The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-31
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pew In the Episcopal Church OF st.
Simeon Stylites religious rendezvous
Of GRANTEES smart set
At one of these two places OF wor-3
$which-and, after all, 1t didn't matter
he had heard, some time recently, q +
Scripture reading that had held his
attention more closely than did most
passages of the sort II was story
Of some mamie could not remember.
whom-the recital of whose continued
and unmerited ill-luck had stamped it
self on the hearers mind. The man
& had been rich, prosperous happy. Then
one day ursmessengers had come to s
him in swift succession. with tales of
disaster to goods and family, each nar-@
ration telling of worse misfortunes
than had its predecessor. And !, the
Of wealth and family.
In quaint twist Of thought Con-
over, as he lay staring ~ into the
dark and listening to the noisy rage of
the storm, fell to fitting the biblical
story to his own case.
THE first message i got" 9hei reflect
cd, becom ming grimly entertained In his
own analogy, knocked over my plans
and all my chances OF a campaign
walkover. The third smashed my idees
for Blanche. and for making a hit In
society. The fourth-well i guess as: 8, the ,e
clean me out when it does come, =
wonder, like it did the fcller in the
Bible? Let's see, he had Whiny fool
for q wife too, re ZEN 1r1'eI4 It It
points in common between me and him.
3 i wonder If he ever run for any of
z flee. How was it all those messages
+ of his wound up? 'And----and l only
& am escaped alone ito tell thee. That
II wonder was he the same chap
4 that had all those devils cast out of.
him. 1 don't just remember, but who.
3 eversi t was that had EN- cast out, y I'd
like to "a known him, for he was a
man. Most folks natures amt big
cnoughEto holdsa single half-size devil:
let alone a whole crowd OF EN-. II
that Bible chap had all those 7, show DIV:
ed he was a man enough to hold EN-:
And If only one of em had been cast
ont it'd "a been a. bigger thing he did
than it would be for a dozen ordinary
to turn into saints fntisr Maybe I'm 9
After which plunge into the theo-
logical exegesis-the first and last
whereof he ever was guilty-caleb
conover turned his thonght to the NOR n. 7,
with himself till dawn caught him
sopen-eyed and sunscepy, his splendid
strength and energy in no wise dimin-
) ished by forty-eights hours OF wakeful-
ness.
100 It was Il 4l aLlrTctl, q uCsOlitltl3B
that met the Railroader'ss eyes. as he
gazed down from his window across
the broad grounds and over The city
that lay Mt their foot The wind had
z fallen, and q pink-gray light was fill-
ging&the gclenn-swept sky Nature seem
cd ashamed to- look on the results OF
her own violence, for tho dawnlIght
4 crcpt timidly over the sleeping houses
Every where were strcwn 81 gns of the
hurricane Tree branches. tOpple(
chimneys,Funroofed shanties. sWaths OF
telegraph and telephone wires, over.
turned fences these and a Thousand
Il other proofs OF the gales brief power
lay broadcast throughout GRANTEES
streets
And, with tile first glimmers In thu
"a east the people of city and State were
afoot. for history was to be made
Election Day had begun.
Midnight had again come around
the city did not ring with the .uproa
Iii Incident on such affairs. Fort he re
a suit was not yet known, The storm
4 or the8preyious night had. cut oft tele
* graph and telephone communication II
5fi twenty parts of the Mountain State
Granite itself was isolated Hundred
of mes hanicss We're al Worlt re,pai RIM
.3gstle various lines Of broken wi re an
II replacing oyerthroWn 20 es. ss Blu 4 It'll
a work had not. Vet sum ciantly progress