The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 27, 1902, Image 6
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TWO SINGERS AND .TWO SGJJCS
A poet Fang in lofty strains.
, Proclaiming faith he did not know;
His measure was a faultless one.
His lines were splendid in their flow;
But they that read forgot the words,
Or scoffed at what lie ha i to say,
And left the poet all unknown
To vainly preach and fret away.
A rustic, all uncouth, untaught.
In lhnninz measures, sang a song?
A song of faith, full from his lierrt.
And heard it echoed by the throng;
The lines were rough, but truth wai
wrought
Within the fabric of his rhyme.
Wherefore the world agreed to make
The singer and his song sublime.
?S. E. Ki.tcr.
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q ? WT"7 HERE was a man." said
J the skeptic, who was
sen ted in front of the
open tire at the cltih
*who had the conra.no of his convictions.
There was no scare in him ever
when death beckoned* and finally
gripped him."
"Yes," assented the half-way skep
tjc at the other side of the fireplace,
Old Page was certainly a consistent
atheist. I did not hear anything about
his death bed. but I suppose be died
in the solvit in which he lived. Ho
was built that way."
A man with an acetic face and
with a coat of clerical cut stood between
the speakers* He is the rector
of a litiie Episcopal church stowed
; away in a poverty-stricken district .of
the city, lie is a club member and
moves in flic smart, set when lie isn't
workffig away in the slums. The
: smart set and ilie club get about one1
tenth of his time, ihough, as he often
confesses, h? believes that they stand
in sharper need of missionary work
than do most o.' the dwellers i:i ibo district
in vrhic-h he casts nine-tenths of
his lot.
\ "You say. Nelson." said the rector.
? addressing the nrst speaker, "mat uni
j Page a: death had the courage of Ids
I convictions. You nevef said a truer
*. word in your life: he did liavf. I know
c. something about it. because the hofcpi'
tal where, he died is in uiy district and
on my daily visiting list. Neither of
you lias lived here very loug and dou't
know the whole story of Page's life.
I know all about it.
**You see. Old Page was a bibliophile
from the day he lirst saw the letter A
u In his picture alphabet as a baby. The
man was actually book crazy. Some
of the first hooks that he read and
loved were ngnostfc in tendeucv. This
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led him to read absolutely atheistical
works, and finally liis book-collcctiug
mania turned toward volumes of that
class. Old Page probably had the
finest collection of Shelley, Voltaire,
Paine and the skeptic scientists' books
that were ever held b7 the book shelves
of any .private house. Do you know
that it was Page's boast that he had
never read a religions work in his
life; that he had never turned ihe
pages of a Bible nor seen the inside
of a common hook of prayer? He
chose every.king except what I. iu
humble imitation, call "the best part.'
Page would go without food if it were
necessary to buy some rare first edition
of a work with a faith undermining
tendeuey. There was a clergyman one
day bolder than the lest who went to
the bibliophile and said. 'Why don't
you collect cad reud both sides. Mr.
Page?'
" 'file rea?io:i is. parson.' said Page,
'that tliaie io cnly ou? side.'
"That answer showed beticr than
anything else tho bout of the man's
iniud. You may hate hoard, perhaps,
that hf was a great friend of Evarts,
another collector, but who bought and
brought together books of all kiuds irrespective
of the nature of the teachings
which they contained. It was
Page's wont to sneer a little at .he missals,
the Old Fathers, the Breeches
Bible and tlse rest that Evaris had on
his shelves cueek by jowl, so to speak,
with Voltaire and our other unbelieving
friends. Mow Page knew EPart's
library and the 'lay' of the books as
well as did the owner himself. Page
used to go to his friend's home, take
out a certain copy of Voltaire and
Look at it yearningly rud lovingly fo;
hours at a time. It was th.? etvy Vol
fYr
. talre which he himself did not posses
He knew viils litile hook was the lir
or.e of the series of athcist'c and aj
nostic volumes iu Evans' possession
The hook next it at the left was ti
last one of the religious and theolo:
leal volumes. \Yhen Page picked ti
this particular Voltaire he would ear
fully brush off ihe left-hand cover wit
his handkerchief to remove eon tan
iuatioii. Yes, lie was a consistent atli
ist all right, lie told Evarts once tin
9 lie would give his right arm to posse;
that Voltaire and that he thought
pressed for more payment that lie'
sacrifice his right log along with tl
arm.
