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I AAAAAAAAAA1AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AN OLD FAVORITE iTTfT.TffTTTffTff ITTTfT.TTf fTTffffffTryffVTTffffffVTTr By Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? 4 William Knox THE following poem was a particular favorite with Abraham Lincoln, who cut it from a newspaper and learned it by heart. He said to a, friend, "I would give a great deal to know who wrote It, but have never been able to ascertain. . He did afterward learn the name of the author. William Knox was ja Scottish poet who- was born in 1789 -at Firth and died in 1825 at Edinburgh. His "Lonely Hearth and Other Poems" was published in 1818, and "The Songs of Israel." from which -VOh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?" is taken, in 1824. ----- t H, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? - t like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of pe oak and the willow shall fade, -Be scattered around and together be laid; And the young land the old, and the low and the high, Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie. The infant a mother attended and loved, r The mother that infant's" affection who proved, 1 The husband that mother a: id Infant who blessed, - Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest. .The maid on whose cheek, n whose brow, in whose eye, Shone beauty and pleasure-her triumphs are by; y And the memory of .those w lo loved her and praised, Are alike from the minds of the living erased. The hand of the king that the scepter hath borne, ? The brow of the priest that the miter hath worn, The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave, Are hidden and lost in. the depths of the grave. The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the steep, The beggar who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded a way like the grass that we tread. The saint who enjoyed the cjo mm union of heaven, ' The sinner who dared to remain unf orgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like tne flower and the weed, That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, eveii; those we behold, r To repeat every tale that has often been told. For we are the same that our fathers have been; t We see the same sights that our fathers have seen, We drink the same stream, and view the same sun, And run the same course that our fathers have run.. OESlDE QUEEN'S BIER DILI AttPS LETTEIl. STOK1XSS ADOUT PnEACIXEUS. WIIAX IS niKINOTIID SOUTH GO Atlanta Constitution. rt n.i T3. trj t there is a good side to almost every mis- Quarrel Between King Leo- fortune. : bid age has its privileges and poia ana uaugnter. ikiijg The 'thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think:; From the death we are shrinking from, they too would shrink; To the life we are clinging to, they too would cling; But it speeds from the earth like a bird on the wing. ': They loved, but their story They scorned, but the heart we Cannot "unfold; pf the haughty is cold; They' grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; . They - joyed, but the voice of their gladness is dumb. lies over their brow, a transient abode, They died--ay! they died: and we things that are now, Who walk on the turf that Who make in their dwelling Meet the changes they met on their pilgrimage road. Tea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together in sunshine and rain ; And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge, Still follow each other, like surge upon surge. 'Tis the twink of an eye, 'tis the draft f a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? TTTTTTVfVffTTTVTTTTTVTTTVTfTffT 1 Tf tf TTTTf TTTTTTe THE WEELITJLES IN PISA. I JBLlthnctSA Is sx &infaeA- ZZ-T: ( I UTKD THE HOTDfj(D :XtD TTJUJLXXL' ' A man went to a New York ; hospital Sunday suffering from a strange 'com- - plaint, to wit, two; little china babies which he had swallowed. : The presence . of the little dolls in his midst frightened AXAAA V WAA4t UV ." l VU WV VUV UVMAINM babies in eating a pie which a young woman made for him... After noticinsr that he had swallowed some thing &Jhe examined the 1 Die and ? I dis covered that it was loaded with a lot of v imagined, that some of the dolls ' were roving about inside hin, and the; more - he thought about them the , more he . t worried. The dolls were safely removed f and the man left the hospital happy in " the knowledge that he had escaped the . cutting which was talked of as a last resort. - Mrs. Style 'I want -a' hat, "but it .must be in the latest style." " ' .Shopman "Kindly take a chair, madam, and wait a few minutes: the fashion is just changing." 