Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-02-12

laurels: and the outstretched hands
would grow old and thin and tremulous.-
still clutching vacantly at sorneshing1ust
beyond their reach. !,
10 a rich man ever satisfied with his
wealth? When he sat, ragged bcggar,
at the doorway Of some proud Dives, shi-
vering and hungry, be thought few pal
try Thousands would be enough to make
him happy for life time; he reached
out his gsimy hand, toiled humbly. pa
tien,ly. persuveringly, and won the treas.
ure. Was it enough? No I! the ring Of the
hard yellow god was whip that urged
him on in pursuit of the glittering phan-
tom Behold him to day--old, wsnklcd,
storm. He has houses and lands /; the
white wings Of his heavily freigh,ed ships
float ever every SC he lives iu palace.
his servants are livericd, and coat Of
a, ms is emblaz,ned on his eqnipages he
has friends in abundance his Influence is
boundleeh. and his name tower Of
strength and yet he is quite as far from
being con'euted, as he was at the outset,
he wants mere and 80 he will con.
tinue to want to the end Of his existence.
unlcss, indeed, some great financial crisis
cheats death Of its victim, sweeps every.
thing away. and leaves him mere wIerk,
stranded upon the shores of time, hrokeu
and desolated by the beating, pitiloss
waves OF adversely and ruin.
Give man fame and see If it viii sat.
i.ly him. Let the wide world be proud
to ut er his name crown him with fa e
less iaurels, ard set him op thrones OF
solid gold he viii still 60 climhing up
the crsesy steep Of popularity, with his
eyes tixcd on its ve'y topmost height, uu
til he grows faint and weary, loses his
toothold. and fails crushed, mingled and
liieess back into the darkness from which
he atartcd. n. Tcradventaro he reaches
the height at last, the glittering crown
he sought will break into ten thousand
pieces in his eager grasp---a mere bauh!e
and lie will still lock for aome more
lofty attainment.
Is this then, the fate Of mankind p
to be always unsatisfei, always graspiag
for something 5ust beyond the reach al
ways unhappy, since discomfort IS but
another word for unhappiness; and do
we do we'll to drawl out the hackneyed
maxims, BE satisfied with what you
have" "Les we'll enough alone and
"rcmorrow will take care of ITSELF be-
lieving that they will help US to learn
the lesson of coutentment? No We
mock ,he Creator when Ta atrvs for what
we call real contentment The germ of
disconteut, which is planted in every hu.
man existence. is the instinct of immor
tality; immortal souls, cagcd baund and
stiaed in mortal bodies, cannot Be satis
fed, bat are ever pressing forward 10 that
eternity where their real life begins; aud
the bodies which imprison them, donving
from them that vital principle which
makes them living things, must partake
of their nature. Discomfort, then, is
natural without il thcie would be no
prog,essinu; the world would stand still.
But we are wont to say chat a disseminated
man canpat be hdrpy; i, is true thst he
Is not. but he my be if be will only
learn the taismauic seere,--to lie con
tented ard still ambitious to e'j'y the
present and yet want more for the future.
TO be happy and still dissatisfied. is this
possible ? Certainly. aud simple. too
We have OILY to be prepared always for
disappointment, reVeises and misfortune,
only TO educate our hearts to an elasticity
With will enable them ID rebound from
the hardest shocks This once achieved.
we shall have learned already how to be
coutented an1 discontented at the same
time. aud shall he haIpy. with one hand
caeping the present good, while the other
reaches out for something better aud 'asre
dcsilable in The future.
Hume Ionnal
THs RapRass CiaLarri. About fort.