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CHAPTER X.
Mr. Hardy began In a low, clear tone:
"Men and Women of Barton—To
night I am not the man you have
known me these 25 years I have been
among you. I am, by the grace of God,
a new creature.' As I stand here 1
have no greater desire In my heart
than to say what may prove to' he a
blessing to all my old townspeople and
to my employees and to these strong
young men and boys. Within a few
short days God has shown me the self
ishness of a human being's heart, and
that heart was my own, and it is wltb-
feellngs none of you can ever know
that I look .Into your faces and say
these words.”
Robert paused a moment as If gath
ering himself up for the effort that fol
lowed, and the audience, startled with
an unexpected emotion by the strange
beginning, thrilled with excitement, at,
lifting his arm and raising his voice,
the once cold and proud man contin
ued, bis face and form glowing with
the transfiguration of a new manhood;
"There Is but one supreme law In
this world, and |t Is this: Ix>ve God and
your neighbor with heart, mind, soul,
strength. And there are but two things
worth living for: The glory of God and
the salvation of man. Tonight I, who
look Into eternity In a sense which I
will not stop to explain, feel the bit
terness which comes from the knowl
edge that I have broken that law and
have not lived for those things which
alone are worth living for.
"But God has sent me here tonight
with a message to the pe<^>le which my
heart must deliver. It is a duty even
more sacred In some ways than what
I owe to my own kindred. I am aware
that the hearts of the (ample are shock
ed Into numbness by the recent horror.,
1 know that more than one bleeding
heart Is In this house, and the shadow
of the last enemy has fallen over many
thresholds In our town. What! Did
I not enter Into the valley of (be sbftd
ow of death myself as 1 stumbled over
the ghastly ruins of that w^eck, my
aoul torn In twain for the love of three
of my own dear children? Do I not
sympathise In full with all those who
bitterly weep and lament and %R lu
blackness of horror this night? Yea,
bnt, men of Barton, why Is It that We
are so moved, so stirred, so shocked, by
the event of death when the far more
awful event of life does Qot disturb us
lu the least?
"We shudder with terror, we lose
our accustomed pride or Indifference,
we speak In whlspera, and we tread
■oftly In the (►reaenee of the vishor
who smites but once and then smites
the body only, but In the awful pres
ence of the living Image of God we go
our ways careless, Indifferent, cold
passionless, selfish.
"I know whereof I speak, for I have
walked through the world like that my
•elf. And yet dea'lb cannot be com
pared for one moment with life for
majeaty, for solemnity, for meaning,
for power. There were 75 persons kill
ed In the accident. But In the (tapers
. this morning I read lu the column next
to that In which the accident was
paraded In small type and In the brief
est of paragraphs the statement that
a certain young man In this very town
of ours had been arrested for -fprglng
his father's name on a check and waa
In the grasp of the law.
“And every day In this town and In
every town all over the world events
like that and worse than that are of
frequent occurrence. Nay, In this very
town of ours more than 75 souls are at
this very moment going down Into a
far blacker hell of destruction than the
one down there under that fated
bridge, and the community Is not hor
rified over It. How many mass meet
ings have been held In this town wlth-
‘u-
character, the death of purity, the de
struction of honesty? Yet they have
outnumbered the victims of this late
physical disaster a thousandfold.
“And what^oes mere death do? It
releases the spirit from Its bouse of
earth, hut aside from that death doe's
nothing to the person. But what does
life do? Life does everything. It pre
pares for heaven or for hell. It starts
Impulses, molds character, fixes char
acter. Death has no kingdom without
end. Death Is only the last enemy of
the many enemies that life knows.
Death la a second; life 4s an eternity.
O men, brothers, If, as I solemuly and
truly believe, this Is the last opportu
nity I shall have to speak to you iu
such large numbers, 1 desire, you to
remember, when 1 have vanished from
your sight, that l spent dearly my last
breath In an appeal to you to make
the most of dally life, to glorify God
and save men.
"The greatest enemy of man is not
death; It is selfishness, lie sit>tm the
throne of the entire World, ^fliis very
disaster which lias filled the town with
sorrow was-due to selfishness. Let us
see if that is not so. It lias been prov
ed by Investigation already made that
the drunkenness of u track Inspector
was the cause of the accident. What
was the cause of that drunkenness?
