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as any philosopher ever d id .”
“ I will solve th e m ystery a la
like the rest of the m inisterial tribe
“ Well, fetch the bull along. I'm
Descartes. I th in k , the refore I ex ­
[ a romance by sa . m vel f*. PVTNAM] (| j j nothing but loaf. T h a t's the ready.”
C iia it k k III.
chi«f end of a m inister to loaf grace-
In d e e d .it seemed as if he was ist. I exist, therefore I live. I
It wa« only a little braw l, such as fully; and though •‘Jim m y ,” as he ready, he looked so m ig h ty in hit live, therefore I eat ami «lrink. I
eat ai.d d rink,therefo re I discourse.
takes ulace alm ost every evening in was sometimes called, had given up superb physical developm ent.
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ining town.
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else to amune th e m ,th e in h ab itan ts profession, be h a d n ’t given th a t up, “ this wasn t a successful revival- W hat can be more plain than th a t?
The logical conclusion of which is
tak e to th is form of recreation. It which is the last privilege th a t m eeting, was it? ”
isth e en tertainm ent of savages, clergymen yield. It is th e most
“ You d id n ’t begin to pray quick that I am going to sleep, and my
philosophy will dissolve in dream s.
which as civilization progresses, diflicu t thing in the world for them enough,” said Paddie.
“ I w ouldn’t sleep 011 the ground,
gives way to the opera and theatre to go to work
“ Well, I had the fun of trying,
Let me put you in your
for the more lively, and the prayer-
Jim m y had been a b rillian t at any rate,” said Jim m y.
I am though.
m e e ti 1 "and the funeral for tho<e
M ethod'st m inister.
He
could satisfied now th a t I ca n ’t whoilop little Led.” And they led the reel­
who are of a m oresober disposition, count his converts by the thousand. Dick. I feel discouraged, like the ing philosopher and preacher to his
I. is impossible for people to keep H e was a man of m arvelous elo- bull when he undertook to stop the quarters.
“ Come, Pete, you can stay with
nniet* r nd if thev can have no quence. He was full ot sentim ent engine.
me, if you want to. T h ere’s plen ty
other channel, they will insist upon and poetry. Religion was really a
oU |,a ' e J11*1’1' , / 1'
ch‘
“ bloody noses and cracked crowns.” lu x u ry «0 him, and he enjoyed it as courage you, I see, said ( ha, lie of room .”
“ Oh, no. I ’m all right now.
L ittle Pete came running up to such. It was a species of sens,urns s mu < t u r n ' y o u w o n <
v\.i 1
I ’ll go hom e.” And off lie went.
C harlie, as if to claim his protection, delight, am i I suppose th a t is the turn over a new .«it.
“ I don’t know w hat to th in k of
H e was a queer-looking hoy, rath er reason why he at last came to his
lave uim <»v«r <1
1
taU for his ap p aren t 7ge, •'*»« very ruin. He had no m oral principle, leaves, am i have co.... o the n ,s. th a t little chap ,” said C harlie.
“ I guess he’s a rascal. I never can
«lightly built, as if th e wind m ight only good-leeling. He hail no in-
c a n , oro . t i n
• ’
blow him away. He looked
eon- tellectual conviction; for, though have been converted m gh o n t o
a get a square look at him ,he’s so shy.
He’s nice-looking, but vou c a n ’t
starn ly scared. His bright eyes his mind was bright, yet it was just hundre« times.
were wide open and restless.
He bright enough to reject the old J ‘B ut you can try
it a hundred tell anybody by iheir looks. He
m ay be up to
some d ev iltrv .
shrank from com panionship, and ideas, an d n«>t strong enough to go times more sai
a««i«.
a» ig
G ood-night, Paddie.
I guess we
liked to he alone. Nobody knew forth and build in accordance with
1 H am p 0 * s <)U 0 ’ rn,
can sleep now. We’ve had our
whence he came. H e seemed like the new. H e was a child of pas- ' ,l^ \ bl,,n<;r m<1^
j
usual e n terta in m e n t.”
an
apparition.
He was well sion, and it is no wonder th a t in
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We will return to our friend Bill
behaved, and kept himself scru- the m idst of dazzling tem ptations in the last ditch, and I th in k I will
now, whose home was in a d ista n t
nulousv clean, though his clothes b efell. He m ust indeed have been stay there.
an« I solitary spot.
H e leaped
were alm ost nothing but rags, an angel of light to have been able
b u t it s a pu v . w a n vou to n «
G oble,1 T hrone was troubled b u t to play so powerfully as be did
so respectable, it you only lightly across a narrow ravine, ami
followed through the straggling
little abouttl»e waif. It was sublime- upon the passions of men and
If I only •/ would! IIow do * you tim ber a som ewhat beaten path w ay
Jy indifferent, even like a g reatcity , women, exalting and sweeping them
know th a t? I would, and yet I up the m ountains. H e so o n cam e
to any body and everybody. Pete away 011 tides of splendid elo-
to a large, open space or “ pocket, ’
can ’,.”
m ight have disappeared as mysteri- quence,w ithout him self being moved
“ Don’t you believe in the free­ from whence couhl he seen a vast
ouslv as he came, and not a word to the very depths of his sensitive dom o f w ill? ”
extent of country. A dozen lofty
would have been said. He m an- nature, and so ravished by physi-
“T hat is a p re tty deep question oaks were scattered about, in tin*
aged to pick up enough gold to cal beauty that the influence was foT a druken m in to answ er."
m idst of which was a c »bin with an
ob tain a decent living. Sometimes, alm ost overpowering.