17 : l . , DlacWburn Despondent. Alleghany Star. .' - f A correspondent -says Congressman Blackburn is despondent and irritable. No wonder. . A man who has roen in Congress two years and cut a swart h in hich society couldn't . be expected to s contemplate a return to the simple , life i m . 1 : -iirrr!it .. ... 1. 01 a law practice Dciore s vviiK.es wuuiy i 'squires with any degree of complacen cy.- Our corresponaent wouia possibly expect a man to be hilarious at a fu neral. -. C' 'l'- & -: ,The Literary Editor. "That : fellow l Bcribler sent in a poem - this morning i 'entitled 'Whv.Do I Live?' ' V : : The Editor. "What did you do with it?" " " ;i t The Literary , Editor. -"Eeturned it with an inclosed slip, saying: 'Because Vou mailed this instead ; of bringing ix 5personally.," - . V - t Th belief is r erowinff among the emocrats that President Boosevelt in- nired the action of the repubhcans of North Carolina in dropping the negro. Easton, Md Oor. Baltimore Sun. CPAHflAI 10 DCWIHCni Good health is the best of earthly A member of St: Joseph's Catholic OUMllUML lO NL V I V LU I blessings, but if we were not sick some Church teUs this good story about Rev. times we would not appreciate it. ; And j Dr. Temple: - " - ; "Before the recent rains, wnen ine earth was parched, the roads dusty and rough and the crops , failing Father Temple thought it" became the church ana - so : one ounaay morning he gave nouce iun iuo inass he would say a prayer for rain, and asked1 the -people to respond in their silent devotions. . Sitting well up in the congregation was a worthy farm er and his aged wife.. When the an nouncement was j made she nudged her husband, and t in a whisper loud enough to be heard by those around, HAS AGITATED ALL. CIRCLES. King . Refused to Receive the-Princess . . Eyen '-Upon ' So Solemn an Occasion as the Death of . Her Mother Re ' gards Her Marriage a Misalliance. Brussels, Sept. 22.Tho scaind'al aris ing from the revival - of the family quarrel between King Leopold' and his daughter, the . Princes Stephanie, " the Countess of Lonyay, ' besid the bier of the late Queen Marie Hexftriette at Spa yesterday is agitating all classes. Popular sympathy on all sides is ex pressed for the princess, who, although deeply .affected by the incident, makes no complaint." The princess herself has given out a elm Die statement ot the facts as follows: . . "The precise facts are these: I was praying at the bier of the queen -wfaen some one came about 4 o'clock to tell me the king would not receive me. 1 immediately left- the death chamber. I had no interview with his majesty." It was hoped by the public, who ap plauded Princess Stephanie with the Count Lonyay, that the death of the queen would lead to nealing the rup ture, but the , Incident at Spa is taken to demonstrate that the king is irre conclllable to what has been openly designated as a misalliance, even af ter the approval of the Austrian em peror, Francis Joseph. The princess will probably leave Brussels today to join her husband in England. Therefore, she will not be present at her mother's funeral. Dur ing the whole railroad journey from topa to this city, the princess was shaken with sobs and arrived here greatly prostrated. This morning she attended a special requiem mass or dered by herself. On leaving the church she was sympathetically greet- ed by the assembled crowd. sickness its compensations. I know that my family loved me, but J did not realize how much'until this lingering j to pray for rain, attack- xequired nursing and . night watching and they had to sit up . with me and comfort me as I sat in a chair and struggled for breath. Breath, more breath, was what I wanted and I could not get it -lying down. I thought; of the last verse that " David ever wrote. "Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord." All during my long illness I have had but not by the priest,- askedr i 'Pfip, do 4-Viia fvoino niiMo-'b. .wmwnvv-pA o xwrr I rrn nranf rain V:' Nrt TirV AlIV AllTl- fuiTO j-i-ivs. liUAOw jr nuc uu wttvi T9? ft u mu -J w, daughters, and two 'married .daughters I he replied:; I've got and a granddaughter besides on the blades down and - we relief corps and they have been so watchful, so willing and so good. The oldest of the nurses