The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 27, 1901, Image 1
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VOL- XXIV-
BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1901.
THE
SORROWFUL
FACT
OF HELL
The Future Punishment of the Wicked-
—4 - • ■---•■--^^,4 _ ^ , _ -
The Existence of Hell Legibly Declared^
Bishop Candler, of Georgia, handles this subject in a fair and logical manner
m the following contribution to the Atlanta Daily News:
How extremely unwilling is the hu- 1 the short Greek word “ hades.” That
man mind to contemplate the sterner ] is all their action means. -What has
aspects of the moral lawl Men seem
to imagine that they can utterly ex
tinguish, by ignoring or by repudiat
ing, these things which the flesh flndf
its too disagreeable to consider. Hence
they lower the requirements of right
eousness or deny the pen&lltes of sin
in order to indulge desire without dis
quietude and to escape obligation wilh-
owt compunction. It is a trick of the
ostrich which hides its head in the
sand and fancies that thereby it has
escafa-d its pursurers because it no
longei sees them. 1 ». r * “
A friend told me the other day of a
'case ih point. * He and a fellow travel
er were seated near each other in a
railway car. A distributor of tracts
came in and drop|»ed his leaflets iu (he
la|is of the passengets. My friend's
fellow pameiit'er betrayed great impa
tience and began to abase the colpor-
teur juid his free literature, denounc
ing the poor fellow as a crank before
exaniiniht; hi* tracts. friend there-
upwu expostulated, saying, "You have
tract, look at it more
traveling «ompam>
Tire and -ponee-h d to m
and iu a few momenta
•* Wbv 1 am niotaken. 1
'
that to do with the doctrine of punish
ment? Absolutely nothing. But sup
pose more hail been meant by this
substitution of the word “ hades ” for
the word “ hell;” suppose squinting in
the direction of softening or abbreviat
ing the pains 0/ perdition had been in
tended, what effect would that have
had? Nothing more than could come
from the expression of an opinion by
a small and comparatively unimportant
sect. That is all. Suppose a la'gcr
body had pndertaken a deliverance
looking in the duectiou of making helj
shorter and less painful than the ortho
dox view represents, what < IT. cl would
that have had on the doc trine? None
ai all, unless their| deliverances were
sustained by the Scriptures. Eternal
facts arc uoi changed by dropping one
word and taiinc up another. If sin is
to lie eternal, punishment will be so
despite any sentimental opinions to
the contrary. The tires of hell are
mu lohucxtinguished by wishing them
out. * .
What do the Scriptures teach on the
snOyccs -«Hiia I* ’* ,K -
Christiana.
I
responded
did Dot ob-
•uhmil that t<
'plain nUk tkf Htble —a bank to las un
derstood by plain men leaves no room
arr*e
It 1
i).
1
itiank ibe man fur
to •(••u
bt that in lb*
1 future life
a dil-
It.''
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ier rr*>
ftng
it to a fiui<
b he j
terra*.
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await*
the an
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n hi*
hUd.
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are a r
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rest at
m!
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a hen
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tbe gt
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refuD-
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tor
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4m ppl Lufftl huttk
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htmiUriy we have
parfes gleefully a|
they oiur.v aosuu.
reseotIf *eeU •
•pUading, Wei
it rsloud, an
rt uf
* boaanaas likr
luu-titudr nel
••irm on the •
atvrUm iuimm
mg Him to th<
4 1 He
’ Jem-
a small sc
<rt
kn<>wo
as the. 1
uited
■ Ihd
Nero
aad t*anl g>
> let
lh«
’ •Bln
Brethren.
It
9
1
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that this
body
piare
• tleO
the* died?
w<
tfr
1 Horvy
has stnrkr
n
nut of 1
44 ths Ap*
•Ur* j
j aBd L
azanM
la tne same |
■
Wi
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rieed ' ths
Wl
wd 44 he<!
I” ib ths ;
ihiase |
the n
Imp % If
Xin* on (he
It*
kl«
bI the
whah says of Christ, ••he defended iu-1
to bed.** and ba> sul>«tituUd the wovd
•• bade*.’* Whereupon rertaiu |■allies ,
hasten to rrjotro litat the l uited
Bretbreu *b»iw signs of wvakeamg on
the doctrine of vtcrnai punishment, ai .
though the brethren did not dream
that they were dealing etea remotely
with the subject when they took the
action mentioned. Here, fur example,
is a sapient |ms*a;r from an edtlnna*
which a|>|>earni in the New \ ork
I'ress; * |
44 Many frats have lieeo expressed
of late year* comcrtiiog the abolish
ment in modem (w^iular thinking of
what .»ue recent dramatist labeled ‘the
good old hell of our forefather*.' It
is true that the strenuousocss of (be
ancient idea, which found expreasi.»a
in tangible cinders ged sulphurous
dame, has suffered wren-ly from th*
man tagr
lb* fuull
whom it
Was the
whose he
the same
who ere*
Ihd the ■
the two 1
feasl,
V llg
• *> sai-
fate
Use w*'
s« that
led his
torm hava
tiocturrs 1
us uU
, 44 I k
f the
found.