The drinking liabHs of that Inspector.
How did he acquire them? In a sa
loon which we taxpayers allow to run
on payment of a certain sum of money
Into our own treasury.
“So, then, It wda the greed or selfish
ness of the «un of this town which
lies at the hot turn of this dreadful dis
aster. Who was to blame for tbf dis
aster? The track Inspector? No. The
aidoon keeper who sold him tire liquor?
No. Who then? We ourselves, my
brothers; we who licensed the selling
»f the stuff Which turned a man’s brain
Into liquid fire and smote bia Judg
ment and reason with* a brand from
out the burning pit
“If I had stumbled upon the three
corpeea of my own children night be
fore last. 1 could have exclaimed In
Justice before the face of God, *1 bare
murdered my own children,’ for I was
wne of the men of Barton to vote for
tte license which made possible the
drunkenness of the men In whose care
Were placetT hundreds of lives.
^“For what Is the history of thjs case?
Who was this wretched track In
■pector? A man who, to my oWn
knowledge, trembled before tempta
tion; who, on the testimony of the fore
man at the shops, was and always had
been a sober man up to the time when
we as a municipality voted to replace
the system of no license with the sa
loon for the sake of what we thought
was s necessary revenue. This man
bad no great temptation to drink while
tbs saloon was out of the way. Its
very absence was bis salvation. But
Ita public open return confronted bis
appetite once more, and be yielded and
fell.
"Who says he was to blan^e? Who
are the real criminals In the case? We
otiraelves, citizens; we who, for
greed' of gain, for the saving of that
which has destroyed more souls In hell
than any other one thing, made possi
ble the causes which led to the grief
and trouble of this hour. Would we
not shrink in terror from the thought
of lying In wait to kill a man? Would
we not repel with holy horror the Idea
of murdering and maiming 75 people?
We would say impossible!’ Yet when
l am ushered at la^t into the majestic
presence of Almighty God I feel con
vinced I shall sec In Ids righteous
countenance the sentence of our con
demnation just as certainly as If we
had gone-out in a body and by wicked
craft had torn out the supporting tim
bers of that bridge Just before the
train thuudorCd''tffilffr*If,'“'fp£ did We
not sanction by law a business which
we know Tempts men to break all the
which fills our Jails and poor-
houses, our reformatories and asylums,
which breaks women's hearts and beg
gars blessed homes and sends Innocent
children to thread the paths of shams
and vagrancy, which brings pallor into
the face of the wife and tosses with
the devil’s owb glee a thousand vic
tims Into perdition with every revolu
tion of this great planet about Its
greater sun? «,
“Men of Itartou, say what we will,
we are the authors of this dreadful dis
aster. And If we sorrow as a com
munity We sorrow lu reality for our
qwu selfish act. And, oh, the selfish
ness oMU That clamoring greed for
money! That burning thirst for more
and more and more at the expense of
every godlike quality, at the ruin of all
that our mothers once prayed might
belong to us us men and womeu!
"What Is It, ye merchants, ye busi
ness men, here tonight that ye struggle
moet over? The one great aim .of your
lives Is to buy fur as little as possible
and sell for as much as possible. What
care bkve ye for the poor, wbo work at
worse than starvation wages, so long
as ye can buy cheap and sell at large
profits? What Is the‘highest aim of
us railroad men In the great whirl of
commercial competition which aetftbea
and bolls and surges about this earth
like another atmosphere, plainly visi
ble to the devils of other worlds?
“What Is our aim but to make money
our god and (tower our throne? How
much care or love Is there for flesh and
blood at times when there la danger of
mighty Baviour. It was not for this
that we were made! We know It jras
not
“To whom am I speaking? To my
self. God forbid that I should stand
here to condemn you, being myself the
chief of sinners for these 25 years.
What have I done to bless this com
munity? How much have I cared for
the men In my employ? What differ
ence did It make to me that my exam
ple drove men away from the church
of Christ and caused anguish to those
few souls who were trying to redeem
humanity? To my Just shame I make
answer that no one thing has driven
the engine of my existence over the
track of Its destiny except self. And,
oh, for that church of Christ that 1
professed to believe In! How mnch
have I done for that? How much, O
fellow members (and I see many of
you here tonight), how much have we
done In the best cause ever known and
the greatest organization ever found
ed?
