The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-02-24
a AM READY TO MEET MY MAKER.

ten many noble things during his life,
but never. in our opinion did he utter
on put on recold anything so sublime
or >o satisfying as that Ready for
the day 5 duties. ready for the shock
OF battle. ready for the trial. ready for
the temptations. ready for sleep, ready
B for The waking hours, ready for the
farewell. ready for the welcome. ready
for victory. ready for defeat, all
these thing, are desirable but "one
thing is uccdnl." BE We also ready
for loo such au hour as We think not
/ the son of mauIDmeth."
4 minister iu one of the churches of
/ the city of Washington began his ser
mon ou last sunday with this sentence:
n wonder if it ever occurred 10 you
10 thank God that YOU were not your
grand father
Candor compcl> us to say that We
never did and yet from what We have
been told the old gentleman had q
rovallv good time. True he had no
electric light. but none of his neigh
Dor, had them either. and all got on
comfortably with the pine knots and
"talloW dip"
/ sam Jones is always erratic but some
times announces startling truth.
Here is one of his latest and best: 81
tip my hat TO the generous man, and !
would tip nothing but my toe 10 a
stingy man. had rather be a liberal
gambler than "a Stingy member of the
church. for the simple reason that III
you yet the gambler converted To God
he will make good one but the old
member Processes 10 have been con-
Neried and he Is not worth killing.
one has possibilities, the other has
not That's putting il strong, but is
it anyWi,e too strong?
Grand Duke Sergiu,. uncle and
brother-in-law of the Car was assassi-
mated i'm the city of Moscow. ON the
afternoon of the 18TH. He had been
designated 10y the Anarchists Il, the |
next TO 20. and the agent VINO threw
the bomb was rather proud OF the ac-
compli>hmeut Will the despots con-
tinue To drive men TO madness and to /
despicable crime? Whom the gods /
wish To destroy they first make mad.
Some one has come 10 the front 10 1
say "crowd, draw clouds" and they /
fear it Will rain ON Inauguration day.
Not necessarily. foron Mr.. Cleveland's
first inaugural Washington was flood
ed with sunshine and the crowd i'm
attendance wa, immense. Still the
4th of March is mo- proper day for this
great National event.
The Central Nirginian Outlook is
the latest candidate for public favor
and is published at Dllwyu. Bucking-
ham county
We extend to our younger brother Il
cordial welcome into the field oil
journalism. and our hes, wishes in the
new venture.
Wont Gen'l Fit Lee be reckoned
with the lucky men il he gets that Gus
tom house pay ia addition To that Of
retired Brigadier, and president of the
Jamestown Exposition? No good can !
'0me To him or his. however, that will \
not give pleasure 10 MS and all those :
who admire courage and chivalry
We do not know whether or not our J
candidates for Gubenatorial honor, :
IAN sing 10y note or otherwise. but il
hey do sing, and while singing pres
m, such appearances as were repre-
ented in q cartoon Of the Times-D Dis T
'atch which appeared in last Sundays :
sSue Of that paper, let us earnestly adj I
ise them not 20. !,
Young Mr.. Hyde. who has charge !,
4 the 81 shares of stock which was a
leld by his father in the great Equi- Il
able Life Insurance Co.. admits that r.
no they cost Sol OO0 they are worth :
1000, 900. This means that life in o
urance stock must he the best stock 4
nown TO man. h
The Roanoke ministers unite in say
ng that no first gun" for Judge Of
lam was fired in that city in tenn Il
erance meeting and Oh Sunday. and OF
dds that ii would have been desc
ration Of the sabbath. We are glad
} read this aud take pleasure in pre- 81
'nting it TO our readers.
Col J. ;. Browning is also Of opin- "a
N that the Republicans have more
IAN a fighting chance" in Virginia
Ms time. lie attributes il TO the pri-
AIRY plan but in this he is mistaken. Ill
The young King Of Spain stoutly
fuses TO allow his mother to do his af
'urting or dictate his marrying. We to
ould like to pat the boy on the back -
id shake hands with him.
GOV. Nardaman declares himself
southern gentleman" not to be A
ibed or debauched by Presidential
vances. The true Southern gentle
an has never 10 proclaim himself
ch.-Louisville Herald. he
'ol. Slemp has pledged Virginia to fire.
r. Roosevelt, and has selected his
y To deliver the goods The Demo mt
us can contribute largely 10 the ac- 49,.
of just such result =