The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-11

lea and see how few people live where
they lived Is ears ago. There is no
such thing as permanent residence. /
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jefferson's residence, and i saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence. and
] saw also the White house, which
was President Taylor's residence and
President Lincoln's residence and
President Garfield's residence. Was
1t a permanent residence in any case?
! tell you that the race Is nomadic
n no sooner gets in one place thai
1t wants to change for another place
or is compelled to change for another
place, and sc h race invented the
railroad and the steamboat in order
more rapidly to get into some other
place than that in which IL was then.
Aye. instead of being nomadic ii is i'm
mortal, moving on and moving on.
We whip up our horses and hasten on
until the hub OF the front wheel shiv-
ers on the tombstone and tips us head
long into the grave, the only perma-
nent earthly residence. But, bless
God, even that stay is limited, for We
shall have a resurrection.
A day this spring the streets will be
filled with the furniture carts n the
drays and the trucks. 1t viii be a
hard day for horses, eau they will
be overloaded. 1t will be a hard day
for laborers, for they will overlift be-
fore they get the family furniture from
n louise to another. It will be a
hard day for housekeepers to see their
furniture scratched, and their crockery
broken, and their carpest misfit, and
their furniture dashed of the sudden
showers. It will be a hard day for
landlords. It will be a hard day for
tenants. Especial grace is needed for
| Tn0Uin0 6aU Monu q mans rQliplnn
has suffered q fearful strain between
the hour on the morning OF the first
of May, when he oOk his
breakfast, and the hou at night when
he rolled into his extHmporized couch.
The furniture broke sometimes will
result in the breaking of the Ten Com
mandments. There is no more fearful
pass than the hall of a house where
two families meet, n moving out
n the other moving in. The saluta-
ton is apt to be more vehement than
complimentary. The grace that will
be sufficient for the 1st Of January and
the LIST of February and the LIST of
March and the LIST of April will not be
sufficient for the 1st of May. Say
you aye that morning if you find
nothing better to kneel down by than
a coal scuttle, n say your prayers
at night though your knee comes down
on a paper OF carpet tacks. You will
WALL super help any VI YOU
move. Help in the morning to start
out Alright on the days work. Help
at night to repent. There will be
enough a~nnoyanceS to make a Kan
tippe out of a rance Ridley Haver-
gall have again and again been in
crises of moving day, and 1 have stood
appalled, and amazed and helpless in
the shipwreck taking as well as I
could those things that f1oated ashore
from the breakers, and I know how
to comfort and how to warn n how
to encourage the people, sc / preach
this practical May day rmo All
these troubles will soon be gone, and
the bruises will heal, and the stiffened
joints will become supple, and your
ruffled temper will be smoothed of it's
wrinkles, and order will take the place
Of disorder, and you will sit down in
your new home seriously to contem-
plate.
BIG HOUSES AND PRIDE.
My first word, then, in his part of
of discourse is to all those who move
out of small houses into larger ones.
Now we will see whether, like the
apostle, you know how to abound.
Do not, because your new house has
W. more stories than the old one, add
two stories to your vanity or mak
your brightly polished silver d~oorplate
the coffin plate to your buried human
ity. Many persons moving into a
larger house have become
and supercilious. They swagger where
once they walked, they shipper where
once they laughed, they go about with
an air which. seems to say, Let all
smaller Graf get out of these waters if
they don't want to be run over by a
regular Cunarder." 1 have known
people who were kind and amible and
Christian in their smaller house-no
sooner did they go yer the doorsill
of the new house than they became a
glorihed nuisance. They were the ter
ror of dry goods clerks and the amaze
ment of ferryboats into which they
swept, n if compelled to stand mo-
men with condemnatory glance turn
ing all the people seated into criminals
n %convicts. They began to hunt up
the family coat of arms, and had lion
couchant Or unicorn rampant on the
carriage door; when, if they had the
appropriate coat of arms, it would
have been a butter firkin or a shoe
last or a pillow or a trowel. Instead
of being like all the rest of us made
OF Of dust, they would have o think
that they were trick1ed out Of heaven
on a lump of loaf sugar. The first
thing you know of them, the father
will fail in business and the daughter
master. A woman spoiled by a finer
house is bad enough, but a man so
upset is Sickening. The lavendered
fool goes around SO dainty and so pre-
else and so affected in the roll of his
eyes or the whirl of his cane or the
clicking of the ivory handle against
his front teeth or his effeminate Ian
guor, and his conversation so inter
larded with "oh's" and "ah's" that he
is to me a dose of ~ipecacuanha. Now,
my friends, If you move into a larger
house, thank God for more room-for
more room to hang your pictures, for
more room in which to gather your
friends, for more room in which to
let your children romp and play, for
more room for great bookcases filled
with good reading or wealth of bric-a-
'brac. Have as large and as fine a
house as you can afford to have, but
do not sacrifice humility and your
common sense; do not lose your bal
ance; do not be spoiled by your sue
ceSSeS.
LIVING IN A CASTLE.
Years ago we were the guests in an
English manor. The statuary, the fern