The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-11-07
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yet the blue Jay on my last winters
vii than all the scientific men gath
cred ia. Dallas this week. A Solo
mon is needed at that convention,
but don't think he is there, even
in spirit. If ever there was time in
the history of the world when a Sol
ONION should be among US it is now.
There are new complications arising
every day, and il he had been per-
mitted to meander along down the
crooked corridors of time to the
present age | do not think he could
sistence, There is no new thing I'M
der the sun" Rather he would
have agreed with the more modern
individual who declared with great
emphasis, Wonders will never
cease!" Imagine Solomon tackIing
the problem of AIMS age" or any
other woman's age as to that! His
thinking cap would have grown
grey with working at it. / have
spent sleepless days and nights over
the puzzle, and have repented, and
am heartily sorry l ever CHANGED to
see the thing In print. / labored at
it until / couldn't even have told
Mary's age to save my life, | gave
mp everything else for that. | ceased
trying to solve the riddle of the
Egyptian sphinx, | quit brooding
over the "Seven Wonders of the
World" / wouldn't have listened
even if some one had told me who
struck Billie Patterson. | went into
the mystery with all the time and
talent l had and yet today l know
as little about AIMS age as | am
willing to tell about my own. 1t is
maddening! And here's "a wonder of
the world up to- date: | have just
been told dear little lady of our
city, an unmarried lady at that-good |
as gold, sound as a silver dollar-is |
actually going to celebrate her near
by tiftieth birthday! l tainted sew
eral times when | heard it. | had |
not known such admirable temerity |
before, and yet It's precedent de-
youtly to be stunned. And here's an
other: A minister, a regularly Oh
dained minister Of the gospel, the
pastor of a church in town not so
a ntnaH II ~, KNYyf,9f ha
other day and requested the people
to reduce his salary one-fifth, claim
ing that as times were so hard be
believed they were paying him too
much. Too much-think of that
Reduce his salary, not raise it.
Painting didn't begin to do this case
justice, have been looking for the
world TO come to an end ever since.
'Tisn't everybod who sings "OlIl
Time Religion is Good Enough FIR
Me, " who really and truly means it.
| never heard of the like before in
all the length and breadth of my
life, and ] am one of those who re-
fuse to mention birthdays, much |
less celebrate them. There was a
time when a religious meeting was |
grand, glorious and good accordingt to |
the number of "lost souls" redeemed |
and brought into the folds of the |
but in this fast age the |
grand and glorious business is meas
n rod off nrsaf he hxrf he knnftanfsnr, ~ |
made, the hard, cold cash secured, |
and we hear all too little about the |
gospel of Christ-perhaps because ii |
isn't free. Going the rounds of the |
recently was a little ar
ticle describing a certain disease
allied "Morbus Sabbaticus,' which |
attacked people only on Sunday at
church goisg time, and continued |
with more or less severity until the
hour for religious servcIes was over
1t was pretty good as far as it went
but 1t didn't 20 far enough. 1t gave
the symptoms of the disease, and |
its cure, but failed to mention the
cause. You might cure a disease
and then be liable TO another attack
unless the cause were removed. |
There are two sides to every ques-
more and as there
is no cause without effect, so there |
is no effect without cause You
can't kill a weed by cutting of the |
the top. You can't exterminate the |
boil weevil until you find out the
origin thereof aud make war on that.
Remove the cause and the effect
will never have any existence worth |
a copper cent. If a speaker has
something to say, the right way Of
saying II, and the price of admission
isn't too high, the people are not go
ing TO be attacked with any indispo-
sition that will keep them away and
prevent them hearing il. BY all of
which one may infer-aud justly
alas that the symptoms of "Mor-
bus Sabbaticus" are alarmingly