Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-05-04

their country reSldeuccS. = IOOe INTO
the grounds to admire the gardens,
and the overseer of the place told me
and they all told me-that all the
houses had been sold or that they
wanted to sell them, and there was lit
orally no exception, although I called
at many places, just admiring the gar
dens and the grounds and the palatial
residences. Some wanted to sell CT
had sold because their wives did not
want to reside in the summer time in
those places while their husbands tar
ried in town il the night, always hav-
ing soIle business on hand keeoing
them away.
From some houses the people had
been shaken out by chills and fever,
from some houses they had gone be-
cause death or misfortune had oc-
CURED, and all those palaces and man
sions had either changed occupants or
wanted to change. Take up the direct
Dry of any city of England or Amer
lea and see how few people live where
they lived Is years ago. There is no
such thing as permanent residence. 1
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jefferson's residence, and saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence, and I
saw also the white house, which was
President TaylOr's residence and Pres
ident Lincoln's residence and President
Garfield's residence. Was it a perma-
nent residence in any case. I tell you
that the race is nomadic, and no sooner
gets in one place than it wants to
change for another place or is COM
PEELED to change for another place, and
so the race invented the railroad, and
the steamboat in order more rapidly to
get into some other place than that in
which it was then. Aye, instead of be-
ing nomadic it is immortal, moving on
and moving on. We whip up our horses
and hasten on until the hub of the front
wheel shivers on the tombstone and
tips us headlong into the grave, the
only permanent earthly residence.
But, bless God, even that stay is linn
tied, for we shall have resurrection.
A day this spring the streets will
be filed with the furniture carts and
the drays and the trucks. It will be
hard day for horses, because they
will be overloaded. It will be hard
day for laborers, for they will overlift
before they get she family furiture
from one house to another. 1t will
be hard day for ,housekeepers to see
their furniture scratched, and their
crockery broken, and their carpets
misfit, and their furniture dashed OF
the sudden showers. It will be hard
day for landlords. It will be a hard
day for tenants. Especial grace is
needed for moving day. Many a man s
religion has suffered a fearful strain
between the hour on the morning of
the 1st of May, when he took his iru-
mature breakfast, and the hour at
night when he rolled into his extempo-
rized couch. The furniture broken
sometimes will result in the breaking
of the Ten Commandments. There is
no more fearful pass than the hall of
house where two families meet, one
moving out and the other moving i'll.
The salutation is apt to be more We
hement than complimentary. The
grace that will be sufficient for the
1st of January and the LIST of Febru-
airy and the 1st of March and the 1.t
| of April will not be sufficient for the
| 1st of May. Say your prayers that
| morning if you find nothing better
| to kneel down by than coal scuttle,
and say your prayers at night though
your knees come down on a paper of
| carpet tacks. You will want super
natural help if any of you move. Help
| in the morning to start out Alright OH
| the days work. Help at night to re-
| pent. There will be enough annoy
ances to make a Xantippe out of a
| and again been in crises of moving
| H. =
amazed and helpless in the shipwreck,
taking as well as could those things
that hoated ashore from the break
ers, and know how to comfort and
how to warn and how to encoura ge
the people, SO L preach this practical
| May day sermon. All these troubles
| will soon be gone, and the bruises
will heal, and the stiffened joints will
| become supple, and your ruff1ed tenn
| per will be smoothed of it's wrinkles,
and order will take the place of dis
order, and you will sit down in your
new home seriously to contemplate.
My first word, then, in this part OF
/ my 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
two more stories than the old one
add two stories to your vanity OF
make your brightly polished silver
doorplate the coffin plate to your
buried humility. Many persons NOV.
| ing into larger house nave become
arrogant 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 craft
| get out of these waters if thew dom