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I FRANKLIN PRESS jrr VOLUME XX. FltANKLIN. N. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 12, 1005. .NUMBER 23 rr t WOODLAND VOICES. AcroM the wocd'anrts tmre ind still a- rhythmic Hole li hcnrrt. As If nome band with tender iklll vl- brant chord hid Btlrrtd: And bark! the bluebird silvery throat buta otiarerlng e ho ring With tbut flrnt thrllllnx. soulful not tbat wakes the sleeping spring. Like strains from some glad mlsatrel's luta the swelling cadence bears. And voice a tbat nave long been nnte re echo In our ean ; With siren songs they eem to woo our atepa from haunra of man, And (onth winds blow aa If the; blew upon the pipe of fan. A THE STORY OF SHYLOCK II. I. The, clerks in our office decided today that tile story of Shylock II. must bo given to tho world. It was also agreed that the literary part of the work must be done by me, Jack, Slade, because last year I won a silver watch In a competition by guessing almost exact ly the number of peas In a bottle. Well, to begin with, four years ago, Harry Heywood was the best-llkcd fellow in our office. Four months ago he was the be3t-hated man la the place. This loss of popularity was entirely due to himself. From a bright, cheer ful kind of a chap, up to no end o' larkB and always Impecunious between pay days, he became a quiet, mlserablo locklng beggar and a. regular miser. Young Balnes awfully clever young ster, by-thc-by says that a miser Is the most unselfish of all men, because he denies himself all his life for tho sake of his heirs. But, anyhow, you can understand that Heywood gradually ceased to bo a favorite with us. Some one christnod him Shylock II., and the name stuck to him like a leech. We knew for a fact that he lived In lodgings and had not a relation In the world, so that the venerable yarn about supporting a poor old mother and a bundle of Bisters wouldn't answer In thlB case. It was also known that he had been engaged to be married, but no one had seen him with tho girl for a long time several years. The most plausible explanation was that a broken engagement had sonred his heart and turned him Into a misan thrope. His clothes were worn to the very last stage of shabblnes3. It was live rears since he had ha1 a new over coat, and as for his glovo.i, they were extinct altogether. And yet, somehow, most of us liked blm, although we were ashamed to ad mit it. There was something so sad about his face. Not that I or anyone else ever heard him complain; he'd top much grit for tbat. lt. as for his mlserlV habits, we - v "favor, but at opinion of the fellows was entirely hostile. I think we were all Inclined to Imagine the poor chap could have Justified himself, but he never tried to do so, and perhaps that turned us against him; and after a while we had drifted, so far apart that no one In the office spoke to him except about busi ness. How he stood It I don't know. I expect he felt bad sometimes, but he gave no sign, except that he Beemed.to grow thinner and shabbier every day. But all this kjme he must have been living nearly a hundred pounds a year out of bis princely Income of one hun dred and fifty. One evening I had to meet a train at Blucher street station. You know what an old rabbit-warren of a place it Is, so you will understand hew I only found the platform at the last minute. Tho porter told me It was No. 7, and so I fixed myself there with a cigar so as to Impress the girl favor ably when she looked for me as the train came in. I struck a grand attltudo and hung on to it until the train stopped. The guard skipped out of his van, and just to make certain I asked him If he had come from Clapham. "Not exactly," he answered; "this Is the South roast express." . "Oh," I said, and looked round for the porter who had accepted my two pence on false pretences. The next moment I forgot all about everything else in the shock of seeing phylock II. He was shaking hands with a fellow who had just come In by the train. They wajked down the platform together as friendly as could be, and when I saw the other man's face you could have knocked me down with a feather. He had formerly been employed by our firm as a lift man, but waa discharged for making bets with ' the clerks In the offlcs. He nsed to ''make a. book" on every race in tho year, excopt the human race, and that, he said, waa too uncertain to bet about. ! felt downright sorry at seeing these two together. The Instinct that bad told me Heywood was saving for some straightforward purpose oozed out of me at once on receiving such a squeeze as this. It seemed such a pity to think that a fellow of his age should be so Irre trievably entangled. . A slave to gam bling, a mere low-class plunger! But it couldn't be so; there must be a better explanation. I was trying to think out some excuse for blm all the way out of the station. Aa for the girl, I forgot all about her, and that's the truth. , Half-way across Waterloo bridge I collided with a chap who was staring miserably down at the river, - And when he turned round I saw to my amazement that it was the very man . who was, troubling my thoughts. "Looking at the river?" I laid, try ing to apeak in a friendly tone. "Yes," he answered, drearily; ' "It Bows very smoothly, doesn't it?" "Why, yes, I suppose it does. But, look here, Shy Heywood, what's the use of being such a miserable soft as you are? Look at me; I've far more, troubles than you, and yet you donV catch me moping." They open to enr