The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-28
Written for the Telegraph.
ISLANDER.
BY MRS. CLARA E. HoYT.


The delusive itch for SANDER is too
common among all ranks of people
whether to crafty little, ungenerous
resentment; whether, oftener, to bring
upon level with themselves those with
whom they come in contact whether
from a narrowness and poverty of SOUL
ever envious of merit and superiority in
or the insatiate lust Of being witty, Ga
talent in which ill-nature and hatred are
no Ingredients or, lastly, whether from.
natural cruelty of disposition, distracted
from all views and consideration of self
to which ONE of these, or whether to ALL
JOINTLY, we are indebted for this conta-
glous malady, is hard for me to tell. But
this much is certain, from whatever seed
it springs, the growth and progress of it
are as destructive to as they are unbe-
coming a civilized people. To INVENT.
or, what is equally bad, to PROPAGATE, a
vexatious report, without color or grounds,
to plumber an innocent man or woman of
character and good name-a jewel which
perhaps he has labored long to obtain,
and would hazard life, if needs be, to Sc
cure; to rob him at che Same tine of his
happiness and tranquility of mind--and
all this, as Solomon says of the mailman
who casteth frebrands, arrows and
death, and then sayeth, sam / not in
sport ?"-all this comes of jealousy and
enyiousness, and oftener from worse mo-
tives and the whole seems such. com
plicatioE Of badness as requires no words
or warmth of imagination to aggravate.
Pride, envy, hypocrisy, cruelty, treachery
and self-love may be said, in one way or
another, to have occasioned all the frauds
and mischiefs that have ever occurred J;
bat the chances of coincidence of them
all IN one person are SO. many that one
would have supposed the character of a
common slanderer as rare production in
nature as that Of a great genius, which
seldom occurs more than once in an age
| would it were thus, for fearful retri-
button must await those whose lips know
no higher pleasure than to open in de-
rision of some human being. | repeat
that language of fearful discrimination,
whatsoever man soweth, THAT-not
something else-THAT shall he also
reap" That which you are doing to-day,
be it grave or gay, good or evil; each
thought, each feeling, each event; every
passing hour, every breathing moment, is
contributing to form the character by
which you will eventually be judged.
This is indeed a solemn thought Every
particle of influence that goes to form
that aggregate, gour character, shall in
that future scrutiny be sifted out from
the mass, and shall fall, particle by par
ticle, a distinct contribution to the sum
of your joys or your woes. Thus every
idle word, every idle hour, shall give an
swer in the judgment Conversion, re-
pentance, pardon, mean they what they
will, mean nothing that will save YOU
from reaping, down to the very root and
ground of good OF evil, that aohach goul
haze soa01a. Think not to wrap that flu
ture world in any blackness of darkness,
or any folding flame, as if for the amagin-
alton to be alarmed was all you had to feel
or fear. Clearly, distinctly, shall the
voice of accusation fall upon the guilty
ear, as when upon earth the man of
crimes comes reluctantly forth from his
hiding place, and stands at the bar of his
country's justice, and the voices of his
associates say, "Tbou didst at If there
be any Interchangeable, any adamantine
fate in the universe, this is that fate
that the future shall reoeaz the fruits Of the
past.
Bristol Station, Wis.