We go to church after that
par** MtliBMrtStf
through and through with the same
things we have had poured Into us ev-
try day of the w«p>k, us if wexT>egrudg-
•d the whole of one day out of seven.
We criticise prayer and hymn and ser
mon, drop Into the contribution J^ox
half the amount we paid during the
week for a theater or concert ticket
and then when anything goes wrong In
the community or our clrthlreu^fnll Into
vice scorn the church for weakness and
the preacher for Isc.k of ability.
"Hhame on us. men of Hnrtou, mem
bers of tbe cbur>h of Christ, that we
have so neglected our own church
prayer meeting that out of a resident
membership of more than 40U, living In
easy distance of the church, only 00
have attended regularly, and over 200
have been tothat service occasionally.
Yet we ertil ourselves disciples of
ChristL^We say we believe In his bless-
eth-ieachiugs; we say we believe in
prayer, and lu the face of all these
professions we turn our backs with In
difference on the very means of spir
itual growth and power which the
church places within our reach.
If Christ were to come to the earth
today, he would say unto us, ‘Woe un
to you, church members, hypocrites!’
He would say unto us, ‘Woe unto you,
young disciples In name, who have
promised to love and serve mp and
then, ashamed of testifying before me,
have broken promise and praygr and
ridicule those who have kept their
vows sacredly!’ He would say to us
men who have made money and kept It
to ourSfeltes: ‘Woe unto you, ye rich
men, who dress softly and dine lux
uriously and live in palaces, while tbe
poor cry aloud for Judgment and the
laborer* sweats for the luxury of the
Idle! Woe unto you who speculate In
flesh and blood and call no mao broth
er unless be Uvea In as fine a bouse and
has as much money In tbe bankl
Therefore ye shall receive tbe greater
condemnation!’
"O self, god of tbe earth yet! With
1.000 yean of the Son of God written
Into Its history, still goes up tbe cry of
those who perish with hunger, who
break Into the sanctuary of their souls
because they cannot get work to do
and are weary of the struggle sf exist-
Self, thou art_klD&_ jot Jjpus
Christ Rut, oh. for the ahamt of it,
the shame of It! Were It not for tbe
belief' In -the mighty forgiveness of alna
I would stand here tonight with no
hope of ever seeing the paradise of
God. But, resting In that hppe, I wish
to say to you wbo have beheld, the ex
ample of my selfish life I repudiate It
all. In the wotfd I have passed aa a
moral cltlsen and a good business man;
In society there has been no objection
to my presence on account of my
wealth and position; In tbe chorcb X
have been tolerated because I gaye it
financial support, but, In the sight of
that perfect and crucified Lamb of God
I hare broken the two greatest law*
which be ever announced. I have
been a sinner of tbe deepest dye;. 1
have been everything except a disciple
of^Jesus Christ I have prayed for
mercy. I belleve oil prSyer haa heen _
answered.
‘‘1,0m conscious that some here pres
ent may think that what I have said
has been In poor taste; that It haa been
an affront to tbe object of tbe meeting
or an Insult to the feelings of those
who have called the audience together.
In order that the people may know
that I am sincere In all I have said I
will say that I have placed In tbe bank
the sum of $10,000 to be used as the
committee may deem wisest and beat
In the education of children In be
reaved homes or In any way that shall
be for tbe best good of those In neod.
This money Is God’s. 1 have robbed
him and my brother man all these
years. Whatever restitution I can
make In the next few days 1 desire to
make.
"But -the great question with us all,
my friends. Is not this particular dlsas-.
ter. That will lu time take Its place as
one event out of thousands In tbe dally,
life of this world* The great event of
existence Is not death; It Is life. And
the great question of the wotld Is not
the tariff nor the silver question nor
tbe labor question nor temperance nor
this nor that nor the other. The great
question of the whole world !■( selfish
ness In tbe heart of man. The great
command Is, ‘Seek ye first the kingdom
of God.’ If we had done that In this
town, 1 believe sucb a physical disaster
as the one we lament would never have
happened. That Is our great need.