charmed gase green vistas And coverts In whose book; maze shy ham aaryaaa niae; Thejt lure us oo 'Death smiles of May where tVhflr ,-a Ikin d willows oena ana away, ana mottled shadow Bleep. They tell of Jeaf-enetirtalncd dells, where lowing rattle strny, And softly awing their tinkling bells from morn till-close of day t And still with siren song they woo our stepa from haunts of man. And south winds Mow a? it Ihey blew upon l lie pipes or ran t Helen Whitney Clark. timaxiiai j ,ajnfc "If you've more troubles than I have," ho cried, passionately, "then may heaven -help you!" and he turned away to the river again, and his head dropped miserably on his chest "While there's llfo there's hope," I said, trying to cheer him up, "and however bad your luik Is, It's better than despair. That would bo a miser able game. It would simply be ad mitting you were beaten." "And I am almost beaten," he groaned. "Four years have I fought and done the best that could be done, and now the end Is closing In and the odds are all against me, and In three days from now on Oh!" He Rhlvered from head to foot as he spoke, and clutched me by the arm. "Iook here, Slade, I think you're a kind-hearted fellow. Come and spend Ihis evening at my lodgings. Come and talk to me or I shall go mad. Tho suspense Is killing me." It was now or never with him. "You mean you are killing yourself." I raid, sternly; "as for the end coming In throe days from now, that's Impos sible while you hold on to your situa tion." He slared In such a pitiful, aston ished way that It almost unnerved me. "What do you mean?" he said, quietly. "I mean that if you will give up this gambling you've the best part of your life, and a happy life, before you. And if you'll promise me to give up gam bling I'll help you any way you like, except with money, and that I don't possess." This time I'd touched him up, and no mistake. His face waR as white as chalk and Mi eyes fairly bhr.cd. And yet the poor bergar was so weak after his years of semi starvation that he had to hold on to tho bridge, he trembled so mu?ti. B it I stood firm and waited for hh reply. And when It came I believe I feit more shaky than ho did himself. "I'm sorry to have troubled you," he said, quietly enough. "You misunder stood me, but I ought to get used to thnt arr four years. Good-night. now- "Good-night," EeWtfrTtaiu. "You aro mistaken, but no matter, I wllj a3k for no more sympathy. Good night." Ho turned and hurried away, and 1 spent the rest of that evening alter nately patting myself on the bark for my firmness and then wondering whether we were nil wrong In our opinion of Shylok II. 111. The next day h did not turn up at business, nor for many days after. When a week had gone by i became anxious, ard looked up his address in our book at tho office. I went round Ihit evening, and a miserable little place It was, away up four flights of stslrs, at the top of a dreary old house In one. of the poorest suburbs of the city. I tapped at the door gently, whilst all manner of sympathy nnd pity fore through my heart. Gambler or no gambler, he was down on his luck nnd should be tenderly treated. And as I reached out to set to the handle tho door suddenly opened from tho Inside, and .Tones, the betting man, stood be fore me. I feit swage, and told him bo before entering the room. ritit ho only shrugged his shoulders as though In different to anything I mlRht say about himself. And I believe the silly ass had been crying. His eyes were all red and swollen. Hoywood wa3 sitting up in bed, propped with pillows. The doctor was by his side, and a motherly-looking old woman, the landlady, stood itarlng at the (Ire. And her eyes were red and swollen, too. But if I dwell on things like this you'll never know the cud of this story, so I'd better go straight on and get it done. , " Foor old Shylock smiled faintly when he saw me. "It's good of you to come," he said, "after our last meeting." "How, about tho suspense the three days?" I raked. "It's over bow," he said; and hit thin, white hand patted the counter pane gently. "Did you know I was engaged to be married," he said, presently, "about four years ago?" t "Yea, I bad heard so," t muttered, huskily. "We were to have been married that summer," he continued, gazing through the wipdow as though he spoke to himself; ."but Bertha was seized with Illness some spinal disease." The doc tor said her only chano waa to go into a certain notoe for a few years, but that it would cost a lot of money, as" si to was not eligible for free treatment." lie stopped speaking for a moment, for his breathing was difficult. And my eyes were red and swollen now, aa I knolt by the bedside.;;Jv;::.'e'.''