The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-08
for ThE ARKANsAw TRAVELLER.
 WON'T DO.
BY GUY TRANSOM.

There is one real drawback against calling it "sheol." There are so few words that will rhyme with it. Real, is the only one can think of now. What a field of rhymes has not the genuine old fashioned name got. Scarcely a single letter of the alphabet but begins word that jingles to hell, and what picnic old time hymn writers had. If they found themselves running short of rhymes all they had to do was terminate line with the obsolete name of the internal regions and then end the next one any way that it chanced to come out, and nine out of ten it would rhyme. If the new name usurps the old, all the fine birthstone flavor will be taken out of our hymn books. How would that grand old an them
 And are we sinners yet alive,
 And do we still rebel
 lis only by amazing grace
 That we are out of he'll"
 Sound if metamorphosed thus:
 And are we sinners yet alive,
 And still refuse to spiel
 Iris only by amazing grace
 That we are out of sheol."
 By little contortion of the pronuncia- tien squeal might be substituted for spiel. But it will not do to dilute the old name. No word can be invented with the same positive qualities. There can be none 50 direct. There is something so everlast. ingly final about it that no other word or words can convey. Telling a man to go to sheol, is like asking him to step aside. But when the good old name is used, language can go no further. All our church hymns must be revised to suit the new name, or in course of time the ques- ton will be asked, "What in sheol is hell?' Transpose that to-day and it is horrid profanity.
 l feel deeply in this matter, for what possibilities may not be attached to it 2 For instance, Mir. Beecher, in his gener- ous moments, went so far as to say, there is no he'll" Suppose in his dota ge he wants to go back in his unbelief, all he has to do-and not commit himself is to say, " do believe in sheol."
 l am glad the revisers let the devil alone, and did not give him the stage name of Devili," or "Satani." It would have taken all the "joy and loveliness 1" away from earth. There is vim and wickedness about the name Satan that bears the same relation to language that cayenne pepper does to seasonings, and the old gentleman must feel grateful tn at after knocking the immortal soul out of his habitatien they jeff him ali the terror of his name. Although a king without a kingdom, he is still king.
 kind of like the devil-that is. when you call him devil-he is associated with the batter or the rain on the garret roof meath which my childhood passed. I like it for the same reason that like |" Jack, the Giant Killer" and ether be- lieved-in heroes of my youth. His name never scared me. He always seemed like an cratic old gentleman that would "give me showing" if l had the op- portunity to explain my juvenile eccen- tricities to him, that is, to make my own defense when called beiore him, at least. I thought he would not have the heart to roast me for |" a billion and billion of years" just because had said gosh y Good old devil! When in a few hundred years more another set of revisers" get hold of you they may not be so liberal as those who have gone before, and you may yet have the humiliation of being reduced to the ranks, for even you. my chum. may be too strong in the nostrils oi future generation.