The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-11
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4 ~WSGu DGtuSl ana I1s1 ana ClSCuSS2d
this question: (Which is preferable,
city or country life? .'The focks and
herds of the Abraham and Lot
had become SO great the land would
not hold them. They had met that
morning to talk over a separation IN
the interests of peace. During the
talk Lot let fall some expressions
which betrayed his inclination to go
to town to live. The discovery filed
the breast of his uncle Abraham with
great concern, for he loved his nep-
hew, and he demonstrated with Lot
against leaving a sure good thing In
the country for the chances of the
city, but Lothad anticipated this, and
he was fortified with the stock argu-
ments for city life. I imagine he
said first, s'I very much desire better
church privileges which I will have
an the city" That was an unlzind
cut, though probably unattended; for
hard by where the men stood was an
altar which Abraham had builded
some years before, as he journeyed
that way toward toward Egypt" hat
better place, Lot, than by this altar
here, for the soul of man to commune
with its maker, in this solemn still
ness, the eternal hills around, and
naught but the bending heavens
above?'' eyes. that's all right, uncle,
but you have no cushioned pews
here, nothing but rocks to sit Oh, and
you know yourself, uncle, that the
singing is perfectly awful, and every
body comes to church here, Frsg-tag
and bobtail. and sometimes when I
get here a little late and walk down
the aisle, jnst likely as not some
rag tag is sitting right up in front, in
the biggest, smoothest, softest rock
IN the outfit.'' But Abraham made
no reply. Then Lot said, MY
wives have such time getting help
ont here in the country to do the
housew orIz,' but Abraham said, 'sI
hear it is just as bad, or even worse,
IN town; indeed, some ladies came
ont from the city to visit us the other
day and they talked the whole time
about their hired girls, how hard it
was to get good one, and so on
Then Lot spoke of the bad condition
of the winter season, and he was
/ about launching into a dissertation
on the subject of hard roads when I
imagine Abraham said something
like. eff people would only try to
have little more hard sense and do
their hauling when the roads are
good, which they are for
about ten months in every
year and keep off the roads
when they are soft, we wouldn't hear
so much about hard roads and bad
roads, But then Lot came back
with that clincher which has settled
tho qualms of many man who
wanted to go to town TO live: ssReal-
ly," he said, s'uncle, feel obliged to
go to town in order to educate the
children; they say they have school
IN town about all the time Ct is a
long way off, but can plainly see
the puzzled, anxious look which this
school argument brought to the
strong, kind face of Uncle Abraham.
Nothing was too good for the child
!. rem in his estimation. But to his
mind education was a great, great
thing. With his simple mind it was
hard for him to see or understand
how a few inexperienced young pee
PIE couid 40 IL All tor the ch1iofen
even if they schooIed them the year
round. from youth to age. But it
was the same then as now with all
discussions, each side convinced it
aelf. s.Lot pitched his tent toward
Sodom and dwelt in the cities Of the
sola1n,' . but Abraham stayed with the
Hand. You know how 1t Jared with
Lots he was not long ''blowing in
his great fortune; domestic and
financial troubles beset him, sshis city
went up in smOke." he escaped bare
iy with his life. to smaller town
but SO terrified he could not ever
rest thero, and at last slipped into {
cave In the woods. a broken, dis
heartened man. Poo- Lot; there
have been lots of Lots.