The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-03-26
hln with a thousand arts. They seized

the rocks, like ship lull-wingcd, shiv.
crIrT on the breakers. used to admou-
iSh i'm, l would say, "Now | wish YOU
Wo: Id quit these bad habils, and become
4 { wistian." "Oh," he would reply.
81 would like to; would like to; but
llaV3 gone so lar | don't think there IS
any way back" In his mGments of re-
pcn;auce, he would go home and take
his little girl ofciGht years, and embrace
her conrulaiycly, and cover her with
ad"rnmcntS and %trcw around hcr pic
lures and toys, and everything that
could make her happy: and then, as
though bounded by IN evil spirit, he
would go out to the cnlamins cup and
amt the house Of shame, like fool TO
the correction Of the stocks.
| was summoned to his dcath-bcd.
hastcncd. entered the room. | found
hun, to- my surprise, lying in full every
day dress on the couch. put out my
hand. He Graspcd il cXcitcdly, and
SAID, "Sit down, .,Ir. Talmagc; right
THERE" | sat down. He said, Last
night saw my mother, who has been
dcHI twenty years, and she sat Just
where you SIT row. IL was no dream.
| was wide awake. There was no dclll-
sion i'll the matter. | saw her Just as
plainly aS see y0lI---Wiic, wish you
WO'iG take these strings of Of me. There
arc strings spun all around my body. !
wish You would take them OIL of me -
! Saw il was dclirium. "Oh," replied
his wife, my dear, thclr Is nothin :
thcrn.' He wcnt on and said, ".Jusl
where You sit now, MIR. Talmagc, my
mother sat. She said to nc: 'IIcnry,
q" wish you would do bcttcr.' | rot
ont oi he'd, lll: my arms around her, and
SAL. 'MloLhcr, | want TO do better. |
hay" been trying TO do better. Won't
YOU hcIp me 10 do better: You used to
hcIn me- No mistake about it, no de-
lu>jun. saw hri--thc cap and the
apron and the sprctaclcs. lust as she
USED to look twenty years agO:-but [
Il" wish YOU would take these strings
away. IhrY annoy me so. | can hard
~ talk. Won't you take them away"
| knclt down and prayed, conscious of
Tn" :act that he did not realize what |
va saying. got up. said. "GooI-
hV"; / mop" you viii he better soon"
IL" said. "Go"d-hyc. "uol-byc."
| hat ni-ht his soul wrni TO the God
Wh"%aNc IL. Arrangements were maric
lnr ;hr ub%rVlUC~. Some said. "DOn't
hrIuG HIM IN the church: hc was too dis
s"lutr.' "Oh,' ! said. "briny him.
lie was 4 GOOD friend OF mine while he
War alive. anl Shall stand by him now
lhHt he is dead. Bring him to the
church,"
rs sat in the pulpit and saw lis body
coming up through the aisle, ! felt as if
v"u.u weep tears OF biool. told the
people that day. "ThiS man haL his vir-
/ Ur' :. ami good many OF them. He
!a' hia faults and Il good many OF thcm.
iu..li there i, amy man in this audience
wi" IS without sin, let him cast the first
Stone 1T THIS co!liu~lid.' On one side
thr pulpit sat that little child. rosy,
%wcrt-!accd. rs beautiful IS any little
rhl'd tilat sat ut your table this morning.
warrant you. She looked UP wist!ully,
not Knowing The iul! sorrows O! an or
ri&n child. Oh. her cOuntCnancc haunts
me t"-daN. like some sweet face looking
Wnh Us through Il horrld dream. On
tn" other side y! the ulpit were the men
VIII had destroyed him. There they sat.
hari-NiSaGcd, some OF them pale from
cNiHNNtluT disease. some Of them flush
"d Untll il seemed rs il the fires Of ini-
IM'N ItamcI through the cheek and
cr"rklcd lhc lips. They were the men
whn had done the work. They were the
men who had hound him hand and foot
Tlrv had liindlcd the fires. They had
poured the worinwuod and ~all into that
"rpnan'S cup. Did they weep: no.
Dill they Si"h rrnrnlin@lv : No. D:d
they Say, Nv hat u pity that such Il brave
m;u S!!ould b" slain:n no, no:uot one
hI"HtrN hand WAS lifted 10 wine a tear
from Il blOatcd cheek. They sat and
!"oHcI at the coffin like vultUrcs ~aZln..
1T t'c carcass q: lamb whose heart
they had ripped ont. cried in their
ears ~ plainly aS | could "rnrrc is 4
GuI and 4 fundamentally :" Did they
rcmblC: Oh no. 10. They went back
lrom the hcu>" O.. God. and that nirht.
though their victim iuV in Oak wood
GENE cry. was told that 1hcy BIAS
pMrmcl. and they drank. and they uam-
b!c;, and there WAS not one less custom
or ii all the houses OF iniquitv. This
destroyed man was Il Samson in physi-
cal strength. but Dclilah shcarcd him,
Hl'' inc ih'I'N''hcS Q! eviI companlonShlp
t.