Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, September 13, 1916, Page THREE, Image 3
NO BROTHERLY LOVE FOR HIS
Percival Was Anxious to Be Forgotten
After Listening to Clarice's
Treatment of Wiegan.
At last he realized that she was
really in earnest about rejecting him.
"At least," he said sadly, "at least,
love me as a brother."
"Yes," she agreed sweetly. "Yes,
Percival, I'll do that. I'll love you
always as a brother."
At that moment little Wiegan, her
kid brother, came into the parlor.
"Hey, sis, did ya see me kite any
wheres?" he said.
"Get out of here, you little hem
stitched, devilish, scheming, sneaking
brat!" she cried shrilly. "You know
you're sneaking around to see what
you can see and hear what you can
hear! Beat it, you double-jointed,
cloven-: oofed freak!"
Wiegan withdrew.
"Clarice," he said, after a thought
ful pause.
"Percival," she responded softly.
"I've changed my mind," he said.
"Don't love me as a brother. Just
forget me."-Detroit Free Press.
Helping Some.
"Please give me something to eat,"
asked the tramp at the back door.
"I haven't anything *or you to eat,"
replied the up-to-date woman; "but if
you'll come in I'll put you next to the
electric current, for I read that a
theory has been advanced by a French
scientist that electric currents can be
made to take the place of food in sus
taining life to a considerable degree."
Judged by His Actions.
"What do you say to Mr. Twobble
when he lingers in town after office
hours?" asked Mrs. Dubwaite.
"Oh," replied Mrs. Twobble, "that
depends on what he lingers for. If
Mr. Twobble is exceedingly gay when
he comes in and addresses me as 'old
girl,' I deliver a short lecture on the
evils of intemperance."
That's Different.
Mr. Bacon-This paper says that it
is estimated that $10,000,000 worth of
gold is destroyed annually by a Chi
nese custom of burning small pieces
of gold leaf on certain anniversaries.
Mrs. Bacon-And yet on the anni
versary of my birthday you never
seem willing to burn a nickel.
Surely.
Bacon-Somebody says that the man
who doesn't smoke or drink is a sore
trial to the doctors. They don't know
what to tell him he will have to give
up.
Egbert-Why, the doctor can tell
him to give up two dollars easy
enough, can't he?
NOT NOTICEABLE.
Ee Laze-Well, I think I must be
moving.
Miss Bordwon-Perhaps so, but lt
is not perceptible.
Very True.
"Isn't it strange why people don't
live as long now as they UBed to in the
old days?"
"No; nothing strange about it. Provi
sions are so high now that nobody can
afford to live long at the current
prices."
Her Reason,
'ls lt because she lacks nerve that
she declines to wear her dresses decol
lete?"
"Oh, no! Quite the contrary! She
really hr.s too much backbone!"
Best Remedy.
Tramp-Lady, I'm suffering from in
digestion.
Lady cf House-What can I do for
you?
Tramp-Gimme something to digest
Take Hold of Today, for lt May
Prove to You the Day of
Salvation.
Pharaoh said, "Tomorrow!" Paul
said, "Today." The difference is be
tween the mun who knows the value
of time and the present, and the mau
who does not. A recent writer says:
j "Tomorrow is the hurvest time of
good intentions. It is the day when
every juan does his duty. The sinner
expects to he a saint. The dishouest
mun intends to he honest. The im
moral niau will be moral, and the
selfish ninu benevolent." Tomorrow
evil habits will be overcome, evil
tempers curbed, und rebellion against
God will be put down. Christ will be
enthroned. Self will be dethroned.
Tomorrow we will be all we ought to
be and do all we ought to do.
Tomorrow is the slogan of the
dreamer. Today is the battle cry of
the doer. Of. course we have heard
and admired and even used for con
venience sake the old maxim, "There
is no time like the present," and that
other watchword of industry, "Never
put off until tomorrow what you can
do today." But usage has worn off
the glitter and familiarity has bred
contempt. These sayings are extreme
ly useful in connection with our busi
ness interests and pleasures, and all
sources of material and immediate
gain. As Hugh Black says in his
book, "The Open Door", "Men dream
of a time when things will be easier
for them, when the strain will be re
lieved and they can get breathing
space to come to some definite de
cisions. As they are securing the
means of living, life itself Is slipping
away from them. Those who halt,
standing first on one foot and then on
the other, do not really count in the
game. The greatest question ever
asked of man was, 'What shall It
profit to gain the whole world and
lose the soul?' But men are every
where losing the soul. It is worse
than tragedy, lt is farce !"