-:eia. . "We managed It," he said, quietly, in a minute or two, "and she seemed (o be getting better, I got Jonea a place as attendant at the home, and he used to bring me news of my poor girl. Then the doctor said that If she would undergo an operation she might be cured almost at once. It waa a Very dangerous operation, and paln- ful; but aha agreed, and It wna fixed for three days later. . "She died this morning," ho added, with just a quiver In his voice, and his thin hand trembled. j I don't know exactly what happened next or how I got out of the room, but I wasn't the only Idiot next morning at the office. Poor old Shylock never really recovered bis health, but we did our best to make up lor our pat unklndness, and I think the dear old chap understood. ARMY Or 400,000 LED BY 'PHONE. Every Stroke Correctly Timed by Field Marshal Oyama Util ize Up-to-Dat Methods. Among many things which the Jap anese have done during the war which they are now waging and which have attracted tho attention of the world, their use of tho telephone is one. As each advance was mado or a trench was dug connections were mado with headquarters by telephone. Thus, not only was all Important Information transmitted Immediately to the com mander, but fighting was directed from the latter point by the same means. The -commander was able to direct the fire of the guns and to order ad vances when the proper time arrived. The telephone lu this service has tak en the place of the courier and doe3 the work better and more quickly. By Its ability to communicate instant ly with many and widely separated points not only are the army's opera lions directed more effectively, but one commander Is enabled to control larger for) than was possible under tho old system. Could Field Marshal Oyama have directed the operations of 400.000 men and have timed his strokes so exactly had he been forced to depend upon orders carried by horse? How could he have controlled a fighting line a hundred miles long? Without the telephone tho operations would have been carried on by a num ber of generals, each acting according to a certain plan, but depending large ly upon his own judgment for whnt to do and when to do It. That the fight would have been carried on as bravely none can doubt, hut the telephone co ordinated the actions of each division and reduced the armies to one vast machine. Nothing was left to chance; every stroke waa correctly timed, and the communder-ln-chlef was at once Informed of Its result. Even tho fly ing columns were followed by the en gineering ccrps and the result of every skirmish and the taking of every vil lage were known within a short tim at headquarters. Electrical Review. QUAINT AND CURIOU0. In some parts of India sheepareused as beasts of burden, and are found to bo capable of carrying from 17 to 25 pounds a day. A Missouri .paper claims that farm era nowadays walk and Bland much tuleUstJhan they did 30 or 40 years ed machinery and more fctheds of farming are cred- jesult. "Sefifehiher ry are, some authorities late, not so tall as those born In tho summer and spring months, and the growth of children Is much more rapid from March till August. The British mint has been busily engaged In coining "farthings. Until very recently farthings have been al most unknown colnB in many, perhaps tho majority, of the British posses sions. They aro only coined to en courage thrift In the colonies. The two sides of a person's face are never alike, according to the Indian apolis News. The eyos are out of lino in two cases out of Ave, and one eye Is stronger than the other In Beven persons out of ten. The right ear Is also, as a rule, higher than the left A barrel Is nailed to a tree on a barren Island In the Straits of Magel lan on tho southern coast of South America, and used as a postoffice. Ships passing there drop their mail in the barrel and It Is taken out and for warded by the next ship which comes along bound In the direction of the let ter's address. Bad fathcra aro rare among birds. Usually the mala rivals his raato In love for their children. The carrier pigeon In fact, so do nearly all birds feeds his mate while she is on the nest. More than that, the crow, the most dismal of birds, often sits on the eggs In tho nest In order that Mrs. Crow may have an hour or so of re laxation and gossip among the other Mrs. Crows of her acquaintance. The blue marten . the black-coated gull, the great blue heron and the black vulture all do the same. A Trick of Imagination. There's a little mental science trick that will teach imaginative persona to acquire a perfect, graceful poise. Dne says "Imaginative" . with Mason, for you have ,to have an Imagination to do it You must imagine that you bear a scintillating star on your breast and a basket of eggs on your head,; "'r- The firat fancy will trnconsdously Influence you to carry your shoulders ilke a military man bent on exhibit ing his gold buttons. The second will teach you to sink Into a chair gently and gracefully, .instead of bunching into It. Also, It will train you to climb stairs erect You can't twist, or bend over, as women usually do la going upstairs, if you have a basat of eggs on your head oven an Imag inary one can you? . So put on the flashing gold star, which is worn to be seen, and set the basket of eggs on your head, and seo what the nombinod fancy will do for your carriage. Philadelphia Bulletin Population of the United States, The census office , estimates ; the present population of the United States at 82,618,000. It Is not Insisted that' the estimate la almoin I nlv acenr- il t ate. It is ' based upon the theory that J the annual Increase of populattonalnce the last cenus would be one-tenth of me uecenniBi increaaB peiween toe last two X censuses. fniladelnbla linger. BIGGEST OF. DIAMONDS. DISCOURSE SUGGESTED BY COVERY OF THE GEM, DI3- A Peril and a Nuisance to Possess, . Teaches to All tho World a Free Lesson In Political Economy, Tho other day a South African mlno manager, cr somebody cf that ilk, happened to seo something 'glenmlng in tho primeval clay belonging to his patriotic and imperial limited liability company. With a pardonsblo curios ity, ho put In his thumb and pulled out tho plum, which turns! out to be the biggest uncut tliaTond In tho world. From thai moment the poor