The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-19

The most pathetic last words those of Francis Ba
CON- greatest philosophical mind since Aristotle born al
most two thousand years before him. Bacon died dis
gaced but his work has been teaching men for more than
three hundred years.
"For my and memory, leave it to mems chart
table speeches. to foreign nations and to the next ages
He would not be disappointed if he could come back
for the world little about the present bride that
he took judge his reachery toward his benefactor
The next ages see only the intellect of gold not the
feet Of clay. Read Bacon's life and his essays.
Byron after his tempestuous career made miserable by
physical deformtoy and energy too powerful for his
body said: 81 must sleep now"
had written: Dead Cod how much there is in that
little word!"
Many would give a great deal to know exactly
what is in that word Many have worried about the I'M
certainty the other side of the curtain Rabcla dy-
ing, is supposed to have said:
Il am going to seek great perhaps"
He said also Draw the curtain the farce is ended
voltaire with a hemorrhage thinking he was dying,
said:
To-day take the perilous leap"
He was paraphrasing what Henry Fourth said about
changing his religion
Hobbies, the English philosopher in his solemn Levi
athan thought he had pretty well condensed all wisdom
Read his little book Human Nature" 1t is especially
valuable to advertisement writer's for is said that not
word in it is wasted. When the end came philosophy
was not much of a guide.
Hobbies final remark was:
Il am going to take great leap into obscurity."
Grattan, fine, eloquent lrishman, to whom his people
gave fifty thousand pounds for great national services
took his last leap thus:
81 perfectly resigned | am surrounded by my fam
ly | have served my country. have reliance upon
Cod and am not afraid of the devil"
May all who read this be able say much when they
realize that life is DONE and that never is the time
for some appropriate last words
Few, at death, to realize that it really doesn't
matter much what becomes one individual among the
countless thousands of millions that and go Con-
sderng how well all things generally managed in the
universe it would safe to take for granted that lit
tie microbes living on this earth will get whatever they
deserve least mercfu treatment when the time comes
Can you imagine divine justice bounding through eter.
nifty the poor creatures tit puts here?
While you here read good books, think earnestly,
try translate your thinking into useful work of some
kind Read biographies Of able Abraham Lincoln
fed his youthful mind on Putarchs lives Try those vol
umes
For hour every week at least read Shakespeare.
Here is printed in full the quotation referred at the
beginning of this article.
The temptation to put twenty-eght lines Shakespeare
into the hands of eight ten million Americans that read
the Hearst newspapers on Sunday should not be neglected
You won't waste time you read these lines twenty times
'All the worlds stage
And all the and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts
His acts being ages At first the infant mewng
and pukng in the nurses
And then the whining schoolboy with his satchel
And shining morning face creeping like snail
Unwilling to school, And then the lover,
Signing like furnace, with woeful ballad
Made to his mistress eyebrow. Then the soldier
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard
Jealous in honour sudden and quick to quarrel,
Seeking the bubble of reputation
Even in the lannon's mouth And then the justice
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut.
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and spper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on and pouch at sde
His youthful hose, well save, weird too wide
For his shrunk shank and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble pipes
And whistles in his sound. List scere Of all
That ends this strange eventful history.