Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-04-14

number or mothers who, after they
have navigated q large family OF ohiI.
ldren through all the diseases of infanoy
ahU got fheta iuifiy etaetod UP tho .Guw-
ering !alope OF i5boyhood and girlhood,
have only strength Ssnaash' lssstt 80 as.
They fade away. Some call it conisumpf
tion, some oall 1t nervous prossfation,
Some call 1t intermittent or malariaI In
disposition. but I call 1t martyrdom Of
the domestic circle. Life for lifei Blood
for bloodi Substitution 5,."
Blood For Blood. 1
Or perhaps q mother fingers long
enough to see o son get on tho wSong
road, and his. fornlor Kindness becomes
rough reply when she expresses anxiety
about him. But she goes right on, look
Ing carefully after his apparel, remem
boring his every birthday with some
memento, and when he ia brought
homo worn out with dissipation nurses
him till he gets we'll and starts him
again n hopes and expects and prays
and %counsels and suffers until her
strength gives out and she fails. She is
going, and attendants, bending over her
pillow, ask her If she has any message
to leave, and she makes great effort to
say something, but out Of throo or four
minutes of indistinot utteranoe they can
oatoh but three words, "My poor boyl"
Tho simple fact is she died for him.
Lifo forFIifel Substitution
About SO years g there went forth
from our northern and southern homes
hundreds Of thousands Of mon to do bat-
tic. All tho poetry Of war soon vanish.
ed, and left thom nothing but tho tori
bio prose They wndod kneo doom in
mud. They slopt in snow banka. They
marched till their out foot tracked tho
earth. They wore swindlod out of their
honesG raGiOns and livod on meat not If
for n dog. Thoy had jaws fractured, and
Dyes oxtinguishod and limbs shot away,
Thousands of them oriod for wator as
thoy lay on tho fold tho night after tho
baltic II got 1t not. They wore homo
siok and roooived no message from thoir
loved ones. They died in barns, in
bushes, in ditches, the buzzards Of tho
uinmlor heal tho only attendants OH
thoir obsequies. No ono but tho Infinite
God, who knows everything, knows tho
ten thousandth part of tho longth and
tte YIN ocDtII AIN uOlRuL IL ulRulSn
of tho northern and southern battle.
fields. Why did these fathers loavo
tholf children and go to tho front, md
why did those young mon, postponing
tho marriage day, start out into tho
probabilities Of nevor coming bnok2 For
q principle thoy died. Lifo for lifol
Blood for blood Substitution
Principle Of Solf Sacrifice.
But We need not go so far. What is
that monument in the cemetery? It is
to tho doctors who foil in tho southern
epidemios. Why 90? We're there not
enough siok to DO attended in these
nofthern latitudesf OH, yes; but tho
doctor puts q few medical books in his
~valise. and ONO Walls Of modiolno, and
leavos his patients hore in the hands Of
other physicians and takos tho rail
train. Boforo he gets to tho infected 70.
gions no passes crowded rail trains, rog.
ular and extra, taking tho flying and
affrightod populations. Ho arrives in
a oity oyer which n great horror is
brooding. Ho goes from couch to
couch, feeling tho pulse and studying
symptoms and prescribing day after
day, night after night, until q fell
low physician says. doctor, you had
bottor go homo and rost; you look mis-
erablo.' But 10 cannot rest while SO
many are suffering. On and on, until
somo morning finds him in q dolirium,
III which he talks Of homo, and then
rises and says ho must 60 and look after
those patients. He is told to lilo down,
but no fights his attendants until no
falls bnok, and is weaker and weaker,
and dos for people with whom he had
no kinship and far away from his own
family, and Is hastily put away in q
strangers tomb, and only tho fifth part
Of q newspaper limo tolls us Of his sac
rifico-hia nnmo just mentioned among
five. Yet no has touched tho farthest
height Of sublim ~ in that three weeks
of humanitarian service. He goes
straight az an arrow to tho bosom Of
him who said, II was sick and ye Wis
tied mo-" Lilo for lifol Blood for
bloodl Substitutionl
In tho legal profession 1 SEQ tho Same
principle of self sacrifice. In 1916 Will
liam Freeman, q pauporizod and idiotio
negro, was ct Auburn, N. Y, on trial
for murder. He had slain tho entire
Van Nest family. Tho foaming wrath
of tho community could DO kept off him
only by armed ~constables. Who would
volunteer to DO his counsel? No attor-
ney wanted to sacrifice his popularity
by such an %nngratoful tnsk. All Heco
sileht save ono, n young lawyer with
feoblo voice that could hardly heard
outside the bar. pale md thin ..nd nvk.
ward. It wa William II. Seward, who
saw that il prisoner was idiotio and
irresponsible and ought to be put in M
asylum rather than put to death, tho
heroic counsel uttering these beautiful
words:
Substitution.
Il speak now in tho hearing Of q peo-
plo who have prejudged prisoner md
condemned mo FOR pleading in his bo-
half. He is q convict, a paupor, q negro,
without i.tolloot, sonso or emotion. My
child with an affeotionato smile disnrlDs
my oaroworn face Of its frown whenover
l GROSS my threshold. Tho beggar III tho
street obligeg mo to give because 10
sAys 600 Dloss you az I pass. My dog
caresses mo with fondness if I will but
smile on him. My horse recognizes mo
whonI fill his mangor. What reward,
hat gratitude, what sympathy and
affection oan 1 expect hero? There tho
prisoner sits. Look at him. Look at tho
aasomblage around you. Listen to thoir
Ill suppressed oensures and oxcitod fears
and tell me where among my neighbors
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