Today ls the Time.
Work ls today. Play is tomorrow.
.Today we are to set in motion those
forces that make the miracles tomor
row. If we earnestly desire to be
Christian men and women, we must
do those things that will make us
Christians. Grace is a growth. Right
eousness is a process. Character ls
an evolution. Today we must fill our
lamps and trim our wicks. Tomor
row we must enter Into privilege. The
man who is ready Is the man who has
done those things which make him
ready when the call comes.
There Is a waiting time to every
opportunity. It is to be spent in get
ting ready. The bridegroom is on the
way. Let us prepare for his coming.
There is ' an outer court to every
throne room. It Is here that we put
on the wedding garment.
Eternal life begins In this sphere.
Immortality becomes a certainty
when the soul surrenders to God. Life
is continuous; the Christian life can
not be divided between a- "Now" and
a "Then.'' Death, to be sure, is some
thing in between. As Emily Dickin
son wrote: "Death is hut the porter
of my Father's lodge, or the hired man
to let down the bars for the tired
flocks to come under the Shepherd's
care, to the securest fold, their wan
derings done, their bleatings at un
end." To her a marble stone was a
"guide post." So, when we make the
great decision, we are heirs of Im
mortality. Life is no longer a "fitful
fever," with dunging discords, confus
ing elements and chaotic mixtures.
We shall face the future with calm.
We shall look toward the dark un
afraid, because we are facing the light.
We shall walk the new road to secur
ity because we are walking in the way.
We shall not grow faint or weary ht*
cause we are finding sustenance in the
bread of life. Pilgrims, Indeed, but
like unto him who is going home. The
mnnsion is waiting. The place is pre
pared. "If it were not so I would
have told you." Thus is the dictum
and assurance of the Master.
Call for Decision.
No one ever drifted to the eternal
life. We must decide; we must array
ourselves on the one side or the other.
There is no neutral ground. "He that
is not with me ls against me, and he
that gathereth not with me scattereth
abroad."
The world is dying in its sins. Let
us hasten to bring the Great Physician.'
Multitudes are In want. Let us not
linger in some delusive dream of to
morrow in going to the rescue. Hearts
are breaking; we must not tarry with
the balm of Gilead. Burdens are being
borne; let us apply the yoke that is
easy. The messengers of God must
not loiter in the halls of Vanity Fair.
When we refuse the great commis
sion committed to our keeping, we are
holding back that which the world
needs. "The king's business requires
haste." Jesus said: "I must do the
works of him thnt sent me while it ls
called today, for the night cometh,
when no man can work." What If he
had put off until some tomorrow the
business of redemption? What if all
men and women, everywhere, of all
time, who have helped make the world
better, had said "tomorrow"? What
If missionaries, apostles, sages and re
formers had said "tomorrow"? "To
day, if ye will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts."-Rev. Richard
Braunstein.
It is heaven upon earth to have
a man's mind move In charity, rest
In providence, and turn upon the
poles of truth.-Bacon.
PRETTY GIRLS AND OTHERS
After All, the One Who Is "Nice" lt
Apt to Be the Most Popular
With Everybody.
We all know the old joke of the
pretty girl who is presented as saying
to the homely girl, "It's too bad not to
be good-looking, isn't it?" and the
homely girl's response: "Yes, because
one has to be nice, and that's hard;
did you every try it?"
Of course we enjoy the reply, espe
cially as we know how much greater
the impression that is made by being
nice, the Milwaukee Journal observes.
The pretty girl who doesn't think this
necessary is away behiDd the homely
girl who has really learned to be what
we describe so satisfactorily and in
definitely by the word "nice."
