The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-06-19
FACT. FANCY AND FICTION.

FACT, FANCY AND FICTION.
4. all-are equal bsforeth laws of7nnture, sc
should all 30 equal before the laws q men.
i. Justice is never discriminative, oil dis
ordinations must b tainted with injustice
That is but a passive virtue It best. which
has not been tempted: the pure gold Of post
tive yirtue Is known by having successfully re-
sisted temptation.
The idea Of mercy is the strangest creatioli
Of the human fancy. It has neither c0unter.
mart nor similitude in nature, nor does man act
in accordance with his theories concerning IT,
He who is born to D throne il but half q
king: but whoever has trampled his vices under
foot-whoev has subdued his passions TO the
dominion of his will, is a hundred times mon
arch though the paltry world should never
hear his name. s*~# 81
Heaven-gates are not 10 highly arched q
princes palaces they that enter there must 60 on
their knees.-Sciemtifc Press. An error Goo
made man upright, and to 60 on his knees oe-
fore his Maker, who delights only in good works
is an act OF humiliation self imposed.
There is no rest External motion, unceas-
awful majesty Of oceans deepest calm affects the
surface only; beneath its CLASSY Stiffness, with
power sublime, it's subterranean currents pour
along their swift. resistless course forever.
Sometimes, when sleep has banished from
my mind the bitter heartaches and cOrrodlng
cares Of this jeyless life, me,nery o'erspans the
des..late waste Of thirty fruitless years, aud
am again child again / am permitted IN
look upon the calm. sweet face Of my mother;
again to listen to the inimitable music Of her
voice; again her sunny smile illumines the
dark recesses OF my deeply Borrowing heart;
again receive her gentle caress. and am again
pressed to her heart-the only heart thst ever
loved me-which. again MS Of yore. palpitates
with warm aud joyous life.
Portraits and Poetry. emblems and momen.
tues these. the loss Of which could not be CON-
pensated. Portraits bring back to our men,-
cries in sweet distinctness the images OF absent.
aye. aud of dead loved ones; cherished faces
which We would not forget, although to remeu.
Der them is To weep. Poetry is the recorded
plants of the stricken heart-the audible mel
ody which wells up from the sunny depths
Of the happy human soul-the nnmistakable
prophecies Of a surely approaching millenni-
um. Without these. of how much Of joy
would our lives be shorn.
Ia the retrospect Of every lifc's descrt i a
beautiful oasis whose soft and dewy yevdure 10
ever beamy with the spIcndors Of sprinetime's
earliest morning Toward this scene Of hal
cyon loneliness We all turn aud weep that We
may visit it no more forever: thatthe forms aud
faces We there 50 loved to look upon have van.
ished 10 return not; that the songs there sung
will never be heard by Us again; or. il heard,
. h.sr h. IL hs,e
the love in which all their pa.hos was. unfclt;
ody to US have been whel,ned meath the waves
Of an eternal silence. This land Of fadeIess
bloom We call childhood"
Society is msdc up Of three classes: men OF
Drawn, men Of brain. and men Of cupning
The men Of Drawn toll. the men Of brain think
and the uicn OF cunning rule and grow rich.
OF the FIRST class are all those whose efforts are
directed to the adaptation Of the raw materials
Of nature to the needs aud comforts OF man
kind. The farmer. the mechanic the miner.
the artisan. OF the second class are all who.
having acquired useful. practical and scientific
knowledge. BY study aud experiment apply that
knowledge in directing the efforts Of their less
fortunate brethren to the speediest and least In.
borious methods Of obtaining desired results;
and whose wise supervisory hinta and unfelt,
unacknowledged control. are constantly tending
to the equalization Of supply aud demand, and
producing general utility. aud universal order.
IN the creations OF industry, now but little less
than magnificent chaos. OF the third class
are merchants, bankers. brokers' and all non
producing and useless classes who live to, and
by. the amusement Of the riches produced BY
the toll Of othera.s
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