Evening journal., 1905-05-15
lSTRKlaH CANAL CHIEF
Stones Atczs TrFr shon-s,
Panama ccmr-issi1ner.
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t- r1n.slEe ana rflsre b sumner t1s
COWS stand l1 re meadows ln lhe sub
r-t % Beverly Is Stands q ruw rf
four cct.1<s Bach % re flur cC--
tzrss IS 1a 1F tr-ul tr -e
Erts family. says lte C11E1 Lr---
U1e l- s --rT c-e a-i 1--f STORY
house where le June noses en
81 tie p1rt1 AMI try o. l1cE l- -r che
vl1do~ tee-ats eolge Or. and
Hrs Henry o. Srurs. .re Their scu.
Iheod1re Perry l-s ~ CtIgo is
tie realg appointed chairman cf the
r1nau1 cana. cl11-lss1--
Instead % telrs l11 l-ouisst mother
n Ill,ncts 1t t1e l1n1- t1lz las neal
conferred urd- her son 1l-s- Sl1urs
ar the sulu-lCel swept l--ar
tears Lley were 1s Big as that az
table, explained hey husband. with
chrrkle Na. sic Lo1't think much %
the boys new Ill Too many fseeie-s
and yeliow fever germs Go Panama
The good couple both ~ whom have
c0ur-etei more than f1urse0re yEars.
stll rtrsr1 Tlels IS r1e boz who iu
his sunday ecle1l DAYS -rsueu he-el
40 verses of scripture Co O week
Proud 0f that reccri. no future cu1-
quests % the new ccmrliss ,luer quite
can equal it1t prod z1us feat ILets
himself stands Sis feet Il bis stockings
and. frl l7rr1r1uees &C least. should
D. t1lh yellow fever and mesquite
proof
Nerertte-ess the old folks are un-
reconci.ei They do noi slare the en-
tnus.1sr thar rr0mrreL Miss Eva
S11nts u the Young Peoples Christian
Icuuarance uli1l tD send a telegram
20 her Big brother r-ratu.atng him
upon tae ralri1iie mission that be is
about Go uudertake
Ilefs uas E11l flg when De was
yours said AIRS Sl1lts. with q depue-
catory shake of her head -lfe never
went out nights theu OF went chasing
away 60 icre'Ea parts 7 d0nt know
where le got those ideas in bis head
We didn't teach .lch to him. Ilels
was a tine b1y once
SIZE WAS trlrell up q United Pres
tvtar.cn. ana whom De was six years
Oh we TOOK Lim w.th rs irom Pennsyl
vau.l. whore we were raised. across
the ncalta,i into The wilderness Of
Iowa There wasn't amy Presbyterian
Sunday school 10 Crawford county. so
we sent him o. tle Nctholist school.
EVERY uoram- he would learn thirty
verses i-1l tlc B.l.e. lrl when Srn-
lsy crmc. with thc 2l0 verses in his
u.l. ic wol'l recite them in his class
al srl, ,ly school They used 90 give
l'u c-is ana banuers Cor bis good De-
larior Hat I'm afraid De doesn't get
usry cards ana Banners now.
oniy once he went 20 sleep in
church 70 was at tie end Of long
SERMON we welt home without him.
and we couldn't imagine where he was.
Wc kaew De never went out nights.
Finally wc found him curicd up on the
cushions OF the family pow and sound
as'ccp IN tie dark church"
The religious strain On the Shonts
family dates back TO the sixteenth CEN
tury. The grcat-sreat- -great-and-more-
ircatgrandparCnts OF the Panama
commissioner were pagans They had
captured a pretty golden haired maiden
In The wars This little maid. they dis.
covered. always was reading They
found the book one day under stone.
where She had hidden t. II was the
gospel Of ST. John. The great great.
grcat-and-more-g great acknowledgements read
this book ami became converted
They were locked mp IN a castle by the
sea. The jaiier also came under the
religious influence and assisted them
to drop down from window into
boat that tossed in the dark waves.
Iheodores earliest heroine was the
golden haired maid who read the Cos
pei of ST. John out n the meadows
while she watched the sheep AS hg
heard his father tell the story by The
open fireside Of the country home n,
often imagined her TO have been d
stolen princess, the daughter OF bat
tie king Later when ne was sixteer
years old, according 10 his father. like
many other hoys of the same age. n,
fell in love with am "old maid."
'Why, she was ten years older thar
he was" declared Mrs Shonts. II,
had begun 70 teach school ont I'M IN,
country where the pupils. both the boy.
and girls, We're older and bigger thar
he was. Theds got along fne He al
ways did with anything he undertook
I'VE sent him to college when d,
was quite young. I'm afraid he dldn'
study as hard as he should have. III,
could have got through I'm three year.
If he had tried. One Of our creates
pleasures was when he used to com,
home and read his Hebrew testament
to us. He doesn't read that Hebrew
testament much now.
~He was the only one in all his clas.
That didn't drink or smoke. He wa.
too young for that. We sent him .
violin 10 keep him out Of mischief
When he was young he couldn't sin.
o. whistle-at least we thought "a
But he used TO scrape away on tha
old fiddle by the hour He PLAYED ii
a little orchestra with professo
Hutchinson and the Rev. Waddle. IL
was a beautiful penman and woui,
spend hours pracucing his DIS am
rs lie wrote with great flourish
wish that he could write that we