■ d the
house
the
• situ
the <
u >W
wm
i d oe
fonii
same fit
1
Ve >-ivi-
•;.r
■
I sat
mu
.1
■in
•r
a shepherd
rat e lasses
toe class he
of my Falk
••pared lor
of
t ea«e as
Utifcic to
you not. ”
1 butMer,
1 hetirnrk,
•Mhler
•und'*
■«*t on
at the
.1.
ilKlIin.- m- o
as «hc< t> ami
•ays, 44 Com<-
er, inherit the
you front toe
(d.*’ To the
every man according to his work.”
God’s mercy is manifest in the recti
tude of his moral government. Mercy
and justice are not opposite principles,
mutually exclusive of each other, but
they are different aspects of the divine
holiness.
Sometimes it is said: “ I can not
believe a merciful God would a'low a
man to suffer^ eternally for the sins of
a short li£c time?” But pray tell us
when did (hfc^lcngth of time consumed
in committing a crime measure the
penalty which it should receive? Shall
4m hang a man who kills another by
elNy poisoning and only fine the mur
derer who slays his victim in the
twinkling of an eye?
If hell is limited so is .heaven. If
man can rise .out cf hell, he can far
more easily frill out of heaven, for
falling is easier than remaining stead
fast or rising when down. At last our
choice is not between the orthodox
doctrine of one I leaven and one hell,
and the heterodox doctrine of one
heaven and no hell. We are shut up
by facts to take the orthodox view of
'one heaven and one hell, or tp believe
that there is to lie at last one hell, and
no heaven at all.
It is time men ceased trifling with
this awful subject. ‘ it is lime they ob
jected to sin more and suffering 1cm.
I’ain is inevitable if law* is broken, rt»d
the wyrst fact of all is the righteous-
ness'htsi and not the agony incurred.
11 is lime men had quit petting their
u sins sud extenuating all other
wrongs. t'onveiting the world by
coddling l* an unpromising plan of
salvation.
I I- dt then i» a heretical orthodoxy
too prevalent. S*m»e preacher* uic
perfectly oilbodux wonts, bat s|M*ak
ul ucU iu *u< h a flippant manner a* to
Ibiir heater* d<*tM fhetr »»o
»wmv-sW«4—*fia fhag
preach. Scmuc pn at hers threaten
Mrur'B with bell. If k* they were gtaH
(be men threatened aowld go there.
It was not t*fus Jems pr«H lsui|(U this
mx> mu iba trine. When oar laird pro-
noun red *entmee of jwdgtaent there
were tear* la hi* tones. After de
tiotim ’tig Woes again-l Jer .*alem he
broke into a (local of tears that her
house should coon be left <lcsolal». It
was a trndc r *boarr that followed the
lightaiug s sharp rtaah. I<et uw man
preat h the dorWIDe >*f elental |*uui«h-
anitl his heart la ready to break
icf itict m manr of tws frtb»w
will, iu the face of all lb vine
r can dq, iii-h nudly to *0 fear*
loom.
• lw me an uoiittershie grwel that
MMtie will never lie saved, that
will rveutiudU go Into a loveless
■t.i.d aud travel 1*ey«*tid the reach of
mt lawd's teudsr com|iUs*i**0. O, the
uO'farakab'r tadaess •• M, I hat uBe
dcstiMt iu the aolvrrse is never to be
ie«o%rre«l from Its rehelltMU and mia-
1 wish U w«rt Dot so. Hat reason
> ripturv both trarh m- »uch I*
fiv e, and tit«l htm-
nt a Irve agent mak-
likc Job are ready to excUumf “I would
not live always; I ask not to stay.”
But some how I do not feel old—not
very old—not infirm. My eyes are
weak and my hearing impaired, and
when I stoop long at work in the gar
den or picking strawberries my back
aches and my knee bones crack when
1 straighten up, but I soon get over it.
