Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-03-08

VATILL HUBBARD HERMAN - Born at West
wv Liberty, in the beautiful Mac o-chee Valley,
Ohio, Nov. 5th 1915, died Of spinal rheu
matism on Saturday, Jan. 2Sth, 1905, at Memphis
Tenn, whore bis remains we're inferred.
Eas a 5,S. s9S ne he years gs5 go down
Man is like rhe years, has has birth, sprngtime,
summer, autumn, winter, if spared to see all his
seasons, and then the passing away. These things
are inevitable but the iuexorable law OF nature
from which exempt. The grim reaper,
with his keen sickle and black campbell, knocks at
the doors of hut and palace alike and the king and
the peasant lie down in the muddy grave together
The thread of life is so very fra, could we but
pause to contemplate it; tremendous stone sus-
pended by a mere cOb-web above us in mid air.
as it we're, liable to fall any moment, and with
out warming to crush as into very powder, and
thrust our then dissOlute spirits abruptly into that
vast and vague eternity, whether prepared or not.
Life is real; life earnest
And the grave rave IS not not Us Us goal goal
a spoken OF the soul. ..
The SOULS salvation is purely personal Obliga-
tion though there be efficacy in prayer through the
medium Of others interceding, perhaps, 'tWixt man
and bis Creator No man truly define the spir
itual condition of his fellow creatures. Therefore,
siudge not lest ye be Judged" A man may be
stepped in SIM, accidentally falling overheard into
the Gulf Of Mexico when sinking the last time even
If not unconscious, though by his fefOWmen consid-
but that same individual NAV have in the crucial
moment, by mere thought IN communion with God
ia plea for forgiveness, been saved. "IhOugh your
sins be as scarlet, BE make them whittier than
snow do not believe that God intends that any
immortal soul be lost, and though some have Occa
siOna bursts Of agnosticsm, n6delity or pessimsm,
God doubtless as with other wrongs, does not hold
it to be the sunpardOnable SIM" Robt. IngersOlPs
beautiful tribute to woman alone, portrayed in liy
ing letters the purity OF the soul OF this grand man.
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guage frequently no doubt as pque, oD the wrong
side. No writer ever penned line worth its while
from mere mental power. The spirit OF inspiration
is bound to be present. to give fire and force With
Mr.. Herman,
From he master march Of planets to the fringe
But then, who is periectf None We arc ad-
monished to be charitable. Mr.. Herman, OF intense
nature through environments was at times pessi-
mistic. But you must do justice, be unpreiudiced,
and
You'll a1d i his misfortune his fault"
We each, one and all, have our predictions and
different moods, some more bOuyant than others;
that is If we dare tell the plain unvarnished truth.
So now that Mr.. Herman il dead-the few
Vicious
Vampires
In human form, his enemies needn't try to further
venUilate bis character in desecrating way;
needn't claim that bis life failure and the like,
because they think his princely and powerful pen is
sled in defense; for indeed every vile thought and
utterance thus misplaced will rebound like rubber
ball against the wall to the perpetratOr oi this cow
ardly and traitorous deed. Thank God, it Is
verify SOL
knew Mr. Herman well-knew him intimately
for years. He visited me at Enola, Miss, in 1892,
and again for quite while in 1898 at my former
home at Hammond, Louisiana, at which time be
vas doing special work for the New York Mercury,
Rranns Ic0noclast, etc. he was never idle, and be
never tired. A veritable book-worm, he hupgered
and thirst for further and further book lore do
the ordinary individuals for food and drink and his
thirst seemed unquenchable in that line. Ny
library, though not SMALL recall like snow melted
away, as it we're, before his masteTiul touch. Bui