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Published by Roanoke Publishing Co. ' . 'FOR GOD. FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." - ' w. fuctcmb aubbok, DW " . ' . ' ,. ' ; . ' : , J '., ', r ' 1 i ; , t, : .V- : ' ' ' C. V W. AU8BON, BUSINESS MANAGER. . '' . ?T J" ' . -' -" ' : " , ' - ' ' ' ' : " ' ' ; ' " ' "'', ' '-'"' -4 Jv - ' -V. '.' , - . . - - " v - . -. - ; . ' " ' '" , i ; ' -.. . . ' ' " : .:,' , . . . VOL. III. , PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1892 i"" NO. 50. LUCK AND LABOR. Lnck doth wait, standing Idly at the gat, Wishing, wishing all the day; And at night without fire and without light, ;..:. .. ' ' And before an empty tray, ' . Doth sadly say, : "To-morrow something may turn up; To-night on wishes I must sup." Labor goes plowing deep the fertile rows, Singing, singing all the day: And at night, before the fire, beside the light; I And with H well-filled tray, Doth gladly gay, , . 'To-morroV,ril turn something up; To-night on -plenty earned, I sup." The Black Lace Domino. BT ELIZABETH M. LETDEN. , ,;s AM. .a Baltimorean but last February a year ago, business, in I. a I combination with "fate, earned ma to 2VIobile. Pur suing my .way up RoyaJ street from the Battle House I was at a loss . to account , for the "throngs of pedestrians which were pouring in - two cease lets streams up and down this thoroughfare, crowd, consisting It m a motley of masquers, peanut venders, 6treet Binders, organ grinders, nuns, priests and ordinary individuals of every class and variety. : . I turned - into' Dauphin street, and came face to face with my old classmate and crony, Ferdinand Duval. . Why, Philip? TJlackbnrn!" he ex claimed, orasuine my hand. "What good luck brought you to Mobile at tho gay and festive season of raardi grast" "Mardi urasj"! ejaculated." "So that accounts for the galvanic thrill that has passed over the town." - , "Don t abuse Mobile; there isn t a place in the Union that can compare with it. But she is at her . best v now you know - Mobile has been dubbed tho Mother of Mystics.' .The Knights of iRevelry have just finished their proces sion. To-night the Infant Mystics and the Order of Myths have theirs, and then .unite in a grand carnival at the Opera iliouse. You must surely go. 1 here 11 be no trouble about a costume, I'll fix you up easily. ' While Ferdinand rattled on we had been making oui way up Dauphin street to the Alhambra Club, whore, he insisted upon my taking lunch. V "And you must be sure," he added, 'to come out home to Eeven-o'cloclc din ner southwest corner of Conception and St. Anthony streets; you'll find no trouble in finding the place. ; I am sorry to say that Helene cannot go to the carnival to-night. She has not been ,well for some time. I say, Phil; if you come to Mobile next winter I'll intro 'duee you to the prettiest little sister-in-ilaw in the country. Margherita Pancita is her name Hclene's sister, you under stand." I may as well announce here, by way of parenthesis, that Ferdinand pronounced his sister-in-law's surname as though it were spelled Poncheeter. ''Why can't I meet .her. now,?'.' I de manded. ; . "Well, for the present sho is in a private boarding school,' and the teachers have such poor taste as - hot to include young gentlemen of your; fascinating ap pearanco among their list of callers. But Margherita graduates in 6 May. ',. In the meantime you will have to content your self with'Hclene and'myself." Duval was the most hespital fellow in the. world, and it was certainly a God send to have met him. After a delicious dinner we joined the Order of Myths, of which Ferdinand was a - member, and after making a triumphal lour of the city, we wound up at the opera house about eleven o'clock, , He was a gay and brilliant Mephistopheles, while I wa3 the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. . . When was a masqued ball otherwise than enjoyable? True, I knew no one, but that was a matter of small conje quence -nine-tenth , of the gathering were in the same fix. But from the first I was attracted to a black lace domino that flittered through the throng like a swallow, so small, so jlight of foot was the tVearer. From the black silk, lncc-edgcd masque two large dark eyes ' gleamed like twin - stars, the soft waves of blue-black' hair rwero piled ou (he little hca in a distractingly pretty fashion, while beneath gleamed the soft est, creamiest throat imaginable. ' ; i f For some time I suspected that this fascinating little figure was, as it were, skirting ou'uiy iorder9, and this caused me to keep my eyo on her; but I was totally . unprepared when she finally walked up to S me, as ; I stood alone after a dancei and deliberately tucked ber hand under my arm. v "Fcrdy," sho said softly, "I've, gotten myself into a scrape, and you must get mc out." "Hello!" I mentally ejaculated. "Am I happening on afamilj skeleton?" But I only stared at ray companion in ttupid silence. ' v "Don't you know rnc?" she demanded, guiug my arm a gentle siiake. "I know you" at once from your costume. By the way, haven't you got any better sen?e than to wear the same t costume two sea sons in succession t -and such an. unusual character an th. Veiled... Prophcc, 