The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-11-27

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II King street; if you don't take it ]
shall have no address. My landlady is
a woman of her word'
BILL ARP LIKES THE LIGHT
Twilight Seems to Shorten as He
Grows Older and Darkness
Comes Suddenly.
Atlanta Constitution
confess that do not like the night
Except when | am asleep. OF course
L mean the dark night--nur do | 90
into raptures over what we call the
twilight-that doubtful light twixt
sunshine and darkness, and that
literally means ''light cut in two" 1t
seems TO me that these twilights grow
shorter as wo grow elder When the
day is done the darkness does seem to
fall from the wings If night, and we
hasten to light the lamps, for darkness
is never welcome. 1t is an intruder
and sy mbol If every evil thing. We
suppose that night was created rs a
contrast to make us enjoy the day,
just as evil was created as contrast
to that which is good. The scriptures
say no good thing concerning darkness
or night, and when describing heaven
say, /" There shall be no night there. +"
They tell us of outer darkness and thick
darkness and the blackness of dark
ness and darkness that may be felt.
Darkness was one of the ten plaques
that was sent upon Pharaoh. Job
cursed the day Of his birth and says,
Let that day be darkness. Let dark
ncss and The shadow of death stain it,"
David saith, "Sorrow cndureth for The
night, but j,y comcth in The morning."
and tells OF The pcsticncc that walkcth
i'll darkness. The apostles use it as
a symbol of every calamity. Darkness
covered the land when tho Saviour was
crucilicd The devil is called the
prince Of darkness. Ancient mytho-
lOgy describes Ercbus as the dark
cavern through which the spirits of the
damned and wicked dead shall pass on
their way to hell. And Homer writes
OF country called Cimmcrla afar be
yond the sea where the sun never
shines and the people live in darkness.
Milton describes The darkness of IIadcs
as so dense that il was visible. Speak
ing of evil spirits that haunt mankind,
he says they move i darkness, but
fear truth and chastity. "No evil
thing that walks by night in for or fire
no hag, or ghost, or goblin damned
has hurtful power over q chas!c and
yirtuous woman" Montgomery says,
Night is the time to weep" Aud
Shakespeare says, +" In The dark night,
imagining some fear, little bush ap-
pears to he bear" Young says,
An atheist half believes in God by
night" and Tcnnyson says of himself,
81 am but an infant crying in the
night-an infant crying for the light"
But This is enough, and these rumiDa-
Lions were provoked last night about
midnight THE hour when the d ep
sleep fallGth upon man, but not upon
a woman. My wife's voice awakened
and startled me. She said, "What is
it? Who is il? What do you want?"
Then she called me and struck match
and lighte the candle that was near.
"What did you hear?" said 1. "Some-
body IS at The door," she said, excited
ly. " Which door2" SAID l. "This
one tight hcre-maybe somebody is
sick upstairs" she said. Unlocking
the door quickly, the light sllonc into
the room, but nobody was visible.
examined the room carefully and then
went into the hall and dining room
and rarlor and thence upstairs on tip.
toa, but all was silent. When | re.
turned she said, +" Well, l did certainl,
hear somebody at that door, and i
walked me, but maybe was dreaming
l remember now, / did have troubled
dream, but please look under the 3ct
before you put out the light" Sucl
ls conjugal life and felicity. For som,
, time laid awake listening for nois,
, and Illuminating on human helplessncs.
r during the darkness Of the night.
remember when had an unwil
8 ing fear of ghosts that would not nc
8 knowledge. L got it from the awfu
4 stories that our negroes told TO us chill
dren, for there was fascination abou
Q them that drew me to their cabins b.
, night, and listened TO their made III
= tales of ghosts and witches and Jac
8 O'Lantorns and raw head and blood
bones until was afraid TO look al oun
behind me, and had TO be guarded 1
d the big house door when left. Bu
. this childish fear passed away, an
d long since have realized that ther
j. are no spirits 10 haunt us, and tha
only man is vile."
My wife is not timid woman, bl
she is cautious, and will not conser
for me to keep pistol in our he'd rool
for fear might have bad dream an
shoot somebody through mistake. St
never sleeps very sound. A moth,
! who has nursed ten children never doc
and the cracking of the paper on IL
wall will arouse her, She is happy no,
| for there is another grandchil6 not Fl
\ away, and she goes there every da
Pretends che goes to help Jessie, b
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