The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-08-04

rcssed you. BY tomorrow night there !
will be multitudcs sneeriEs at the
words which last night you expected |
would be universally admired. How |
can you sleep when everything de-
pcnds upon the next turn of the great |
tragedy: Up, man! Off of this pill
low" The man, with head yet hot
from his last Grafton, starts up sudden
ly, looks out upon the night, but sees
nothing except the flowers shat lie
upon his stand, or scroll from which
which he quoted his authorities, aud
goes to his desk to finish his neglected
correspondence, or to pen an indignant
line to some reporter, or sketch the
plan for a public defense against the
assaults of the people. Happy when he
got his first lawyers brief. eXultant
when lie triumphed over his first politi-
cal rival; yet, sitting on the vrry top
of all that this world offers Of praise,
he cNclaims: No rest! no rest''
The very world that now applau DIS
will soon hiss. That world said Of the
great Webster: What a statesman!
What wonderful exposition of the con-
stitution. a man fit for any position!
That same world said, after awhile:
Down with him. He is an Office
seeker. He is 4 sOt. He is a libertine.
Away with him And there is no
peace for the man until be lays down
his broken heart in the grave at
Marshheld. While Charles Matthews
was performing il London, before i'm
mensc audiences, one day a worn-out
and gloomy man came into doctors
shop, saying: doctor, what can you
do for me?" The doctor exam
ined his ease, and said: My
advice is that you go and see
Charles Matthew's. Alas. Alas!
said the man: II, myself, am Charles
Matthew'S Jeffrey thought that if he
could only be judge that would be
the max ing of him; got to be judge,
and cursed the day in which lie was
born. Alexander wanted to submerge
the world with his greatness; sul'-
merged it and then drank himself to
death because he could not stand the
trouble Burns thought he would give
everything if he could win the favor of
courts and princess; won it, and amid
| the shouts of a great entertainment,
when poets and orators and duchesses
We're adoring his genius, wished that
he could creep back into the obscurity
in which he dwelt on the day when he
| wrote of the
Daisy. wee. modest. crimSo2-tippcd flower.
Napoleon wanted to make all Europe
tremble at his power: made it tremble,
then died, his entire military achieve
ments dwindling down to a pair OF
military boots which he insisted on
having on his feet when dying. AT
Versailles saw a picture Of Napoleon
in his triumphs. | went into another
room and saw Il bust of Napoleon as
be appeared at st. Helena; but, oh,
what grief and anguish in the face OF
the latter The first was Napoleon in
triumph. the last was Napoleon with
bis heart broken. How they laughed
and cried when silver -tongued Sheri-
dan, in the midday Of prosperity, ha-
rangued the people Of Britain; and
bow they howled at and execratcd him
| "tlcH, OulSltc VI tnc Iooiu "hcic HE
corpse lay. his creditors tried to get
his miserable bones and sell them.
This world for rest? Aha cry th'
waters mo rest here-we plunge t.
: the sea. Aha" cry the mountains
mo rest here - We tumble to TIN
) plains" 'Aha, cry the towns IN
rest here-we follow Babylon, ant
/ Tbebcs, and Ninevch into the dust.
No rest for the flowers; they fade. N
; rest for the stars; they die. No res
for man: he must work, toll, suffer an
slave
+. Now. for what have | said all this
t Just to prepare You for the text
:, ARISE yc and depart; foi' this is nc
| your rest ain going to make you
, grand offer. Some of you rcincmbc
, that when gold was discovered in Cal
and started off to get their fortune
, and a year ago for the same purpos
:" hundreds dared the cold of Alaska. II
h day 1 want to make up a party for til
It Land of Gold. hold in my hand a dee
e from the Proprietor of the estate,
e which He offers to all who will jol
l. the company 10000 shares of intini'
l. value in city whose streets al
n gold whose harps are gold, who:
If crowns are gold You have read
n the Crusaders how that many tho'
is sands Of them went off to conquer tt
Holy Sepulcher. ask YOU to join
l. grander crusade not for the purpose
l conquering the sepulcher of dea
:e Christ, but for the purpose of reachir
e; the throne of living Jesus. When Il
'e army is to be made up, the recruitin
I'd officer examines the volunteers:he tes
their eyesight; he soanas their lung
ID he measures their stature: they lnl
|. be just right, or they are rejected. b
= there shall be no partiality in mallil
le up this army of Christ. Whatev
i'd your moral Or physical stature. wha
k ever your dissipations, whatever yo
y crimes, whatever your weakness,
u have commission from the 10
S. Almighty to make up tt
~ regiment of redeemed souls, and l G
al Arise We, and depart; for this is l
II your rest" Many OF you have lat'
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