The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-08-13

their map of the heavens and their
names OF the stars, but they had no
telescopes and did not know that there
were any stars or suns except those
We see with the naked eye.
But now young people listen. 1t is
now established and proven that there
are millions of stars and solar systems
afar off in space and that ours Is the
smallest and the most insignificant of
them all. We are nothing and less
h nothing in the scale of existence.
III has always been a mystery to me
why the Creator of the bOundless I'M
verse, that has no limit, should have
chosen this little world of ours for His
greatest work, the Creation of man in
His image, a little lower than the
angels, man who sinned and fell and
was redeemed by the sacrifice of the
Son of God. l don't understand it. L
cannot comprehend it. This little
world is-not bigger than a cannon ball
compared with some of the planets and
s-ars afar out in space. IL has but one
little moon that does not condecead to |
show us but n side of its anatomy.
The other night we went out to Mr..
Granger's beautiful home to look at
the full moon through his great tele-
scope that cost $5 ,000-and is mounted
in a high observatory with dome that
revolves as b earth revolves. IL was
a magnificent spectacle, butt view of
Jupiter with four moons and Saturn
with his rainbow ring and seven moons
was much more beautiful and impress
sive.
VI course those planets must be in
habited, for the Creator would not
have surrounded a dead world with
such luminous and beautiful satellites
we don't know anything hardly ana
1T fills me with disgust to see young
men strutting around like peacocks-
acting like they made themselves and
knew everything and expected to live
always, when the truth is they don't
know where they came from nor where
, they are gong and can't add an hour
or a day to their existence. l have
but little hope for a vain or a conceited
man an u vain woman is no better.
a conce ted man is close kin to an
I idiot and n vain of her beauty
should sometimes remember that she
= had no hand In creating it for it was
God given or inherited. ooh! why
) should the spirit of mortal be proud?'
I OF all the faults of which humanity is
d guilty that of self conceit is the last to
be forgiven and the hardest to reform.
o L ruminated on this yesterday when
y [ read what Roosevelt said in his
u speech at West Point. The editor
! who publishes ii speaks of him as our
e well meaning, but impulsive president.
v He should have said our conceited
/ and cratic presidents" In speaking
of the great men whom West Point
g had graduated, he said, 81 claim to be
"A historian and | speak what l know
to be true that West Point has turned
out more great men and more states.
men than any other institution IN the
United States" 1t was se~lf-ccnceit
u. and ignorance that provoked such q
a monstrous absurdity, for Colonel
Sprague, of Yale college, has recently
h challenged him to the proof and has
y shown beyond all cavil that Yale car
u number 10 tunes the great men that
West Point can number. Among them
lie 1888 ministers of the gospel-7s
in Justices of supreme courts, IL Chief
le justices, $40 doctors 80 Governors OF
at States and 3S United States Senators
b.sides these Yale has sent forth al
~ army of educators, established $50 col
ht iOSSo lOO lo' WOLucu anu O,UUU nlgT
schools while West Point has sent out
IL none but soldiers.
Oh Teddy ought to be ashamed of him
self, but he will not be. He is not We
IN ashamed that in his so.called history
IN he called Mr.. Davis an arch traitor
3 and repudiator and tod what he die
ns when Governor of Mississippi, etc
His attention has been called to thes,
nc malignant calumnies against a grea'
I'D statesman and whose curriculum a
tc West Point that he ordained wher
secretary of.war is still in force ant
IA who never was a member of the Legis
~ lature o governor of Mississippi
iIr No, he is too conceited to take bacl
It, anything or TO apologize for his mis-
ry takes. The man he slandered wa.
nj dead when he published those lies
n but his widow lives and there arr
Tn thousands of veterans all over tho
i, South who cherish his ant
y, who now hold his slanderer In supreme
IN contempt. Yet he claims to be a his
IS %torianl When a gentleman finds tha'
III he has unwittingly wronged anothe,
I'd he hastens to apologize, but a conceiteG
or idiot rolls the mOrsel under his tongue
and chews 1t as a cow chews and sWal
lows her cud. He feeds OH his conceit
- BILL ARP.