"If we go home from this meeting
resolved to rebuke our selfishness In
whatever form It Is displeasing to God.
and If we begin tomorrow to act out
that resolution In word and deed, we
shall revolutionize this town in Its
business. Its politics. Its church. Its
schools. Its homes. If we simply allow
our emotions to be stirred, our sympa
thies to be excltAl to the giving of a
little money on this occasion, Jt will do
na and the commnnlty little permanent
good. God wants a complete trans
formation In tbe people of this nation.
Nothing less than a complete regenera
tion ran save us from destruction. Un
consecrated, selfish moftcy and selflab
education, selfish political power and
selfish genius In art. letters and diplo
macy will sink uy as a |>eople Into a
gulf of .annihilation. There ls"uo salva
tion for us except In Jesus Christ. Let
us believe In him and live lu him.
I have said my iiieHsage. I trust
mysterious condition In which It bad
been lying for three (lays, but all In
vain. The eyes were-closed; the form
was rigid. The others, George and
Will sud Hess, gretv pale, and Hess
cried, almost for the first time since
the strange week began. Robert waa
the first to break the grief with a quiet
word. He raised his head, saylng:
—‘‘4 do- oot -believe CHara tr going to
die when I do.”
"Why, father, what makes you think
that?” cried Alice. '
"I don’t £now. I can't give any ex
act reason. 1 only know that I don’t
believe It will happen.”
"God grant that site may be spared
to ns!” said Mrs. Hardy. “Oh, Rol>
ert, ft Is more than I can bear: Only
today and tomorrow left! It can’t i)e
real. I have battled against your
dream all the week,__JLt jBraa.a.dr«ni
losiug almighty dollnra? But, O Al- bave understood it. 1 would not
say otherwise If 1 knew that I should
•tep off this platform now and stand
before the Judgment seat of 'Christ
God help us all to do odr duty! Time
la Abort; eternity Is long. Death Is
nothing; life Is everythifig.”
Flve years after this speech of Rob
•rt Hardy to the people of Barton lu
the town hall pne who was present lu
the audience descrllMHl the sensation
that passed through It when the speak
er sat down to be like a distinct elec
trie shook which passed from seat to
sent and held the people fixed and
breathless as if they had been smitten
into Images of stone.
Tbe effect on the chairman of the
meeting was the same. He sat motion
less. Then a wave of emotion gradual
ly stirred the audience, and without a
word of dismissal they poured out of
the building and scattered to tbeir
homes. ' . .
Robert found George waiting for
him. The father was almost faint
with the reaction from his address.
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ID oTT&UCO. ——— » mnat iinrllavrii
e !ft AllCuce.
We must ((ass over hastily the events
of the next day iu Robert Hardy's life.
Tbe whole town was talking about his
surprising address of the night before.'
Borne thought he was crazy. Others
regarded him as sincere, but after the
first effect of his speech had worn off
they criticised him severely for pre
suming to “preach” on such an occa
sion. Still others were puzzled to ac-
eouut for the change in the man, for
that a change had taken place could
not he denied. How slow men are to
acknowledge the power of God In the
human heart! Mr. Hardy went about
hfs business very little moved by all
this discussion. He realized ^hat only
two more days remained.
He H(>ent the afternoon and evening
at home, but was luterrupted *by sev
eral calls. After tea tbe entire family
gathered to Jhe room where Clara lay.
She still remained unconscious, bnt liv
ing.*' As Mrs. Hardy was saying some
thing to her husband about his dream
and the everits of the day before Clara
suddenly opened her eyes and distinct
ly called out the words;
“Father, what day is It?”
It was like a voice out of the long
dead past. Mr. Hardy, sitting by tbe
side of the bed, replied quietly, while
bis heart beat quickly:
“TJjls is Friday night, dear child.”
Another question came, uttered In
the same strange voice:
“Father, how many more days are
left for you?”
“Tomorrow and Sunday.”
The voice came again:
“I shall go with you then.”
The eyes closed, and the form be
came motionless, as before.
It was very quiet In the room at the
close of Robert Hardy’s fifth day. .