I love work—easy work—and it keep*,
me in good health, but! don’t like to
work by the day or the job for some
body else. I don’t like to have a
master or a boss except my wife, who
wants me right now to transplant her
peppers. I gently hinted that they
should be planted by a high tempered
woman to do well, and she said she
thought an impertinent man would do
as well ami 1 had better attend to it
right away. Sometimes 1 think I have
worked enough, for the poet says we
should crown—
A youth of labor wit$?aii age of rikse,”
and so I like to work when I feel like
it and quit when I please. 1 have
never distressed myself about the work
that the toilers have to do. Work has
its hardships and its blessings, too.
The law of|compensalion governs every
trade or catting or coalition In life.
There is a good side and a had side.
44 By tbe sweat of the brow shall thou
eat hrend,']-ami no idle man is happy.
" Tin: sleep of the laboring man is
•wee-t,” saith Solonnm, and the doctor
tell* us that bodily exercise promotes
good digestion. Work bring* content
ment. The wealthy who don't work
and don't have to are always longing
for something they haven't gut. Nime-
thing that money can’t buy, fur it will
nor buy good health nor good rhildreu,
nor make the home happy. The peace
aa<Tgratitude' of the cotter's tvalurdav
IHgbC 1. nth. Ttn
«re the happ^^TFTP
A FLAG OF THlf LOST CAUSE
spmi
MW Ot
lit ~iT
men
M.ev,
fui a 1
It »
SPUK*
thev
«f V
an*
ihf
f
i as*
ran
n<
Ma
4 pr
pie 1 k li. .Irr—m rY-rnpf -tb*4e fowl
and their real mod their Sundays. I
had rather lake the chancre for bappi-1
ucae on earth and a home in heaven of
the working man th in lh*Me of the
mir?lonn>rr. Ityroa *ay* -* The many 1
must ai a>s labor f**i the few,** and
Cube says 44 the g*>**l lairil maile poor
turn ju*t to k^rp mil n»rii in nttMiey,” I
Imt ilw gu«al book says a p*-.r man can
■qneeju* ihrough th* eye, of a uerdlc
aud a rich man can't." Cobe is n good
Confederate vrtrran and myoys bis re
cord ami his raiigtcM and h‘s tobacru.
rival ca ail he laa* an*l be w eoutent.*
Ou« uf the greatest comforts oT uI*T
age ia in 1 oouiuplating the hap|Hii«-*a
of (hiUlren. It drlighte me to sit in
the shade of my vrramln nml wab h
for two little girts who aru four aad six
year* owl, «*>uitng up the avcntle haml
la ban*I ami waving a welcome ami a
•mile at me. It iryctt s me to watch
larger one* a* they play rrt*|uel ou the
trnot* court near l>y and to hear their
merry vutcea au-t uiM'*>u*ciou*ly I
breatbe a prayer that they may always
be happy and n** calamity or aiB.tion
iwfalt them in the yeais to c*imc. If
1 nvnr fit In hanvtn ami 81. I^rtnt
I would chooae.
A Dying Confederate Gave it to a
Chief in the Samoan Islands.
Soon after Judge Chambers, who is
now a member of the Spanish war
claims commission, was sent to Samoa
by President Cleveland he attended
one of the great gala festivilies aud
feasts so famous among the natives of
these Pacific islands, says the Wash
ington Star. These feasts are never
to be forgotten by those who once at
tend. The natives come from many
miles around the islands. Most of
them reach Apia, where the feasts
take place, in boats. Sometimes there
are over 500 boats with from two to
eighty-four oars each, and containing
persons enough to fill them. The scene
is one of the most picturesque to be
found in any part of the world. Be
fore the feasts boat races aud aquatic
sports take place in the harbor of Apia,
and up to the time the islands were
partitioned, tbe representatives of the
foreign governments were interested
spcctn'oiH, and tbe natives considered
tbe presence of the foteignem a great
and important honor. . .
The feasts might be called pic-nlcs,
for they are held in tbe open atr, but
instead of pies, picklea, cakes, sand
wiches and lemonade, the customary
refreshments at pic nics, the natives
kdf and roast hundreds of pigs, geese,
chickens and other fowls, besides hav
ing many varieties of fish. Some beau
tiful grove is the only table, and the
ground where the food ia spread ia
covered with the rich green leaves
of the banana tree. Tbe greatest hos
pitality is always evidenced, the natives
|iaying especial attention to their
guests. At the rooclusmu of the feast
it is the custom to divide the remain-
i.--i -Bug p-T 1 - it
omp«»rti**oed «m>
higher raH -stAndr-Tirr-
amount uf left-over food he has sent to
b* house. In this, as during ths
course of tbe feast, there ia the great
est precision in the management. At
no lime is there a sc ram Me. The oc-
cast on t* n delightful uue to pe.qile un-
| accustomed to it.
