The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-09-22

Mr., MARYE'S LETTER.
He Makes a Number of Suggestions
and Discusses Them In Interesting

He Makes a Number of Suss estions
and Discusses Them In Interesting
Style.
Washington. b. G., Sept, 10Th, 1901
To The Free Lance;
Now in the name OF all the gods ut once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar
feed,
THAT he is grown 30 great"
For many moons wasted, have been
rising early and going 60 bed late and
eating the bread of carefuness, that, me
npon line. here little and there little,
| might impress upon my cOuntrymen
the trend and tendency OF the times.
Should any OF your readers deem me
an alarmist, beg To submit q text, from
which u sermon IL inierentiAl
Senator o. II. PlRtt has grown hoary
in the Senate. lie is an accredited
mouthpiece of the President. Here IL a
sample OF his late popular harangue.
Your readers can judges ,e1 pede Hercuem.
"Our acquisition and occupation OF the
Philippines has gone lar towards making
US the Arbiters OF the worlds destiny"
As the lawyers say: "lOur honor, we
rest our case
Bible scholars enounce in the explanA-
ton of prophecy, what is called the pro-
phecy of tendency. Nations have avoid.
ed the Iulfilment of particular prophecies
by repenting-reversing their tendencies
Nineveh made haste along these lines,
and the prophecy Was nullified. They
that take the sword shall perish by the
sword Ia AZ true now IA ever.
Brethren, suffer Il word deterioration:
Let ua repent and do our first works.
This ia the way to keep alive our reyer-
ence for Washington.
Aristotle's concept OF patriotism was
perfect: THE foundation oipatrlOtlsm II
the loves ones welded wife and child.
similar to the preaching OF the gospel,
beginning at Jerusalem at homo. The
evolution il harmOnius: Family; com.
munity; commonwealth. This Is primal,
normal imperative. Feeling SINNERS
down in spreading over iorty-hYr States
and loses color and dissipates itself In
the Territories We simply cannot en-.
thuse over the sociolOgic status ii She
bOygan and Walla WAlla, or ponder, at
midnight. upon Oklahoma's ambition
for statehood. And The Free Lanee's
entire clientele has been concerned about
the poor lady. who was done to death, "A
few nights since, in Charlottesville, then
about the aggregate of Russians, who
shuhled off this mortal coil at Lao
Yang.
By.the.wAy, believe can suggest
snI NJ a NAnap-
welt. As provision is made for the con
tingency, let him honor Secretary Hay,
al the same time clothing himself with
glory. a. with a garment, by resigning,
and volunteering upon KurOpatkin's
staff. tWouldn't old ku's optics dil8te,
like a genuine darkey's in n watermelon
patch. and the J8ps have bad quarter
Of an hour) And there would be both
rhyme and reason in it:
True patriot he, be this well under
stood,
"He quit his country for his country's
good
Think OF his conqnests and decorations
The Fegalia OF one order alone would re-
deem him from want to the fourth gen
GRAFTON: Supreme Seythe Bearer OF
the Sacred Order of Ancient UnicOrns OF
OrAnfsk.
| have a more austere suggestion for
the Archbishop of Canterbury. His
grace is 20 hold forth here, at the Ca
thedral close next Sunday afternoon up.
on unity, upon the basis of the Lambeth
Quadrilatersl, or four points ! believe
they are. substantially: Authority OF
Scripture, authority OF primitive creeds,
dependence of the church upon the Holy
Ghost. and the Historic Episcopate. OF
course, there Is assent and uniformity
upOn the three first The whole issue
ia upon what is called "historicity;" and
the punctus is that the historicity OF the
Presby terians, Methodists, and Baptists
ls eminently satisfactory 20 them.
| asked my wife ishe really believed that
the great divine would phase a single
member of one these churches. believe
he will help the good work OF unity on
ward, uniformity -.
1t looks TO me like the saw; How
much wood would a woodchuck chuck,
if wOOdchuek could chuck wood?"
"Why just as much wood az wood.
chuck would II woodchuck could chuck
wood" My suggestion would be that
he should substitute a plea to the Eng
lish speaking peoples TO unite in grand
coniraternity for peace. Come up with
all your family and friends. The scene
will be magnificent My friend, Mr. K.
B. Merchant, and will take pleasure In
doing honor upon the grounds TO the
home contingent.
A. $. MarYe.