'too? Ialleleno h(?r to-nlc;l!t?'V 1 l".WFr At the sound of my voice she looked at me curiously. - "Ferdy,'.' she interrogated, "it Is you, isn't iti'' . "Of course it is if you mean Ferdi nand Duval." ' "Well, your voice sounded strange, but I suppose that is the effect of the masque You are certainly stupid to night. Why don't you ask me ' how '. escaped from the school? Positively, ; don't believe you know me." : But at the word "convent' the truth came upon me like a flash of light, was on solid ground at last. "Margherita!" I exclaimed, as famil- larly as though I had raised her. "is it possible that this is you?" k "Now, Ferdy," said ray lovely con panion, giving my arm a gentle squeeze, and looking into tny face with two large, soft, beseeching eyes, "if you are going to call this poor little girl Margherita, she will certainly run away, iou fright en her to death." . ' ,' . Well, here I was at sea again! What was I to call her? . ' "I'm not too bad for Rita, indeed I'm not! she exclaimed earnestly. . . "All right, Rita, my dear," I replied in a voice I was fatuous enough to hope was brotherly, and covered her little soft hand with mine. "I was so as tonisbed, you know that made me call you Margherita. . Ooon with your story, child." "And you 11 not breathe, a word to Helene?? "Not a syllable to Helene, or any liv ing creature." "Ferdy, I do know you are tho best brother in the world. Well, I couldn't withstand the temptation to c jme hes to-night. The idea of a girl seventeen years old being shut up in a school is preposterous anyhow. I have a quantity of block lace and I ripped up an old black silk skirt for the foundation, and made my domino without any trouble. Then aa soon as I finished supper to night I plead a headache and went to my room. I locked the door on the in side, climbed out the window to the veranda roof, and then by a tree to the ground." ...... She paused for breath. ; "How did you get over the wall?" I asked, - 'O, I never attempted the wall. I climbed the gate." The gate, though high, waa iron, and hai many a foot hold. "Then I walked here." ; "Rita Panel tat -u Did you walk four miles to this carnival?" . Certainly I d id. ", And I've danceti everything since I've been here, but I'm about .to drop now. I couldn't walk that four miles back if I never got there.- Ferdinand Duval, there are no two ways about it you must drive me back. "I shall be only too glad. But you can t go without one turn with me. Come." . The band was just beginning a waltz from Waldteufel, its sad, , sweet strains swelling and dying, upon the sott, perfume-laden air. With my arm around that slender waist, the little soft hand in mine, the rippling masses of her . hair resting against my shoulder, I soon felt that my heart, my head, myself were passing into the possession of the seduc tive little mass of black lace in my arms. And yet I had never seen her face I Now, Rita, r I said, with a brave effort at self-possession as the last ban of the waltz died away, "you stay nere near the door while I go out and get a carriage. '.: I'll not be gone a minute' Nor was it much longer when, after many vain attempts, I finally succeeded in hiring a buggy, and returned to the little figure just inside the door. "I couldn t get a carriage," I ex plained, as w went out into the moonlight-flooded street "They were all engaged. But I got a one-horse affair that I'll drive you in myself." "No matter," she replied indifferently, j 'Anything, so long as I don t have to i walk." She settled herself in the buggy, as I gathered up the reins, and began . unty ing the ribbon of her masque. Finally it came off and revealed the sweetest face my eyes ever rested upon. "Oh, I am so tired l ' she signed, i put my arm around her and drew her bead down to my breast. "You can rest better so," I remarked 1 - 1- - 1 A. in a cool, Droineny iasnion ; out . my hear! was beating like a trip-hammer. ' . Shall I ever forget that drivel Tne soft brilliance of th moonlight, flooding all thescene; the gentle breezes from the bay, bearing the sweetest : perfumes of that flower-crowded Southern city ; the the gleaming shellroad, stretching like a broad path of silver; the beautiful girl resting so contentedly in my arms 1 Surely that memory will be with me till ' I die. It was all too short. Four miles are soon covered, and as tho dark walls of the school roBe in the entrance, a bold scheme entered my brain. - 't ' : j We drew up under the shadow o' the wall. I jumped out and lifted Rita down. "Ferdy," she. said gratefully, "you dear good brother, I don't know how to thank you. You've done me a service to-night I can never forget." "Well, give me a good-night kiss," I answered in a tone I tried to make light. ; "Why, of course., But that masque" "Never mind the masque." I was not quite master of my words, and I half lilted the article in question by way of reply. She put up her little red mouth.and with one arm around her, I pressed ny lips to hers. I think I tried to give her a cool, brotherly kiss; but whether I did or not, that kiss con tained much more fervor than the sup posed relationship tarran ted there was nothing platonic about it. With en exclamation of astonishment and indignation, she instinctively