••All the native chief* bring flag* of
I *ome kiod when coming to the feasts
i and lake the greatest care of them,”
■aid Judge Chambers in flesenbtng a
I instituted, some inquiries later and
sent several trusted natives to the
chief’s home to make offers, but they
were unsuccessful. ^
' “ When I came back to this country
and told the story to some Confederate
friends they agreed to take steps to
recover the flag if possible. Home
ytars later they began a systematic
effort, but the old chief haij passed
away, the flag had disappeared and
the members of the tribe would give no
information as to its wheieabouts.” .
Prisoner—It’a difficult to *ee how I
cun be a forger, your lordship. Why.
i can’t sign my own name I
Judge—You are not charged With
signing your own name Tit-Bits.
Son (at his studies)—Papa, I wish I
had been born in the time of Cliarle-
magne.
Father—Why?
Son—Then I wouldn’t have had to
learn everything that has happened
since.—Fliegende Blaelter.
It was in a Beacon Hill parlor. He
. 1U » “‘‘P “ I have long searched for the
The grand total of iru^tV tru r’L he beautl,u1 ’ the * ood » the »”
aud she interrupted, “ I comprehend,
dear Cecil, what you would convey.
My reply is iu the affirmative.”—Phil
adelphia Press.
4 ‘ Did he prove to be a fries
need?” ' -— :
“ Well, yes; be was usually. But L
seldom needed more than tao dollar*.”
—listper'* Bazar.
Fhk Growing Trust.—The growth
of business consolidation during the
present year eclipses all previous re
cords. Trusts have been organized so
swiftly that only those commanding
ever 150,000,000 are deeWd worthy
of attention. The big steel strust, with
its capital of *1,100,000,000, stands
at the head of all business transactions
of tbe world, and even that collossal
aggregation may h* eclipsed if the
rumor of a cotton combine should ma
tenalize.
organized during tbe first five months
of the year runs up to *2,000,600,000,
The New York Sun gives as the re
cord of the past week the shovel trui.t,
with $10,000,000 capital; the cotton
duck trust, with an authorized capital
of $50,000,000; a #20,000,000 trust to
utilize the wiite'rs* of the Platte lor
power; a #05,000,000 company to as
sume charge of the street car system
of Pennsylvania; the complete knock
ing mil ot the ofqMiaiUoH to the Kiaod-
aril (Jil trust iu phio, and the organi
zation Into one body of all the paper-
makers of tbe Ihxuinioti of Canada.
Till* list, according to The ludiana|Mi.
!»• News, cbm be re-euforced by com
binations in all lines of business, such
ae fruit, papermakers, tin can interests,
carpet combination*, dr) gouds and
(Ub; nea -nothing *eem* to he omitted.
New combination* ih»t *rY" proiutaad
are the publisher* *4 popular music, to
form thu American Mu*ie Pahitsttiug
Association, with a capital of $4,iMMl,-
l> 0, and tbe combinatioo af several uf
’he big watch coaijHiniea mU> a watch
Gust with a capital of 97*>,(mmiJKNI.
T« «
t mg
fouD<Un*u of the wof
other lie «*»•, 44 liepart from me, ye
. arse*!, inti everlasting Are, prepared
for tb« devil and his angel*.” Now,
■muling to cou*i*ler any curious ques
tion as to what the fire may mean and
to other tu iter*, 1 wish to know if tbe
I* revealed for both. Uk
, 44 la the utmost solitude* of nature,
th# existence uf hell *rem* to me as
Icgibiv declared hy a thousand spiritual
utterances a* that of heaven. No
sorrow full) teaches, and the
true alas' how true!
a*ks m< what vt« slum
1 Think 1 arBuid sav.
rell upon the kindness, love,
long suffering and forgiveness of Deity J
than upon IIis vengeance (to use the
word only iu Scripiual sense.) But it
ipore significant yet to find this attack
tak.ng actual theologic form and win
ning it victory. When lhtio(cneral quad
rennial conference of the United
Brethren church, in session at Fred
erick, Md., decides to substitute tbe
milder ‘hades’ for the ‘bell* of the
apostles’ creed it gives the older class,
who have enjoyed hearing oratory
from the pulpit’through a long career,
stmelhing to shake heads over, to
prophesy upon and to shrink from.”