But do we ever think of this as one
of the definite accomplishments of life
that can be acquired, not so easily per
haps as a knowledge of algebra or his
tory, but just as surely? Every day
we meet someone, often several per
sons, whose lives exemplify the beauty
of being nice. Very soon we learn
to know them and we are ready almost
without thinking to go a little out of
the way to seo that we do meet them.
They are not all homely girls; some
of them are pretty, and many of them
aren't girls at all. Most of them al
ways seem to be "nice" by nature.
But anyone with an atom of justice in |
his reasoning knows that at some time
I and probably often, there has come
j to these persons who make life bright
! er the question, "Does it pay?" Maybe
they never really proved that it did
That doesn't matter so much, for
they have kept on with the cheery
! look, the pleasant greeting, the friend
j liness and graciousness that are the
world's greatest Joy bringers. And
j that is enough to make them far better
j remembered and far more beloved
j than if they had been named the reign
i ing beauties of their day.
: LAZIEST OF ALL THE BIRDS
Feathered "Weary Willie" Sleeps All
Day and Absolutely Refuses to
Go After Food.
Laziest of birds is the frogmouth.
i He sleeps all day, and instead of flying
I about in search of food he sits still on
a limb and literally waits for the In- '
sects to come and feed him. He's
such a sound sleeper that you can j
knock him off his perch with a club j
and he'll not wake up. He inhabits'
the islands of the Indian ocean and
Australia.
He's about the size of the whippoor
will and gets his name from his wide
mouth, which also serves as his insect j
trap. Too lazy to fly for his food, like I
other birds, he crawls along the limb
of a tree, opening his wide mouth and
snapping it shut, catching what flies
and gnats come within his range.
At night he's found perched with
his mate on the roofs of houses, on :
fences or stumps. Only after the sun
goes down does he show any inclina
tion to move about. All day he sits,
feet glued to the limb of a gum tree,
indifferent to rain, tropical sun or the
call of the woods. 1
One species of frogmouth has tufts
of hair rising from the top of his head
like ears.
Birds Cannot Understand Glass.
It has been frequently noticed that
no wild bird can understand the prop
erties of glass, and great numbers,
ranging in size from a pheasant to a
titmouse, are killed by flying against
the windows of country houses.
If a room possesses a large mirror
reflecting the view seen through an
open window birds are particularly lia
ble to be deceived, and especially if
frightened into thinking that they can
fly through iL
Sparrow hawks will sometimes
chase their intended victims into
strange places. Some years ago
a member of this species pursued a
small bird through the open window
of a railway carriage In motion. In
its blind determination to secure the
panting fugitive it entangled its claws
in the meshes of the hat rack and waa
ignominiously slain by an astonished
passenger with an umbrella.
Before and After.
The members of the club were tell
ing yarns when a quiet man in the
corner was asked to contribute.
"Well," said he, "I once entered a
restaurant where they weigh you be
fore eating and then after eating, and
then charge you by weight. I
got a good feed and was charged
five shillings. The next time I went
I took in my pocket bricks, weights,
old iron and such like. I was weighed
and then went upstairs and had a ban
quet three times as big as the lasL
After getting rid of the ballast I went
down and was weighed again, but they
couldn't make it out."
He paused.
"Couldn't make what out?" asked
the club members.
"Why," answered the quiet man,
"they owed me four-and-tuppence."
London Tit-Bits.
Poor Hubby.
The young bride was doing the fam
ily marketing for the first time. She
stopped at the fish stall and looked
over the array of sea food.
"All perfectly fresh, mam'am," said
the dealer, ingratiatingly.
"Oh, dear," exclaimed the bride.
"That's what everybody says. I wish
I could find some stale fish. You see,
my husband has indigestion, and the
doctor won't even let him eat fresh
bread. I'm sure fresh fish would be
even worse for him."
SUPREME AT CHESS BOARD
Paul Charles Morphy, American. Was
One of the Greatest Players the
World Has Ever Known.
Paul Charles Morphy, the famous
American chess player, is classed as
"perhaps the most remarkable chess
player of modem times." He was
boin in New Orleans in 1837, and was
notably precocious as a child; he
showed his precocity particularly in
games of chess, and before he was thir
teen had defeated many -well-known
amateurs. For several years he stud
ied law at the College of South Caro
lina, and played chess only occasion
ally. But in 1857, at the first Ameri
can Chess congress, held in New York,
he easily defeated the best players
that could be brought against him.
