The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-04-08


The General said Whose BLANKETS this?
The officer replied 4 got that from pri
vate solder in the Scotch regiment, Ralpl
Macdonald" "Now." said the General
"you take this blanket right back to tha
soldier. Ho can no more do without it thai
I can do without it. Never bring to me tn
blanket of private soldier" how man.
men like that General would it take tt
warm the world up? The vast majority o
anybody else is blanketed or not. Lool
at the fellow feeling displayed in tn
rocky dehle between Jerusalem ant
Jericho in Scripture times. Here Is a mar
who has been set upon by the bandits. AND
in the struggle to keep his property he ha!
got wounded and mauled and stabbed, and
he lies there half dead. A priest rides along
he sees him and says: "Why, what's the
matter with that man? Why, he must be
hurt, lying on the fiat OF his back. Isn't II
strange that he should lie there! But l can
stop. am on my way to temple services:
| Go along, you beast. Garry me up 10 my
temple duties" After awhile Leylte comes m y
| up. He looks over and says: "Thy, Una.
the forehead. What pity. STABBED & unuee
his arm. What pity. Tut, tut! VIVA. a
pityi Wny. they have taken his CLONES
nearly away from him. But haven't time
to stop. lead the choir up in the temple
service. Go along you beast. carry me up
to my temple duties.
After awhile Samaritan comes along
one who you might suppose tnrouSn Na-
tionaI grrldge might have rejected this poor
wounded Israelite. Coming along he sees
this man and says: why, that man must
be terribly hurt. see by his features he Is
an Israelite. but he is a man and he Is a
brother. 'Whoar" says the Samaritan, and
he gets down off the beast and comes up to
this wounded man, gets down on one knee,
listens to see whether the heart Of the un-
fortunate man is still beating, makes up his
mind there Is a chance for resuscitation,
GOES to work at him, takes out Of his sack
bottle of oil and bottle Of wine, cleanses
the wound with some wine, then pours
some of the restorative in the wounded
mans lips, theE takes some oil and with
1t sooths the wound. After awhile he
takes off a part Of his garment for
a bandaGe. Now the sick and wounded
man sits up, pale and exhausted, but
very thankful. Now the good Samaritan
says, "You must get on my saddle, and
will walk" The Samaritan helps and ten
derby steadies this wounded man until he
gets him on toward the tavern, the wounded
man holding on with the little strength he
has left, ever and anon looking down at the
coed Samaritan and saying: "You are very
kind. had no right to expect this thing Of
Samaritan when I am an Israelite. You
are very kind to walk and let me ride"
Now they have come up to the tavern. The
Samaritan, with the help Of the landlord,
assists the sick and wounded man to dis
mount and puts him to bed. The Bible says
the Samaritan staid all night. In the
morning. suppose, the Samaritan went in
to look how his patient was and ask him
how he passed the night. Then he comes out
the Samaritan comes out and says to the
landlord: "Here is money to pay that
mans board. and if his convalescence
is not as rapid as I hope for, charge the
whole thing to me- Good-morning, al" He
gets on the beast and says: ''Go along, you
beast, but 60 slowly, for those bandits sweep
ing through the land may have left some
body else wounded and half dead" Sym
pathy! Christian sympathy! How many
such men as that would 1t take to warm the
cold world up? Famine In Zarepthath.
Everything dried up. There Is a widow with
a son and no food except handful Of meal
She Is gathering sticks to kindle fire to
cook the handful Of meal. Then she Is 60.
ing to wrap her arms around her boy and
die. Here comes Elijah. His two black
servants, the ravens, have got tired waiting
on him. He asks that woman for food. Now,
that handful of meal Is to be divided into
three parts. Before, it was to be divided
into two parts. Now, she says to Elijah:
"Come in and sit down at this solemn table
and take a third Of the last morsel. " How
many women like that would 1t take to warm
the cold world up?
Recently an engineer in the Southwest, on
a locomotive. saw train coming with which
he must collide. He resolved to stand at his
- ha fro II, until tho Ia az min.
ute, for there were passengers behind. The
engineer said to the fireman: Jump: One
man is enough on this engine! Jump" The
fireman Jumped and was saved. The crash
came. The engineer died at his post. How
many men like that engineer would It take
to warm this cold world up? A vessel struck
on a rocky island. The passengers and the
crew were without food, and sailor had
shellfsh under his coat. He was saving 1t
for his last mo,sel. he heard a little child
cry to her mother: "Oh, mother, am so
hungry: give me something to eat. am so
hungry" The sailor took the shellfsh from
under his coat aud said: ''Here! Take that"
How many men like that sailor would 1t take
to warm the cold world up? Xerxes,
fleeing from his enemy, got on board a
boat. A great many Persians leaped into
the same boat and tie boat was sinking.
Some one said, "Are you not willing to make
a sacrifice for your klng?" and the majority
of those who were in the boat leaped over
board and drowned to save their king. How
many men like that would it take to warm
up this cold world? Elizabeth Fry went into
the horrors Of Newgate prison, and she
turned the imprecation and the obscenity
and the filth into prayer and repentance and
a reformed life. The sisters Of charity, In
1863, on Northern and Southern battlefelds,
o. ho, In hIpa ond tuhi1Q thav
were bleeding to death. The black bonnet
with the sides pinned back and the white
bandage on the brow may not have answered
all the demands of elegant taste, but you
could not persuade that soldier dying 1000
miles from home that it was anything but an
angel that looked him in the face. Oh, with
CHEEKY look, with hel pful word, with kind
action. try to make the world warm!
Count that day lost whose low descending
Views from thy hand no generous action
done.
Notwithstanding all the modern inven-
tions for heating, tell you there is nothing
so full of geniality and sociality as the old
fashioned country Fireplace. The neigh
bors were to come in for winter evening
of sociality. In the middle of the afternoon,
in the best room OF the house, some one
brought in great backlog with great strain
and put it down on the back OF the hearth.
Then the lighter wood was put on, armful
after armfu. Then shovel Of Goals was
taken from another room and put under the
dry pile, and the kindling began, and the
cracking, and it rose until It became roar
ing flame, which filled all the room with
geniality and was reflected from the family
pictures on the walls. Then the neighbors
came in two by two. They sat down, their
faces to the fire, which ever and anon was
stirred with toncs and readjusted on the
andirons. aud there were such times Of
rustic renartee and story telling and mirth