The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-11-14


but anyhow snd anyway you make 1t, 1t
IS awful.
Ou steamboat wharf ard al rail car
window We may smile whsu We say
farewell, tu. these gooioYs st the death
bed, they just take hold Of the heart
with ron pirchers and tear i. ou.. by the
roots until ali tie Gbeys eu!var aua curl
ia the torture and drop thick bioos.
These separaticrs are wine presses into
which our hearts, ike rsi clusters, are
thrown, snd then trouble turns the WIND
lass rcuud aud round uall we are utter
ly crushed end have 40 more capacity
to suffer, and we step crying because we
have wept ali cur tears.
On every street, at ev'rV coorstep,
bv ever ccuch, there hsvs been ps1s
ines. Bot opce past the heavenly port
ais, and you are through with suchscsnes
forever. In that land there se manV
hand clasp;pes and eubrac:rss, but only
10 recognition. That great nome clrc'e
never bresks. Occ. fad your comrades
there. apd y,u have them forever. No
Grape floats from the door OF that bliss
full residence. No cleft hillside where
the dead sleep. AL awake, vide awake
and forever No pushing ont OF emil
grant ship fartorsign shore. No tollIug
OF bell as The funeral passes. Whole
generations IN glory. Hand to hand,
hes-t t. heart, joy to jry. No creep
ing up he limbs Of the death CALL, the
feet cold until DO. 4 ,pnele cannot wsrm
them. No rattle If sepu!chral gates.
No parting, no pin.
Further, the hesveply city wl'l have
no psin OF body. The r'c, is pierced
with sharp olstresses. Tee surgeons
knife must cut. The dentists prirchers
must pull. Pain is fought with ps,a.
The void is g hospital. Scores OF dis
eases, like vuliares conterdlog tor 9
carcass, struggle as 10 which shall have
il. Oar natures are Infinitely suscepti-
ole 10 suffering. The eve. the foot. the
hand, with immense capacity of anguish.
The lit,ls child meets at the entrance
of life manifold dlseasss. You hear the
shrill cry OF infancy as the lancet strikes
into the swollen gun. You $40 its head
toss in consuming fevers that take more
than half of them into the dust. Old
sge passes, dizzy and weak and short
oreathed ahd dim sighted. On every
northeast wind come down pleurlsles
and ppeumoniss. War lifts its sword
and hacks away the life of whole genera
uons. The hospitals OF the earth groen
into the ear Ct God Their complaint.
Asiatic cholerss aad chip teVers and
typhoid and London plaques make the
worlds knees kncck together.
Pain tss gone through every street
and up every ladder and down every
shaft. Il Is on The wave, on the mast,
on the beach. Wounds from clip Of ele-
plants tusk and adder's sti.g and cro-
codile's tooth and horses hoof and
wheels revolution. We gather up the
infrmities OF our parents and transmit to
to our children the inheritance augment.
ed by our own slcknesses, and they add
to them their own disorders, to pass the
inheritance to other genera1ioas. Ia A
D. 262 the plague 10 R)ms sm ote toto
the DUST S ZOO clsiz.ns daily. 10 534
10 Cons.aatlnop)s 1000 grayediggers
we're not enough 20 bury the dead. In
1918 ophthalmis seiz.d the whole P:us.
sian army. A. tlnes the earth has
sweltered with suffering.
Ccuat up the pains OF Austeili!z,
where 10000 fell; Of Foatenoy, where
100 600 tell; of Cnslons, where SOC, 900
fell; of Marlus' fight, n which 100000
fell; Of the tragedy at Herat, where
Genshis Khan massacred l,600. 900
men, and OF Nlshar. where he slnw l..
747, 900 people; OF the Is 600, 900 this
monster sacrificed in Il years, as he
went forth to do, as he declared, to ex
terminate the entire Chinese nation and
make the empire a pasture for cattle.
Think of the death throes Of the 1000.
900 men sacrificed in one campaign OF
X.rxes. Think of the 10000 that
pesished in the siege OF Ostend, of 300,'
900 desd at Acre, OF l, 100000 dead in
the siege OF Jerusalem, of 1916. 900 OF
the dead St. Troy, and then complete
the review by considering the atupendous
estimate of Edmund Bnrke-that the
loss by war hsd been IS times the en-
tire then present population OF the globe.
Go through and examine the laesra'
lions, the gunshot tacture1, the saber
wounds, the gashes OF the hattleax, the
slam of oombshelI and exploded mine
and falling wall, and thoss DESTROYED
under the gun carriage and the hoof o!
the cavalry horse, the Burning thirsts,
the camp fevers, the fosts that shivered
the tropical suus that smote. Add 1t up,
gather it into one line, compress il into
one word. spell it in one syllable, clank
it in one chsir, pcur it out in one groan,
distill it into on tear.
Ave, the world has writhed in 5000
years of suffering. Why doubt the pos.
sibilty OF future world of suffering
when We see the tortures that have been
10 Gicted IN this? a deserter from Sevasto,
pol coming over to the army Of the allies
pointed back to the fortress and said.
s.That place IS 8 perfect hell"
Our photographers. aware of the i'm.
mense necessity of having plenty Of
words to express the different shades OF
trouble, have strewn over their pages
such words as annoyance" distress, -
ssgrief," bitterness" ''hesrtsche, u
'smisery, "twing," "''psng, ""torture, !"
ssMiction," anguish" ''tribulstion, /"
swretchedness," "woe." But have a
glad sound for every hospital, for every
sickroom, for every Lifelong invalid, for
every broken heart. "There shall be
no more PAM" Thank God! Thank
Goo! No malarias aoat in the air. No
bruised foot tresds that street. No
painful respiration. No hectic fusb.
No one can drink of that healthy toun
tain aud keep faint hearted or faint head
ed. He whose foot touches that pave
ment becometh an athlete. The frst
kiss of that summer air will take the
wrinkles from the old naa's cheek.
Amid the multitude of songsters not one
diseased threat. The first fash Of the
II ba Sorbpsoo nf thoc