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

see how many of their carriages will
halt at your door.
Timon of Athens was a worldly lord.
and all the mighty men and women OF
the land came and sat at his banquet,
proud to sit there, and they drank deep
to his health. He Sent costlier presents
back again, and there was no man In
all the land so admired as Timon Of
ATHENS, the wealthy lord. But after
AWHILE, through lavish hospitality or
Through betrayal, he lost everything.
Then he sent for help TO those lords
whom he had banqueted and to whom
he had given large sums OF money.
lLucullus, Lucius, Sempronius andVen-
Itidias. Did those lords e any help
to him? Oh, no. Lucullus said when he
was applied to, We'll, i u that
lTimon would come down; he was too
lavish; let him suffer for his reckless
ness" Lucius said, Il would be very
glad TO help Timon, but / have made
large purchases, and my means are all
absorbed" And one lord sent one ex-
Icuse and another lord sen another
excuse. But, to the establishment of
Everybody, after awhile Timon pro-
claimed another feast. Those lords
said to themselves Why, either Timon
has had a good turn of fortune or he
has beer deceiving us, testing our
love-" And so they all flocked to the
Ibanqnet apologize for seeming luke
IWdTHlISSS. lie suCSlS "CIC oil SCdlcQ
at the table, and Timon ordered the
lowers lifted. The covers lifted, there
was nothing under them but smoking
hot water. Then Timon said to his
quests, Dogs, lap, lap. dogs" and
under the terrific irony they fled the
his anathema, calling them fools of
fortune, d%estroyers of happiness under
"a mask, hurting at the same time the
pitchers and the chalices after them.
oh, my friends, / o not want to
make you oversuspicious in the day of
your success, but I want you to under
stand right we'll there is a vast differ
lence between the popularity OF Timon
the prosperous and Timon the unfor-
I%tunate. 1 want you to know there is a
vast difference in the number Of people
who admire a man when he is going up
and the number of people who admire
him when he is going down.
MOVING INTO SMALLER HOUSES.
But 1 must have a word with those
who in this Mayday time move out of
larger residences into smaller. Some
times the pathetic reason is that the
family has dwindled in size and so
much room is not required, so they
move out into smaller apartments. I
know there are such cases. Marriage
has taken some of the members of the
family, death has taken other men,
Ibers of the family, and after awhile
father and mother wake up to find
the family just the size it was when
they started, and they would be lone
some and lost in a large house, hence
they move out of it. Moving day is a
great sadness to such if they have the
law of association dominant. There are
the rooms named after the different
members of the family. 1 p it is
$50 in all you households. 1t is so in
mine. We name the rooms after the
persons who occupy them. And then
there is the dining hall where the fes-
l~tivities took place, the holiday festiv-
titles, there is the sitting room where
the. family met night after night, n
there is the room sacred because there
a life started or a life stopped, the
Alpha and the Omega Of some earthly
existence. Scene of meeting and part
ing, of congratulation and heartbreak!
Every doorknob, every fresco, every
Imantel, every threshold meaning more
to you than it can ever mean to any
one else! When moving out Of a house,
I have always been in the habit, after
Everything was gone, Of going into
leach o n bidding it a mute fare
well. There will be tears running down
many cheeks in the Maytime moving
that the carmen will not be able to I'M
lderstand. 1t is a solemn and a touch
ing and an overwhelming thing to
leave places forever-places where we
lLdNe SlTuSSlSu anu COllSu anu WGpC
and sung and prayed and a~nxiously
watched n agoniZed. Oh, life is such
"a strange mixture of honey and of
gall, weddings n burials, midnoon
and midnight clashing! Every home a
lighthouse against which the pillows
of many seas tumble! Thank God
that such changes are not always go
ing to continue; otherwise the nerves
would give out n the brain would
founder on a dementia like that of
king e when his daughter Cordelia
|came to medicine his domestic ca
llamity.
REVERSES OF FORTUNE.
But there are others who will move
Iout of large residences into smaller
Through the reversal of fortune. The
property must be sold or the bailiff
will sell it, or the income is less and
you cannot pay the house rent. First
Iof all, such persons should under
stand that our happiness is not depen-
dent on the size of the house we live
lin. I have known people enjoy a small
Heaven in two rooms and others suffer
la pandemonium in 20. There is much
satisfaction under the light of a tallow
lcandle as under the glare Of a chan
Idelier, all the burners at full blaze.
WHO was the happier, John Bunyan in