CHAPTER XL
Those words of Clara, “I shall go
with you then," filled the family with
dismay. Mr. Hardy bowed hla head
and groaned. Mrs. Hardy, almost be
side herself with grief and terror, flew
to the aide of the girl and, with be
seeching cries and caresses, tried to
bring back to consciousness tbe mind
that for a moment or two bad gleamed
oply. 1 will not believe It to be any
thing else. You are not 111. There is
no Indication that you are going to die.
I will not, 1 cannot, believe It! God
Is too good. And we need you now,
Robert Let tis pray God for mercy."
Robert shook his bead sadly, but
firmly.
No, Mary; I cannot resist an Im
pression so strong that I cannot call It
anything but a conviction of reality;
that somehow, lu some way, I shall be
called away from, you Sunday night l
have struggled agalust It, but it grows
upon me even more firmly. God is
merciful. I do not question his good
ness. How much did I deserve even
this week of'prepnratlon after tbe life
I have lived? Aud the time will not
be long before we shall all meet there.
God grant that It may be an unbroken
cotnpn ny!"
Mr. Hardy' spoke as any one In his
condition could The children drew
about him lovingly. Bess climbed Into,
his lap. She laid tier face against her
father's face, and the strong man sob-
Ited a* be thought of aJI tbe ytsr* of
-neglected affectipp lu that family cir
cle. Tin* rest of the evening was spent
In talking over the probable future.
George, who seemed thoroughly hum
bled now. listened resi>ectfully and
even tearfully to his father’s counsel
concerning the ’direction of bdslness
and family matters.
The l>oy was going through a strag
gle wilh himself which was apparent
to all In the house. Ever since hla
mother had seen him kneeling down In
the night watch he had shown a differ
ent spirit It remained to la- seen
whether ha had really changed or
whether he hail l*eeu for the time be
ing frightened into a litthtfoodiiesn.
Saturday worulug fotnmthe Hardys
weary with the agitation of the week,
but bearing alniut a strange excite
ment which only the prospect of the
father's approaching death or removal
rould have produced.
ItolKTt could not realize that hla
week was almost at an end. Why. It
• seemed -but yestehlay that he had
.dreamed after th? Sunday evening
’•eVvIoe:
As on every other flay, he asked him
self the question. "What shall 1 do?”
Only until he had prayed conld he
answer the question. Then the light
came. Who says prayer la merely a
form? H Is going to for wisdom
and getting It. It Is crying but for
light, and, lo! the darkness flees. It
la spreading out our troubles and our
joys and our (>erplexlties aud our needs
and finding God himself the best pos
slide answer to them all.
Rol*rt Hardy was finding this Out
lately, and It was the one thing that
made possible to him tbe calmness of
the last two days allotted him.
Tbe day'was spent In much the same
way that the other days had been
spent. He went down to Ids office
about 10 O'clock and after coming
home to lunch went down again with
the Intention of getting through all tbe
business and returning home to s(>end
the rest of the time with the family.
Along toward 3 o'clock, when tbe rou
tine work of the shops ^ ns disposed
of, tbe manager felt an Irresistible de
sire to s(>cak to the men In his employ.
They numbered about BOO In his de
partment, and be knew bow Impossible
It would be "for him to speak to them
Individually. He thought a minute
and then called Burns in and gave an
men at work in these shops except as
their names wore on the pay roll of
the company.'
"It never made any~BHrerenee lo me
when your wives and children (few
sick and died. I never knew what
tort of houses you lived in except to
know that in comparison with mine
they must have been very crowded
and uncomfortable. For all these 25
years I have !>een as Indifferent to you
aa one man possibly could be to men
who work for him. It has not occurred
to me during this time that I could be
anything else. 1 have been too selfish
to see my relation tb'you and act up-
* %
“Now, -I do not eall'you in here today
to apologize for 25 years of selfishness
—not that alone. But 1 do want you to
know that I have been touched by the
hoad of Qodjlu auL’Ii ■ way that before
It Is too late 1 want to say to you all,
‘Brothers,’ aud say to you that when
you think of me hereafter It may be as
1 am now today, not as I bawe been Id
all the years past.
