Richland beacon., 1872-09-07
Misers.

have s,si. Lob si@ d,g.s; PEOPLE called miSers
former wears | used TO keep niue 'oio
by me i'm order TO ascertain lor NY o' ~,
actly the amount of pleasure 10 pe Su' GUY
of handling it: this being the tfa''i'iY =, :;
delight of the old-iashioncd hiscr: ~ -
by no means to be de-plsed; li,lec M
four hundred dollars in douDie-ea99,e WI
do very well to experiment on. I'M nv,
something very agreeable Ill NY Ia,
yicim. very musical in the metai!c ciii,h'
9nrv satisfactory in the singular weight.
and very stimulating in the feeling ina,
all the world over these same yellow
disks are the master-keys that let one III
wherever he wants to 90, The servants tiia'
bring him pretty nearly everything ~, az
wants, except vi, tue-and Il gO0p ue"' ~ y,
what passes for that. | contr, I,ho
an honest liking tor the splc:.sciIpi ,ntanti-
specific gravity and the pr',iiIiol.. ,.p.r,tonJ
,,;,v of thc rnyaI metz. and understand
at,,:r a cnrt.in in,ye,rfcct fashion, the de-
I,b, that nm OH ragged wretch. starving
himself in . ray hovcl. takes in stlllling
rnirn,. ;atO old stockings and fllllng
earthen pots with sovercigns. and every
now aud then visiting his boards AMI fin
,,criig the fat pieces, and thinking over
III that they represent of earthly and an
inc ont his yllincaS into his palm and bath
inc his shrivcled and trembling hands in
the yellow heaps before him, il not the pro-
sale being we are in the habit of thinking
him. He is q dreamer. almost a poet.
Won and | read a novel or poem To help
our ima"inations to build IN palaces. and
TRANSPORT us into the emotional states
and the frlicitouS conditions of the ideal
characters pictured i'm the book We are
reading. But think of him and tie sig
ujiicancc of the symbols he il handling aS
compared with the empty syllableS and
words we are using To build our aerial
eIificeS with. In this hand he holds the
smile of beauty and in that the dagger or
revenge.
The contents of that old glove will
buy him the willin. service OF many an
adroit sinner and with what that coarse
sack contains he can purchase the prayers
of holy men for all succeeding time. In
this chest is a castle in Spain. real one.
and not only in Spain but anywhere h"
will choose II have it. If he would know
what is the libcrality of judgment of any
of tn. straightcr sectS, he has only 10 hand
over that On 1t of rouleauX 10 TIE truS-
tees of one OF lis educational Institutions
for the endowment of two or three pro-
Z Ip~StTSnlllS. III Nouil
remembered by coming generations. what
monument so enduring as a college build
ing that shall bear his name, and even
when its solid masonry shall crumble, give
place to another still charged with the
same sacred duty of perpetuating his re-
membrance. Who was Sir Matthew nol-
worthy. that his name is IA household word
on the lips of thousands of scholars, and
| will be centuries hence, as that of Walter
de Merton. dead six hundred years ago.
! is to-day at Oxford? Who was Mistress
! Holden. that she should be blessed among
women by havin" her name spoken CRATE
! fully and the little edifice she caused To be
erected preserved :,s her. monument from
generation to generation? All these pos
| sibilities. the lust of the eye, the lust of
tire flesh. the pride OF life; the tears OF
grateful orphans by the gallon !; the pray
ers of Westminster Assembly's Cate
chiSm divines by the thousand; the masses
ofpriests by the century; all these things.
,spslt more .e u more there be that the mag
and hugs and enjoys as he paddles with
his lean hands among the sliding. shining.
ringing, innocent-looking bits of yellow
metal. toying with them as the on tanner
handles the great carnivOrOus monster.
whose might and whose terrors are child's
play to the latent forces and power OF
harm-doing of the glittering counters
played with in the great game between
angels and devils.-Okcsr Wendell Holmes
IN the Atid,atic for Septenaber.