The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-03-18

IND hhH sitting up on the couch, his
head between his hands.
This time the coughing was Of short
duration, and Barton exclaimed the
instant be was able to speak:
Il can tell time by my cough, it's so
regular. I shall miss it when It leaves.
The last one tonight. I usually wind
it up about half past 1O.''
David, have you consulted doc
! tor?'
"Not today"
"Any time:''
Certainly"
'What does he say?"
Gust what you and Harris say. Quit
work and so to Colorado. can't
Don't bother about it. I won't 80,
that's all. I've begun to get attached
to the cough, it has shown such an af-
fection for me-
he Strengthened up and laughed at
the look in his friends face. Gordon
was only partly assured.
'It will kill you
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"You have no right to neglect it"
Neglect it? Don't nurse it day and
night? No cough ever had better care
than mine. give it the best the patent
medicine show affords"
s'It will be the death Of you"
"Au right" Barton said cheerfully.
"Rather die from my cough than from
a stupid, thoughtless' trolley car By
the way, John, did you ever think Of
the difference between being run over
by a horse and wagon and an auto
mobile?"
81 never gave it much thought
"lore people get run over by auto
mobiles than by horses, so the facts
show. You see a man can dodge q
horse because he-the horse-is alive.
But an automobile Let's change the
subject. Give me your programme"
'A1y programme"
'Your programme as q reformer.
What are you going to do? What lies
in your mind? john David Barton
swiftly changed from the careless, flip
pant manner he had assumed over his
physical condition, and John Gordon
Instantly knew the friend who loved
him was talking now out Of his great
serious heart. John, if you are really
going to try to make the old world bet
ter you've held out your arm to a wres-
tier who will give you the struggle Of
your life I want to help. don't be-
lieye it Will amount to anything-the
struggle, ( mean. And maybe not the
help either. But tell me your hearts
desire"
'sWell, then,ys; John Gordon answered,
while his whole expression glowed
with his real deep religious enthusi-
asm and pride that swept his thought
even of Luel1a Marsh out Of existence,
"I have programme. First, plan to
live at Hope House as long as I can be
Of use there Or as long as I can from
that place in the city learn the city. It
may be five years, it may be ten. If
it is ten, shall be only forty. a man
cannot do much public work worthy Of
the name until he is forty"
"History and biography say other
wise, but never mind" muttered Bar
ton. eco on"
'sMy plans Of course do not cover
possibilities that may come into my
experience at the end Of my residence
In Hope House. But have dreamed
Of many things. don't mean book
knowledge, but live, personal knowl-
edge of people. Not the kind that
makes a man a professor Of sociology
in the university, but the kind that
makes man want to change bad laws
or make good ones; the kind Of knowl-
edge Of people that Paul had when be
said, Woe is me if preach not the
gospel the kind Of knowledge Of peo-
pie that compels man to see in every
other man a universe Of eternal value
and eternal happiness"
'There are mighty few people in this
city that think Of run-doWn-at-the-heel
humanity after that fashion" muttered
Barton again. Then after silence he
asked:
"Who's against you in all this?"
"Selfsh greed, ecclesiastical pride in
the churches, political rottenness in the
city management, cynical Indifference
on the part Of cultured men and wom-
en-, whisky, yellow press, business in
terests wherever they touch financial
loss, if reform calls for sacrifice; for
eign born and foreign shaped classes,
but most Of all the opposition Of high
bred apathy which grows out Of the
soil Of irreligion."
"And who is on your side" Barton
asked almost mechanically, in q low
tone.
"God, all good men and women in the
churches, and there are many; a rising
sentiment among young men against
municipal partisanship, a gradually ris-
ing journalism which in time will de-
nand the extinction of yellow journal
ism, which is an excrescence that car
ries in large measure its own destruc-
llCU, GLu Il IlS1AS I4OC VI VOlN4oA pe"o-
sion against the saloon as an inst1tu-
ton and for more equal opportunities
in the field Of struggle for human hap
piness."
"You left out the largest item in the
list Of forces against referm.'
"What's that"
.eThe people themselves"
t'Of course realize that" John Cor
don replied slowly. "But it was not
the people that crucifed Jesus. 1t was
the scribes and Pharisees."
"The people yelled, Cruelty himH"
"The rabble, you mean"
"Wha..s the diference?'
'I don't know exactly, but the rabble
is not the people,
mighty fine distinction" Barton
muttered again. "Of course you can't
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