The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-16

and there into drops.
TRUE DIGNITY.-Lofty ends give
dignity to the lowest offices. 1t is,
for instance, an honest, but you
would not call it an honorable &C.
cupation, to pull an oar; yet, if
that oar dips in q yeasty se2, to i'm
pei the life boat over the mountain
waves and through the roaring
breakers, he who has stripped for
the venture, and, away from weep
ing wife and praying mother, and
clinging children has braVelY
thrown himself into the boat to
pull to yonder wreck, and pluck
his drowning brother from the
jaws of death, presents, as from
time to time we catch q glimps of
him on the crest of the biIlOw, a
spectacle of grandeur which would
withdraw our eyes from the pres
ence of a queen surrounded with
all the blaze and glitteriDg pomp
of royalty.
Take another illustation, drawn
from yet humber life. Some years
ago, on a wintry morning, two
children were fonnd frozen to
death. They were sisters. The
elder child had the younger seated
in her lap, closely folded within
her lifeless arms. She had stripped
her own thinIy clad form to protect
its feeble life, and to warm the icy
fingers, had tenderally placed its
feeble hands in her own bosom
and. plying men and weeping wo-
men did stand and gaze on the two
dead creatures, as with glossy eyes
and stifrened forms they reclined
upon the snow wreath-the days of
their wondering and mourning
ended, and heavens own pure snow
no purer than that pure sisters
love. They were orphans house
less, homeless beggars. But not on
that account, had [ been there to
gaze on that touching group, would
1 have shed one tear the less, or
felt the less deeply that II was
display of true love and of human
nature In its last fallen aspect,
| which deserves to be embalmed in
poetry and sculptured in costly
marble. -sE
Yes, and how ever humble the
Christians walk or mean his occu-
patton, IL matters not. He who
lives for the glory of God, has an
end in view which laRds dignity to
the man and his lite. Live, then,
Cooking unto Jesus ;" live for
nothing less and nothing lower
than Gods glory; and these ends
will lend grandeur to your life, and
shed q holy, heavenly lustre Oh
your station, however humble it
may be.-Dr. Guthrie.
Down THE RHrNE.-Unlike most
great rivers, the hill or mountain
scenery of the Rhine, after it de-
bounches from the Alps comes af-
ter the valley, instead of before.
You journey for days down the
river, through great plains and
valley, before you come to a hill
big enough to hold a caslle to any
advantage. Your first castle OF
consequence sits upon a hillside
among the grspe-vines, Just oppo-
site Bingen. You look at this, but
do not like. it. 1t is an imposture
You gaze at it carefully with you
glass from the deck of the steamer
that steals slowly and cantioUsl,
down the, river through the rocks
and you see that it has been re
; paired. You havae suspicion tina
, it Is put there, or at least carefully
preserved for foolish tourists like
, Yourself, to look at; and then vol
turn and look at "Bingen on tn
Rhine" A dull place; and you d,
g not feel so deep a sympathy as yot
! did for thefpoor soldier who die,
: in Algiers, for you know how lIttl
. | Ia Loot sNa cnosF9or q N,
more.
Another turn in the crooked
E larger beer looking river, and "a
a other castle. Another turn, snI
; another. Then two! threei Oper
! books whipped ont, notebooks
guidesbooks, and everybody
, busy for an hoar. The thing the
; begins to its Interest, for you can
not keep track of them all, and 20
wish there were not any more o
) all The rushing river. But sti
4 the castles continue. Sometime
: they: come right up to them, and q
= down on a bluff fifty or hundre
i feet above you. Then again, the
i SIT indistinctly back, and eertainl
: look the better for It One Of
- Tenton built his castle on Q lit
n island in the river. This, it is sal,
: was for the purpose of taking tot
/, But whatever this one old sfeiio
!. may have taken, IL is safe to ssy
1. did not make half SO much out
the whole world as the German
are now making out of Americs
n tourists who go there TO gaze up(
+ these sorry old piles of stones.
Is Joaquina Miller, in January OFs
n land Monthly. es
e HARD TsdRs EAsT-The edit
e of the lola Register is Visiting t
ID eaetand writes from Wayerl
20 New York:a - 81 20
e. Is Everybody complains of ha
= times, and the scarcity of mons
here IN the east as well as the we
e. and Improvements, as a gene
"A thing, are at standstill. NJ
y chants sag that trade this fall is 4
- nearly ss good as in former yea
"a "a that people are getting along W
* As little as possible, and the caste
ed farmers seem to be Just - t'hs
Of M and do fully IS much grun
ling as the. western farmers. as