has been in train ing for fifty years and has spent all hex married life in nursing and training others and knows just what to do and 5,000 pounds of don't want rain until thev are fit to haul in." The old lady refused to respond, and the rain did not come; despite Father Temple'B intercession, until the farmer's blade fodder was out of the way! - 1 -Some vears aero a local: preacher- of Funeral of Belgian Queen. Spa, Belgium, Sept. 23. The funer. al services preparatory to the remov al of the remains of the queen, Marie Henriette, to Brussels, were held this morning In a church here. The cof fin later was placed in a car and was completely hidden by flowers. King Leopold, leaning on the arm of Prince Albert of Flanders, the heir presump tive to the throne, followed on foot, the ministers, generals and other dis tinguished persons bringing up the rear. The route of the funeral pro cession was lined with troops and crowded with people. SHOW TRAIN TELESCOPED. when to do it. What would a large (some celebrity preached in Broad Creek family do without a good old mother t But at last the girls had to force her to go up stairs where she could sleep with out hearing my cough that was wear ing out , the bronchial tubes ' and the larynx and the epiglottis and the Scylla and Chary bdis and other mysterious organs. And I had good doctors, too, who diagnosed me twice a day and sounded my heart with their telephone tubes and thumped my chest and beat my stomach and looked at my tongue and ran the handle of a spoon dow my throat and gagged me and 4 prized open my eyelids and timed my pulse and then wrote a long list of prescrip tions that broke a drug store and made up a menu of what-1 should eat and what I should drink, and then confided me to the trained nurses to carry out the programme. I was as humbleas a wet dog, for the truth is I was alarmed and so was my wife and children. I didn't see how they could get along without me, but I am better now, and for three nights have slept in my bed and recovered my breath and only lack strength, and am gaining that. It is worth being sick to have such nursing and find so many friends who sympathize and wish me to get well.' It pleases me to have them call and cheer me with their presence, but my doctors say, 'Don't you talk much. Let them do the talking. You have no breath to spare." And every mail brings such v good, Jrind, loving Jetters from all over the Sunny South and some from Ohio and Illinois and Iowa. They humble me and cause me to wonder what I have done to my peo ple all these years that brings me such benedictions. Yes, I call them my people, for now I am a patriarch; and even children write to me and call me grandpa. I have been too sick to an swer all these letters and could only reply by proxy, but I will answer them when 1 get well. I am writing this to Neck. He essayed-to quote some Scripture, but got the text wrong, and said: 1 "If your right arm offend you pluck it out, and if your right eye offend you cut it off." Eeny Larri more; the wit of j the neighborhood, exclaimed: "Darn i it, - the man must think we've got crab eyes down here I" Rev. Henry R. Calloway, now dead, used to tell a - story ? of a Methodist preacher in Chapel - district, himself somewhat of a wag, who had an' infant to .baptize, in the church., "Name this child," said the preacher, . and the father replied: "John James Augustus Andrew Manship." "What?" "John James Augustus Andrew Manship." The preacher wrote the name . do irn, word by word, and going to . the r ba tismal font, a ten basin,- he looked in it and. calling: i the sexton , .: said :H "Bill Scott, go get some more ? water; there ain't mor'n half enough here to bap tize this baby in." - Kef. Dr. James F. Chaplain's story of his baptismal experience on the Eastern Shore of Virginia : is r a' good one. One Sunday Dr. Chaplain, then presiding elder, preached in a little country school house. He was asked to go in the afternoon to the house of a farmer where there were about . a dozen unbaptized children and christen them. He went. It was a littlehouse surrounded by a big corn field. " He saw no children, nobody but the farmer and his wife. "Where arethe chil dren to be baptized?" Dr"Chaplain asked. The father said they were scattered-, about somewhere, - and Xsent a man servant out to look- them up. After a long while the .man returned, dragging with him by the . hand one little weeping kid. j "Where are the others?'' demanded ' the father. "Please, sah,": was the answer, 4dis is de onliest one I could ketch!" In the days when the brethren had more respect lor a rumseiier tnan lor a Baltimore Sun. ;" - 'While a great deul is said all over the country- of the marvelous growth of the manufacturing industry in the South, it cannot be doubted that the Southern people do not get the full amount of credit for this development that is due. :f There is a somewhat ex aggerated estimate of the volume of capital which the North has invested in the "South. - The Sun today pub lishes a letter from Judge R.'M. Doug las, 'l of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, to ''Mr. Charles C, Homer, of this city, which contradicts the theory that tLe north has built the factories of the South. At the close of the recon struction period the South was crushed and bankrupt. . But there was an inexhaustible-quantity of raw material and every condition which invited the investment of capital. - Judge Douglass says there was . a general expectation that the North" would send capital to the South v to develop .the great re sources.. The South had the bulk of the cotton of the world. Why should it be sent to Europe or the North to be manufactured into fabrics and brought back for the use of the Southern peo ple, when it was perfectly feasible to manufacture it at home ? In the States of the Confederacy stretchin g from the Potomac to the Eio Grande there "is one-half of the standing tim ber pf the United States. Why should it be sent North to be manufactured into furniture and brought back South ? If all other conditions were equal there would be ho good reason why the man ufacturing should not be done in the South, if nothing were to be saved but the freight. But in the South the climate is more favorable for manu facturing, the necessaries of life an d all the expenses of living are cheaper than in the North; and this makes la bor cheaper. The. Southern people understood, these advantages, and as soon as they began to recover from the war and reconstruction they ap plied their energies and their capital lo developing the resources of the South. One of the " greatest needs of the South was skilled labor. The negroes had never learned that ; kind of work, and free white labor could not exist with, slave labor. ; Therefore, when the industrial South began, the movement was greatly impeded by the lack of the educated mechanics: and operatives who have made the North so . prosper ous. Judge Douglas, - in his letter, gives a r striking illustration of the money value of education, including technical education. He shows that the South has turned its attention to this subject, and tells' what has been accomplished by the technical schools which .have grown up in recent years. This letter to Mr. Homer is worth a careful perusal, for it tells the story of the South's industrial beginning and progress. - " ' ' and Three Persons .Were Killed Twenty-Six Injured. Oklahoma City, O. T., Sept. 20. A Choctaw, 16 miles east of here, early today an eastbound freight train ran into the 'rear of the Sells-Downs' show train, killing three persons and wound ing 26 others, several severely. All of the killed and wounded be long to the show except the conductor of the show train, who was fatally crushed. The show train was standing ou the main track when the accident occur red. Two sleeping cams of the show train were completely demolished and many occupants Were pinioned be neath the wreckage. , The uninjured went quickly to the relief and soon extricated the dead and wounded. The freight engine was not damaged. The engineer cannot be found, and it is presumed he fled. The cause of th wreck cannot be ascertained until the freight engineer is found. thank them all and to say that I believe college-taught preacher the Philadel my heavenly Tather has given me an other lease and I shall continue for a while longer to make a weekly visit .to the homes and hearts of our people. There is another good thing about a protracted illness. It gives a man such a good opportunity to look back, to ponder and ruminate. His helpless ness makes him. humble and humility makes him kind. Eight now I love everybody, except some. I believe I could love Teddy if he would jetract and apologize.