Now. the fact is the view that the
United Brethren take of this phrase in
the creed has no relation to eternal
punishment or hell as a place of
penalty at all. They used the word
“ hades ” in place of the word “ hell ”
because the latter word has an idea of
penalty attached to it, whereas the
former has it not. They never be
lieved that Jesus went to any place of
punishment at his death. 4 ‘ Hades ”
is the Greek equivalent of the orcus
rupax of the Latins, and the United
Brethren with many others believed
that the phrase in the creed means no
more than to be buried, to go down
into the grave, to pass from the visible
into the invisible world, as all men,
good or bad, do when they die.
The Methodist Episcopal churches
in the United States have not had in
the form of the creed used by them
the word “hell” since 1780. They
use this form: “He suffered under
Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and
buried.” Dr. Charles Hodge, the
great Presbyterian theologian, inti
mates in.his “Systematic Theology”
that this was the original form, and
that the words “ into hell ” did not ap
pear ifr the creed until the fourth cen
tury. Let this be as it may, it is cleai
that the Methodists did not modify in
tbe slightest degree their adhesion to
- the doctrine ol eternal punishment
when they took this forin of the creed
a hundred and fifteen years ago. On
the contrary, they have preached with
power and persistency the doctrine of
everlasting punishment for the finally
impenitent.
For the two word*, “dead and
the L'nued Brethren prefer
sp|»*sTTtnff
■lifft-renl a* sheep and goals, have
I mused into <he eternal worl<L_aud met
destinies so wide apart that die ex
tremes! urthodoxy cannot make them
wider? v
Th- A, it is said in the closing sen
tence of the passage, ‘“And these shall
go away into everlasting punishment,
>ut the righteous into life eternal.”
What doe.-* that mean? Are “eternal
life ” ami 44 everlasting punishment ”
different degrees of a common blessed
ness, or is one a state of joy and th
other a state of pain?
And it is idle nonsense to talk about
the word “ everlasting ” as applied to
the punishment being a term of limited
duration, and the'life, being a term
signifying tbe wbrd “ eternal,” as ap
plied to. endlessness. In the Greek
they are the same word. If hell is less
than endless, so is heaven, according
to this passage.
To'the same purpose the case of
Dives and liazarus teaches. Says
Abraham, “Between us and you there
is a greatgulf fixed; so that they winch
would'pass from hence to you cannot,
neither can pass to vJt, that would come
from t&ence.” How long, then, would
Dives stay where he was? Does there
not seem to have been in his case
a fixedness of condition af well as a
fixedness of character? And that is
what we see in this world. Character
drifts to the places that fit it.
I fear the result of all this sentiment
al effort to get rid of the idea that l lie
good and the bad go to different places
in the next world tends ,to efface the
distinctions between right and wrong.
It impairs the authority of the moral
law by destroying the sanctions of the
future life. The French people got
the oxthodox doctrine quiic out of their
minds once, and when they ceased to
fear any hell in the next world, they
proceeded' to make a hell 011 earth.
Then was the “ Reign of Terror.”
And let no man vainly imagine he is
standing, for tbe vindication of the
divine mercy when he pleads against
tbe doctnne of the fmurc punishment
of the wic#ed. ltd* not mercy in
Km
m v t
>atnt, make mra
attic rhlWirm I |
give me 1 lower to
; harm.” I think
1 think that 1 worn
, far a* 1 can do It.
ift
•In
44 lleasc,
tan angel t
'bind me
.*.-■1
>f th#
, and
1
I Wl
1
It
* ll<yi t>as ikA
Iii-mm* *elf
bsll.
4 ad to li* stu
Solv*«
And e*sn rremu
AI 11 see* •bail
beaten.
mt t
M
hut
1 • ireum
■ litre w«
d«
MM
outer
nes* must arise
*• The wailing* of the damned.
lhn«e who would not be tedeemed.”
Auger there will .become immortal,
and .in helplca* rage will -gnash its
uch. Despair will become eternal
and hopelessly will weep. 44 Figures
of speech,” says one. Yes, ami how
dreadful iiiuol be the realities of which
these are but the shadowy likenesses.
d tin m from
ul*l like that I
ike it now as
* a privilege and
to an old man to make other*
l inn *.»- when my chief con-
for myself and wife aud our
children, but as age comes on the bear!
c ilarge* and softens. The vauilim
and ambitions and selfishness of our
~ , 'youth <lis*|q»ear and w^recall the fines
•enhed.
"i happy,
eld dta- 1 cern was
.1
■an feast Ia a group of friends tba
| other day, 44 T1wy are fond of any
• ktnd uf flag. Those chief* who cannot
obtain ilia flag of nation* u*e fancy
ntccve uf cloth and tattered garment*,
lie ia a poor man and unimportant
chief who does But own a Bag. I/ook-
.og out on the beautiful scene in the
harbor of Samoa on this gala day that
I have ajioken of, 1 noticed a boat dy
ing a (lag that 1 could not make out.