fellow, who had. after all, dono noth ing aniss. bad to be protected by a smnll battalion of police, all of whom doubtless, wanted, liko the rest of hu manity, to murder Mm because be was, throuch no fault of his own, tho victim of singularly unhappy circum stances. Finn!lv, tho diamond was brought to England, Insured for half a milllcn gold sovereigns, and deposited for better or worco In the strong roo n of a bank, where, like tho Russian money bngs, we hope It will bo in rpected by Mr. Henry Normnn, M. I'., nnd other cnternrlafig Journalists'. Presumably it will be sold to adorn tlio swanlike throat or dark love-locks of tome American million-heiress, and rurally, it will end Its career at M ml 3 Carlo, where It will he deposited as se curity for a loan negotiated at the pro- I suicidal pawnshop in favor of s-rno bankrupt duke who so-?a no reason wiy bis imported wife should not wear raste. Now it secrrs to mc that thl3 dia mond is chiefly valuable, not because It Is a Jewel which It Is a peril and a nuisance to possess, but because II teaches to all the world n free lesson In political economy. We are a.'-survd by liOi'tl Mileer that the prosperity of South Africa depends tmon the com panies paying high dividends, which will allract capiinl into t'.ie country. The discovery of thli diamond should mean good dividends, an I et It is preposterous to suggest that South Africa is richer a'Ui the diamond ban been exported than when the diamond lay buried, like Hritif b soldiers. In the sacred enrtli. What has hapttned Is that a certain d"tinlte value has passed from one country, leaving it poorer, to another country, mnkin;; It richer. There has been no "over spill" except the wares paid to Hi" de tectives and one or Iwn railway fnre. Lot Ha suppose that the diamond worth half a million had been a more useful kind of carbon, as, fur Instance. coal worth half a million. The hew ing of that coal would have necessitat ed the payment In wages of say 250, 000 assuming a figure merely for the sake of argument. The margin for dividend would have been smaller by that amount, yet the prosperity of South Africa would havo been greater by that amount, whence we seo that where there are foreign boudbofders tho smaller the proflt awf'tho higher tho wage, the moreer'Bn "over-spill" .wlH bo leftJrHliocountry where the ln'duotry Is carried on. Thus anything like Chinese labor, which keeps up profits and keeps down wages. Instead of developing the country, deprives jt of Its resources and leaves It a desert. The case Is on a par with tho export of rubber from the Congo slave atate. At present that diamond Is sup posed to be in London. The wealth of Ixmdnn is supposed to be greater by half a million pounds a fact which should be a consolation to W'osl Ham. Hut let us suppose that somebody, as, for Instance, Mr. Yerkes, buys the diamond and wears it In his shirt front, with a revolver In each waist cout pocket, chain armor next his skin and the Japanese Ambassador handy with his jlu-jltsu. M. Yerkes, let us hope, goes to the Albert Hall, geU converted and decides to build a garden city for the staff of the District railway. In order1 to do this he has to Bell his diamond to tho richest French man he can find. The Jewel passes across tho channel and immediately there is work in this metropolis for bricklayers, laborers, carpenters and architects. It will at once be apparent that Paris is poorer by the presence of the jewel and that London is richer by its absence. In other words, capital locked up In the luxuries of the wealthy is a curse and capital ro leased for the service of the commun ity Is a blessing. It Is exactly the same with pictures. A Madonna, let us say, is worth 20, 000. This means that somebody -Is paying 1000 a year (5 percent) for the pleasure of possessing that Ma donna. For-the same 1000 it may be that the Madonna Is looked at once by one marquis for Ave minutes; or It may be that the. Madonna, by being placed In the National Gallery, Is looked at by one million Englishmen and five million. American globe trot ters In the course'of a single summer. The pnblic le;. and he private view cost just the same, the only difference being tbat the-glan.e of a marquis Is worth many thousand times as much as the glance of a plebjan (which Is obvtoUB). Now; the difficulty of pop ularizing diamonds lies in the fact that it Is so very hard for many peo ple to see them at the same moment This little bit of bottle glass which Is crer.lng so much fuss Is no good to any one at a distance of more than three feet. It would be useful to bur glars who want to cut window panes, but even In their cape a smaller crys tal would be more convenient. And what of the ladles who will wear upon their hearts this dreadful penalty of past volcanic energy. Think of having the effect of an earthquake lingering In your . -tiara, Not one woman will be the happier or the pret tier or .the gentler because this glit tering eye of a snake baa been un earthed from Its lnlr. Wherever that diamond goes there will Its glint be reflected back lit envious glances at the wearor. If that diamond should come your way, my fair friend, sell It, If no ono will buy It then give It to your worst enemy and pray to bo for- yuur wurei ciiuiuj auu w uu iur- gTen, if 0ur worst enemy won't havo it. bribe her with nil the pocket money you can get out of your hus- band. If, finally, your enemy sends tne it0De back to you by parcel poBt, N then stamp upon It with the beet of your dainty