The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-04-23


on next Saturday, by Bradley, Sun
nyside. Buttahatchie, and other
neighboring lodges. The program
will be about as follows:
Address of WeIcome-Secy. J. D.
Tbixton of Buttahatchie.
Address-Hon. ]. c. Miner Of
Vernon Lodge.
Address-Judge r. L. Bradley of
Vernon No. As.
Address-Dr. NJ. R. seay Of Fern
bank.
Music for the day will be furnished
by the Caledonia Brass Band. Bas-
ket dinner on the grounds.
We take TINS opportunity Of saying
TO all members of Buttahatchie, No.
124. that a full attendance is desired.
A great and a good time is assured.
You owe it to yourself to take a day
off. Take it, and you viii feel better
for month afterwards.
He Failed.
Dr. Marden gives the Iife-story of
vast number of Americans in these
words:
He stopped growing.
He stuffed his pocketbook, but
starved his brain.
He never learned to take the
drudgery out of his work.
He regarded his business as a
means of making a living instead of
a life.
He lost his early friends by neg
Iect and had no time to cultivate new
ones.
He made life a grind out of which
he got neither pleasure, profit, nor
instruction.
Society bored him, children bored
him, music and the drama were un-
known languages to him.
He never learned to enjoy himself
as he went along, but was always
postponing his happiness.
When he retired from business he
found that, in his struggle to get the
means for enjoyment, he had MUIR
dered his capacity to enjoy
Thousands make the same fatal
mistake and find in the end that they
have robbed themselves of their own
souls. Here is a man who says:
Come right, come wrong, I will get
gain. Loving ease, he Iashes him
self to unceasing toll by day and by
night. Needing rest on Sunday, he
denies himself respite and scourges
his jaded body and brain into new
activities. Every thought is a thread
to be woven into golden net. He
lifts his life to strike as a miner
lifts his pick He swings his body
as harvesters their scythes. He will
make himself an augur for boring, a
chisel for drilling, a muck-rake for
scratching, if only he may get gain.
He will sweat and swelter and burn
in the tropics until malaria has made
his face as yellow as gold, if thereby
be can fill his purse; and for like
end he viii shiver and ache in the
arctics. He will deny his ear music, |
he will deny his mind culture, he
will deny his heart friendship that
he may coin concerts and social de- |
lights into cash. At length the short
ness OF breath startles him. the stop |
page of blood alarms him. Then he
retires to receive-what2 To receive |
from nature that which he has given |
to nature Once he denied his ear
melody. and now taste N return de-
MES him pleasure. Once he denied |
his mind books. and now books re-
fuse to give him comfort. Once he /
denied himself friendships, and now
men refuse him their love. Once he
denied God his service, and now he
finds that Jehovah viii not hear him.
God buries the souls of many men
long years before their bodies are
carried to the graveyard. If the
great world receives nothing from
man it has no investment to return
to him. Give nothing and you viii
receive nothing. is the inexorable
law. What viii it profit a man if
be gains the whole world and loses
his own soul2" And how can any
man afford to make a failure IN this
world and a failure also in the next2
you think it over, brother.
Mr.. and Mrs Ira It. CASTOR Of Co
umbus visited his parents here last
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs j. w. Gardner visit
"a at Mr. H. Barrentine's last week.
Miss VIII d. Molloy spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. T. Dow
lie.
..The taking no notice of sin keeps
niquity in good spirits, behttles the
.no.a.- os In-- 81 H.. lie ann-