The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-14


nary woman amid ordinary circum.
attending to ordinary duties
and meeting ordinary responsibilities
Then there are all the ordinary bust-
ness men. They need divine And Chris
tian help. When w begins to talk
about business life we shoot right on
aid talk about men who did business
on large scale, and whe sold millions
of dollars of goods year; but the vast
of business men de net seii
million dollars of goods, nor half a
million, nor a quarter OF q million, not
the eighth part Of j ihisli6h. Pit all
the business Hssh OF our cities, towns,
villages and neighborhooas side Wy
side and you WI md THAT they sell
less than afty thousand dollars
81 goods. All these men in or.
binary business life waAt III
vine help Yce Bee how the
wrinlx,ea afe printing on the counte-
Eance the story of worriment and
care. You can not tell how old a bust
ness man Is by locking at him. Gray
hairs at thirty. A MaR ut forty-fve
with the stoop 81 a nonogenariah. No
time Ia attend to improved dentistrya
the grinders cease beeanse they are
few. Actually dying of old age at
forty or fifty, when they ought to be
at the meridian. Many of these bhsi-
ness men have bodies like a neglected
clock, TO which you come, and you
wild it up, and it begins to buzz and
roar, and the the hands start around
very rapidly, and then the clock Strikes
Ave, or ten, or forty, and strikes
without any sense and then Sud-
denly stops. 30 II The body
of that worn-eat business man. 1t is
q Neglected clock. and though by soIs'e
summer recreation. it may BE wound
up, still the Mathinery is all out OF
gear the hands turn around with a
velocity that excites the astouish-
ment of the world. Men can not IN:
derstand the wonderful astiSity, and
there is a Foss, and buzz, and rat.
tie about these disordered lives, and
they strike ten when they ought to
strike five. and they strike twelve
when they ought TO strike pix,
and they strike forty when
they ought 10 strike nothing, and sud-
denly they stop Fost-mortem exami.
Nations reveals the fact that all the
springs, and pivots, and weights. and
balance wheels of health are complete
" deranged. The human el9sk has
simply run down. And at the time
when the steady hand ought to be
pointing to the industrious hours On !
clear and sdnlit disi, tie whole ma
ehinefy IF body, mind and earthly
capacity stops forever. The GENE
teries have thousands of business nef
who died of old .nge at thirty. thirty
Eve, forty, fdfty-fve.
Then there are all the ordinary
! farmers. We talk about agricultura
| life, and we Immediately shoot off t.
talk about Sintinnatus, the patrician
who Went from pillow to high posi-
ton, and after he got through thu
| dictatorship in twentv-ene days hi
went back again 10 the pillow. Wha
encouragement is that to the ordinar.
farmers? The vast majority of them
none of them will be patrieiars. PEI
haps none of them will Be senators. ]
any of them have relationships ii vii
be over forty; Of Atty, or a hundre'
acres at the old homestead. VIVA
those men want is grace to keep thei
patience while blowing with balk.
oxen, and to keep cheerful amid tn
drought that destroys the torn croI
and that ehaeles them to restore tn
garden the day after the neighbor
cattle have broken in and trarnrle
out the strawberry Bed, and eaten u
the SWEET corn in such large quantitie
that they must be kept from the waite
lest they swell up and die. Grace i
catching weather that enables then
without irnprecatioH, to spread OF
the hay the third time, althoug
again and again and again 1t hs
been almost ready FOR the NOW.
grace tie doctor the COW with hollo
horn, and the sheep with the foo
rot, and the horse with the distempei
and to compel the unwilling acres
weld a livelihood for the family, an
schooling for the children, and lit
extras to help the oldef boy III bus
hess; and something for the daughter
wedding outfit, and little surplus fl
the time when the ankles will get sti
with age, and the breath will be a Ii
tie short, and the swinging OF IL
cradle through the hot harvest he
will bring Oh the old mans vertig
better close up about Cincinnatus.
know five hundred farmers just
| noble as he was,
i What they want is to know th'
they have the friendship of that Chri
: who often drew His SMILES from tn
farmers life, Us when He said: .
4 sewer went forth to sow;" as when /
built His best parable ont of the seer
5 of farmers boy coming back fro
his wanderings. and the old far
house shook that night with rtiral !
j biiee; and Who compared Himself to
; lamb in the pasture field, and wi
{ said the eternal God is farmer, d
i claring, my father is the husban
9 man"
. Those stonefiasofls do hot want
) hear about Christopher Wren, t
! architect, Who built ST. Paul's satl
$ drai. It would be better to tell the
d how to carry the hod of brick up t
|! ladder without slipping, and how OF
e cold morning with the trowel
. smooth off the mortar and lie
cheerful, and how to By thanks
i to God for the plain food TAX
d from the pail by the roadside. G
, penters standing amid the ad