Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-02-27
L. @. c. Lamar Ii ked beat Byron and

Burns. Macauley. Buiwer and Pluta-
rch; best characters B Gretheart in Pill
grim's Progress" in history Washing
ton and Happden. his favorite eccN.
patton teaching In college; the sum OF
human happiness the love Of God.
Rev. B. NJ. Palmer preferred Shakes
peare. Milton and Wordsworth Bacon
Bulwer. Scott and Goldsmth nnsi
characters William, pr.,ace oi oranse
Washington anS zee: his rayorits oc,
cupation- prsachire tas gospel; best
'fF-. erNthi sSh & human happiness
. good SSnscienc,
y. ). Burdette liked Mrs. Browning,
Carlyle, ThsckeI,ay, his favorite cha
racter Colonel Newcome and Crom-
we'll; best trait sincerely: sum or hap
piness home full ~ friends.
Henry S Foote liked Shakespeare
an6Byron, Macauley and Tacitus: HE
favorite characters Old Mortality mnd
Washington; the sum OF happiness.
oonjugal felicity.
l.. Bleckley chose Shakespeare.
Byron and Tennyson, Hamilton. Nnil
ar'l Pascal; his Mvoirte characters
N Q0ikute and Marcus Auelius.
Iona b. Gordon preferred Shakes
perae. Macauley and CarlvlS; mis- ia
vc:ite characters WASHINGTON and ca
to; his tavorite occupation raising fns
sr3cK; best trait in man. integrity. in
woman tenderness.
T. NJ. Norwood Shakespeaie and BY.
ron; best traits - man honor.
Walla"o p. Reed likes Shakespeare
ana MaMcauley; best character is Ma
poleon: best trait. Justice; sum of hape
pireSS in a happy home.
Joel Chandler Harris prefers Shake
its .sbpsrofkw h:andt Chill cmfw
speare Scott and Thac .1eray: best cha
rHNters. Jefferson and Lincoln: favo-
rite occupation looking after my roses:
best trait in man honesty, in wor1nn
modesty; sum OF human happincS, to
ue at home
All these inen name the sweetest
wards in our language and also the
saddest. Among the last are lost-for-
ever lost-k might have been-friend-
lees -hopeless-forlorn, and one says
most OF them begin with the letter d,
as disappointment, dismay. destruc-
ton, despair, debt, duns. death. dam
nactOn and the devil.
There are other writers in the this
album, but space forbids. There are
enough for a young man To chose from.
FROM these he can make ,lp n GOOD
horaray, Tor there is not questionable
book amont. them. Shakespeare and
Macauley are in the lead for authors
ana washington for character truth
lor the best trait in man aud molesty
In woman. About half these men lik-
eu the early morn and the other half
Une twilight, except. however. l.. O. G..
Lamar, who says his favorite hour is
l O'CLOCK at night. Il never knew be-
iorc that he played poker.) OF those
sixteen notable men just half are dead.
lhelr record Is made up and the book
Is closed. Their influence upon the
present generation cannot be estimate
ed nor over estimated No great or
good man or woman has an adequate
ldea or what he or she is wor,h TO
mankind. Last sabbath we heard a
very grand discourse upon environ
ment from Rev MIR. Mumford. who
has established that Industrial school
near Macon fer the rejected children
or the stute, those VINO are under the
ban and whom nobody wants and no.
body cares for-the children OF drunk
en- or disreputab,e parents and whom
no orphanage Will receive. The elo-
quent and earnest preacher declared
In ords that burned: Men and women
are not born, they are made! Made by
their environments, their parents or
their early associates" He is going
over the state gathering up the friend
less and pleading with the good peo-
pie ITO give their children chance.
Give every friendless child a chance"
edTnnGtiV Iic
bear ye one another's burdens and so
fulfill the law of Christ" II is n
hardened heart who can listen to him
and not give something. There should
be another question in that album.
what Is the worst and most prevalent
trait In mankind? And I would an
ser. ness."-Bill App in A,.anta
Constitution.