The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-16

l of a man.
 His soiled clothes speak of the place tk ,ere he has fallen and widowed. & < gering gait, a bruised face glazed
 ss and a slavering mouth-is 1t not K etty picture. E non he tries to save the shreds of personal dignity by a preposterous
 ,rt to stand erect, and anon he re- | ,2s his face into the smear of stu | smile. l. eoor, reeling sot
 His body reels and his mind reels. T'tih have lost their equilibrium.
 The boys of the street taunt him and
 / ow things at him, and he rails back
 them in his drunken rage
 Ie says he Is going home.
 slome-home to the wife who trem-
 ls at his coming; home to his chil- E who flee in fear of him. Is Id yet l town men and women find In this ibitfon of man. lowered to a > e that is lower than that of a e, something funny ey nudge one another and smile al lvDathetic trials of the poor drunk s5 keep his feet. They laugh as if uor crazed creature were a char red clown posturing for ther special nusement.
 :. Surely it Is dull ina ginatlea hs an find aught in such display ity.
 If to your child such a scene appears be amusing disabuse his mind. Tell him the truth. I Tell him this dipsomaniac Is suffer nd dc a physician Tell him that instead of 4, 5eers and laughter the unfortunate inc ltriate needs care and medical treat ment. Think of it.! M Is a sick man, staggering and weak land fevered figure to provoke laugh ter? Said the Christian commander of the N Texas at the battle of Santiago: Don't cheer, boys. The poor devils E are dying!" So the same fine spirit of chivalry l Eh hould say to the unthinking Don't laugh at the poor devil. He is going home to make miserable the lives of those who love him." I, Evep walk in dense fog? The mists shut out your vision, and the only clear space is that about you. As you walk the spot goes with you. But
 Your neighbor has a like experience. It appears to him that he is walking in the midst of the only bright spot. And thereby hangs moral. We are apt to self center ourselves. Each of us thinks he sees clearly enough,
 while those about him are befogged. Now, for instance
 You think your particular political party is the one best fit to serve the country,
 while your neghbor thinks your party F unfit and you blinded partisan. E 'lSee?
 E You think your particular church owns fhe real right of way up to the pearly | tes. The other man thinks you are a ligious bigot and that his spiritual \ ite is along the straight and narrow fsv. u think he is walking in haze. He
 Es you
 .tat is the matter? nsibecause of the fog that surrounds 't do not get up high enough to T ofIH wide horizon above the mists. Il k some one says s-,.s i've in barrel, and they look < through the five auger holes they fheiy five senses and think they see t3s univ rse." J. therefore, my breathren-.- ji uce we "see through glass darky," let us be slow to say of another that he
 travels in the dark. We, too, are apt to be befogged. Because H Few are the souls that are able to live always above the haze Eternal sunshine HI settles their heads. III And we? HI Why, most of us will not be able to get
 the wider view until the earth fogs shall
 have cleared away The one luminous spot that is about
 us, let us remember, is but a small ono
 inside the greater circle. Our bright | spot Is only a spec in the fog. And it
 may be-
 We shall know each other better. v A, When the mists have cleared away lf So shines a good deed in a naughty
 world.
 Il This plain tale of the generous doings of Richard Shell is an unusual happen Ing. | Doubtless you have read something 0d the strange career of Colonel She'll | the eccentric Illinois millionaire.
 Dick Shell was his only son.
 The others had died. and his father | called Dick the black sheep of the fam.
 fly. He thus wrote 1t down in his will |
 by which Shell cut off his son with
 the proverbial shilling.
 Young Shell broke his fathers will | and after much litigation was awarded
 $750000.
 And then
 Dick absolutely refused to accept |
 Jcre than $30o.0O0. The other s450, ,O0aj i4' said he wanted to divide with the |
 wiiows of his brother and her three |
 bpys, all of whom were barely provid- |
 ell for in the terms of the will To |
 the widow was left 5000 year dur |
 ng her lifteime. x That did not suit 4oung Shells con
 captions of equity.
 Therefore he called his sister-i law | and her boys to the lawyers office and |
 with map of Colonel Shells farms | before him indicated what real estate |
 he wanted set over to them
 The widow refused .at first to share | the sons patrimony.
 At second meeting. however, it was | finally arranged and the $45O,000 worth | of the estate was deeded This left |
 Dick Shell with only $300.0OO when he
 might have had S750.000.
 It was magnanimouse
 And it stamps Dick Shell as a high "a minded man with unusual sense of | justice
 He refused to consider his action as | in any way extraordinary, remarking simply when pressed for an explana. | ton:
 Why. that leaves me more than l | need"