“It la not for me to say how‘far or In
what manner I have trampled on tbe
brotherhood of the race. I have called
myself a Christian. I have been a
member of a church. Yet I w^ll con
fess here today that under the author
ity granted me by the company I have
more than once dismissed good, honest,
faithful workmen In large -bodies aud
cut down wages unnecessarily to In
crease dividends., and lu general 1
have thought of tbe human flesh and
blood iu these shops as T have thought
of the iron and steel here. I confess
all that aud more. Whatever has been
un-Christlan 1 hope will be forgiven.
“There are many things we do to our
fellow men lu this world which abide—,
the sting of them, 1 mean. The lm :
press of my selfishness Is stamped on
this place. It will take years to re
move It. I might have been far more
to you. 1 might have ralsedemy voice
as a Christian aud an Infiueutlal di
rector of this road against the Sunday
work and traffic; 1 never di*. 1 might
have relieved unnecessary discomfort
la different departments; 1 refused to
do it. 1 might have helped the cause
of temperance lu this town by trying
to banish tiie saloon; instead of that 1
voted to license a cringe and |>overty
and disease ^establishment.
“I might have used my Influence aud
my wealth to build, healthy, comforts
ble homes for the men who work on
this road: 1 never rnts»*d my finger In
the matter. .1 might have helped to
make life a happier, sweeter thing to
the nearly l.iasi souls lu this estab
lisliment. and 1 went my selfish way.
coatent with my ewu luxurious borne
and the ambition for self culture add
the pride of self accomplishments.
And yet there Is not a man here today
who Isn't happier than I am.
( "1 wish you all. In the name of the
g<*»d God, who forgives - our sins for
Jesus’ sake, the wish of a man who
looks into the other World aud sees
| things as they really an*. I do not
I wlqb you to think of my life ns a Chns-
j tlau.llfe. It has not Iteeu such, but as
I you hope to. Ue forgiven at last forgive
all wrongs at my hands
I ''Ton are living iu the dawn of a hap
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PITT’S
Inimtor!
I’urea dyspepsia. Indigestion, aud all
stomach or bowel troubles, colic or cholera
- morbus, (pething troubles with children
kidney troubles, bad blood and all sorte o
■ores, risings or feioos, cute and burnt. It
is at good antiseptic, when locally apniiel
as any thing on the market.
Try It and vou will praito it to others
It your druggist doesn’t keep it, write to
Pitts’ Antiseptic Invigorator Co.
THOMSON, QA-
tt t A KPKNTKK BKO&,
ti-eenville. 8 ('•.
with reason and then bad gon* back
Into the obscurity and oblivion of that 'glaca without any thought c* tbe 800
the most undisguised wonder.
"Shut dovv u the works for a little
while and ask the men to get together
In tbe big machine shop. 1 want to
speak to them.” •, ' , f
. Burns had been (tatonlshed *o*«lten
this week that, although be opeued jjls
mouth to say somethlug, he did not
seem able to pronounce the words, and
after staring blaukly at his employer
a minute he turued tfnd went out to
execute the order.
The great engine was stopped. The
men from the casting roonys and the
carpenter shops aud the storerooms
aud the repairing departments came
trooping Into the hlg machine shop aud
sat or leaued on the great,, grim pieces
of machinery, aud as the shop filled
the place begau to take bn a strauge
aspect never seen there before.
Mr. Hardy crossed the yard from the
office, followed by the clerks aud as
sistant officers of the road, all curious
to hear what was coming. Mr. Hardy
mounted one of the planers aud looked
about him. The air was still full of
gas and smoke aud that mixture of
fine Iron filings ami pH which Is char
acteristic of such places. The men
were quiet aud respectful enough.
Many of them had heard the man
ager’s speech of Thursday night at the
town hall. Most of them were aware
that some' change had taken* place in
tbe man. Jt had been whispered about
that he had arranged matters for the
men Injured lu the Sunday accident so
that they would not come to want to
any way.
And now that grimy, hard muscled,
hard featured crowd of 800 men all
turned their eyes upon the figure
standing very erect and pale faced on
the great planer, and he In turn looked
out through tbe blue, murky atmos
phere at them with an Intensity of ex
pression which none In that audience
understood. As Mr. H&rdy went on
with his speech they began to under
stand what that look meant.
