Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1913 — MAKE SOMETHING OF LIFE [ARTICLE]

MAKE SOMETHING OF LIFE

§M Without Reason Should Any Paea Through the Joys and Troubles of the World. Thousands of men breathe, more fS lire; pass off the stage of life, and are beard of no more. Why 7 They did not a particle of good In the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the Instrument of their redemption; not • to* they wrote, not a word they j

spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished—their light went out in darkness and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die. O man immortal? Live for something.' Do good and leave behind you a monament of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name by kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come In contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your deeds will be aa legible on

the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as bright on the earth aa the stars of heaven. —Thomas Chalmers. Nero's Claim to Distinction. Aubrey Beardsley, the famous artist, once outshone Oscar Wilde, who was the greatest wit and conversationalist that ever lived. At a dinner at which both were guests Wilde talked interestingly on Nero for nearly two hours. When he

concluded, Beardsley, who was only a boy, spoke up: "Mr. Wilde,” he said, "you have tor gotten to mention Nero’s greatest religious achievement.' "I must confess I do not know to what you are referring,” admitted Wilde. “I am referring to his action of pouring oil on Christians and setting fire to them,” said Beardsley. "Wasn't it Nero who lighted the first fires of Christianity that Illuminated the world H