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Show gJUfym!".! r- - ... p-. itorf- -: WK-? CHATTER. rr jt TRUTH, - u- 3 A ing. legislate against the specified act, only to see it violated before the ink is Being the Personal Opinions of the dry which made it effective. When Writer and for Which no one else is "ather Adam and Mother Eve were turned loose in the Garden of Eden .in any manner responsible. they were told by the Infinite that once in a while some fellow Every breaks out in a new pla :e. Listen to the following which appeaml nailer a Boston date in a recent issue of a New Y"rk newspaper which ha: never been accused of being in the least bit yellow. and which little anecdote is, no Professor Dallas L. doubt, fact: Boston of Sharp, university, in a sermon at the First Methodist church No woman who yesterday said: wears a sea gull or song bird in her hat can ever get to heaven. If you need an Easter bonnet, get it. Wear it to church for what better place to wear it than to church? It is an honor to God and a benediction to the soul to. have and see Easter bonnets. Get the bonnets, however, without robbing and killing. Those who rob the bird bird of beautiful pluand the song cannot mage hope for heaven. Jt Jt If what this minister says is true, the sulphurous furnace must be filled to overflowing with the writhing of wraiths while its women, and awful hills gloomy caverns and with screams echo re-ech- o feminine Because, anguish. to admit the lamentable truth, our sisters, our wives, our sweethearts are most of them guilty of this practice and they inherited the fashion from their mothers and grandmothers, many millions of whom have gone on before and must be, according to the assertions of this professor, squirming out an expiation on the red hot gridirons in the kingdom of' the Prince of Dark ness. But isnt that statement a silly one? What is the use of a parson, called to preach a gospel of undying love, saying such foolish things? Such statements do no good whatever; they are positively. wicked. While his object the protection of the birds is one which cannot be too strongly commended, there is no manner of use in an intelligent being making an ass of himself in his efforts to bring it about. The idea that a woman who wears in her hat a bird that another has killed cannot go to heaven and the fellow states no exception to his rule is al rot. of - jt jt It is not strange that so many evangelists of so many denominations endeavor to scare people into being good; that their efforts at redeeming the sinful are nearly always confined to frightening their listeners into the straight and narrow path? s That when this fails to work the change sought for then they for shout legislation? Because that When the mortal dread is history. of the land where melted lead tastes like ice cream, so great is the disparity, in the degrees of heat, fails to bring the erring into the fold, then comes the petitioner with his demand for sumptuary laws. When the parson fails to entertain his hearers with his description of the course of conduct to pursue in order to inherit eternal life, and part of his congregation won-drou- would rather po, and do go, fishing on Sunday, then the parson asks the est legislative body to make it an offense to fish on that day. jt jt This, too, in the face of the history which began when the world began, which tells us that all we have to do to cause our brother or our sister to err is to first say if he or she does a certain thing they will suffer for it and when they fail to heed the warn tell a man, or a woman, that he or she gregation then the writer is no good shall not have this or that, and see as a prophet. Why, tho women will how quickly either and both get a wear birds just to see if the Lord hustle on. We have tried prohibitory laws. Iowa and Kansas fur instance. will keep them outside the gates, as They shut off the wet rations of the this man has said. to And if what he be incorrect he could of eat they every fruit therein, 'estive corn shucker and made it quite says should prove save and except the harvest apples. difficult for him to obtain liquor, but will get the merry ha! ha! when he reaches the land that is fairer than That was legislation. The eating was he started the drug store, establish What a foolish- man. forbidden by law ; not man made, but the r Why in business, opened up day. he enacted by the Creator and Ruler of dram shops in cellars and sold to his didnt get up there and say to his the universe. He attached a penailty fellow man, booze that would take his dearly beloved something like this: to this statute, too, and said: The tracks in the snow, chase him four Sisters I am grieved to see that you day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt miles and put him to sleep. Under wear hats with song birds on die. rewas surely the Well, what the open system he would