- He ought to do "that if he expects any peace of mind. A letter from Blue Mountain College, Missis sippi, begs me to write him and. ask him not to visit that state until he does retract, and says the bears have had a convention and resolved to keep in their dens when he comes. I thought he was a pretty fair speaker, but . a friend of mine heard him fat ; Asheville the other day and says he acts like a bull in breeches and cavorts all round and phia Conference sent into one of the rural districts of Talbot county as the junior preacher a finely educated and eloquent young man, He preached his first sermon in one of the neck churches and was entertained that night at the house of a gentleman of means and culture. After supper the conversation turned ; to the sermon. The host praised the sermon, but told the preacher he feared it was above the heads of his audience, that he used words the people did not know. "For instance," he said, "several times you made use of the word felicity. Had you said happiness you would have 1 J 1' i mi v oeen unuersiooa. x nere were not t a dozen in your congregation who ever heared the word felicity" before. ' The preacher expressed " his surprise and doubt. The host called in one of his hired men whom he had observed at the. service.- "John, do you know what felicity means?'' - he asked "Sar- threshes his arms and shakes his legs j tinly I does, sir." "Well, what is it?" MADE WHITES KI83 BLAOKS. .Ohio Teacher Loses Place Because of Outrage en Caucasian Pupils. Bellalre, O., Sept. 20. The board of education?" today demanded and re ceived- the resignation of J. T. Def en bauch, principal of one of the schools, because he eompened several wita girls in the school to: kiss the colored girls, with whom the former had quar reled. The action of the principal caused great indignation among the parents of tae white pupils, v. SHIP RACED TO PORT AFIRE. For Twelve Hours Flames Wire : Fought on the Liner. New York, Sept. 20. The American liner SL Paul, which arrived today, re ported that a special , fight had been made against a fire wnicn raged fox 12 hours in the clothes- room. , -, The - fact that the ship was : afire was kept from the women passengers, although the men- of the first cabin were aware of the possible danger. and twists up his nose , and mouth and slobbers out his words, but he don't retract. ; But this is enough about Teddy. Let us turn him over to the tender mercy of Dr. Wharton, who told us why he was shy of his mother's state and peo ple. Bill Arp. ." Sassy Talk to Negroes, v George W. Ward, the democratic nominee for solicitor in the first dis trict, said in the course of a campaign speech last week: , ; 'I want to say to you negroes here to-day, in passing, that I have not come here to talk to you. You let politics alone. You are not "yet fitted for, gov erning. You have not got sense enough to vote and you shall not vote. : If you ever dare to give us any more trouble the white people who protect your lives and property and are educating you as fully as they educate themselves will also write into the organic law of the State a provision that the white man's money shall educate white people and black man s money shall educate black John scratched his head. "Well, I can't desplain 7' it : perzactly, ' but it's something inside of a hawg!" 4 Consolidating? Rural Schools. Review of Reviews. The new mandate that . has gone forth is to the effect that neierhborin&r district must consolidate in , order ; to build a good central school building, with several rooms and several teachers, and a consequent opportunity for grad ing tha scholars. It is further decreed that the children must ; be brought to this central - school oh . a co-operative plan, in suitable conveyances for pro tection from cold and wet and fatigue. Jb urther, it is in the air - Predicts Eud of World Philadelphia, Sept. 22.- Rev. Dr. C. H.Woolston, of the East Baptist Church, Kensington, has just preached a sermon predicting the end of the. Dr. Woolston has, however, placed the arrival of cha os 20 vears hence. which is certainly a good . margin and gives sinners time to repent. The Doc tor is a;-large, man, with muttonchop whiskers, and the reverse of a sensation monger in appearance. . In his sermon he took for his text a ; portion " of the third verse of the sixteenth chapter of Matthew: "But can yp not discern the signs of the times?" In"part he said : ' :l "Let us note a few of the signs of the times which are signs of . the coming end: First, the great internal demon- J j -.vaL.i TTVtO and the, like. " They are forerunners of the end.