Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-04-18

merchants tnen AID ! reckon there are
some now. The first foot measure is
said to have been the exact length Of
an ancient Roman emperor's foot. The
first inoh was the length of three grains
OF English barley, which, il is said, is
the most uniform in size and length OF
any grain In bhe world. They took
los gyehrs out of pile and laid them
in line touching each other and call
ed II a yard and one-thirty-siXth part
OF that line was an inch and so we have
the old table of three barley corns
make one inch, twelve inches one foot
and so on. When my wife wishes to
cut up Shirting or calico into certain
lengths she measures il by holding II
out at arms length from the tips OF her
fingers To her nose and declares she
does not miss it a quarter OF an inch
and says it is more correct than three
barley cornS or an emperorS s foot.
What time the people OF the world
have had in getting things settled
down To uniform condition. Andl
they are not all settled yet We have
not vet agreed on our war with the
Philippines of the English war with thel
Beers of the tariff on Porto Rico orr
whether Mckinley is a tippler or isl
Dewey joking about the presidency orr
who is governor of kentucky. There
are over 200 different kinds OF religion
in This country. There are seventeen
kinds of Methodists, thirteen of T ap-i
fists, twelve of Presbyterians, six Of
Roman Catholics, six of AdventiStS,
four of Quakers, ten of Mennonites,
seven of Lutherans, two Episcopalians.
besides Dunkards. Universalists, Nor
mors. SpiritualistS and many others
TOO tedious to mention. All OF these
profess to be Christian churches and
declare they can prove their faith by
The Bible.
But still the world rolls ON and the
years with il. The seasons come and
so just as they have Cor ages There is
no variation in the works Of God.
Sometimes | Wish that like Him I
could he poised away up in the heav-
ems and look down upon the world and
see 1t turning over and rolling onward
in It's orbit | would want eyes that
would scrutinize everything upon it
Battles and blood and carnage and the
dead and dying and the mourners and
the spires of the churches and hear the
Sabbath bells and t9a preachers ser
mons and see happy children going to
school and the farmers plowing in the
fields and the cattle upon a thousand
hills and the never ceasing rush OF peo-
pie upon the streets of the great cities
and the gold piled up iii the bankers
vaults and the poor and wretched in
the slums and the thousands OF con-
yicts in the prisons and the fires and
funerals and lbanquetS and the ships III
sea and here and there a wreck and all
on hoard engulfed. Yes. ! would wish
to see it all just once-life and death
happiness and misery. saints and sin.
ners in one vast Kaleidoscope. Then
would like to climb higher still and see
the universe and listen TO the music D;
the spheres and soar among the stars
and ride upon the planets and-well
no. / don't believe | would On tho
whole l would rather stay at home and
work in the garden and eat my own as
paragus for dinner and take my even
ing nap and anon hear familiar voice
remark: William, the flour is out
and SO is the sugar" | am glad can't
see all the misery and am content with
my humble lot---Bill Arp. in Atlanta
Constitution