dtew further from me; and as her angry eyes tried to pierce the masque,I deliberately removed it and stood before her, con fessed. .'1 ' Poor little girl ! She seemed about to drop, and the look in her large eyes made me feel like the blackest villian un hung. , . "Who are you?" she gs sped. "Miss Paocita," I began, with cere mony. But her eyes were still , dis tended with terror, ' end she looked as though she were still meditating flight, so I dropped my dignity and grasped her hands instead. "Rita," I went on hurriedly, "don't look at me that way; I'm not an ogre. Your brother-in-law is one of the best friends I have; we were schoolmates. This costume is his, as you know. Ask him about Philip Blackburn. He will tell you that I am a man to be : trusted and am a gentleman, though I'm afraid I have not acted the part very well to- ' night. But it was a fierce temptation. At least, believe me, your escapade shall never pass my lips. Won't you try to forgive me?" She looked at roe in a bewildered way, then a burning blush rose and died all her sweet face, the white throat, even the little. "It is very strange," she murmured, "but you have been very kind. Ferdy could not have been kinder; and; then, as you say, you will tell no one, while Ferdy well, I've felt all the time as though Helene; was sure '. to know. Really, I am under a great many cbli- gations to you." 1 Bless her little heart! Her innocence saw no narm in the deceit I had prac ticed on her. : I felt like kicking myself all over Mobile. "Then you will try to forgive me a little?" 1 asked penitently. , "I have nothing to forgive," she answered, trying gently to release her hands. "Indeed, I hope this shall not be the last time I shall ever Bee you." "Believe me, it is not. You brother says you leave the convent in May. After that you will be very certain to see more than enough of me. But now good night, indeed," and pressing a kiss on each of their little hands, I jumped in the buggy and drove off. V That was a vear ago. Another mardi gras has come and gone,and lent is draw ing to a close. ' In Mobile there are several weddings booked to occur immediately after Easter ; and, among the earliest on the list, cards are out for the marriage of Margherita Pancita. The groom oh, blissful world I is Philip Blackburn. Atlanta Consti tution.. " .',:V:" . Orijrln of the Orcan. The organ is the most magnificent and comprehensive of all musical instru ments. While the pipes of Pan aside from that mythical ; personage indicate a very ancient use of pipes as a means of producing musical sounds, tne "water- organ of the ancients" furnishes to the student of organ history the first tangible dew regarding the remote evolution of the instrument. In the second century the magripha, an organ of ten pipes with a crude key-board, is said to have existed, but accounts of this instrument are In volved in much obscurity. It is averred that an organ the gift of Constantine was in the possession of King . Tepm, of France, in 757; but Aldhelm, a monk, makes mention of an organ with "gilt pipes" as far Kack as the year 700. Wolston speaks of an organ containing 400 pipes, which was erected in the tenth century in England. This instrument was blown by "thirteen separate pairs of bellows." It also contained a large key board. There are drawings of that period extant, which represent the organ as an instrument having but few pipes, blown by two or three persons, and usually per formed on by a monk. The keys, which were played' upon by haid blows of the fist, were '-very clumsy, and from four to six inches broad. About the end of the eleventh century semitones were intro duced into the key-board, but to ail ap pearances its compass did not extend be yond three octaves. The introduction of pedals, in 1490, by Bernhardt giving a compass B flat to A was another im portant contribution to the instrument. These were merely small pieces of wood operated by the toe of the player. Popu lar Science Monthly. . Opening for Whistllugr Girls. I have just heard of at least one new . branch of work which would come into'' the category of new employments. So far it is only practiced by the inventoi , who is a Parisian. Here is a fac simile of his address card : - . ; , CHARLES RICHON, ' -: 1 IMITATOR OP N1UHTINOALE3 : ;FOR GARDENS & REsJTAURANrS.: It appears that this artist is fully em ployed during the stunner months. If the good Parisian bourgeois who 6wns a dozen square y iris of garden gives , a "garden . parcy," Charles Richoa takes his stand behind flower pots or pome granate tubs i and thence produce! warbles, such heavenly sounds, com pared to which , those of the") famous nightingale of the Emperor ot China are poor music indeed. Pall Mall Gazette, The Baptist centenary fund . now ex ceeds $250,000 and fresh promises are still being received in furtherance of the movement. , . . . BEY. DR. TALMAGB. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Son day Sermon. Subject: "Straining at Gnat and Swallow tng Camels." Text: "Fe blind guides, who strain at a gnat, and swallow a comei.,--Matthew xiu., 24. r A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge iu cuuom, a norary in a sentence, tne elec tricity of many clouds discharged in one bolt. a river put through a raillrace. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text He means to Sec iortn tne ludicrous bnhnvinr nt them who make a great bluster about smaU sins ana nave no appreciations of great ones. in my text a small insect and a large quadruped are baought Into comparison a gnat ana a camei. x ou nave in museum or on the desert seen the latter, a great awk ward, sprawling creature, with back two Bbones aign ana stomacn Having a collection of reservoirs for desert travnl n animal forbidden to the Jews as food, and in many literatures entitled "the ship of the desert.' xne gnacspoKen or m the text is in the grub form. It is born In pool or pond.after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis, and then after a few days becomes the gnat as we iuuieuizd iw jdui ine insect iponon or in tne text is in its verv smallest shan. and vat it inhabits the water for my text is a misprint and ought to read "strain out a gnat." . Jay text shows you the prince of inconsis tencies. A man after lonsr observation h&a formed the suspicion that in a cup of water ne is auout to annic mere is a grub or the grandparent of a enat. He eoes and eets a sieve or a strainer. He takes the water and Siurs it through the sieve in the broad light, e says, "I would rather do anything al most than drink this water until this larva De extirpated." This water is brought un der inquisition. The exDeriment is sucnesa. f ul. 1 he water rushes through the sieve and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub orgnas. Then the man carefully removes the insect and drinks the water in placidity. Bat go ing out one day and hungry, he devours a "ship of the desert," the camel, which the Jews were forbidden to eat. The gastrono mer has no compunctions of conscience. He suffers from no' indigestion. He puts : the lower jaw under the camel's forefoot and his upper jaw over the hump of the camel's back, and gives one swallow and the drome dary disappears forever. He strained out a gnat, he swallowed a camel. While Christ's audience were yet smiling at'the oppositenessand wit of His illustration for smile they did in churcb, unless they were too stupid to understand the hyperbole Christ practically said to them. "That is you." Punctilious about small things; reck less about affairs of great magnitude. No subject over withered under a surgeon's knife more bitterly than did the Pharisees under Christ's scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces and put them under a froscope for examination, so ChriSt finds way to the heart of the dead Pharisee and cuts it out and puts it under the glass of inspec tion for all generations to examine. Those Pharisees thought that Christ would flat ter them and compliment them, and how ut)T muse nave wnwea unaer tne rea not . words as He said, "Ye fools, ye whited sepulchers, ye blind guides which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel." There are in our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels' swallowed, and it is the object ot this ser mon to sketch a few persons who are ex tensively engaged in that business. First, I remark, that all those ministers of the Gospel are photographed in the text who are very scrupulous about the conven tionalities of religion, but put no particular stress upon matters of vast importance. Church services ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivolity in religions convocation. ; But there are illus trations, and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in the text that will irradiate with smiles any Intelligent auditory. There are men like those blind guides of the text who advocate only those things in religious ser vice which draw the corners of tne mouth down, and denounce all those things which have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth up, and these men will go to installa tions and to presbyteries and to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churches at home every Sunday there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons are a cradle, and the drawled out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flies off unconscious persons approximate. Now, I say it is .worse to sleep in church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, while the former implies the indifference of the hearers and the stupidity of the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watches with the sick, drowsiness will sometimes overpower one, but when a minister of the Gospel looks off upon an audience and finds healthy and intelligent people struggling with drowsiness it is time for him to give out the doxology or pro nounce the benediction.) : The great fault of church services to-day is not too much viva city, but too much somnolence. The one is an irritating gnat that may be easily strained out; the other is a great, sprawling and sleepy-eyed camel of the dry desert. In a),' our Babbath schools, in all our Bible classes, in all our pulpits we need to brighten up our religious message with such Christ like vivacity as we find in the text. I take down from my library the bioe rapmes or ministers and writers of the past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done