Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-03-29

"aZcna, but not 4 wagon II tie ely %
ta- front steps Of mansions the word "e
come in Latin, but no human t,jG :
greet US, The only boie~ y u "t
the citizens that We saw were rc..lt
and in the museums at tie rate ..
the thirty-fvc thousand Terr- WI
once lived in those homes ard aer. h.,sl Il
those temples and clappcc N tE8~at 10,
not one left For eighteen l4n1r.1 Il
Tat city Of Pompsii had been buried t-\re
modern exploration :coor q olt g. ! IT, laka |
of VesuviuS Wei. he "ho shenitt -. p1-
mittej to return on the PATHWAY y i,
earthly lie and live i Over aga.a "aaii I'D
- lonely and sad q pil-rifna2e. II = yA-
autumn when the bfrds migrate E9l .aea 1p
and see the sky black With Fxlngs AM t1e
hocks stretching out into many lcag4es u
ar. and 90 today | lool; up AMI - NC
Fcrooi mouse, the olc church, tLa oil home,
the old play ground either gone 9r e~cClrlei
by others. and for YOU more dapres-ing nan
was our Pompeian visit n November
Beside that, would you wnrt - rioa he
temptations Of life over again. rom ta-
fact that YOU are herr conc.ndctka Though
in manv respect. vpur life ma hate Teen
unfortunate and uncohscefatel Won hase -,
on - far tolerably well if nottein more tnaH
tolnra hln. As e.. n yself though IN. Lie 4e~
.een Ter ron be3ng n C9us-cratel as
would ike to have had II. | uoall rot SAINT
~ try il over again. lest next I'm. / Hel'l 10
worse. Whv. ju.t look al thet ,pptari3n~ vr
have all passed through and : looi a tie
mulntudes who have gone completely un1ef.
Just call over the roll Of your school mates
and college mates. the clerks VIII were With
You IN the same store or bank, or the opera
tives in th~ " -~.orv with iust a rood
prospects as you. VINO maze ONE ~ complete
mI-hap. Some young man that Itcld You
that he was going II be q millionaire AMI
own the fastest %tro+terS Oh W. h"stcr turn
pix" and retire by thetlT. va thlftv-tiVr
years Of age, you do not hear from lor many
years. and know nothing n 9.t MIN until
some day he comes int" your sto~e and asks
for five cents TO get a mr. !, OF beer. You, the.
good mother of "A household aud all YOUR
children rising up to call you blessed, can re-
member when YOU We're quite Jealous Of the
belle Of the village who was 50 tran,caudly
fair aDd popular. But While YOU have these
tWn hDnorab bic and lleenly names OF wife and
mother, she became q poor walt Of the street,
and went into the blackne>S Of darkness for
ever. Live life over again Why il many
of those who are now respectable were
permitted to experiment the next
Journey would be demolition. Noe
got through, AZ Job says, by The skin Of the
teeth, Next time You might not getthrough
1t all. Satan would say: j know him now
better than | did before, and haze for fifty
ears been studying his weaknesses, and /
Will weave a stronger web Of circumstances to
catch him next time Aud Satan would
coicenter his forces on this on" man, and ffe
last state of TINT man would he worse than
the first. Nv friends, our faces ara in the
right direction Better go forward then
backward, even If we had the choice. The
greatest disaster can think Of wouIl
lie for You to return to bovhool IN 1870. GA.
II life were a smooth Luz"rne or Cayrga Lake.
| would like t. get into a yacht and sail over
it, not once, but twiCe-,ea Il thousand
times. Bnt life l. an uncertain >si, anl
! some ri thu ships crash on the icebn:.S Of
cold indifference, and some taketirf OF ~
passion, and some lose their BEARINGS andr-I
into the Skerrles. and some are never had
of. Surely on such o treacheerots sea rs that
one voyage IS enough.
Besides all this, do Won know Il yetl could
have Your wish and live life NIer again it
would put YOU SO much fnrthcY ~frohl]rrun-
ION with Your friends in heaven2 ffA~TTT ne
in the noon of life or the evening of life YOU
are not very far from the golden gate at
which you are to mnet your transported and
emparadlScd loved ones. You are now, let
rs say, twenty years or ten years or one year
on from celestial con junction. Now suppose
you went back in your earthly life thirty
years or forty years or tiftv wears. what an
awful postponeinent of tn- time Of lcltnion,
1t would be az though YOU were t-tit,g to San
Franclsco to a great BANQUET. and Won got to
Oakland, four or five miles this side VI It .ana
then came back to Hoboken or Harlem 10 get
II better start. as though Won were gong
to England to be crowned AMI having come
IN sight "f the mountains OF Wales
YOU pat back to Sandy Hook III order
- make a better voyage. The further
on You got IL life, if a Christian, the
nearer You are to the renewal Of hrokefl
up C0mpanlonShip M; the wheel ~
time turns in the RIGHT direction. AMI il is
we'll 1t turns 81 fast. Three hundred M
siItv-hve reyalntiuns in a wear and for.
ward faftnr f1,, tIr1o l,L,l 49,
sixtv five revolutions in a year nn1 hack
ward. But hear We hear We! While ! tell
YOU how YOU may practically live your life
over again and be all the better for ii. you
may pnt INTO the remaining wears nt
Your life all you have learned OF wisdom
IN your past life. You may max" IL.
coming ten wears worth the precal
lng forty or fifty years When a man say
tie would like to live his life over a-ain tie
cause h~ WOULD do So much better, and VT
goes right on living as he has ALWAYS lived.
Ito YOU not see he s~tultities himself II.
proves that If he could go back Ire would 4
almost the same as he has done. II a uai
eat green apples some Wednesday in cholera
time and IS thrown into fearful cramps an.
says on Thursday Il wish | had been more
prudent IN my diet; oh. If | could live elne>
day over again and then on Friday oats AZ
pies lu>t As green, he proves that il voul,
have been no advantage for MIN Ia liz,
~oA AIM II W, II AI34
ing onr past life and with the idea OF i'm
rrovement, long for an opportunity 70 fry j
over again. yet 20 on making the SAME ms
takes and committing the same sins, we onl,
demonstrate that the repetition Of our exist
ence would afford n Improvement. It va
green apples before and II would h
green apples over again. As soon as a ehi,
captain strikes a rock IN the lake or Saa h
reports il and n buoy Is swung aver that raa
and marines henceforth stand off from
that rock. And all our mistake
IN the past ought 10 be buoys warning Il, t
keep III the right channel. There is 80 *
ruSe FOR Us II We split on the same roe
where We split before. Gong along til
sidewalk at night where excavations are l.,
ing made. We frequently >ee a lantern 0n
framework, and W. turn aside. Tor that Ian
tern saws. keep out OF this hole. Ana 4
, along the pathway If life lanterns arr set a
warnings. and by the time We cense - me-
lie W. oushtto know where ii is SAFE taNal
5, and where II Is unsafe.
(, Beside that, we have all rhe-e Years Ice
learning how 70 be useful. ani tl The rgx
Geca4e we ought to ACCOMPLISH laNra .ar 10
ana u" cnurch and the wCrIi tuan N ~
previous -four decades. The best way I
atone tor past Incidence or past trans-re,