slipper stamp It to povr. der and give the dust to your house maid when she has run out ot Are wood. London Dally News. ANTIQUITY OF FOOTBALL, Played Many Years Ago by Italians, Who Introduced It in Britain. , Did rhodorn football, the ' Rugby game, come to England from the Italy of the renaissance and does Us his tory reach back to ancient Greece? A recent writer snys: 'Trobably not more than a few votaries of Rugby football are aware that we have to thank Florentine athletes for uhe In vention of the game and for its In troduction into Great Britain. Rugby school wR3 founded somewhere about 1!ili7. It was one of the direct re sults of what ha j been called the Flor entine or Tuscan fever In England, which sol In late In the Italian renais sance. Not only did men of letters como over and settle In England's grout centres of learning and ercnte other.-t, but many Florentines versed In Hie theory and practice of pelito cult m o camo as well. Tho game of II caleio came to Florence by way ol (irceec roniethlng of the sort had figured among tlio less important games at Olympin. The principal Florentine ground was the Piazza dl Santa Croce, where, upon the wall ot the Palazzo Glulio Parrigi. is still to be seen the disk from which the line dividing the ground was drawn across tho open square. Tho ball was ol but her, containing an inflated bladder, and, apparently, was the exact size, weight, and chape of tlio Itugby ball of today. "II cnlclo consisted of a friendly contest between two equal fides el playt is, called scbiera azzura and :-cbieia rtissa blues and reds. The number of playcrn vailed according to the she of (he ground or the impor tance of the encounter. In the Piazza dl Sanla Croce tho sides wero 20 to 27 strong; while on the public open sporlM ground at Peretola, they tol ai led as many as 60 each. Originally tho players were required to be of noble or gentle blood, or such as had Rained distinction nnd rank In tile pro. tension of arms. Each man had to IjO of unlik'mlKhed reputation nnd of graceful figure and possessed of ae rumplisheil manners. "In addition to the actual players wire presidents, stands".! bearet.t, Judges, an umpire, pages and other of licinl; all 'without reproach, worthy of t lie city nnd courteous in manner.' The costumes of the players were tight fitting drnwers nnd tunics of silk, with feathered caps, all richly em broidered In gold and silver. Leather shoes were worn. The teams were divided Into four classes: Fonvnr.N, whosa places were near the dividing Iilne nnd whose work was to keep tho nail in hnd the forwards, in order to return lie ball to play; three-quarter backs, 5rr-ere strong kickers and played strnightolMjio ball, and goalkeepers, placed at tho ftapsvpr boundary to stop the ball passing." pw York News. In Old Kentuckyw A representative In WaBtffBfiton tails Ihla ulnrv In llhictrnln "tho at ren. T upus life" as It exists In certain parU of Kentucky; well-to-do farmer once invited an acquaintance from a neighboring town to dlno with him. The recipient ol' this courtesy was a man well known In that region for his general cranki ness and his propensity to use his gun at the least evidence of whnt he con sidered an affront. The farmer, well aware of the touchiness of his guest, with whom, for business reasons, he desired to remain on good terms, al ways kept a wary eye on his visitor. One afternoon the testy Individual, in conversation with his host, re marked: "I can't account for the queer feelings and impulses that come over me at times. Do you know, the first time 1 took dinner here I had as much as 1 could do to master the Im pulse, when one of your sons made a certain remark, to whip out my gun and let go." "Oh, don't you worry about that," said the farmer; "I know all about your little failing In that line. My son Jako was standln' In the hallway just back of you with a shot-gun. You did well to chango your mind. At the first motion toward your hip pocket my son Jake had Instructions to blow daylight through you!" Harper's Weekly. No Fare For Doll Under Three. True kindliness does not abound In any particular place. A conductor on a Rindge avenue car the other day gave an example of how the ordinary things of llfo may be made attractive by the presence of a little kindliness. The car stopped and a little girl car rying a large doll got on. The con ductor came In to collect her fare. The little girl, who was about six years old, handed him a nickel. He looked at It and then at her. : Her ex pression was that ot perplexity. The conductor then leaned down .and asked for her doll's faro.- That .rv qtier.t made the little girl's perplexity even greater. But the conductor quickly asked her whether the doll wasn't over three years old, and to her negative reply he said: 'Oh I I thought she was. and I waa waiting for her fare." Then he smilingly pulled the register strap, and the other passengers who had witnessed the occurrence aomehow or other felt better for this little touch of whlmsV cal comedy. Philadelphia Record. Under Both Flags. ' Not long ago at a Confederal camp firo In New York an elderly man ap proached General Wheeler, who was the guest of honor. "I Want to shake hands with you, General," he said, putting out the on ly one he had. : "Gray or Blue'' laughed the gen eral, grasping It promptly. "Both," was the reply, "I fought with you under the Stars and Bars, and my two boys fought with you under tho Stars aad Stripes." New York Tress. Six . millions pounds of adul terated and harmful foods were de stroyed by the health department ot New York in the last 12 months. THE (PULPIT. BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY Urt. M. W. STRYKER, PRESIDENT CF HAM LTON COLLECE. fiufcdectt Service. nrooUlyn, N. Y.