not have them for ornaments. Do you not sult? The Lord wasnt out of sight drunk that sort of stuff; he would have know that it is wrong to deprive a livbefore Eve was firing clubs at the tree passed it up. We have had strong-lunge- ing thing of its life simply to gratify and in forty minutes after the first apexhorters stand up and for cen- your vanity? That every feathered songster which carols its good night ple fell she and her liege lord were turies assure us that the fellow wi chasing round the place looking for fig looked upon the wine when it was red hymn or warbles its morning greetleaves. when it get its habits on, wras elected ing to the sun and to its God was sent Jt jt to a perpetual homestead in the region here to gladden our lives by its music; Its in the blood yet. That same where there is weeping and wailing to tell us that He who watches the fall old feeling has existed since the fall and gnashing of teeth, still the beys of the sparrow has placed birds here right on lushing and the distil- to cheer us, to tell us in' Natures lanof man. Had Adam and Eve been keep leries enlarge and the breweries build guage that He loves us? That every told to gorge themselves with the fruit additions. burnished feather in the robe of the of the particular tree alluded to, it is plumaged one was borrowed from Jt Jt and placed here that we,, the dollars to doughnuts they would have It is the same with this preacher Paradise children of one common Father, might sniffed at the stuff and gone after and his bird scheme. If there isnt occasionally catch a glimpse of "the So it is with us. Just a boom in the bird market in his con- - glories of the home prepared for us? gooseberries. That when we deprive one of these tiny creatures of life we deprive ourselves and our neighbors of a part, of the gladness ana the happiness which has been given us by One who loved us so well that He gave his only ..begotten Son for our redemption? .That to slay one of these beautiful creations is to inflict pain; not only upon the little victim, but upon the great heart of the Mighty One whose love for us. is as boundless as the space around, above and beneath; as unlimited as the eternity which awaits us? He sent the birds to tell us the sweet tales of woodland, brook and dell;, not to kill for ornament. , Because he has provided for that purpose the flowers. For the fair one with the golden hair. He has caused the violet to bloom in profusion, the anemone to blossom withLeft.of out limit; for the dark-eye- d beauty South Entrance, He made the red rose and painted the bright carnation with the hue that was bora on the morning when He said, Let there be light, and there was For the stately one with the light. face like graven marble He brought We have the largest stock of high-clas- s into being the lily in its purity, while for the children He colored the meap goods west of Chicago. But we also - boot-legge- d , . . Gentlemens hings carry the .medium and cheaper grades, for we are here to do business with everyone. You need seasonable neckwear. Grey, specialties for Easter. white, white and black and other stylish shades predominate. Our line of mens shirts is very complete. Nothing like the line elsewhere. We are the first to introduce the new quarter size collars here. Our mens hosiery line is very com- plete splendid assortment of gloves, canes, vests- - the latter in the very latest and nobbiest patterns.When we mark down a price on any article it is not marked up before it is marked down. Our low. prices are surprising everybody. . Nobby - ' . dows with brilliancy. As you look about you and see in the handiwork of the Creator all this symmetry of effort, will you not say that from this time on you will live closer to God by adoptThat from ing His suggestions? henceforth no winged creature shall die in agony that your personalities may be adorned with their frail bodies and bright colors? But that instead on out will the broad bosom of go you Mother Earth and there from the bright garlands, she has woven for your delectation you will cull the loveliest and the best? So that when you kneel at night by your bedsides to thank Him for His manifold mercies; for His Fatherly care and protection; for the hope He has given you of a better land, where the soul shines re- splendent without addition or ornament and lives through the years of eternity in a state of perfect peace and Heavenly joy, you can lift up your voices sincere and secure in the knowledge that your hands are not dyed in the blood of the innocent, comforters sent here to cheer us on our way. I dont know whether that would work in a sermon or not, but to my: mind it beats jthis hair hung, and breeze shaken over hell argument all to bits. C.' M. J. . Women in New Orleans! An abstract, of the recent New ' l leans census develops the fact'tl there are 15,000 more women In t city than men. |