Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-20
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1854.


mer- home in Lennox, Mass, sends, weekly,
some of the pleasant thoughts he finds there,
to the Independent. We borrow a cluster of
them for the refreshment of some of our
readers. ......t
d" 1t was not meant that the enjoyments of
life should be few and intense, but many and
gentle; and great happiness is the sum of
multitude of drops. Those days which are
the channels of mighty joys are the most mem-
orable. But they exhaust. They cannot be.
planted upon the same soil. They unfit US,
for common duties. We take them as we do
mountain-tops. We go up occasionally, not
to dwell there, but to see at a glance the
whole of that which, upon the plains, we see
only in succession and detail. But the staple
of pleasure must be found in small measures,
and in common things. They who are seek
ing enjoyment IN remote ways, abandoning
familiar things and common experiences for
wild and outstretched hights. will find moro
and more, as life advances, that they have
taken the road to warnings, but not to enjoy
ment. The secret of happiness lies in the
health Of the whole mind, and in giving to
each faculty due occupation, and in the natu-l
raj order of their superiorites, the Divine first,
the human second, the material last. And
every one can find, but in different degrees,
the food for all their faculties in that sphere
into which God has cast their lot Instead of
seeking happiness by going out of our place.,
our skill should be to find it where we are.
Our pleasures should, like bees honey, be ex-
tracted not from few stately flowers, named
and classed, but from the whole multitude,
great and small. which God has sown with
profuse hand to smile III every nook, and
make the darkest corners warm with their
glowing presence. Every thing which is
made has an eTrand to US, if we will hear.
But the porters which place at the avenues
are instructed to turn away all that do not
come with certain badges.
On such glorious morning of perfect day
as this, when all the smoky haze has gone
from the horizon, when the sun comes UP
fresh and clear, and will go down unreddened
by vapOr; and the mountains come back from
their hiding, l wander forth, wondering how
there should be sorrow in the world. 1t
seems as if it We're thing that l had read
about i'll hctions, but had half. forgotten, like
a fading dream. Every sense is calmly alive
and every faculty that lies back of sense is
quietly eXutant. My soul is like a hive, and
it swarms with thoughts and feelings going
nimbly out and returning with golden thighs
to the growing comb. Each hour is a perfect
hour, clear, full, and unsated. 1t is the joy
of being alive. 1t is the experience of that
living Joy which God meant to eYhale from
each faculty, Just as odors do from flowers.
Such days are let down from heaven. On
such days the gate that looks toward the
earth has surely been set wide open, and
hours are but the spaces which lie between
angels that God sends to bear in immortal
joys.
The fullest enjoyment Of the country does
not arise from stray eXcitenents acting in
straight lines; not from august mountains,
wide panoramas, awful gorges, nor from any
thing that runs in upon you with strong slim
ulations. All these things have their place.
But they are occasional. They are the sub
base, and come i'll as the mighty under tone
upon which soft andsyarious melodies float
a thousand daily little things which make
their offering of pleasure to those who know
how to be pleased. There is no difference
between one person and another more char
acteustic and noticeable than the faculty of
being happy. Some seem pierced with half
a hundred windows, through which stream
warmth, light, and sounds of delight. 9th
ers have but one or two stately doors, and
they are mostly shut. Some persons are al
ways breaking out into happiness, because
every thing is bringing them pleasure. 1t
comes i'll at the eye, and at the ear, at the
portals of smell, taste, and touch, in things
little and great in shapes and colors, in con-
trasts and analogies, in eXacttudes, and in
fanciful associations; i'll homely life, aud in
wild and grand life. But Others there are
that go for enjoyment to nature just as they
dress for company, and receive pleasure, for
mally, in religious state. Or they march out
to behold noble aspects, as if they felt bound
to Keep up respectable show before nature.
The tull enjoyment of nature requires that
we should be as many sided as nature herself.
1t is to be considered that God found a reason
Of pleasure in every individual thing which
he has made, and that an education on our
part, toward God in nature consists in de-
veloping in ourselves pleasure in every sim
gle object which exists about us. So sadly b
are we brought up in this respect, that it
must be very serious education.
As things go in our utiltarian age, men
look upon the natural world as foundation
for industry, and upon all objects as related q
to industry. Grass Is for hay, flowers are
for medicine, springs are for diaries, rocks are
for quarries, trees are for timber, streams are
for navigation or for milling. clouds are for
rain, and rain is for harvest. The relation of
al object to some commercial or domestic
economy, is the end of observation. Beyond
that there is no interest to it.
The earth has its physical structure and
machinery, well worth laborlous study; it
has its relation to mans bodily wants. from
which spring the vast activities of industrial
life it has its relations to the social faculties
and the finer sense of the beautiful in the
soul; but far above all these are its declared
uses, as an interpreter of God. symbol of
invisible spiritual truths, the ritual of high
er life, the highway upon which our thoughts
are to travel toward Immortality, and the
realm of just men made perfect that do in
herit it. i.aalaoerrs 5se4
VrLLA1NY VS.. yIILAINY.-The New York
papers tell of dodge to raise the wind in
that city that does credit to the sharpers
whose wits gotit up. There are three gentle
men engaged in this enterprise, and we are
told they have collected some thousands of
dollars during the past few weeks. Their
plan of operation is Two of them dressed as
laborers visit a grocery store, buy pound of
some cheap article, take it off to a corner and
weigh it with standard scale which they
carry with them. II it falls short of the full
and correct weight, (Which it does in nine
cases out of ten they kick up grand breeze
with the grocer, threaten prosecution, and
finally, through the Intervention of gentle
man (the other partner,) who steps in just at
the nick of time the trouble is compromised
by the payment Of an X or v by the grocer
to settle the matter. In one instance, $50
was paid to hush up one of these cases tie
article bought was sugar, and the pound only
-weiohed thirtean ounces !