"My brothers,” began tbe manager,
.With a slight trembling of the sylla
bles so new to him, “as this may- be
the last time I shall ever apeak to yoa
I want to say what Is true to pie-and
what I feel I owe to you. For 25 yean
I have carried on tbe .work In tblg
trying to apply the principles of Chris
tianity tu the business ami traffic of (lie
world. My probable successor iu tliese
.shops Is such a man iu spirit.
, “God is love. •! hate forgotten that
myself. I have walked through life
forgetful of him. But I know today
that he is drawing the nations and the
There is no police
man to, enforce the
laws of health and
to call “stop!”
when you are in
danger from dis
ease. But Nature
has her' own dan
ger signals. When
min shoots like a
lightning r flash
along the nerves,, when
the heart, lieats feebly or
irregularly, when there
is unnatural fullness after
eating, sour risings, head
ache, coated tongue or
irritable temper, then
Nature is plucking you by
.the sleeve and calling
“ stop ! ” To neglect
these warnings is danger
ous. , Derangement of the
stomach and its allied or
gans is but the lieginning
of trouble for the whole
body.
As a complete cure for
disease of the stomach
and the. organs of
- digestion and nu-
trition Doctor
Pierce’s Golden Metical Discovery
stands without an equal. It purifies the
blood' cleanses the system of poisonous
accumulations, nourishes the starved
nerves and builds up the entire body,
blood and Ixme, muscle and nerve.
“Il is with pleasure that I tell you what Dr.
Ptetce v (Vohten Medical Discovery and ‘Pellets’
have done for me." write* Mr* M Palmer,
of 1‘eede, Kaufman Co . Texas. “ Two years
S fo I wn* taken with stomach and bowel trouble.
very thing 1 ate would put me in distreaH. 1
Hved two week, on milk and even that gave me
pain.''.! felt a* though I would starve'lo death
Three doctors attended me —oue said I had
dyipepaia. two auid catarrh of the stomach and
bowels. They attended lue lone at <cdime) for
one year. I stopped .taking their^nedicine
and tried patent medicine, got no better, and
I‘ grew to weak aud nervoua my heart would
flutter 1 could not do any kind tit work. Now
loan do my. house work very well, am gaining
in flesh and strength, and can cat anything ”
witrhl logt-lhcr iu true sympathy. The
nations that ttauil ih-fiaut aud disobe-
dU-ut to God nhttll perish. The rulers
whrr haughtily take Gtwl's place and
opjirrss the |M-«i|de shall l»e destroyed
The men of power and intelligence aud
money who upe these three great ad
vantages merely to Ides* theuiselvi*s
and add to their own selfish pleasure
and •■asc shall very soon be dethroned
I Would give ail I possesa to lie able to
live and see a part of It come to (>u»*.
Men. brothers, some of you younger
ones wdl live to M*e that day.
“Iaim* G<m1 aud obey him. Envy not
the rich. They art; more miserable
than you sometimes dream. True hap
pi ness consist* In a conwiem-e at pea<*e
with God ami a heart free from selfish
desires and hablta. 1 thank you for
Jour attentioig You will know Urtter
why I have said all tbia to you when
you come iu here to work again next
Monday. My brothers, God bless you!
God bless us all!"
Wbeu Robert *tep|ied <U>vAi from tht
planer and started toward the dodr.
more than one Mark hand was, thrust
Into Ids wllb the word*. “God pleas
you. sir!” He f^it a strange desire to
VMs-p. Never before had he felt that
thrill ah«>oi through him at the grasp
of the hand of hia brother man. Ilia
speech hod made at profound liupres
alou on the men. Many of them did
not understand the meaning of ceftkiu
sentences, but tbe spirit of the man
was unmistakable, and the men re
sponded id a manner that touched. Mr.
Hardy very strongly.
He finally vtcut Into his office. 1 Tbe
big engine started up again, aud the
whir aud dust and clangor of the shops
went on. But men bent over their
w btui l
throb at the recollection of the pale
face aud sincere word of the man who
ba<l broken a selfish silence of a quar
ter of a centurjr to call them brothers.
Oh. Robert Hardy, w hat glorious op
portunities you missed to love and be
loved! With all your wealth you have
been a very poor mau all your life un
til now, on tbe next.to tbe last day
of It!