1 took a glase amt saw what 1 though!
, was a Confederate Hag. I could not
believe It poeeible, bowevyr, and wait
ed uotil the boat came near. Then 1
1 saw plainly that it was a genuine flag
.of the Confederacy, I naturally waa
i greatly interested, and sent one of my
servants to ask the chief to come to ate
1 me.
44 When be came 1 began qaaatioii-
! mg him altout the (lag, but he would
give me no inlormation. . lie waa a
man of good features and was appar-
, entiy a chief of consequence in his
neighborhood. I, of coui>e, wanted
j to get possession of (he flog, and did
not sup|ioae that I would have the
least trouble in doing so, parUcolariy
as the 3alive* were food of exchang
ing flags, and that the United Sutee
was a favoiite with them, the flag of
Lu^.sud !*e.tig nuxl and oH.eriiiauj
Tur OloFashiomfi* Boy. — At a
little dinner of a few od Inxera in this
rlfv the «4her bight, say* (lie 1‘hilwdel-
phis 1 ime«, one of the speaker* aeid:
1 44 What has bBMMLfi the oh! fashtoo«-d
|bo*T” The ooe who looked like Bis
father when his father carried the sort
of p MBpusity w Inch was Itks the divinity
that hedged a king in the tnoe when
kmgboud waa ia it* hirak o' day The
hoy who wore a hat atdeh threatened
to cores down over hie eai e. Tbe boy
whose tr< usei* were maile over from
hie father's, by his mother, or afcnt,
or grandaodber. The boy whore hair
had a cow lick in it, before, ami waa
sheared off.the *ama length behind.
The boy who walked with both hand*
in the pickets of hia trouser*, and who
expectorated list ween his teeth whea
hie teeth were clamped together. The
boy who wore boots, run down at the
heels. The boy who never wore
knickerbockers or a round-elmul coat.
The boy whtoecliirography was shaped
by the gymnastics of hie tongue. The
boy who believed hie father was the
greatest man in the world, and that be
could have been I’/eeideot if he Bwl
wanted to be. The boy who was hia
mother’* man when the man was away
from home.”
IN A HUMOROUS TRIM.
' Freddie—What’s a novel idea, dad T
Cobwigger—One that never gets in-
to a ncvel.—Judge.
“ Whal was your first impression of
New York?”
‘•That I was too small to expreaa
It.”—Ohio State Journal.
“ She comes of a gi and old family, I
M lieve.”
‘•Yes, very! An ancestor of her*
was beheaded in the tower daring the
reign of the fourth Edward l"
‘ 4 How perfectly lovely!”—Detroit
Journal.
44 No, thaaka, I don’t care to know
the lady."
• Eh? Whi
not?
•eai leTTridreeUcmr" only
know and 1 know too ma
Cleveland 1*1010 Denier.
flu*ban-1—I Bonder whal we shall
Wear in heaven.
Wife—Well, if yon g«t there, Joha,
I imagine most of as will wear sar-
piisrtl look* -Narert Net.
44 lawn-powers are Dot Ao bed."
44 Why not ?"
44 Why, when my wife wants am la
bang pit turts. I b II her I have to eat
the grass.*' t hicagu
• Jadge Have yoa formed aay 1
urn on ih»# rase? . ^
Jaror—No, sir, I haven’t
it to my wtfa.- -The Kmart Hal.
Kibel- You ko»w. I want a I
who is easily planned.
Maad Don’t worry, dear,
the kiad yua'U get.—Tn-Bila.
44 What a hnandlam dab! we -
medical science.”
••(»h, I don't know, the doth
la vented the aervoae
h<>rnble thing for hue
go Ileoord-Herald.
44 What's the matlsr, pet?"
44 That big ugly man yoa
lank at aaar rt£» aay* he has
per, and 1 told him it waant
I wanted him to go away,
nothing at all the matter wHJ
temper. It's hie poar huie 1
Chicago Tribune.
There’s
The wife of a met
of Representative*
Vie*s from thy band
done."
pf the |
w vs#
A Henbimle
room is a pl^t e
amosmglliiiig*
Juimin.
where
occur.
Tmiri
of a g
■The|
agjxnl many
The'examina-'
the occssioa
bar of I
toward
not long ago wa* awakened
court | noises below stair*, aad
her hualwnd.
in a low voice. “ Yoa
BILL ARP HAS A BIRTHDAY.
He Has Lived Three Quarters of
a Century and Stops to Medi
tate '
Atlanta Constitution.
