The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-01

| vac N'autiEEi BtDTJ vi LIEhtHS Aahs
Of Two Cltes' or Of 2cott's ''ivanhee.'
Of Ccupers "pathficder. OF Shake
sDeares "it lug Lear and true OF al
most any o. the works Of the ancient
story writer's as well AZ the stories
written by the authors OF the present
day?
SO general in this rule that the psalm
lst may have had it in mind when he
declared that we spend our years as
tale TINT il told aud IL practically
aging. "iou know that In the tale the
time Of the greatest darkness IL usually
the time OF rescue: so, In real life. cv-
cry man and woman. every human
hero or heroine. even In the darkest
days Of life, can have d divine rcsCucr.
itedccnler. n Saviour We can have
the Rndecmcr or the Saviour that Gen
cral Lew Wallace depicted In his IA
mpus religious novel. "Bcn-Ifur." First.
the author lends us into the home OF
wealth Then. with ruthless hnrd, he
tears down the tapestries. lie skaters
that home. He drives forth the moth
er aud the beautiful daughter as &C.
cursed He drives them forth covered
with the white fakes Of fatal leprOsy.
! l." hrivrA them forth until nS OttCastg
| they are living among the totnbs ana
n%%Dcintin, with the corps"S. Then he
! hrtn&H forth the Saviour II Is he same
Jesus who utlr' said to til" ten lrp"rs,
! eco. show yourselves unto the priests,
| aud it came to pass nN they went they
Wrr" rl"nnS''h." The sam" Saviour. by
u few words. rl"nns"S the two helpless
women In tn" game way ms John Bun
van depicted hm rs saving Christian
n tn" cross. when l4r wrote: so !
r1w IN my dream that just rs Chris
ti,in cam" NJ with ~" cross his burden
l""~"d from of his shoulders and fell
fi'rIl or his hn"l, HHd began 10 tumble.
Hnl ~ continued to do until II came to
tn" n"llth Of th" %Hpu|rh"r. where it
f"ll it, and saw II no more. Then
was Christian glad and l!thr4nm" and
said with q merry heart, He hath Civ
ca me rest l3y his sorrow and life by
his death. We can be- saved I'm the
story uf life us David was sawed. when
~ 7 ! wv '''lt ~ I'tf'tiII't 'H@hl IL otIl
i"fu%H and strength, II very present
help in trouble" Thus it remains with
lis, and with us alone. whether or no
ia our story Of life we will take Jesus
Christ to he DIR Saviour. our Redeem
or, our Divine Rcscucr. It rests with
us whether the dying ycnr Of 1902 shall
he Il mOurnful guide to lead us into q
,t.,h., A f...t
to lend ,is into Il Millions Paradise
Rcgaincd."
Always IA Finished Tale.
The story Of life Is always II finished
tale. In the British National gallery
are few Of the unfinished pictures Of
Turner. the famous English landscape
painter. While the great artist. whom
John Ruskin admired SO much. was
working upon those canvascs the death
angel entered his studio and called
him away. In the world Of story tell
ing we find many unfinished tales.
Charles Dickens fingers began to stiff
en- In death when he was In the midst
of writing his novel Edwin brood"
Another author has tried to finish the
great masters work. but has not been
able 10 make success Of It, Some
times the authors purposely leave their
stories unfinished. A new school of |
writer's has lately sprung up who have |
tried to initiate Frank Stockton In |
"The Lady or the Tiger These au-
thors or story tellers work their read
ers up to an Intense pitch Of excite |
ment. Then they suddenly close their
stories. They leave their readers to |
work out the solution as they please.
Frank Stockton declared that for years
he received hundreds Of letters asking |
him to solve the problem Of that story.
But said he. II am just as much In |
doubt how that book should end as
any OF my readers. 1t was because /
could not decide whether the young
girl was willing to destroy or save her
lover shat ceased writing
Fictitious stories are often unfinished,
but the human tales about which the
psalmist wrote are always ultimately
Finished tales. These biographies may
lead many Of us through the school
room to the marriage altar. They may
lead us TO great honors In life, but
they will always lead every one OF US
70 the grave. When the epitaphs have
been inscribed upon our tombstones,
what has BEEN done will be done for
ever. what has been left undone will
be left undone forever. The story Of
mortal life will then be ended. The
earthly covers of the volume will be
forever closed. We have often heard
If aged authors recasting and rewrit-
ng the stories they had written in
heir youth. The publishers of the
'Reveries Of a Bachelor" asked Its au-
hor to rewrte his most famous book.
they asked him to rewrite it long after
k Marvel had ceased to be bachelor
Ind when he had wife and a crowded
nursery Of his own But the tale of
human life after it has once been fin
shed can never be recast We have
leard how one of the sweetest and
,urest poets Of the west Mt great ex-
)enSe gathered in soma x,in;o,,s ,oa | ,