Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-03-04
what does lie look? Gold spectacles
my dear,

what does lie look? Gold spectacles
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4 GOLD spECTACLEs.
l know a man who sees every
thing as it is: black is blatk, white
is white, and speckled is speckled.
He looks straight through man,
taking him at any point-heart,
lungs, liver, ribs, backbone, being
no obstruction. People pass before
him for what they are WORTH. The
color of the skin is nothi ing, the cap
aulettes are nothing, the spurs are
nothing He thinksno ihore of q
dog because it once ran under the
carriage of the toFd Mayor; and
when Il prince has an attack ofnose
bleeding tile blood seems no more
royal than that of other people He
takes out of one of his vest-pockets,
scales, in which he weighs a man in
an instant. He takes out of his
other vest pocket a chemical appd-
ratus, by which he tells how much
of the man is solid, and how much
gas. He never saw an angle or
spook. He never had a presentment.
Rather than trouble the spirits of
the future world to come this way,
he concludes to wait till he can go
to them. He consults no wizard to
find out the future; but by honest
industry andChristian principle, tells
his own fortune. The nu mber of
cats that wake him up at unseason-
able hours is four, while to others
it would have been fifty. In tie
music of his life there are but few
stacato passages. He uses no mi
croscope to enlarge the little, or tel
escope to bring hither the distant,
but simply plain pair of specta-
cles.
TRUTH-SPEAKING SPECTACLES
But sometimes these optical In
struments get old and dim. Grand
mothers pair had done good work
in their day. There were large and
round, so that when she saw thing
she saw it. There was a crack across
the upper part of the glass, for many
baby had made them O. plaything,
and all the grandchildren had At
sometime tried them on. They had
sometimes been so dilnmed with
tears that she had to take them off
and wipe them on her apron before
she could see through them at all.
Her second sight" had now come,
and she would often let her glasses
slip down, and then look over them
while she read. Grandmother was
pleased at this return of her vision.
Getting along without them she Of
ten lost her spectacles. Sometimes
they would be for weeks untouched
On the shelf in the red morocco
case, the flap unified. She could
now look off upon the hills, which
for thirty years she had not been
able to see from the piazza. Those
were mistaken thought she had
no poetry in her soul. You could
sec it in the way she put her hand
under the chin of a primrose or cul-
tured the geranium. Sitting on the
piazza one evening, in her rocking
chair, she saw a ladder Of cloud set
up against the sky,and thought how
easy it would be for spirit to climb
it. She saw in the deep glow ofthe
sunset chariot of fire, drawn by
horses of fire, and wondered who
rode it. She saw vapor floating
thinly away as though it were a
wing ascending, and Grandmother
muttered in low tone: ga vapor
that appeareth for little season,
and then vanisheth away" She saw
a bill higher than any she had ever
seen before on the horizon, and on
the top of it Kings castle. The
motion Of the rocking chair became
'slighter and slighter, until it stopped.
The spcctacles fell out of her lap.
A child, hearing it,ran to pick them
DIP, and cried "Grandmether, what
is the matter 2" She answered not.
She never spake again. Second
sight had come! Her vision had
grown better and better. What she
could not see now was not worth
seeing. Not now through a glass
darkly! Grandma ther had no more
need of spectacles Hearth and
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