-Dr. M. W. Blryker, President of Hamilton College, Clinton, N.' Y., occupied the pulpit of tho Han son Place M..E, Church lu the nbserice of Ir. Locke, the pastor. Ho preached the following sermon uu "Service:-' My text Is that verse In the twelfth, chapter of the epistle to the Uomnns in which the apostle says that there nr-j some things luml to be understood which the unlearned and the uustnblo wrest to thf!r"on-n destruction. It is Into that Satan often hides In the dark passages gf Hod's word, it is also true that the b.:rdcst tilings to understand ale not lhn.e Hint the intellect has to liunivel nnd explain, but the things Hint concern the deeds. For my part, whoever else may have fouud It hard, I have not found tb ninth chapter of Ko'ioins its hard as the twelfth. Even If I tlHI not do It very well It was easier to think straight limn It Is to be good. II Is n wonderful thing Hint, after all these i 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 j-, reverberating words, that senivh the very heights and depths of ti'? plan of (led that make this letter ko compact up to this point. II all broirtl. ms out in tho mo.st natural fashion Into ndnonislnilive mutters. I notice that tiie thing about the twelfth chap ter is thai it does not say Mliyllliutr about what ive im:.t not doT It Is always true Hint it you ;;ct light in liarlaiej.s will go oit. The way to keep our liearls empty of evil is to till tlieni up lo the brim with f I. We do not ;; ( tile lail.ne.--i i,n of this room witli ii broom, but wiili a match or a spark, l'r. Thomas t'halm.T.s used to s,pe:ik nliout the "expulsive power of the new a ff eel ion." 'I o many i man wiio never amounted to anything He' honest, pure l ive of n true woman lias been an in centive lo linn to make Munelhin;; of himself for her sake; ami whenever the love of tied comes into tho human heart it drivis out evil and peeks to elolhe itself wilh living anil loyal no I 'on ; a nil it' I here is any one ho thinks Hie deed is easy and the doctrine hard, that is not my experience. I want lo speak to-ni;hl upon this special .ninieiiltion to sin lct' which I'.'.iil snvs is r a- 'liable, lonl does j not ask iinyiliiiiu' that Is not rational. ; I ' 1 1 1-; - i : i mty aril i.io.Mi'iii living can give :h''oiiiiI ii them 'les. Tin re ix I i.'Slho so llly as to be a slum r. It leakcs am;, is weep ami d-vils l.iitgh 1 lo v :i man In Oil; lo movo tloil ami . biiM-tit". 'I hat i'i.iii is waikim; mtrlli : ami s.iolli; i; i. a sii.iddl". N"v Paul ' f.ijs il is a teas oi aid" vr ice. lie 1 said, try il. pat it lo the p;.i.if. and be I was an expert who hail tried it for 1 thirty yens. I am 'Uni; to take one i Kiecinl line of .'inal'cjy. You have ' often heard il said of a mar of intense j activity Unit he was a "perfect sliain j engine," nial lliat would be said more i often If there were tie re men who were w hat they ought to be. "a perfict steam oiiiriio'," 1 think there Is a ser I nion lit that, fuiil '. am going to try J to get a it. You will help. Vmi will I think a great many thin ;s which I , won't and pi each a S'Tipmi lo y ! , il I selves tiboiit beiii'.t p-rfeet steam cn- glue?. For our present purposes we will talk ahem that pi rlieular slyle of sie.ini engine, the railway locomotive. America is doing a great business In making tlusp. nnd wherever H sent Africa or Soulu-An every one of Ihein is a nry force, a llv ttl'CC mill- Fk fie-! and cleu more eonim manhood. Th and sinew nnd Tl tlio service of Hod limping or loitering. Look out upon tills wor how tloel Is compressing nul it together. If we won't tiirji Gospel In the missionary ship, It s go In tho warship. Somehow men ar going to be brought together. We are n couceltcd lot, we Americans, but we do not like to be told so. We have a good thing, and liko to keep It. We sny ot the Chinese, "shut them out; put them aside." And perhaps of some others, nisei, "Don't Irt those good-for-liothlng Russians, Poles mid Italians coine." ltless jour heart! Your great grandfather or grandmother was noth ing but an emigrant mine wns a Dutchman, nt that. We tire all the children ot Immigrants; we are all in truders on this continent. The only Americans are not now cltixens, but live on pensions. We have stolen cv eiyihliiK they hart that was In sight. You lind better not talk about tbat. Cod's plan Is to keep the races of this world marching and moving. Yet, somehow, some onmiot get It through their thick heads, their gold-plated heads, their noddles, hard with cruel ambitions and paltry pride', that when Ihe Scripture says, "Ho mat.o of one blond nil nations," it means what it says. If you won't learn it by peace you will learn It by war; If you won't learn it in Bibles, you will learn' It by bullets; If you won't learn it in packed Europe and Asia and go there, God will brlns those people here. Let them come. I laugh at all thin talk about checking Immigration. King Canute might just as well have tried to throw back Ihe waves with bis mandate. Ia a certain sense it Is proper to say that Cod Is a mighty utilitarian. It is a great liuie for service; we need to wake up, it tvns nearly daylight, it Is dawn, great things are coming. Therefore, I think that our churches, colleges, schools