The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
come short Of their end? Will tney

come short OF their emu Will thoS
not certainly enter into his glorious
building and contribute something TO
| the completeness OF its form n the
perfection of it's beauty? When the
blood of the Christian martyrs was
poured upon the sands OF Rome, tneir
prosecutors imagined they had maze
an end Of their doctrine. But that
blood. washed into the Tiber. was car
ried by it's waters into the sea, and
by the sea into the Ocean, and by It's
waves to every kingdom Of the eartn:
and thus became a type, not more OF
the spreading doctrines Of Christian
ity, thar of the augmented and widely
diffused influences of these holy men.
December 17.-Castle-bulldlng to-
day-HOrne ever the central structure
Of my aerial fabrics. In the dearth
of modernism the dull monotony or
this existence-my thoughts are ever
tending thitherwards. Where the eye
ing phases Of the kaleidoscope, 1t
must fain be content to gaze through
the mental optic glass at some one
bright and abusive object.
December 1S.-Services by Mr.. Kin
solvin, as usual-this being the Fourth
Sunday In Advent.
December 19.-Seventy-eight Off
GERS arrived from old Capitol Prison
at Washington. S3 started, but live
fortunately escape en- route
One Of our prisoners III the Prl-
Yates barracks was shot and killed
by a sentinel today, for some trifllng
offence. Another was severely wound
ed a few days since. Indeed. this
deliberate murder Is a thing Of COM
mon occurrence among the prlVateS,
Who in addition to this constant Ia
biliity to danger, are said to be treat
ed with every cruelty and hardship.
There are some 5000 of them confined
~:+I;. ~a~~.u ~o, arI fEE4iss emf
ferings (even in comparison with ours,
terrible as they are), are doubtless
beyond expression.
In the contemplation Of our mlser-
les there is consolation in the ref1ec-
ton. that life's chief good often comes
to those who are called upon to learn
her s~ternest lessons. May it be so
with all Of US!
Besides, if / am suffering. what Of
it? [ am only one paltry unit Of the
millions of human creatures still alive,
before whom countless millions have
passed away and after whom innum-
cradle millions shall come. 1t is
wrong (perhaps WorBe), for a man
to make too much Of his own sorrows,
as if they were OF any real importance
in the vast scheme of which his en-
tire existence is no more than a grain
Of sand.
And, too, what are my individual
LOuDlt " l1iS odD1SS vi
any me of u.s., to the general calam-
tiles which affict our beloved
try,-calamities that seem to be rap
idly eliminating, as we have just
heard of the disastrous defeat of Hood
before and Of S~hernlan'S sue
cessful and destructive march to Sa-
Vannah. How long, oh. GOd,-hOW
long!"
December 2f.-Another heavy snow.
December 22.-Today completes the
third month since my capture, and,
as yet, but the solitary letter from
home of October 10th. 7 forbear the
expression Of my repiniIhgs, as I fear
that l have already cast too gloomy g
shadow over the latter pages of this
Diary.
December 23--Recefyed today,
through Gen. Shoepfs hands, two
Xmas presents cop of T~ernyson's
last poem, from Mrs. Spaulding, Of
p. Y, and a beautiful Photograph AL
bum, with a few family pictures, from
my dear friend, Mrs. Anderson Some
writer, who evinced an intimate &C
Quaintance with the better side of
human nature, has said that "a single
kindness is more affecting than a
thousand misfortunes." Certainly,
such acts Of kindness and sympathy
go very far towards reconciling me
to the asperities Of my situation.
DtSSTnDtT -lnflS IN PRISON!
Day that brought the Divine Deliverer
to earth! Day of blissful memories and
hallowed associations in the past; day
Of double gloom in the contrast! Day
when the sundered links Of the social
circle were wont to be unit and
Frightened; day that seems the more
sadly broken and d~issipated now than
ever before! God be with my loved
ones this day, and grant that they
may be enjoying the erst happy sea-
son as much as our sombre national
and individual surroundings will al
low! Especially do I trust that my lit
tie ones may be realizing some of it's
pleasures, as / know, from my own
experience, that no recOl1ectiOnS~ in
after life are SO full Of charms as
those which refer to the childish fes-
t~ivities Of this sacred season.
We hav had the full services of
the Church but I preatlx nnicSod tho