the most to bring souls to Jesus Christ, and I find that without a single exception they consecrated their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah used it when he advised the Baalites, as they could not make their God respond, telling them to call louder as their god might be sound asleep or gone a hunt ing. Job used it when hesaid to his self conceited comforters, "Wisdom will die with you." Christ not only used it in the text, but when Ue ironically complimented the putrefied Pharisees, saying, "The whole need not a physician." and when by one word He described the cunning of Herod, saying, "Go ye, and tell that fox." Matthew Henry's Commentaries from the first page to the last coruscated with humor aa summer clouds with heat lightning. John Bnnyan's writings are as full of humor as they are of saving truth, and there is not an aged man here who has ever read "Pilgrim's Progress" who does not remember that while reading it he smiled as often as he wept. Chrysostom, George Herbert, Robert South, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Jeremy Taylor, Rowland Hill, Nettleton, George G. Finney and all the men of the past who greatly advanced the kingdom of God con secrated their wit and their humor to the cause of Christ.' . So it has been in all the ages, and I say to these young theological students, who clus ter in these services Sabbath by Sabbath, sharpen your wits as keen as scimiterd and and then take them into the holy war. It -a very short bridge between a smile aru tear, a suspension bridge from eyo to 1 , and it Is soon erossal over, and a smile is sometimes just as saored as a tear. There is as much religion, aud I think a little more, in a spring morning wan in a starlaas mid- nisrht. - . . . Religious work without any humor or wit In it is a banquet with a side of beef, and that raw, and no condiments and no dessert succeeding. People will not sit down at such a banquet. By ail means remove all irivouty and ail pathos and all lightness and all vul garitystrain them out tnrougn tho neve oi holy discrimination; but, on the other hand, beware of that monster which overshadows the Christian church to-day. conventionally. coming up from the Great Sahara Desert of Hicciesiasticism, having on its Dacis a nump ot sanctimonious gloom ana venemeatiy re fuse to swallow tbat camel. Ob, how particular a great many people are about the infinitesimals While they an qujws reciuess aoout tne magnitudes. What did Christ say? Did He hot excoriate the people in His time who were so careful to wasn tneir bands before a meal, but did not wash their hearts? It is a bad thing to have uutaean nan as; a is a woe thing to have an unclean heart How many people there are in our time who are very anxious that aiter tneir death they shall be buried with then feet toward h east, and not at all anxious that during their whole life they should face in the rieht direction so that they shall come up in the resurrection of the jus wmcnever way tney are buried. How many there are chiefly anxious that a min ister ot the Gospel shall come in the line of apostolic "succession, not caring so much whether he comes from Apostle Paul or Apostle Jadas. They have a way of meas- unug- a gnat nntu it is larger than a camel Again, my subject photographs all those who are abhorrent of small sins while they are reckless in regard to magnificent thefts. You will find many a merchant, who while he is so careful that he would not take a yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without paying for it, and who if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills five dollars too much would dis patch a messeneer in hot haste to return the surpius,yet who will go iu to a stock company in which after awhile he gets control of the stock and then waters the stock and makes $100,000 appear like $200,000. He stole only $ 100,000 by the operation. Many of the men of fortune made their wealth in that wav. One of those men engaged in such unright eous acts, tnat evenin&r. tne evening or the very day whan he watered the stock, will find a wharf ratstealinz an evenin? newspa per from tne basement doorway, and will go out and catch the urohin by the collar and twist the collar so tightly the poor fellow cannot say that it was thirst for knowledge tbat led him to the dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying: "I have been looking for you a Ions while. You stole my paper four or five times, haven't you? You miserable wretch I" And then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear three blocks, will cry out "Police, no- lice!" . . That same man. the evening of the dav nn which be watered the stock, will kneel with his family in prayer and thank God for the prosperity of the day, then kiss his children gooa night with an an which seems to say: "I hone vou will all srrow ud to ha an cmnrl as your father f Prisons for sins insectile in size, but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No mercy for sins animalcule in proportion, bus great leniency zor mastoaon iniquity. It is time that wa learn in A sin is not excusable in proportion as it de clares large dividends and has outriders in equipage. Many a man is riding to perdi tion