In 1S58 Morphy went to England,
and there defeated Loewenthal, Boden,
and Bird, and performed the most
astonishing feats in simultaneous
games without the board. When he
was in Paris, the same year, he won
five out of eight games with Harr
witz, and gave many exhibitions of
blindfold playing. It was these last
that wore responsible for the early
breakdown of his health. After his
return to the United States, in 1859,
he defeated the visiting German ex
pert, Anderssen, in seven out of eleven
?scies. He was admitted to the bar, and
I began to practice law in New Orleans.
' But the strain of his blindfold <\>n
tests had been too great for his mind,
and he was forced first to give up
chess altogether, and then to abandon
all mental occupation. . He lived in
retirement until his death, in 1884.
His activity thus covered a compara
tively short space of time. Morphy's
skill is described as inexplicable. He
never was a close student of chess.
He played his ?games easily and quick
ly, with no preparation and little hesi
tation. Yet his combinations were
"remarkable for finesse, depth, ele
gance, and soundness." He also pos
sessed a phenomenal memory.
WHY CHILDREN HATE MUSIC
Too Often They Are Taught With Lit
tie Regard to Capacity of Their
Understanding.
Why do children hate music? asked
an English contemporary some time
ago, and then proceeded to answer Its
own propounded question by saying,
acording to the Musical Leader, that:
"The truth is that children are too
often the helpless victims of Incompe
tent or ill-trained teachers, whose
chief idea seems to be to stuff their
luckless pupils with such knowledge
as they themselves possess, forgetting
that the child ls, in this respect, but
a baby, who needs foods specially
adapted to its digestive powers. Con
sequently Indigestion follows and the
IjMld'B musical health suffers.
"We believe that nearly all children
enjoy music. It is natural to them to
love singing, and it is through sing
ing that their musical sense should
be developed."
But not through such singing as we
noted some three of four years ago in
some of the public schools. As the
English writer says:
"If children 'hate music,' lt ls be
cause they are so often taught un
psychologlcally and with so little re
gard to the Intellect."
These same children from the public
schools who were singing driveling
piffle parrot wise are the youm- peo
ple of today who should be attending
our great concerts given by the or
chestras and choral societies, and yet
how many can be seen at classical
concerts and fine recitals? Here is
a question for the head of the public
school music system. 'Tis about time
music for children got out of a rut.
Both Were Trying.
"Well, well," exclaimed the million
aire, "what do you want this morn
ing?"
"I've come again to ask you for
your daughter."
"Haven't I told you six times over,
on as many different days, that it is
out of the question?"
"If I seem to be more persistent
than circumstances warrant, you, sir,
are to blame."
i "I!" shouted the indignant man.
"There," said the man who loved his
daughter, as he pointed to a motto over
the banker's desk, "ls my excuse for
coming day after day, 'If at first you
don't succeed, try, try, try again.' Do
you not believe in that sentiment?"
After he had scratched his head a
while, the mean plutocrat said:
"Yes, I believe in that. I haven't suc
ceeded yet in making you understand
that my daughter shall not become the
wife of a fool, but I am going to keep
on trying till I do? Good morning!"
Couldn't Read.
They were discussing the rights and
wrongs of a strike, and stout and
strenuous were the arguments on ei
ther side.
"Look here! Say I ain't tellin' th'
truth! Look there," said Bob Pellett,
producing a newspaper, and flourish
ing it under Joe's eye.
But Joe ignored the proffered liter
ature.
"I don't want to see no newspaper,"
he said, loftily. "Wot I knows, I
knows."
"And that ain't much," said Bob.
"Don't want to see the newspaper,
'e don't. Why? 'Cos 'e can't read.
Unedicated-that's wot he is."
Immediately Joseph's ire rose.
"I'm as well edicated as you, Bob,"
he said, with dignity. "But as I learnt
lt in a night school, o' course I can't
read in the daytime!"
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