and homes ought to engage in the manufacture of locomotives. That wonderful, Intricate engine- who made It? Did a baby locomotive grow up Into that great nrnelilnct . You say It Is evolution. Evolution de scribes the way a thing Is made, but never made anything. The process of making Is evolution, If you ask ma If I believe God made this world by process, I say yes. That is the Way, He makes everything When Ue makes anything that can grow He Elves It a chance to grow. Ills plans are made and I don't care whore He began I I care more for where He ends. You say it took a long while. Yes, the larger the pattern, the larger the plan. Our steam engine is a fine instance of evolution. It is man's creation and it represents his Creator's idea and ln tendon. It is a wonderful epitome 6f mind working for an intended end: of a purpose perfected by thought. And I your bodies? They just bappenedl i The f team engine had to be made and you nro an accident? A mnsler me chanic ami 'design ft,' ho is mere chance? Do not think it. Where la our reason? God Is back of this adap tation, this mighty thing that we call lfte. ..'Our purposes are the service. That Is first. -': And. second, your perfect steam en gine Is KSde. with, a purpose. . Tho railroad company owns It. They em ploy an engineer to rrin It. , Now In a sense It is his; it is his to use nnd ion trot, but it Is not his to sell. It Is , Ills Vto take care of nnd to get as much as lie can out of, but In no other way. But if he takes a notion that he can run IN the whole road and Ignore schedules, and orders then very soon from blm will he taken even 'that which he seemed to have. Now, we do not own our bodies these engines. We are the' epsriiieers, but not the ewners. My body Is mine only In n rebuke sense. I nm to give nfconnt for ft. You lay,1 "May not ti man do what he will with bis own?" Certainly... If you own anyi thing. Whnt Is the engine for? In "k at? No. for use. Is It made to be destroyed? If so It might just na well b made of wood nnd pnlnt or n ilimimi endue. Tome men are SHcb 'hry look like Hie real thing, but they do ii"! net 'like it. You have seen a ned 'I engine under n glass case; that vnu wind up. The wheels go. but th ii'-'ine 'no. not. The wheels work i'i!y b-tnuse they don't touch the Iraek. I have seen some inrn nnd I suppose there are sntuo women, who ire wound up with keys. The wheels htv.z. hut (here Is nothing done. There it? people who sit In n theatre, nnd the tears run down their cheeks, nnd they think they are good because thfy can cry. They pay 5 LSD for the privilege of weeping. We all knew how we smooth ourselves when a tear comes. We fe-l pciiKcut and toty, "We are not so bad as we thought." It Is n toy engine, Hie wheels go, but It does not advance. A nerfectonglno Is meant to do soineHiln;; in the world, and so are we if omiplrd to the task flirt Ood gives rs. Home people don't want to poll, they want to be pulled. You always see a (lend eus-ine In (he middle of n irein. which end of the train do you like, the front or somewhere in the middle? (,'od Rive us the front, wilh nil ils dangers .mil perils nnd love. IVrf.vl engines gel hold of the track, fliilers co-no wilh lightning rapidity I" Ihe engiii""!'. an. I lli"v must be ''"veil without ooi stion. The respon sibility for the orders is not wiili him, bis I" -spie ibilitv is to I'Xi'clllo them, linl '-a-i 'mi this wio-lil. but lie" has pot ii into your Ii. mils to run your - ir. Wli-n jon .-lop at Hi end of Hie r " I no i an be pe'-fc ih i e'. iain that if Hi ' ov oigci are too 1'iivy to lake in. lice of j ,., j on w ill tint tie forgotten by I';" 1111" reee r. '. II, I ha c mied il. The cogbieer an. I the engine lo K Iber I Is.-1 is tic w ay we are. We 1'iv b,. en gin. V. s ' We are ergl- i . I k.'M.i at the en set, " oil Hi" '"'''I".'.," I Hunk there Is aoi! :'v in it. 1 thin! there 'A a bv ': g parable f"i H:"-e w ho have is ."ii, I K'-iec-ilillii v V Ves, '' ( il. i'-'i!. thee, who wiM shirk il'' t in--, r? l'I"ii;y. too i.ii area '". W.'i'.'' V. . but Hcil is all y.oi . fT' v e are ii-o oi i-'e for nothing. i' t Hie i''. KM woii hand on .. Hindi' . le ikine; II b-'-t tone, 'bin af.-l.'. that a ma'i can make. 1" r:.!i o .r the ill iiig wheel. . i i v. ii. -e the le -t ni-oi have al-iv- - '. I !e o. by il' I b . w ! 1 1 -ii this .ii.e is . . i n oat, yi u:ll get a tti DEATH AS IN LIFE. Bodies In Cemetery Grouped Accord ing to Religious Affiliations. An ancient custom still prevailing In many old burial grounds was do- sciihed recently by a Richmond gen tleman who has tracii huw. near some Hethoiilfcirv the wife's body wentralfttng StJ,"st hHors. In that way the fas, were scat lercd hit her and yen, -and the same oame wcurred, perhaps, five or six 'Imes In ono graveyard." Lewiston lourual. Only Camel Statue. . This la probably the only statue In which a camel figures that has ever been made. It Is of General Gordon, who perished In the Eouduu, mounted tin tho "ship of tho desert," and was the ork of the late Onslow Ford. Afler having been set up In London It Vx , r 'Il " ki , f jf Vfrii was transported to Khartoum, Whert It mirks the spot, where "Chinese' Gordon to tragically perished. (, ' -.