Show 1887 another date that of tb the federal constitution WO we liaro hata be been en it 11 nation ono one hundred years it is ia a pretty data to write after the ibe as the pen so go easily down the fail 0 of t th be 7 the years have somehow run inn heuy very fast since 1851 1850 gomy going down downhill bill to the end of the CPU con lu fourteen abort years more ilu ilo drawer will be trying in its ita I 1 fun atoll I 1 t ulness to the iho t century con tury I 1 it to lapolt out alit of its ita columna tb the e of tin tho nineteenth tile the nineteenth COO enry of which we tire lire so go pro proud rod now aill il lin ii arn and bud anti as wa w now coode coida send to ildi about the eighteenth oil ills lay that 1911 cornea comes in ini the satine able writers who tile the day before in the creps preps used the term nine to century RH as it if it were a kind at 0 lic al in itself will ivill turn ou on it in a patronizing pat ionizing manner they will speak about tho twentieth cOl country lutry as if they had madd it and that it must necessarily excel all alio tl 0 others they seem a groat great m many uy years 1887 do they not they arg ar real really only a little fragment of ti titue 11 U which has dignity only fromille fro from milie the fact oli that we are adding to it it is tari lad 0 odd dd conceit we have of it looked at in in one way it t is ia a respectable date dat but how long shall ive we be able to nd add I 1 to it and I 1 leep pop it gai going 1 ng in the tu worldly there biava been several attempts at a continuous dateo dale boat they ther havo ill broken do down w u how long langr shall WT keep up oarse iriti it 18 h a pity for scientist tift pui purposes poses that we wa could not have hava had universally ab as the hebrews huva have a continuous date dafa our oar breaking time in two in this way canies causes immense bist historical oricAl confusion leads to an unjust estimate of the past and adds to our conceit it rieves ri tea tito the impression that the historical stream is not continuous i indeed we absurdly try to loll 1011 biake akoi I 1 it b run both ways f from what we call the year ear 1 hence much of the theological difficulty in making people that the litow dispensation is actually at a continuation of the old dispensation we begin with ouirl our 1 and run it up forward with an increasing i sense of power and we i turn arn about and cast I 1 it t 11 up ip backward forthe for the buncio endeavoring to run the civilizations of antiquity into we the ground some where it gives given it false impression if bomay wa anay sai say it a pe petering out appearance to the at old a nations take 10 example they seem to be ba W wasting asting away awa in in tima W wad a TIB k losing year a after it ter year kear in instead of raining wo know indeed b but u t w we a have to learn it painfully t that hat thi the egyptians lid did not nob live back ward in this way wak it Is ia of course a absurd to suppose that menes when ho be camo came to his throne in ILL memphis dated his bis order to di dig the first canal acco according iding to Ilari marietta ettli ar or 2623 according to bunsen bansen or 2700 according to wilkinson or whatever it was wag and that every year thereafter ter he dropped one year and so ou oil and yet this is the way it appears to our minds with our oar queer chr chronology looked at honest ly iv it is ia not much of a date this 1887 nor is it aebi new tue pharaoh abb used it and no one knows wha t aba pharaoh ISO hit it was waa no doubt was waa cc con 1111 that jt wd befi hi mand he regarded it aa as merely werely th re a beginning of the years that egypt i would pile up increasing gi glory 0 r th I 1 h pharaoh who broto iia may hav bay hall had some borne conceit in the jig figures u res bu t it was a cheap pride tho the T anih I 1 h ht it tempt of tho the pharaohs Phara in this ibis di diorec I 1 reel lioa ought t to mako make us modest of OU our little achievement I 1 in n the way way ot of it data dat all the peoples people biafore us davd thal doubtless flattered hema alvea that their eras would endure as on ad the world lasts I 1 we me are interested in this year hode however vei as wo the conart was about I 1 say when it interrupted pok bay betanco be ec canco aufa it is a centennial year or to ia speculate whether it will be a yair of walor earthquakes or prohibition i or droughts bal at to SM see whether it is going to be a good year for real loin in fiction or whether the ide allatt will bogin to get det an inning ia idia I 1 such finch a seesaw L world that tha tibne ono canon can on ly iv keep his head bead by taking i a long historical perspective dud and noting w what flat jalcs they are that the rico race cares carea to preserve through all the ages a we w want abik to stick to facts but ill there ore are so me many of facts m material and imi ind and human nature is sod i men bra arel per r verso verse they are sal u abaya in n te rested 0 deved in this B scientific age in the it II ii ia absurd that a camel driver sli till rigo to marry the daughter daugh tey of tb the grand rand vizier 11 and nd pecobio Ie coBio grand vizier lf andru and rula leover over the tha kingdom 1 in norderto order to be true to it life to he be should hould have contic continued ed to oe a camel driver til his camel 1 died and everything allt went wrong with him and he ha mar ried a woman who d rank drank and took to hashish fund and ended as a beggar it albortt is much ach bettor belter for us to bead read this art of camel driver than thad about abaft the th other I 1 hat but somehow we have a sneaking noa klag fondness for that hat uneal story about abon joseph in the bible who abo a pit and sold fold ai as h ita and aino 11 to ruie ov over er ft egypt apt and be ba a bigger man than old Ph pearll arll it II 11 ayd 1 I in that incident t would have been very differently handled with more reality and we wa should have bad hotd misery all around it aris wn unnatural that career of joseph almost as much so as jbv that of the boy who p 5 art ed from a much lower boci social il ft 9 jah JV 10 A titu m t hat of joseph nud and came to be I 1 11 I 1 I 1 i adient of the united states we lye i it 11 to be thankful that in in tho the year i lie lid will him have become a legendary legent lary craod nature has no business to iuler fia with fiction in in tais way nil all lie aro are v quarrelling about it definition it is is to satisfy in in notion fiction tile the higher aspirations of the mind MI its its ith lower tendencies high libb life I 1 lit IN BS tal real nil lilt at linit as s low life durity arid virtue are aio just its as nl wil at their opposites though not so contrition maion lo anti and the iho aready contemplation of them in in lection is la more moie likely to lie be ennobling than the contemplation of we the inferior arid anil tile the balgar it is IB not a anew new notion in m the world but it is is a queer one that the base and unpleasant ili in life are more apal than the pure and the agree able Is it more mora necessary necessary tor for the tha goodof good ot mankind that the former firmer should be paraded rather than ihan the latter wye us life by all means 0 0 tha year 1887 do not exaggerate esa the ila bad or mako make the good room impo impossible isible but lot let us its hear now and then about joseph and nd abraham lincoln arid and the fortunate camel driver and lot let us ua associate oc sinful as wo are with somo of the lovely women who sye give to this mortal life most of its grace and charul charm DUDLEY DIDLEY WAH fsr ja n for jw vary |