To-day is tbe seventy-fifth anniver
sary of my advent into this world—my
coming into this mysterious, wonder
ful condition that we call life. It is a
fitting time for meditation, contempla
tion, cogitation aud rumination. An
aged poetess played double with her
self and said: , . ,
Life! We’ve been long together,
Through leasanl and through cloudy
weather;
Say not “goodnight," give little warning,
And in son e brighter clime bid me 41 good
morning ”
She dident care to linger and
languish on her last bed. The doctors
haden’t invented or discovered heart
failure tfeeu, hut that’s the way she
wished to go.
1 do not. I would lutve sonic little
timt for the last loving words, and
looks—some time for tears and sorrow
on the faces of those who love mei
The death of the aged is ouij a change
—a* parting, a beginning of another
life. It is no calamity., no horroi no
shock, no unreasonable thing. It is
the law of our being and the old are
not far ahead of I be young. How kind
it is in providence to reconcile us to it
as we near the goal. 1 remember
when I thought it was an awful tiling
to die. I dared noL thiuk of it, much
less to ponder it and it seemed to me
that - there was s^me possible escape
government, but corruption that-treats from it and I might not surely die.
virture and vice alike. Wherefore the Bat as we near the allotted age and
Psalmist
baiongeih mercy
I,o#l—a day lost! How many days
have we all lost iu our brief lives.
Him many days* in which we made no
one happy, not even with a smile.
But tbrte refleclittns are too gloomy
for the day. They remtud us of Her-
vey’s meditations among the tombs,
or Gray's “Elegy iu a Country Church
yard.” 1 am old, I know; but 1 do
not feel old nor sad. My desire is to
grow old gracefully -and for
“ An age that melts in un perceived decay
And glides in modest innocence away.’’
Bill Aru.
Qukek Places to Live in.—Near
Pere Maiquette, Wis., an ex-cabinet
maker lived for many years in the
stamp of a tree, says the Springfield
Journal/ The tree was a huge linden
that had been sawed off some fifteen
feet from the ground, and the old man
had used the skill of his craft to make
the interior of his remarkable abode
comfortable and almost -luxurious.
The stump possessed both door aud
window, and the “house” was wonder
fully cozy aud certainly peculiarly
quaint. An old fisherman, a native
of St. Milo, was-the occupant for
several years of a residence which
cost him nothing in the way of rent
or taxes. The residence iu question
was a huge cave to which the sea did
not penetrate and which the fisherman
made habitable by flooring and other
accessories. He claimed that he was
merely following the example of his
remote ancestors, who dwelt iu caves
The majority of folks would douhtleas
consider such a residence far too damp
aud gloomy for daily and tfightly occu
pancy. Not very long ago an Ameri-
can millionaire built a submarine boat
fitted in the most luxurious manuer
Here he was accustomed to spent
severffi weeks, eating, drinking, am
smoking to bis heart’s content while
journeying beneath tbe sea level. Air
was conveyed by elaborate machinery
ou board the' vessel, and the queer
residence was often visited by parties
UU » IVU BURC. UCITIUIC 11AC mo UR5ABA VAABJ MAUltWA aiAt* 1 I vv vr*vx-u vsot«.*#*s a#j
tings, "Unto thee O, Lord, realize the symptoms of decay we be-1 who dined with the owner in his sab-
l mercy; for thou reoderest to come lees reluctant, leas ‘alarmed and marine house.
Ub,
no, my
half-awske “In
sUgh for {he'vIsTion'fii flTe|liff go
temple of justice. In many instances | in the house.”
the joke is on the witness; bat some
times tbe table is turned and the ex
aminer is the one who is bit. A11 in
stance of the latter kind occuired in
the court room this week. On the
stand as a witness was a prominent
farmer of the western section of tbe
county, who is a little deaf. The at
dear," rejoined the
_ us band, reassuringly.
There are no thieves in the House;
they are all in the Senate.”—Baltimore
Ban. - .•
Cuited States 10
He said quietly that he could not make
the exchange. I then offered him a
new flag of England or of Germany,
ie refused these also, and 1 suspected
that he was tryiug to drive a shrewd
bargain with me. I next offered him a
bolt of cloth worth considerable money,
and when be refused that 1 offered
mu a barrel of meat, the most tempt-
tog and costly thing in he mind of a Mkcd bim 8 ^ but re-
native As nothing could induce him ceiye ^ no an8Wer> ^ que8tlon wae
to make the exchange, I asked him his bul 8til , thcrc H wae n ’ 0 an _
reasons for refusing. swer. The examining attorney then
“ In reply he said that one day long threatened-
ago a white man came to hie hut He ^ will a , ^ the . {] and he
supposed the man had come from Apia. wiU make ^ gD8Wer th J qu 8 fc8tion .
