Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-26

|
The Rev. Athaliah Judson, a charac-
| ter well known about the various
camp meeting grounds of the Africo-
Baptist League Of Western Pennsyl-
vania, was trying to make plain to a
| hard-headed, Sad-visaged brother the
error of his way in attending other
| camp meetings in the neighlorhood
| ''Whah's dc mattah with 'em? Amt
| dey Christian?" demanded the errng
| one.
'Yath. deh's Christian; but deh's
Methods Christian and Presbyterian
Christian: we all belongs to de Baptist
Christians. Dahs de difference"
| Il dom see de 'stinction,' said the
deacon, solemnly.
| why, look hyar.'' said Brother judi
son convincingly, does yo' believe in
de doctrines OBJ Arminianism and Cal
vinism, or is yo' a Baptist?'
| "Whah's dem doctrines ennyhow?"
| said the offending brother skepticaily
| "Whah is dey? Why, Calvinism is de
doctrine of lection; and Armnianism
am de belief in back-siding from
| grace
| II doan see it," said the other stub
| bornly. ''Whah's de real 'stinction? p
| We'll, it's dis hear way: De Metho-
| dis know he got hol' of salvation, but
he powerful 'fraid he gwine lose it: de
| Presbyterian he know he cayn't lose it.,
| but he mortal feared he amt got it:
! but de Baptis'-ke know he got it, an
he know he cyan't lose it: and he know
where to git it again eff he do."--New
York Times.
The millions of graveyards in China
are sacred spots. Eight thousand years
| have covered about Il sixth of China
| The graves are great earth mounds
| sometimes forty feet square and they
are never disturbed. The Chinese
| worship their ancestors in tnese
mounds once Il year. In big cities like
| Canton and Shanghai, poor people and
| their children are cremated. Great
brick chimneys are all around the
outskirts and I've often seen the poor
| fathers and mothers dropping their
dead children or parents into the seeth
| ing cauldrOn. Death ends all with the
| Chinaman. There is no resurrection.
| One day Chinaman watched me
wandering around Il country graveyard.
| BY and by he asked HE in pidsin Eng
| fish:
| Where you belong?"
| II belong America I said.
"Melica? Where Melicao"
John I said, YOU go right straigh
| down through China (Dointing DOWN
1 $685. miles and you come to America.
You go that way (poirtine wesD 12,500
miles and You come TO America. Then,
John, you so that way pointinS east
1880 miles and YOU come to America"
J John looked over his big Chinese
| glasses in amaZenIent. Then he said
slowly: You go flee ways and come
same place.
| Yes"
The astonishcd Chinaman stood still
in deep thought. Then he looked over
his glasses. shook his head and said
| NO can DO. I velly busy. / not see
you any more.'
This was the Chinanan's way of call
ing me liar.-Eii Perkins China
/ Japan lecture.
| TWO ladies entered the cable car in
! Edinburgh at an hour of the day when
seats are a possibility. One was an
/ elegant dowager in regal magniticence
of attire; the other was evidently her
daughter.
shall I pay the fare. mamma? /
| have my purse with me- said the
young lady, sweetly.
"Oh. no; I'll pay. l have plenty of
| change"
| Thereupon she leaned sideways and
! commenced the intricate and hampered
! process of searching her rich draperies
for her pocket. After a minute or two
: OF fu,nbling, during which her face
| grew an apGplectic red, she exclaimed,
! tragically:
Laura, what shall 1 do? I've been
robbed. My purse is gone my pocket
IS entirely empty
! Perhaps, madam" said the gentle
man by her side, into whose coat pocket
| she had thrust her hand-"perhaps if
you search your own pocket instead of
| mine you will be more likely to find
| your purse. Scottish American.
| Special Officer Yost of the police
| department. who was for years the Off
Ger in charge of the Baltimore & Ohio
depot in this city, had the misfortune
! to lose an arm in service. and now
| wears an artificial one. He was stand
| ing in front of the postoffice yesterday
| talking to friend when man passed
by with one arm hanging down fully
! six inches below the other. Both he