The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-12-12
then she'd put her arms around me and
kiss rne, as | would do 10 you if you would
come near enough.
DO YOU mean," cried Donald with a

: friends overrate me, anI that consequcn
y oTerrate myself: %
THAT is exactly what NEAR. You SC
D my boy, that the Dnna'l-on Intellect, sue
as IT was, skipped over your father, and &,
, scended to yCu; but, after all, il was n
great gilt. You must allow that at YOU
age | wrote as we'll as yol do, but wh
cares for what ] wrote . Who reads it ;
am dead and buried aud forgotten, as vo
will be, sooner or later. PerhaP. some ca
rious descendant will pore over your paper
as you pore o7er mine, but it will all end il
smoke, literally in smoke; for you vi.
bum these papers. and yours shall be burn
ed likewise
you would Rave me bury my taIer
then, because have bit one -
"Not at al; | would have YOU ID th,
very best you can with it, as with the geo.
fortune that makes you SO beloved by your
family Only do it in "a sensible, raanly
way. And Judge youTeelf not by the stand
oil vi d lev YiIt!sii ifsclII-, Dll tE IlttS III
your past history. They woaid fam have
you think yourself underyalued by the pub
! lie; bat If this were rile case, you wotrli, ,by
| this time, have been engaged on some wurh
moreworthythan that Of writing lJv,-verses.
And then, as to yolr donest tic virtues
/ what test have they ever had Who has
thwarte1 your Will p? Who ms met vo.
coliiy on your return lone? Who has
refused to nurse you when your head
achei? Who has ever spoken harsh or
ags:avating word to yoi? YoIag MN,
! YOU DO no. know yourself, and have hui
to rise from the deal to tell yon So
The head of DonAll Donal ison sunk
lower and lower during the delivery y.of this
( speech. Its pungent Truth sank into his in
most soul. A hundred circumstances,
hitherto unno.iccl, corroboratel all he had
now heard, and he fals himself desccu lus
rrum ths pinnacle ca which he had been
placed, to his true level
\ new, tender voice now proceeded
from the portrait.
NJ, dear boy, it would pain me to
wound yoI thus, but that fee. that faith
ful wonnding is the greatest favor that
can he shown you. Do not lie discouraged
at the new yieS Of yourself you have at
tanned. You have talent, you are well e lu-
Gated. voI have many good and agreeable
qualities. Bat whca you enter the .ter-
nal world. the l:,cstiQa will rot be, D.d'st
thou shine upon earth? DiI men honor,
did friends love thee but was the image
of the Lord Jesus fpun / in thcc? DIS
thou live to horar Him, to love HIM, to
work for Him. Alas, many who were
first shall be last, ana last shall be first
As The voice died away in the sweet,
-arious, cadence another Tell upon his ear:
. really believe, Donald, yui have set
up reading all night; here yQa are, asleep
in yoar chair, the "a, burning, the fire out
and your face like that of one who had
seen vision.
Thus spake one of the sisters who had
done 50 much to spoil hun. lie started up.
rubbed bis eyes and cricd,-
WAS l really asleep? Then il was all
L dream
What was all dream ?
That graalml Donaldson real me q
lecture AMI then u short sernIn. ! de-
clare it sounded just ike Ler rha5 was
just the way she talked, us il i just the
way she wrote. No wonder 1t ali SCENE.
80 real. Well, ycu'il tinl m hcaceforth
y wiser, if not SAD Ter man
This was a hG chose to tel, but from
that lav he VA. in Iced n wiser man, far
he ceased to be wise in his own conce.t.
He performed the work in life that came
20 hun lumby and faithfully and as 70 the
Lor, and is doing it still.
Ani lie has married !. VIE whom he
dearly loves.
She is not "psrlcctly ami sb!e,' nor
'hnght, original and witty or remarkable
a. = "-opl housekeeper, or very ''yieli
inE," or ''all hcaIt aul soul, while ut the
same time prudent ami clrcdm>psct, and
able to hold her tongue" nor "yery f,nd Of
society,"" and "Iamest,c," nor has stag
mated, or grown fat and stupid"
She is simply a nice, g,oi sort OF. g,rl,
who does not take IRE easily, but can be
reused il yoa treat her i'll; wlo knn~s it if
her husband says witty things, and can
laugh heartily at them; who keeps house
very comfortably; yields sometimes, and
sometimes won't; ha. got Il heart and 4
soul, but then not a little humanity be.
sides; is prudent and imprlisnt by fits and
starts; likes to % out of an evening, and
is very hal py at home. Donalfs mother
likes her, and they agree together perfect
iy. With all the sters she had occasion
al "tilfs,' which do not amount to much,
but show that they are none OF them an
gels,-.just as = blus On ones paper proEes
| that the most immaculate sheet is not
! above getting soiled. She loYes Donald far
better than his sisters do, but not biindly
As they wished she did. She sees all his
| little weaki esses, and now AMI then gets
out of patience with him. And ste Will
| not let hl11 litter her rooms with his papers,
As he was brought up to litter al! bis roth
ers. But they get on beautifully together
| in tie main; he wouldn't change her iOl
| any "W heeler and Wilson on earth, and
she wouldn't give him up to marry king.
| And, beat OF all, if she does not help him
in his work, she never linders him by aay
! selfish claims on his time and attention
And as for him, his record will be on high
and reai thus:
"WeII done, thou good and faithful ser
rant, enter into the JOY OF thy Lord"
|
THE work of writing readable AM de
l.gatful hooks is almost over for one auth
or who, perhaps, more than any other
has endeared himself to every class o
readers, Hans Christian Anderson. Hi
eyes a.e failing him, long befuFe his geaiu
or his heart Is growing old. His physi
clans have told him he mus, give up writ
ing, at teas. Tor the present, perhaps fo
| the rest of his life No author ha, I'll