- When Mount Pelee sent out its wave of death it was- the beginnin e or ine wiaespreaa seismic disturbances. EveryX country except Australia dur- lti 1 -1-1 . Aug kuc losi jlcw y citi a uaa naa volcanic disturbances and internal disorders. This has been more widespread than ever before. It is the sign of the end. 'Then, again, it is written that th Gospel shall be preached to all the earthsThis work has been well-nigh completed. There are 300 missionary societies and 62,000 missionaries at woric in "foreign fields. Within five years every point in China .will have been reached,1 Within seven years the remotest corner oijurica will hear the Gospel. In 20 years from now the Gospel will have peen preached to every creature." - Dr. Woolston then launched in to a tirade against the Coal Trust, and said that 1T men fixed .. the price per ton", .... and we must pay : for it or ffbezev Other trusts come in for a sharp rf tnat tne new consolidated country school must adapt I his indignation, and he also denounced its methods of instruction, to the real I the Socialists "and infidels. He Raid condition of life. It must be a social and ' intellectual center for grown-up people as well as for the children of the region. - xt muse nave an ample piece of ground, and this must be kept in the most perfect order, as one of the" pri mary interests nd duties of the school. tnat an tnese tnings are declared by Scripture to be the beginning of the end. Saw. Lincoln Shot. High Point, Sept. 23. Mrs. Folwell wife of Mr. T. S. FolwelL dier! t people So much to you colored peo- NatuVe-study must enter largely into home Arc.hdaIe Saturday night, af- Cruiser Des Moines Lsunohed. Qulncy, Mass .Sept.. 22. The cruis er ies " JMOines was . iauBcnva iTom the yards ef the Fore River - Ship and Engine company : shortly after noon today. Hundreds or people saw tsx ship plunge into the water. Miss El sie Macomber, . of Des Moines, v with Governor7 " Cummdngs, of Iowa, and Mayor Brenton, of Des Moines, stand ing by her side, smashed the tradi tional bottle of champagne against the steel prow of the cruiser - : - Knoxville Bank Clearings. - Knoxville, Sept. 20. The bank clear ings in Knoxville. for: the past week aggregated $857,270.28, an increase of $421,491.69 over the . corresponding reek of last year. " ' - pie. You go home and benave your selves and I promise you as long as the prosecution of the state docket is con fined in. my hands, your lives, your liberty and your property shall be pro tected." . " - ' y --. More than a score of lives have been lost in the immense forest 'fires which have been raging for the past week in Colorado, Wyoming and Washington, and farmers have lost all their build ings, implements and crops. The damage in western - Washington is esti mated at 2,000,000; and the Governors of. Colorado and Wyoming" have ap pealed to the Secretary of the Interior for help to 'check the - fires in . their States. . ----- - : f T , :'. David B. Hill has no rep at all as a kisser among the girls, but as a buzzer I among the boys he is all right. school life ; and work:;" and a oositive taste tor rural pursuits and for the ele ments of the eternal sciences must4' be inculcated, v The school grounds must furnish object' lessons - in the planting ana maintenance of trees and flowers, and in so far as possible, mav . well be utilized to .. teach practical gardening: A. certain: amount of manual traininer I for both girls: and boys should enter i mro ine woric oi tne school, and every neighborhood should strive to surpass all others in its zeal to -secure mod teachers by ' offering proper induce ments.' w ter a nneenne illness. Thp fnn i services were held yesterday, conduct ed by Kev. Thos. Anderson and Rev. Eli Keece. Mrs. Folwell was in Ford's Theatre in 1 Washington when John Wilkes Booth assassinated . Abraham Lincoln and saw .the fatal attack upon the President. At the request of friends she often ' related the story of the tragedy, which was most interest ing and tragic in every detail. - Troops - were ' ordered to Lebanon, Pa. last week , where striking steel workers terrified negroes who had been brought from the South to take their places r - ' . President Roosevelt says that the Republican bosses can settle the coal strike if they will. If they can and do not do so, what then? And if they can uo bo, . wny nave tney not done before now? so ' The Seaboard Air Line Railway is to build a handsome modern depot at Monroe. - " , -
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