, walk out to buy
furniture for their new home; a street fight in which three toughs
assail each other with pistols breaks out and before they can take to
cover a stray bullet instantly kills the soldier-husband. Subsequently
the bride becomes morbid and goes insane.
(7) In nearly all the countries of the late great war a day of prayer
for Divine intervention was indulged in, but prayer having been made and
not answered the combatants proceeded to make more and worse war--Divine
prohibition of combat, according to the Christian dogma, being no bar
nor of any avail.
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