There Is little need to describe the
rest x>f this day. Robert went home.
Every one greeted him tenderly. His
first Inquiry wits for Clara. Still In
that trancelike sleep. Would she nev
er wake?/"The wife shuddered with
fear. Mrs v Hardy had spent much of
the time Iu' prayer aud tears. The
evening sped by without special Inci
dent.
James Caxton came and Joined tbe
family circle. Ills presence reminded
Mr. Hardy of the old quarrel with the
young man's father. He spoke.to
James and said if anything should pre
vent his seeing his father the next
day James might tell his father how
completely aud sincerely he wished the
foolish quarrel forgotten and, his own
share In it forgiven.
So that day came to a close In fami
ly conference, in tears. In fear and
bope and anxiety and prayer. But
Mrs. Hardy would not lose all hope.
It did uot seem to her possible that her
husband could be called away tbe next
night.
WKAIHt-.K AND CROP REPORT.
Wet kly Bulletin of tbe Wenlhtr Bu
reau for South Carolina.
The week ending 8 a. m. Monday,
May 14ib r hod a range t f temperature
from a maximum of 8J degrees on the f''"
8in lo a minimum of 40 degrees on tbe /
11 lb. Ua the KRb and lllb there wye l 4
light frosts in Cherokee. Colleton,
UreeovHle and,Spartanburg counties.
Tcere were numerous 1 , and in places
beneficial, showers on the k.b, over the
Cintra! portions of the State Along
tbe immediate coast tbe rainfall was
vtry light, and the extreme western
porticos bad no rain. Following tbe
*t owers came cooler weather and high,
drying winds ; both conditions proved
harmful to crops. Clayey lands are
oalied aou hard, aud break up cloddy.
ICsias are needed over tbe entire-Stale
and for all crops except rice ; It U es
pecially needed to germinate recently
planted corn and cotton. Damaging
hall Cccurrcd in -portione of Orange
burg County, where in places stands of
coin and cotton were destroyed. The
wtalher conditions during tbe week
were very favorable for farm work.
Cotton suffered from tbe recent coto
nigbu wbicb caused it to turn red, aol
on sandy lands tbe plants are dying In
places- Early planted cotton bos good
staode and is being plowed and chop
ped. iUoently planted cotton need*
rain to bring it up. Planting Is not
finitbed over tbe western portions.
Some complaints of gra»sy fields con
tinue, but to a lest extent tban last
week. Some fields bave beep plowed
up and replanted on account of tbe
grass. Sea island cotton bos excellent
•lands, but needs rain and warmer
-weather.
* Todocco is practically ail planted,
and very good stands have been se
cured.
K ce was severely injured by tbe
freshet in tbeCombabee river, but re
ceived toes Itjut'y Irom high water in
tbe Georgetown district than bad been
eoilcipfcto'L The cool nights were in
jur out. Planting continues
\\ beat bos not been seriously injured
by bust, wbicb U decreasing, it Is
heading weii, but the crop as a whole
is not as promising as It was a month
sgo. Ott» are ripening in Hampton
County. This crop needs rain badly.
White potatoes bave poor stands In
places, but generally are doing wej r
except that bugs are very numertj
Large ehlpmenl* are being made ~
the Uhartoabufl ditlricw, where,
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sweet potato draws are plentiful and
-ome bars set out. Gardens need rain.
Melons and sugarcane look well. Fruit
proapeett continue promising, except
that apples and pears continue 11
Might. Berries of all kinds promise to
be very pl^^lful.
[to be coxtinuid.I
—Tbe stone house at Tappan, N.
where Major Andre was imprisoned un
til hie execution, at the time of tbe Re
volutionary war, is just entering a new
phase in its checkered history. For
two years past it was run as a hotel,
but recently tba license of the pro
prietor; Charles A. Pike, was revoked,
and now tbe historic house aud grounds
have been leased to parties from New
York city, who will turn the place
into a soap factory. The building
stands within sight of the spot where
Andre was executed, and for more than
half a century no visitor was per*
mitted to enter it. A few years ago a
part of the house was blown down by
a severe gale, -and the property was
then purchased by Mr. Pike, who re
stored it to its former condition
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