The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-21

ladelphiA-
question. DO you really think he- life
was worth living?" A life for G3i, a
; life for others. a life OF un~selfishress,
/! SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SPORT.
| w. A. Baillie-Grohman writes an arti-
Gle on Sports in the Seventeenth Cen
fury for the Century, which has several
papers devoted to the hunting OF big game
Mr.. aillie-Grohman. speaking Of some of
the old records of the chase. says:
One Of the most interesting records Of
this kind is a manuscript folio volume of
$40 pages, g~orgeously bound in green vel
vet, with solid gold clasps. which is the
list of game hunted and shot by John
! George l, Elector of Saxony. the foremost
sportsman of his century. 1t is supposed
to be mostly in his own handwriting, and
forms one of the treasures of the royal
library at Dresden. From his punctil-
iously kept shooting dairy We learn that
between July II, 1911. and the day of his
death. January ~. 1886. this Nimrod and
his suite bagged no. $50 head of game,
made up of the unprecedented total of
1929 red deer, 81, AS wild boars, 102 bears,
SIS wolves. etc, the twenty-nine beaver
enumerated among the smaller animals
making up the balance, being. perhaps,
the most interesting, as showing the prev
alence of an animal at present almost eX-
tinct in Europe.
The great weight of some of the stays,
boars and bears brought to book by the
elector is as surprising as the enormous
totals we have given. To-day red deer
, stays of three hundred pounds aVirdua-
pois are. with the exception. perhaps, of
Hungarian red deer, considered unusually
fine animals: indeed, Scotch deer of that
weight (clean) are to-day next to I'M
known. How much, therefore, must the
race have degenerated when we read of
stays killed by the above sportsman seal
ing over $50 pounds avoirdupois, and hear
that he shot 4,139 stays which weighed
| over 40 mounds ' Tho 1nt1erC Of these ami
mails were in proportion to their bulk.
Every sportsman knows that today red
deer %antlers bearing more than fourteen
f., tines are exceedingly rare. How one
wishes ones self back in the electors days
when one hears of great heads with thirty
tines, and peruses his summary, accord
ing to which he baged thirty-nine stays of
twenty points and upward. and 1856 beer
OF fourteen points and upward.-New
York Mail and Express.
a useful life, a Christian life, is always
| worth living.
RIGHT LIVING.
I would not find it hard to persuade
o hat the poor lad, Peter Cooper,
making glue for a living, n then
amassing a great fortune until he
could build a philanthropy which has
had its echo in 10, 900 philanthropies all
/ over the country-I would not find 1t
hard to persuade you that his life was
worth living. Neither would l find it
hard to persuade you that the life of
Susannah Wesley was worth living.
She sent out one son to organize Meth
odism and the other son to ring his
anthems all through the ages. I would
not find it lard work to persuade you
the life of Francis Leere was worth
living, as she established in England
a school for the scientific nursing of the
sick, and then when the war broke out
between France and Germany went to
the front and with her own hands
scraped the mud off the bodies Of the
soldiers dying in the trenches and with
her weak arm-standing one night in
the hospital-pushing back a German
soldier to his couch, as, all fren.i-d
| with his wounds, he rushed to the door
n said, Let me go, let me go to my
liebe mutter, "-major generals stand
ing back to let pass this angel of
mercy.
Neither would I have hard work to
persuade you that Grace Darling lived
a life worth living-the heroine of the
lifeboat. You are not wondering that
the Duchess of Northumberland came
to see her n the people of all lands
asked for her lighthouse n that the
proprietor of the Adelphi heater in
London offered her 800 a night just to
sit in the lifeboat while some shipwreck
scene was being enacted.
Luz L hIio" ~ lIlOu6Al III liz III
Of hundreds Of you today. You say,
while I know all these lived lives
worth living, I don't think my life
amounts to much" All, my friends,
whether you live a life conspicuous or
inconspicuous, it is worth living, if
you live Alright. And I al my next
sentence to go down into the depths of
all your souls. You are to be rewarded
not according to the greatness Of your
work., but according to the holy indus
tries with which you employed the al
ents you really possessed. The major
ity of the crowns of heaven will not be
given to the people with ten talents, for
most of them were tempted only to
serve themselves. The vast majority
Of the own Of heaven will be given
to people who had one talent, but gave
it all to God. And remember that our
life here is Introductory to another.
1t is the vestibule to a palace, but who
deSpiseS the door of a Madeleine be-
cause there are grander glories within?
Your life if rightly lived, is the first
bar Of an eternal oratOrio, and who de-
spises the first note of Haydn's SYM
phonies? And the life you live now is
all the more worth living because it
opens into a life that shall never md.
and the last letter of the word time
is the first letter OF the word "eteTni-
tyi"