The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-03-09


though you were one of the eternal de-
crees. Doctors established, by telling
young doctors how you yourselves once
mistook the measles for scarlatina.
And if you have nothing to say that is
encouraging, O man, put your teeth
tightly together and cover them with
the curtain of your lip; compress your
lips and put our hand over your mouth
and keep still.
A gentleman was passing along,
crossing bridge in Germany. and
lad came along with cage of birds
for sale. The stranger said: "How
much for those birds and the cage?"
The price was announced, the purchase
was made, and the first thing the stran-
ger did was to open the door of the
cage, and the birds flew out into the
sunlight and the forest. Some one who
saw the purchase and the liberation
said: 'What did you dc that for?''
"Ah!" said the stranger, II was cap
tive myself once. and knew how good
it is to be free" oh, ye who remem-
ber hardships in early life, but who
have come beyond those hardships,
sympathize with those who are ID the
struggle! Free yourself. help others
to get free. Gov. Alexander Stephens
persisted in having business matters
brought to his bedside. There was on
the table petition for the pardon Of
a distinguished criminal, the petition
signed by distinguished men. There was
also on that table a letter from poor
woman in the penitentiary. written and
signed by herself alone. Dying Alex
ander Stephens said: "You think that
because l have been i'll SO many times
and got well shall get well now, but
you are mistaken; shall not recover.
Where is that letter by that woman
in the penitentiary? Ithink she has
suffered enough. AS near as can tell
she has no friends. Bring me that pa
per that I may sign her pardon" A
gentleman standing by, thinking this
too great responsibility for the sick
man, said: Governor, you are very
sick now. Perhaps you had better
wait till tomorrow. You may feel
stronger, and you may feel better"
Then the eye of the old governor
flashed, and he said: Il know what
am about" Putting his signature to
that pardon, he wrote the last word
he ever wrote, for then the pen fell
from his pale and rheumatic and dying
hand forever. Oh, my soul, how beauti-
full that the closing hours of life should
be spent in helping some one who had
no helper!
Encourage the troubled by thoughts
of release and reassociation. Encour-
age the aged by thoughts of eternal
juvenescence. Encourage the herds
man amid the troughs of sin to go back
to the banquet at the fathers home
stead. Give us tones in the major key
instead of the minor. Give us Corona
ton" instead of "Naomi." You have
seen cars so arranged that one car
going down the hill rolled another car
up the hill. They nearly balanced each
other. And every man that finds life
up hill ought to be helped by those who
have passed the heights and are de-
scending to the vale. oh, lei. Us bear
one another's burdens!
A gentleman in England died leaving
his fortune by will to two sons. The
SON that stayed at home destroyed the
fathers will and pretended that the
brother who was absent was dead anl
buried. The absent brother after
awhile returned and claimed his part
of the property. Judges and juror:
were to be bribed to say that the re
turned brother and son was no son a,
ali. but only an impostor. The tria
came on. Sir Matthew Hale. the pride
Of the English courtroom and for q
years the pride Of Jurisprudence, heare
that that injustice was about to be prac
ticed. He put off his official robe. H,
put on the garb cf a miller. He wen
to the village where that trial was t
take place. He entered the courtroom
He somehow got empaneled as one @
the Jurors. The briber came around
and the man gave ten pieces of gol'
to the other jurors. but as this was onl.
poor miller the briber gave 10 hin
!, , only five pieces Of gold. A verdict wa
brought in rejecting the rights of thi
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share in the inheritance. Hold, m
lord!' said the miller. Hold! We ar
not all agreed on this verdict. Thes
other men have received ten pieces Q
gold in bribery. and have receive
only FIVE" "Who are you? Where d
you come from?" said the judge on th
bench. The response was: Il am fro1
3 Westminster hall. My name is Matthe'
d Hale, lord chief justice of the king
j bench. Off of that place, thou villain!
e And so the injustice was baked, an
I so the young man got his inheritanc
i 1t was all for another that Sir Matthe
f Hale took off his robe and put on ii
n rarb of miller And so Christ toe
S off His robe of royalty and put on tt
e attire of our humanity, and IN that di
C guise lie won our eterna! portion
: Now. are we the sons of God! Joil
= heirs! We went off from home SUI
enough, but we got back in time
v receive our eternal inheritance. Ar
: if Christ bore our burden surely we ca