"Well, you know it was only tw
I weeks ago ihat Evans* Louse caugl
lire. The flames started in the basi
incut and spread rapidly. The o]
frame structure was like tinder. Pap
lived only a block from Lis friend
Louse and he reached the scene of ti;
lire ' as-quickly- as did the firotuei
The flames Lad eaien from the Las*
ment through the flooring into tli
; library. The bcokroom was a -furnari
Evarts stood outside in the street wit
a look of pathetic misery in his fact
and with his thoughts lined on hi
1 burning books. Page grasped his an
and fairly howled in his ear, 'Thr
Voltaire will be lost.'
"In another instant and before h
. could be detaiu.d, Page had darted u
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DARTED CP PROXT STEPS.
the front ieps of the burning house
A fireman dashed after him, but wta
driven back by a sheet of liame. Tag
was inside. "He'll get nothing bu
death there,' was the thought weigliini
on every heart. It seemed an age, bu
it probably wasn't forty seconds be
fore out from the shrouding smoke ani
leaping flame the bibliophile appenre<
holding a little book tightly to hi
breast. His hair and clothing wer
ablaze and he was frightfully burned
"The firemen picked up Old Pag
tenderly and carried him to an ambu
lance. He held tight the volume h
had saved. 'I have got the Voltaire,
he said, and despite the feebleness o
'tis voice there was a ring of triumpi
it. They -ook him to the hospita
1 did what tliey-could for him, hu
had inhaled flame, and death wa
y a question of a few days. The;
mght he was unconscious at on
?IL*, UUU UliU Ui iuir UU1-3VO
> remove the book which Page ha<
raved from the liames. Fiercely hi
. aid, 'Leave it.*
"Then wlib a sort of renewal
strength he lifted the volume ant
opened it. He stared at it almos
blankly for a minute, and then an as
touishment came into his face. I th
not know whether Page, bibliophih
and atheist, saw the hand of God in i
or not, but the book that he had savei
at the cost of his own life, but let m
say to the salvation of his soul, wa:
not a rare edition of Voltaire, but i
cheap copy ol* the priceless Gospel o
Jesus Christ.
"Suffering as lie was. lie read thi
book for the lirst time in his life an;
believed. I baptized him one hour lie
fore he died. Ho called in all hi
atheist friends to witness the sacra
ment. O, yes. Old Page had the tour
age of his convictions.**?Hdward H
Clark, in the Chicago lieeord-Herald,.
ltepresents Napoleon's Army.
An interesting gift has been auWe<
to tlio Musee d'Armco. rans.. .-In tivi
great ca3es are placed' 10/&A) tfgitro
of soldiers, about two iuclje^ Ijigh. a]
branches of the a nay bring represent
cd with tlie utmost ctcactimdcs, regard
iug uniform and {inns.. Xhe toy army
marching past Napoleon, has for s?t
ting a village with the'populace' in th
street cheering tin?, soldiers. This pic
turcsque work occupied the lifetime o
an old Alsatian ^vho fought uuder tli
"Little Corporal."
Knn;arj'? B?? Towns.
Iliingary has eleven towns of 30,00
inhabitant or more, according to th
recent ?.ou?us. Budapest has 73-.00C
Szcgedin 103,000, Maria Theresiopc
. S2.000, Dehrccziu 75.000, rresburg (J'i
000, Kodmerovasarhely 61,000. KeH
kernel 57,000. Arad 33.000, Temcsva
."3.000, Creswnrdein and Klaiisenhar
50,000 each. A gram, in Crcmia, ha
G 1.0?0 inhabitants.
IN CONGRESS.
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11.; Detailed Doings of Our National Law.
makers.
S*; HOUSE.
Seventy-Ninth Day.?The House
c' made fajr progress with the river an.l
*" harbor bill. Arter.tne close or general
[1"! debate 27 of the 116 pages cf the bill
^ were disposed of. No amendments
were adopted. The general debate was
j. featureless. Several members took
j advantage of the latitude allowed in
general debate to discuss other topics.
Mr. Lewis, of Georgia, spoke in favor
0 of tariff revision. Mr. Small, of North
it Carolina, protested against the failure
p. ol' the committee to provide properly
j for improvements in his State, and
Mr. Gaines, of Tennessee, explained
;l> '.he scheme for the improvement of
s :he Cumberland river.