A sublime
“ Well, I think a d runken m an exquisitely k e p t garden in front.
he did a bit of cooking for the m enial belief would have saved can answer it as well as anybody,” It was. indeed, a scene fresh an d
m iners.
him*, but he lacked th a t, and his >ajd Paddie. “ We are free to do beautiful as p a r a d is e . The golden
“ W hy, little Pete,” said Charlie, preaching was only a form of pas- w hat we are fa ted to
a nd th a t’s sunlight was Hooding it, ami the
“ vou are scared again, and all for sion, ami is it strange th a t that a jj n
m any peaks seen for m ilts away"
nothing.”
passion found other channels?
“ I believe you,” said Jim m y. “ I were shining as if covered with
“ I know it,” said Pete; “ but
So here he was at last, a disrepnt- have given up the struggle. I c a n ’t
jew’els. The wildness ami g ra n ­
Dick’s a fighting, and I thought able wreck, with no hope, living J ,, anything. They who say I deur of the view were inexpres-ible.
he’d fight me.”
from hand to m outh in this corner can do not understand me. Can 1 T he ta ll trees; the vast defiles; the
“Oh, he w ouldn’t touch you. lie of the world, am ong rude m en, h< h av e off drinking whiskey? No. the huge rocks tum bled about, as if
A nother m an m ight in my circum long ago there had been some fa n ­
takes those of his own size.’’
who had the power “ the applause .............................
“ But he swears terrib ly , and he of listening senates to com m and.” glances; and I m ight in the circum - tastic b attle of the giants; the
looks ugly.”
He was generally peaceable, and stances of another m an. But I, in gleam ing cliffs ami superb m oun­
“ Well, he is ugly, and so its the eam p delighted to hear
him ,,,y circum stances, can do 1,0 other tain-tops, tnanv of them clothed
well enough to keep out of his tell stories, which he could do with titan I do do, and th a t is to drink with dazzling snow’, all suffused
way.”
rem arkable dram atic ability.
To-
this bottle to the dregs.”
and glorified with the in* ffaldc tin ts
“ There was a a fight
fight however; night, however, he fe lt his oats, “ T h a t’s a good swig, and I guess of sunset,—m ade a spectacle of
h a v in g a sort of e x tra d r u n k , and you had h itte r go to bed on it.
but it didn’t last long.
wondrous magnificence. ()ne seemed
Big Dick was the bullv of the he im agined that he could m aster You w o n 't he able to talk theology to he in fairylan d , ami couhl
r settlem
v i ti v n i ent.
' .. . He
- - - was
........ over
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— D ick . H e so o n lav with bloody after such a d«»se.”
six feet
alm ost forget th at he had ever
high, and strong as a bull, and nose upon the ground, not m uch
“Oh, yes. I’m in just the mood
hear«I the “ still sad m usic <»f h u m an ­
ugly as the devil. He was a per- hurt however, hut convinced th at for iheology. I never unders'ood
ity ” in crowded thorougfarcs. It
feet b a 'b a ria n . H e was horn in the in m eeting Big Bill upon the field the universe so well as I do now. I
was like a vast, sweet tem ple of
wilds of Texas, and had been a cow- of the “ noble art of s* lf-defence” he r«*ally believe th a t I could evolve a
n atu re, where th e spirit couhl com ­
boy all his life till b ec am e to the had m istaken his calling.
system. I a m full of the ideas of
m une with noblest forms, and
mines. He worked h ard during
“ I ’m m uch obliged to yer, Plato, and I penetrate the secret of
revel in pure end beautiful ex ist­
the day, and caroused at night and preacher, f«»r giving me a chance. Hegel. “ I am never so ignorant as
ence, ami forget the superstitions of
kept things lively. It was seldom I wish yer were bigger, so we could when I m sober, and am never so
blinded men and the tram m els o f
th a t he could get a n y o n e to fight have a longer tussle.
I’ve no wise as when I’m d ru n k ; and I custom , l’here are times when sol­
w ith him . and so he had the field chance at all am ong these fellers, th in k tim es the way wi’h the re-t itude is inspiring, and the rude
to him self ; but tonight the “ minis- they all back down so quick.”
of m ankind. To be a phdoeoper, aspect-4 of nature «hdightful; atul it
te r” pitched into him, and was
“ We ought to im port a hull lor one m ust he intoxicated.”
is a rich, experience in one’s life to
ignom iniouslv defeated.
your especial benefit,” said Charlie,
“ You are a first-class philos- dwell am ong these savage su rro u n d ­
Golden T hrone could boast of a “ then we’d have some fun. sure.”
opner then,” said Charlie. “ I sup- ings, so grand and terrible, and
m inister as well as a deacon; but the
“ I ’d give fifty dollars to try it,” pose you can solve us any riddle, d rink in the spirit of the universe,
m inister w asn’t q u ite so sober and said Dick.,
I ell us who was the lather ot and become heroic in thought and
well-behaved as the deacon, and
“ I'd give another, for I would like A braham 's children. It you can purpose.
m ade no pretence at praying. He to see you bite the dust,” ta id auswer that, you will do as m uch
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