Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1912-12-03
Johns Letter.

All that man hath will he give for
his life. Regardless Of coat be will ever
yield his little appendix 10 the surgeons
knife. When worse comes TO worse he
will submit to the sandpaperipg OF bis
liver II it will lengthen out his span of
life. As q rule he has personal re-
gard for his breathing apparatus. Built
that way. At the present rate of prog
ress the time is not far distant When .
man with an appendix will be . back
number and will not be received in good
society. II has been said that that little
sachet sack 10 legacy handed down to
Us from our illustrious grandparents Of
the bsboon family. 1t is also claimed to
be of no special use-ornamental, proba-
bly-s flourish at the end Of q writing,
soto speak. Also 1t is said that nature
does nothing in vain, 30 there you are.
Not long ago We read in the Lewiston
Sun the words of q man from New
York who had come all the way to Maine
for the purpose of telling the people
"where the dead are at" he spoke as
one having authority. Surely he 10 eli
gible to guess, like the rest of us-no
more. no less. To hear him tell IL, they
are neither happy nor MISERABLE, just
comfortably sleeping-no dreams either
goci or bad.
Il is claimed now that right around
one hundred thousand years have passed
since man came upon the scene, its beau
ty and it, deflement. II that be fact
the first sleepers have bad an uureason-
ably long nap. 1.-THE disintegration has
been going on that long without 3 hitch
or break they must be pretty we'll re-
duoed In weight aud measure. The dust
of which they were made could easily be
put in = pepper-shaker and il exposed to
ell the winds that blow must have been
scattered over q wide extent of land
scape. Were we permitted TO enter the
listlof guessers our guess would be some
thing like this: IL would be difficult in
the extreme to corral the old original in
dividusls. 1t would simplify matters
surprisingly to duplicate the guess of
job and say that the spirit returns to the
God who gave 1t.
Another guess is coming TO US, and
We would not hesitate to bet three to
ono that, when Moses and Elias appear.
Cd to the Master and bis disciples on the
Mount Of Vision, they did hot come from
. hole in the ground and did not return
to the narrow house when the meeting
was dismissed. II true uncanDy and RI
diculons.
When the rough but kind angel who
has walked the earth in white longer
than tongue can tell, writes bis procla-
nation Of freedom on dead mans face,
straightway the shackles fall, the ball
and chain he has dragged up hill and
down dale through all tho painful years,
is eaten of rust, and be 10 led out into a
larger freedom than he has ever known.
He sleeps, he wakes, he stirs into life at
the breath Of the eternal morning. He
''smells the rose above the mould" He
runs and 10 not weary. He walks and is
not faint. II goes without saying that
II he followed his natural bent down
here and needed the call of the wild, re-
fusing to run the race, the Christian
race, set before him, to the end of the
course, past the grand stand with its
great cloud Of witnesses, he 10 handicap
ped at the new life's beginning till
coached" by the celestials. IT'S our
ultimate guess, and We are willing to
wait for further information where ig-
norancs 10 obsolete as the cast-of raj
ment Of the soul. JOHN.