The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-10-25

est characters In history, and the blble ~
fine greatest possible deception" ana
then shot himself. David Hume wrote
these words: at would be no crime Tor
me to divert the Nile or the DANUBE rom
its natural bed. mere, ,mv", y, y. 1-e sL-e
crime in me diverting a few drops or
blood from their ordinary channelF"
And having written the essay bo loaned
it 70 friend, tho friend read it, wrote
iottor Of thanks ard admiration and SHOT
him self; appendix 20 the same DooA.
Rousseau, Voltairc, Gibbon, Montaigne,
under certain circumstances, were apollo
getic for sclf-imm0latiou. luhdeiity puts
up D" hnr Z" people rushing out OF this
world into the next They teach MS it does
not make any difference how you live
here or 60 out Of this world. you viii land
either in an ohliyirus pOwNrrc ~ 81
rior" Somewhere And iutilelity holds
the upper end Of the rope for the suicide,
and aims the pistol with which mau
blows HI. brains ont, ana mixes the
etrychuinc for the last swallow. II inf.
dclIty could carry the day 0ud persuade
tho majority of people IL this country
that u docs NOT make any liT"ronGo to-g
! : "G . out or tie world you will land
! safely, the HuIson and the East rivers
would be So full Of corpses the ferry
! boats would hc imyeded il Ethcir progress,
and III eTa.E "t r1'"i'c'E TI-tcl "o@lG
=, 40 more alarming than the rumble o.
street car.
I have sometimes heard 1t discussed
whether tho great dramatist was q Chris
t.an or moi. | do no. know, but know
that he considered appreciation OF a fut-
ute existence ~" mightiest mndraDea to
elf destruction
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T,qr o,,ro,sor'. vr,r,-,. 'hr proud mans con
tunn}v.
Tn pans Of d.spi,'d love. the laws delay,
/ III jueolnnec ot Office, an f., the spurns
! Ihat patient merit @: the unworthy taxes
" mh.h ne i'iL'', Il. ~ ms qH tI"s n'H'
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! S'H' ice. II lHe presence o NoH anu
+ '.hg'.2 auU li!'H' s'''id q Z, 'Hou Hi'H'.Si y. y
! iHF| AP bl5t''eu WIN p.asi,H' ny u!
/ 'Haeh .caFFei NIlH i"9'' my ~ 1''n ''u'
! NItA II" cor !uph 81 '-eN' ''"Hu up
/ Nalft' h,thF H"t'' ""H1'r3 o. INC H'l'oAS'
! l'Ftf O td' Ceh'ui teH H'uH" 'f' 'Eou
monster lhni@ilty fart hl"h' p'i
/ PaAu'rE' PERI fePllie' p'rl uF"g|H' S'an"
/ up and 'aEe my sentence any h"nu'
/ rcd WIN NE h."oa III "hlGH inc" Ha7'
! Nash'a, 'AN l"@t cT!nls"h WIN 'iie h"Ila,'
, gore thr"3Sh Mh.ch mo" IaS' Naoeu'
/ Staui up AMI lah' tIy sentence: bo"H
WIN thee 70 the Hlt ana sup on tEe s"ps
"ha &roahS o. t2lnliIes 'n"u hast oI"Sleu'
, '.la roH on III" btu ol KNIVES lhou htS'
, Sh&EPeNea I"r olAeES' ana let my must
. be the eVeri"SuhS lAlsefere OF those
. Wh"m tn"u hi@l o&MiAeu' pr"nu ih'
, forehead o1 IhnueII'Y WIN al lAe CEInIts :
/ OF -4lhAo-tl"h !oF me 4"9t century y
! on 'hH part OK uitS' WI" Hal thHlF reason
sly .f.'na-, II ever your llte throuSh us
hbra~'"A5 ana us n.ol"stauonS shonld
! seem 10 be unbearable, md You are
l. '''l - ' 'i'''N - '' > ''-
not consider yoHrSet as worse lhan
! others. Christ himself was tempted tc
+ cast H'm'elf from The rooF OF the temple,
but "S lilo sisted, So resist We. ChTlst
, came to melIrinr ail our wounds. In
( your trouble | prescribe NE instead OF
death. P"opl" VINO have had l. worse
. tn1u YcT VIII ever have Il, nave gone
! son&:ul ON tae way. Remember that God
/ keeps the chronology OF your NE Wllh as
much precision rs lie keeps he chFonoIo-
G. o: nations, yo1r de2tA as vel! as your
cradle.
Why YVES Z that at midnight Just at
milnIght, the destroying angel struck
! tie bow that Sej the lsracllte5 free from
! bondage: Ino four hundred ana thirty
! years We're up az twelve O'Clock that
! night. The four hundred and thirty years
! We're not mp 1t eleven, and one O'Clock
! uId nave n"en tardy ana 100 I"'e' Inc
! toHr hunared ana thl:'y years were up "t
/ t"e4Fe 'IoCk ana me ueSt'oy IuS anger
/ STRUCK me Dow ana lsr""i was AIoe'
! Ana Hod knows just th9 houF Wneh II -
! TIME 10 I".t You up rom ear.Aiy oonu
! age. % ms &F"co lli1"e not INT WIS
OF tAihSs' D'I 'he o'S' o. ihrH' you
must lake the pms GO ""' c'i9" IHo:.I' lt
Your eVeri"sln% rewards VIII aceoIa WIZ
/ your car'hlY p1r'urp@.I'IS' JuSt - Snl"'
gave 10 AGilPPa a cA9lA Oh SoI" "s hc"Ey
as hau pttn . oha!Ao Io"' Pof 'IAo ASH
lhg-"hu 40 hoI AHo" - "no'n ePe"H
III lillS august ass ''li''''S7' D"U ',to "oi' i
may oe espec'a.'F "Pp'oi''l"''-1 YOU
ASKING you Ill " I"'n '4c sa'n' sLI0o 'l"'
! was gwen 10 the Il@llad ndFtyr' -'ReIluH'