Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-03
PRESCOTT Wis. THURSDAY. 3, 1870.

"a
liage so gloomy. men so heavy, and the
world so darki Blue spectacles, my
dear,
BLUE sPEcTACLEs!
An unwary young man comes to town.
He buys elegant silk Observation-Disclosures
on Chatham atreet for twelve cents, aud
diamonds at the dollar store. He sup
poses that whom play is advertised
" for one night only" be will have but
one opportunity of seeing it. He takes
a greenback with an Y on it as sure sign
that it is ten dollars, no. knowing there
are counterfeits. lie takes five shares of
silver.miuing stock in the company for
developing the resources of the moon.
He supposes that every man that dresses
we'll is a gentleman. He goes to see the
lions, not knowing that any of them will
bite, and that when people go to see the
lions, the lions sometimes. come out to
see them. He has an idea that fortunes
lie thickly around, and all he will have
to do is to stoop down and pick one up.
Having been brought up where the
greatest dissipation was a blacksmith.
shop on rainy day, and where the gold
on the wheat is never counterfeit and
buckwheat fields never issue false stock,
and brooks are always "current" and
ripe fall-pippins are legal tender, and
blossoms are honest when they promise
to pay, he was unprepared to resist the
allurements of city life. A sharper has
feeced him, an evil companion has de-
spoiled him, policemans "bi!ly" has
struck him on the head, or n prison.
turnkey bids him gruff " Good, night y
What got him into all this trouble Can
any moral optician inform US! Green
goggles, my dear,
l.. GREEN GOGGLES!
Your neighbours first great idea of Tiff.
is dollar; the second idea is dollar
making in all two dollars. The smaller
ideas are cents. Friendship is with HIM
a mere question of loss and gain. He
will want your name on bis note. Every
time he shakes hands, he estimates the
value of such greeting. He is down
on Fourth of Jubs and Christmas days,
because on them you spend money in
stead of making it. He has reduced ev.
erythiug in life TO vulgar fractions. He
has been hunting all his life for the COW
that had the golden calf. He has cut
the Lords Prayer on the back of a
three cent piece, his only regret that he
has spoiled the piece. He has calculated
how much the interest would have been
OIL the widows two mites" If she had
only kept them till now. He thinks
that the celestial city with pnyements of
gold is great waste of bullion. No
steel or bone eye glass would fit the
bridge of his nose. Through what
does he looki Gold spectacles, my
dear,
GOLD sFEcTACLEs!
know man who sees every thing as
it is: black is black, white is white, and
speckled is speckled. He looks straight
through man, taking him at any point
heart, lungs, liver. ribs, backbone, be-
ing no obstruction. People pass before
him for what they are worth. The color
Of the skin j, nothing, the epaulettes
nothing, the spurs are nothing. He
thinks no more Of dog because it once
ran under the carriage of the Lord
Mayor; and when prince has an attack
Of nose-bleedipg, the blood seems no
more royal than that of other people
He takes out Of one of his vest pockets,
scales, in which he weighs man in an
instant. He takes out of the other vest
pocket chemical apparatus, by which
be tells how much of the man is solid,
and how much gas. He never saw an
angel or spook. He never had pre-.
sentiment. Rather than trouble the spir-
its Of the future world to come this way,
he concludes to wait till he can 90 70
them. He consults no wizard to find
out the future; but by honest industry
and Christian principle, tells his own for
tune. The number of cats that wake
him up at unreasonable hours is four,
while to others it would have been fifty.
In the music Of his life there are but few
staccato passages. He uses no micro
scope to enlarge the little, or telescope to
bring hithcr the distant, but simply a
plain pair of spectacles, honest specta-
cles,
TRUTH SPEAKING sPEcTAcLEs!
But sometimes these optical instru.
ments get old and dim. Grandmother's
pair had done good work in their day.
They were large and round, SO that
when she saw thing she saw it,
There was crack across the upper part
of the glass, for many baby had made
them a plaything, and all the grand
children had at some time tried them on.
They had sometimes been 80 dimmed
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 the top Of them
while she read. Grandmother was
pleased at this return of Der vision
Getting along so well without them, she
often 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 who thought abe