SENATE.
Seventy-ninth Day?During the enc
tire session of the Senate the bill prop.
viding for the protection of the Presili
dent of the United States was under
? consideration. Mr. Spooner, of Wis !
ccnsin. made an extended argument in
support of the measure. He contended
that the government had an absolute
11 and inherent right to protect itself
from assaults made either upon Itself
e or upon one of its officers. He maini
tained that an assault upon the Prcsi_
dent was in the very nature of things
an assault upon the government, for
| ihcre never was a time when the Pres
ident waj not in the exercise of the
duties of his office. His argument was
largely legal and constitutional, but
throughout was forceful and entertaining
and instructive. Mr. Hoar, in
charge of the measure, elucidated some
a-guments he had made previously,
and Mr. Teller, cf Colorado, and Mr.
Bailey. of Texas, spoke briefly upon
the bill. The Texas Senator caid he
could not support the measure as it
l ' stands, because he could conceive of an
) assault made upon the President as a
' , person and as an enemy of the govern;
1 ment. Th* assailant in that event.
ought to be punished precisely as if he
j1 had assaulted any other citizen.
Replying to Mr. Bacon, of Georgia.
Mr. Spooner declared that if Mr. Bacon's
argument was crystalfzed into
i law, "this would be an impotent government
unable to protect itself
acainst obvious crimes, endangering
( our institutions and obstructing the
operations of the government." A legiAt
? - * -
liiuait; uumnuaiUJi uu.u mc ocuaiui a
arscument, he said, would be that this
is the "weakest government under the
I sky. It is not." It was an evident
' right of the government of the United
- States to protect its own officials from
assault or assassination wbhe engaged
s in the discharge of their official duties.
e "If the function Is a Federal one," he
t j declared, "if it involves the safety or
the sovereignty of the government.
5 there are no State lines." He asserted
1 that there was no time when the President
of the United States was not en1
gaged in the performance of his offil
j cial duties. He could perform his dus
tics and exercise his powers anywhere
e uay or night. An assault upon him.
, therefore, was an assault upon the government.
e Mr. Teller, of Colorado .objected to
- the provision giving to the President
e a military guard and suggested that
; the guard about him should be from
? the civil department of the governj
ment.
Mr. Bailey of Texas, maintained that
the government had ample authority
' to protect its officials in the performs
ance of their duties but he doubted its
y authority to punish a man who should
e assault or kill any government official
I merely as a person. The demand of
j the people was th3t the govcrnra-mt
should lay it3 heavy hand upon the anL'
achist. He was in accord with that
' demand and would hound the anarcb1
ists from one section to another until
1 > he had no resting place, but he warned
t the Senators to not make anarchists of
themselves in the effort to protect the
_ President against anarchy. He could
not support the measure as it stood.
2 Directly In line witn the suggestion
f contained In Mr. Bailey's remarks. Mr.
1 Bacon, of Georgia, introduced a bill for
a 1 the deportation and exclusion of alien
s anarchists. It was the bill, he said,
l' which, introduced by former Senator
f Hill, of New 'iork. had been passed by
i the Senate, but had failed in the Houoe.
He offered it as a suggestion to the
e judiciary committee. Personally he
1 j was in favor of the "mo3t extreme le?
islat'.on that can be devised and justi3
i fied fcr'the accomplishment of the pur.
j pose8-stated."
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Pcmands Rcfu?ed.
' JCetv Orleans. SpeciaJ.The street railway
union filed its demands. The clause
i which creates most objection outside of
[ the nine hour and 20 per rent advance
L> I'provktes for a union committee of two
s for each road to consider cases of dis- j
1./ m's?al for short fares. The railroad ]
"companies will consider the demands
-) and agree on an answer. The demands
_: will be unanimously refused. The out- j
/. j come is uncertain, depending upen |
it I whether further conferences can be arL>
ranged.
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Harrisburg. Pa.. Special.?A meeting
: of the committee of the Pennsylvania
commission to the Charleston EJxposition
was held here and it was decided
c to make no State agricultural exhibit
at the exposition which closes June 1. !
The last Legislature appropriated ?3,- j
1 000 for an agricultural display and j
Wm. F. Hill, of Meadville, master of j
r i
? the State Grange, was recently chosen ;
^ to arrange for it. Mr. Hill reported to
i the commission that the time was too i
short la which to prepara an exhibit.
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