Ie had several bundles in his posses- u Xhat> h J e wonV . wa8 ? he reply of
ston and preserved them “H ihe witn^s who was not too deaf to
most care. The stranger, the chief Utch the attorney’s remarks. “He’s
told me, was a man of great dignity t ^ much 8et / 8e to ask any 8lK . h
and of an amiable disposition. The f^, que8tion s as that
nstiveb soon came to love him much L The sheriff’s “Order in Court” was
aud took pleasure in previdtng him not 8U (fl c i en t to restore quiet in the
with every delicacy they could obtain. tourt room>
The chief himself became deeply at-1 «.
tached to him and when the white.
man’s health began to fail there was Exactly as Advertised. An in-
universal regret among the natives. ^ l 8 nant working farmer returned to a. 44 Wh t n i ce things you said about
When the stranger saw that lys end | ^f^i about au hour aftur P ur * | that man in hi. obitSarJ notke iCt
Small Mau: 44 Yes, sir; he’s a con
temptible scoundrel, and I told him
so!”
Big man: " Did he knock you
down?”
Stnall man: “ No; 1 told him—er—
through the telephone.”
44 When I last heard of him they used
to say she could twist bim around her
finger like a striug.”
44 It was evidently trne. She has
since tied a knot with him.”
Widow—It 1s too bad that my hns-
bainfsbould have died new, when he
knew that I bad jast bought a blue
and a pink dress aud four new fancy
shirt-waists. But he always was so in.
considerate.
was near he called the chief to him | c k a8 ‘“K 11 kw-’u 5,
and directed that one of the bundles in T U .^ 0 ^ here,, sir! he exclaimed,
his possession be opened. Then there I ‘A 1 don t want thl8 & oree y° u * old mel
was displayed a beautiful silken flag,
sir!”
is h<
I can’t get him to cross the
but worn by handling.
“ ‘Bee that flag ?’ said the stranger ;
well, it was the flag of iny nation—a
great people. It went down in defeat,
but I 'decided that it should never be
surrendered. So I left home, kins
men aud friends and came here with
it. I am going to gir l it to you
Never let a white man have it in his
hands.’ .
' ll That was the dying injunction
the stranger and the chief had sworn
suppose you’d say such nice Uuaga
about me?” said the citizen/
“ Oh, yes, I would with pleasure,”
replied the polite newspaper man.
He shies,
bridge.”
“ That’s the reason I sold him,” said
e dealer, calmly. “Why did you j
come to me for the horse?”
44 1 saw your advertisemeut in the |
paper."
“ I thought so. I gave my^reasoni
for selling him.” . '
“ Yes; to be 8*>ld, -you stated, for no I A
--Uthar reason than thatthgJLWner want- cim j dn . t havait >. paaie ^
of | ed to go out 6f town.” ~J««idu t have it.^
“ We . 114 ^Set out of this A good anecdote D told by the
that the flag should always remain with to . 1 ^ u . Wltb blD ?’ ^ aid 1 j dealer > “ ll Bishpp of Minnesota of the sarcastic
him. He had made bis tribe swear to , ' rid ,e more l ^ an ^ can do * powers of' the Indian. “ I was hold-
keep it and never part with it; that — ■ » mg.” “T* Bishop Whipple, 44 a service
when he died tbe succeeding chef 'Paul Revere, the revolutionary hero, near an Indian village camp. My
should take it and bury it where no hu- was an inventor, though not many j things were scattered about in a lodge,
man being would ever find it. < 1 people are aware of the fact. U» was | and when I was going out I asked tbe
44 Tbe chief’s story was told in sim
ple but effecting words. 1 made many I In 1801 be founded the Revere Copper i while I went to the villace to bold a
ul be Company, and the concern is still do- service. * Yes,’ he said,. ‘perfectly
1‘apa (severely)— 44 Did you ask
j mamma if you could have that apple?”
Five-Year-Old— 44 Y’es, papa.” Papa—
| “Be careful now. I’ll ask mamma,and
she says you-didn’t ask her I’ll whip
I you for telling a story. Did yon ask
I mamma?” Five-Year Old—“ Papa, I
She said I
other offers to secure the flag, bul
was firm to the end and went away j log business, under the
that afternoon with the flag m hit boat. I Canton,
e
name, in (safe. Thera is not a whit*
1 a hundred Btiles!” •
a. _