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


tiful though we once were, we accept
I'd for our guide the profferssf hand Of
ain. Then In the sight OF God and al
heav we became, like the '1oa THY
lady" accursed by the evil past IL
which we had lived. No matter how
pure and bright our nativity may have
been. we have all sinneti In the sight
Of God. There is none that doeth
good. no. not one. not one The
brightness Of n gospel sunrise hns been
darkened by the stormy clouds Of q
sinful midnoon.
The Lives OF Others.
The hero Of each tale, whether ficti-
existence Of many other lives We find
this thought best illustrated perhaps In
Wilkic Collins dead Secret or mo
Name" or The Woman In White" or
Of Anna Katharine Green's 'Ieaven-
worth Case" or OF Conan Doyles ia
nous and strange wanderings of Sher.
lock Holmes These and similar au-
thOrs we read not for their epigrammnt-
C sayings. MS we do the writings Of a
! William NJ ThaCkcrny. but we read
them for the deft why in which they
diScntnngir the snnrlcsl skein Of n hu
man plot. No sooner are their chief
characters born thnn the authors let
th'm worm their way through intricate
and weird surroundings until at Inst
| they lead them to the marriage altnr.
or. If th" story b" Il tragedy, into the
GHpjnE mouth Of Az open grave. Some
| OF" took Ian MnrlHrrn to task for ere
| AtiuE 80 many diS%olut" characters in
! hi>s books. The author Of "lInnnc Bricr
/ Bush answered: "M1nn. how can help
creating many diS%ulnir rhnrnctorE2
After my characters are once born they
Iiv" their own lives aud do whatever
damage they please. Some Of EhNn will
get drums: >OlW" Of them win lie AMI
steal: some "r ;h"m will break their
loved ones lIrHrts My characters. aft
rr they arc once bora. dominate me. |
r@nn0t control them"
Every trll" story Of lfr must repre-
sent IT as mixed up in The lives Of many
OTHERS This IL always ~. Nnu may
hay" seen in some art gallery picture
Of til" "'rhrcp I'HrcGr," the fAtrH that
are supposed "a d0'd" he clrHt TIMES of
every man, flutIo is th"ro pictured
rs II beautiful woman. holding the
birth SpiHGlr out Of which the thread
Of life ig 10 J." drawn. .\tropoS Is q
beautiful woman pulling forth that
thread. and thereby deciding whnt the
10 In la, I npl,, To-, "a a
hnE. with II pair of sharp shpnrs cut
ting that thread md making IN end of
that mortal llfc E;ut wnnt to re-
mind you todn! TINT in the story of
life every mans life Is intwined In
other lives Before that thread Is cut
It passes into the worlds loom. among
and around other threads. adding its
textile strength TO the warp and wool.
In the nursery the fates are not alone
the three In the picture but a multi
tude which are weaving that thread.
What mothbr does may decide to a
great extent what her children will do. !
In the dining room there are more than
three fates influencing the lives of
young men. What the father does
may decide what his boys will do A
wife's position upon the temperance
question mas decide whether or no her
husband shal die Of deliriun tremens.
The tale Of II human life is u plot In |
which the happiness Of a mothes, a To- |
Their, brother. sister wife. child, |
a friend. may be dependent upon the |
purity and the nobility Of one man.
When the heart Of the old oak is eaten |
out. not OILY does the mighty tree fall,
but also All the Glnging vines which
have cn inferred up the sides OF the
tree: all The birds nests In which the
feathersd mothers have laid ta,elr eggs:
nlso all II the len yes which are kissed
OF the sunlight and are rustlsng with
JOY. In The story Of life. when the hero
does wong, It brings disaster upon
every lie with whom that hero comes
tn touch. Our lives are all intwined
with other lives.
7Ae Lights ana Shadows.
Every tale. whether fictitious or no,
has II, depressions rs well as its eie-
vatiors. 1t has its disappointments
and leartaches and sorrows, and often
It's graves, as we'll as Its Joys and re-
unions and happy marriage affairs. It
has IFS dark nights and quicksands and
precpices and often its murderers and
as we'll as It's cities Of
refuge and gardens of Eden and Uto-
pias and rescuers and. IL might rev.
erertly use the word. its saviors or
.edtemers. 1t may have its Franken-
stems, its Wandering Jews and Its mer-
.iless Javerts as well as Its Bishop
Myiels and Its Jean Valjeans and its
Christians" and Its Eternal Cities" It
las always been so. An auditor would
lot sit hour after hour as the ancients
lsed to do. listening to the imaginative
'tbry tellers Of old If lights and shad-
'ws had not continually chased each
'ther across their fictitious heavens.
But. though every story, whether fic-
Itious or no. may have its ups ard
owns, yet the general rule Is, the
reater the danger and the blacker the
orrow' and the more overwhelming ,