- A Trua Snake Story. ;; , ; "The affair happened on Saturdal night," says the Bulawago Chronicle, "In a room on the outskirts of Rayl ton. Four card players were Intent on a game of whist and the window was open to allow of some fresh air, Suddenly, out of tha darkneti, Ave foot of black mamba' hurled . itself through the open window into the room. For a moment every on? was paralyzed, and then oni of the occu pants Belied hold of the most bandy woapon and flung It at the Intruder. It happened to be a water bag and tho snake received a cold douche, which was evidently sot to lit liking, for it vanished just as suddenly as It had come, by the . same route, r A search . of the premises discovered tho creature In an adjoining room, but It again made ita escape, and, as the police would say, la 'still at large. j. m wpv(ji i in )t ii r i 1 .iS STRANGE TRICKS OF HELPLESS . i ANIMALS. ( Instinct of ' Self-Preservation Causes Them to Use Deceit Instead ; of Courage. -..'.'' ' : There, are a surprising number ot Quaker animals- animals whose re gular method of self-protection la to offer no resistance to their enemies. The 'possum's trick of "shamming, dead" Is an old story, A writer in tho London Spectator cites several other, cases of combined cunning and meek ness. The hedgehog, the porcupine, the Australian echidnas and some of the armadillos refuse to fight, but they are protected by sharp spires or armor. Some of the armadillos are great dig gers and take refuge In holes, while porcupines often bide In hollow logs or trees. ; Among marine animals is a starfish, often called the "brittle star," which Is the despair of collectors. It seems to make It a point of pride that none , of its family shall be shown In a hot- tie or on a museum sht. When tak- , en from the water this starfish throws off Us legs and also Its stomachs. The story is told of ono collector who thought that he had succeeded In coaxing a specimen Into a pail only to see It dismember Itself at the last moment. W. H. Hudson describes the death feigning habits of a small South Af frlcan fox common on the pampas. If caught In a trap or overtaken II col lapses as If dead, and lo all appear ances Is dead. "The deception Is so well carried out that dogs are con stantly taken in by It. Winn one withdraw s a 111 I U- way from a feign ing fox and watches him very atten tively a slight opening of the eye may be delected Finally, when led to himself, he does not rei ovi r nnd start, up like an animal that has b-'eu stun ned, but slowly ate I cautiously raises his head first and only gcis up when his foes are at a distance. I was once rliiing with a ganoid win n we saw en the r,ru level, gnmnil in front or us a fox not yet full Tfxmn. s.iiiadin still and winching our ai'iunacli All at once it dropped, ami when we emit! up lo the spot it waa lying stretched out, nitb eyes clos-d and apparently dead. H'dme passing on. my com panion, w iio rai l It was not the first. Hme that he had seen sin h a thing, lashed it vieoroii ly wilh his whip for some iiioiinnts without producing Hio slightest fleet." Docs show nuii h lb" Mime tendency when they lie down meekly, wilh their heads down and l.uls lucked in. and invite a lo anni;. I'upph a are just as good ai this as harili in d veterans. Some kinds of lu etics, many of the woolly caterpillars which have poison ous hairs on their hacks and numer ous spiders adopt similar luetics lOveu the weed louse has the .siime trick, and rolls itself inlo a ball. In the whole animal kingdom, If Intrruns away, there Is always run lously. "Nope." "Any Inattention?" "Quite the contrary. "Rough treatment?" "No, hang it! That's Just the trou-.:. ole. He's too gentle. Treated me as . though I were a baby. Hardly felt the touch of the razor on my face, and he put on the bay rum and toilet wat er as though I were made of some de licate fabric. "When I get shaved I want to feel that I am being shaved. This dainty, featherweight business doesn't go for me particularly when I've been sit ting up late and need to get the blood to circulating." "Well, some folks is hard to please," said the proprietor as the steady pat- . ron left the shop. New York Press, '. Walt Till It Dries. Father Graham, as everybody In the Village called him, was one of the old-. fashioned gentlemen of whom there are so few left now. He was beloved by everyone, and bis influence In the little town was great, so good and ao active was he. A good map of the village had been badly Insulted and came to' Father Graham, full of angry Indignation, de claring that he was going at once to demand an apology. - ' mm' "My dear boy,".. Father Graham said, "take a word ot advice from an old m(in who, loves peace. An insult is like, mud; It will brush off much better, when It Is dry. Walt a little tllj he and you are both cool and then you cii depend upon It the thing Is easily mended. It you go now, It will nly be a quarrel."'-.. ::.. k Thought. e '; y I .wish cities would teach their best lesson of quiet manners. It Is the foible especially of American youth pretention. The mark of the man of the world Is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; be takes a low business tone, avoids all brag. Is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs hit tact He calli bia employment by Ita lowost tame, and so takes from evil tongues, their sharpest ,weapon. From Emer son's Essay on "Culture." A Question Decided, . "Which," said the man who used to belong , to a debating society, "exer cises the greater lpfluence love .f reward or fear ot punishment?" "Love Of reward." answered th" member of the grand jury. ". every Investigation of graft t-! that the fear of punishment Is m . i ly In evidence at Washing' Star. , - ' I onvlh
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