postilion ahead and lackey behind. To steal a dollar is a gnat; to steal many thou-' sands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer who would not consent tn Ktnal a basket of peaches from a neighbor's stall, but who would not scruple to depress the fruit market; and as long as I can remembsr we have heard every summer the npnrh nmn of Maryland is a failure, and by the time the crop comes in the misrepresentation makes a difference of millions of dollars. A man who would not steal one peach basket steals nrty tnousana peacn baskets. Any summer ko down into the Mercantile library, in the reading rooms, and see the newspaper reports of the crops from all pares of the country, and their phraseology is very much the same, and the same men wrote tnem. metnodicauy ana intamousiy carry ing out the huge lying about the grain crop from year to year ana lor a score of years. After a while there is a "corner"' in the wheat market, and men who had a contempt for a petty theft will burglarize the wheat bin oi a nation and commit larceny upon the American corn crib. 'And men will sit in churches and in reformatory institutions try ing to strain out the small gnats of scoundrel ism, while in their grain elevators and in their storehouses they are rattening huge camels which they expect after awhile to swallow. Society has to be entirely recon structed on this subject. We are to find , tbat a sin is inexcusable in proportion aa it is great. I now in our time the tendency is to charge religious frauds upon good men. They say, "Oh, what a class of frauds you have in the Church of God in this day," and when an elder of a church or a deacon or a minister of the Gospel or a superintendent of a Babbath school turns out a defaulter what display heads there are in many of the newspapers-great primer type; five line pica "Another Saint Absconded," "Cler ical Scoundrelism," "Religion at a Dis count," "Shame on the Churches," while there are a thousand scoundrels outside the church to where there is one inside the church, and the misbehavior of those who never see the inside of a church is so great it is enough to tempt a man to become a Chris tian to get out of their company. But in all circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency is to excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in his "Paradise Lost," while he condemns Satan, fives such a grand description of him you ave hard work to suppress your admira tion. Oh, this straining out of small sins like gnats, and this gulping down great in iquities like camels. This subject does not give the picture of of one or two persons, but is a gallery m which thousands of people may see their likenesses. For instance, all these people who, while they would not rob their neigh bor ot a farthing, appropriate the money and the treasure of the public. A man has a bouse to sell, and he tells his customer it is worth $20,000. Next day the assessor comes around and the owner says it is worth $15, 000. The Government of the United States took off the tax from personal income, among other reasons because so few people would tell the truta, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply he was about to be handed over to the overieer of the poor. Careful to pay their passage from Liver pool to New York, yet smuggling In their Saratoga trunk tan silk dresses irom Paris and a half dozen watches from Geneva, Switzerland, telling the custom house officer on the wharf, "There , is nothing in that track but wearing apparel," and putting a five dollar gold piece in his hand to punctu ate the statement. Described in the text are all those who are particular never to break the law of gram mar, and who want all their language an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out all the inaccuracies of speech with a flue sieve of literary criticism, while through their etATidPt And innuendo and 1VJ- v vi - profanity and falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they mignt better fracture every law of the language mud shock their intellectual taste, and better let verb seek in vain for it3 nominative, and every noun for its goyrnment, and every preposition lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives and participles and pronouns gels into a grand riot worthy of the Fourth ward on election day, then to commit a ' moral In accuracy. ' Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. - . i Such persons are also described in the text who are very much alarmed about the small faults of others and have no alarm about their own great transgres sions. There are in every community and in every church watchdogs who feel called -upon to keep their eyes on others - and growL They are full of suspicions. Thay wonder it that man is not dishonest, if that man to not unclean.it there is not something wrong about the other mao. They are al ways the first to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell car rion. They are self appointed detectives. I lay this down as a rule without any excep tian that those people who have the most faults themseives are most merciless in their . watching of others. From scalp of head to sole of foot they are full of jealousies . and hypercnticisms. They spend their lite in hunting for musk rats and mud turtles instead of hunting for Rocky Mountain eagles; always for. some thing mean instead of something grand. They look at their neighbors' imperfections through a microscope, and look at their own imperfections through a telescope upside down."' Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them half so much as one fault of some body else. Their neighbor's imperfections are like gnats, and , they strain them outr their own imperfections are like camels, and they swallow them. - But lest any miebt think they escape the scrutiny of the text, I have to tell yon we all come under the divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come now, let us all go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question. Where shall I live now? greater than : the 4 question, Where shall I j live forever How shall I get more dollars here? greater ' than ' the question. How shall I lav up treasures in heaven the Question. How maaa x pay my aeots 10 roan." greater nan the question. How shall I meet my obliga tions to God? the question; How shall I gain the world? greater than the question. What if I lose my soul? the Question. Why i.li t ii. . . . : . i . did God let sin come into the world? erester " than, the question. How shall I get it ex tirpated from my nature? the question.: Whatshallldo with the twenty or forty vr oeveuiy years pi my suomnar existence Ui two turn, tue quBswuc, iv aat Boau 1 aa wiun tne minions of cycles of my post terrestial existence? Time, how small it is! Eternity, how vast it is I The former more insignificant in comparison with the latter than a enat is insignificant when compared with e camel. We dodged the text We said, "That doesn't mean me, and . that . nevolence we are giving the whole sermon away.:, -. v , . Rtlfc lAf. no nil minanr1af 4-a Aho 1 aa mi DIMlCUUVt W VUU VUOI Jb " What an ado about things here. ' What poor preparation for a great eternity.! As Miuugu a minnow were larger tnan a Dene moth, as though a swallow took wider cir-" cult than an albatross, as though a nettle were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as though a giant were greater than a camel. '- as though a minute were longer than a ' century, as though . time were higher, deeper, broader than eternity. So the text which flashed with lightning of wit as Christ uttered it. is followed by the crash ing thunders of awful catastrophe to those who make the questions of time greater than t the questions of the future, the oncomine. overshading future. O Eternity 1 . Eternity ! : Eternity! : ' f The nine ana JKeds of Sunset- . ' , Observers ef the coreeous sunsets ' and afterglows have been most par-. ticularly struck with the immense wealth of the various shades and tints of red. Now, if the glowing colors are due to the presence of dust . in the air, there must be somewhere a display of the colors complementary to the reds, because the dust acts by a selective dispersion of the colors. The small dust particles arrest tho Hirort. rvnirsA nf t.hA ravs nf licht. nnrl reflect them in all directions, but they principally reflect the rays of the violet end of the spectrum, while the , red rays pass on almost unchecked. . Overhead deep blue reigns in awe In spiring glory. As the sun passes be low the horizon, and the lower stra- A. - - 1 1.1. IX. 1 A 1 . uim ui aix wiLii us larger pai Licies ul dust which reflect light, ceases to be ' Illuminated, the depth and fulness of the - blue most intensely increase. This effect Is produced by the very fine particles of dust in the sky over head being , unable to scatter, any colors unless those of 6hort wave lengths at the violet end of the spec trum. This we see above blue in its colors. When, however, the observer brings his eyes down In any direction except the west, he will see the blue , mellowing Into blue-green, green and then rose color. And some of the most beautiful and delicate rose tints are formed by the air cooling and de positing its moisture on the particles of dust, Increasing the size of the par ticles till they are sufficiently large to stop and spread the red rays, : when the sky glows with a strange aurora-v like light. Popular Science Monthly. I'alatiat Clubhouse. Clubs . are not exactly a . native growth in this country; but our prin cipal cities have each shown that the institution may become both perma-. nent and flourishing in American Boil. New York has many-clubs of ripe age and ample resources. . One of them, the Union Club, ranks among the largest in either hemis phere, with a membership of about fifteen thousand and a building cov ering over one-fourth of an acre, in which 5,000 people can be accommo dated. . The largest clubhouse in the world, however, is said to be the Con stitutional, in Northum beriancl ave nue, London, which can entertain in its palace of terra cot ta 7,000 mem bers; and very near it in capacity is the "National Liberal, at the cornerof Whitehall place, which has a famous dining-room 1 10 feet long by 38 feci wide. . .
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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April 29, 1892, edition 1
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