, 1865-04-01
ALL FOOLS DAY,
4 fhsrtcr en- Folly IN ihe General aad IN
the Abstract.

TIE toll OF the midnight bell dtA1n1sses the
| tuf!y Observation-Disclosures who comes IN Ike
lion and goeth ont like lamb. and 10 April Is
smongue. lie, the opener Of Sbzins-:he narne is
formed from the latin Aptfto-1 open-oounces IN
upon us with the merry ht p. skip, md jump which
from time i1omemostnl has characlat1zeo hs en-.
tree. He wears tie ioo1's esp and be1ls' tne hrst
Of Apri1 Is ".Al Fools Day"
Things and customs are not now IA &hcy used to
vss. Formerly the day was period Of toying
and teas1pc Of sending on fools cEEands, Of prae
ttra1 fokes, Even great Kines and grave Judges
sna st41d ministers descended from thsir Ordinary
ss g. of IL Ph
thc fucklcss Wight whoee. Ignorance: foreetful.
nees ar influences were bar TO the discovery of
the teIi Iii sfter he had been sold We do not do
these things now The boTs and girls remember
April Fool Day yc! but smo1E children Of fstesner
oi the JOKE practical
There Is reason for e1ythlng, II sou c.n only
aopa.F Fona prebany Be- fSnnd on
Investigation, to be. that normally We are fools
big enough, without The necessity Of special exhi
wen We nave ~ faith IN lie doctrine ofhuman progress
in eome thlcgs. We believe in the progress Of
fntcI1gcuc oi learning. Of the arts and sciences,
but not Of that article srapse,y a sslcd o3mon
hr mere Intelligent, but thcy ere ecarcely more
truiy Wise. Fool,stness ts bound up In the hesrt
Of cyc1y child, and ths rsd Of correction has not
src iii fools. The word ''fool" originally meant
"a wicked one, - and our theoIogians tell-ns that
cur aphosiem rs true in that fenBe; 1t Is eqa.l!y
OF our French authors has very apiy thus e1-
pressed II; -. .,.,
FL qui ne'D vent pas yotr.
Dolt sc METRE dc In yne,
Et c4eeer son xnfrotr.a
The world Is fill Of fools, nnd he that wou1d not
rce one, must shut himself up where he can SEQ
nobody, and must break his 1ook,ns-glass.
Franklin once enumerated q feE cla.ses Of Der
sons VIM "paid too dearly io- their whistler" he
might have extended The list indeanitely ely-fools
'.Motleys the only wear is worthy Of . place
amo1s ihe p:oTarbs. Shakespeare dealt largely
with tools, and one Of the grcatest secrets OF his
that be exposes a majorlty Of tho many eide, Of
folly. We fnd fooliEhness in all hts characters.
The oul5 parsonage in h!s King L:az who Is not
giving up his Kingdom 10 hfs daughterf, and Cor
della Was fool for so tzemcndo ousy forsetttnshe
court education as 70 epeak the truth. Kent was
q fool for following his masters waning fortunes,
and got placed where great many oihe.-siuple-
tons-hare been dabhlIng ,l.te'y-in tho STOCKS.
No need not instance others o. Shakespeare's
show how eeIegiously the we'll meaning msy be
fooled hy knaves, 1nd how they thcmselye. III
tn:n are foylsd 81 falling Into The snare which
sbylocE, si laco. Macbeth. Buckingham, and ths
POOR w,tlese piotceI-'th wzetched, rash, intrud-
ing fool "-polonius. Tho best Of all Gold
emith's Uprkar"The Vicar Of Wakefield ''-fs
tased on The very same cornerstone, and his skin
in building Up on that foundation has Determined
The work ae bne which shall live centuries after
his more elaoorate Eeaases have been FORGOTTEN.
time that they arc tremendous FOOLS They start
ed of, four years ago, on FOOLS errand, and are
1a1y 1ust resqEnfng 70 taelr zsnxs inase e. thsy
| situation. For awhile they fooled with the Amer
lean Eagle, hut he soon showed them that he vas
one deeply into The carcass Of accession They
herdcd together in solemn compact to play their
.'u,Ehe 1lttle game" In CONCERT. bu. they are now
eompauion OF fools shall be destroyed"
Still greater fools we're tae Northern Copper
heads--eympathizsrs With Sou bern tEaitosa-wt,o
rem" in their tyeesop. They have long 1irce d1s.
covered th,t they were foo}s-l: needs no f1sst Of
April 70 come to ie! them thatmthe A 11ef "a @ f.,
Of March brought The eonsunmation Of their
shame: Even now thsy, src IannIng to shelter,
and calling on The -Eoess md the he mountains 70
lreacy confessed thrir fo|ly. and ali have recent
ed, thorgh with come it has been not SO much
eor7cw for the FIN, as at The punishment
thoze e. Who Ssvs @ s'ways been ioys to ths Unios
there have been mh1y foolss Thousands there
are who lott all confidence. Lake David their
feet he'd veil nigh slipped, when they saw the
trust in The rteht, doubted that the Alnighty'e
hand was stretched ont still, fe11ed that his arm
was shortened 50 that be could not save. To such
as they Woula the word. Of the Rcdeemcr apply:
- OF! fools and slow of heart, to bclieve all that
the prophet: have spoken" Bat she blindness IL
departing. They too hsfe epeued their eyes, and
now see that be who 11leth in the armies, OF
hravcn has watched carefully over us, "briuping
them By way which they kncw not into The
promised land. They now gre that
Behind ifoMninE Providence
He hidcr . smiling face"
Many there arr who have speculated on the
trisls OF the na1lon. hare squeezed ont Of tts
needs thtff th0uEAncs, end rolled IN the wealth
which belonged Of hight to 1hc people. With not
few OF these It Is proven to he hut mere huttcthy
sllsndo1; eren now thelr gold IL becoming din.
The First Of april shows them II their true light
-as fools.
We need not puisne the parallel; It might be
carried into The private walks OF life, into the
hzunte OF ein, the f11ded palaces Of inqnlty; and
the radical folly OF ntnc:te Of the huuin race
sho~n-opencd ont to view. But 1t fa apparent
enough aIeady-ueels no exposure. 1t needs No
mummcrT to bring to the Euffkce the va.t amount
Of folly deep grained in the ~breas:, no Ap11l fool
doy to give it special prominence. Yet may we
not hope that Is eEen ''Fobls gather wisdom from
experience" we may become wiser than Of yore,
Ind not individually. ret as people. avert tic
Fate Of thonght and feeling Which would have
caused David IN looking over rs 10 say, in thc
bitterness of his heart, ~ All men arc touisrf