The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-11-19

The long winter is coming on apace.
The days shorten, the skies grow grey,
the moan of the wind forebodes ice and
snow and tempest. The world will, soon
lie, under the bleak heavens, like
shrouded corpse, cold and silent and
desolate, ,s.s.r
Shall the heart of man sink under
the universal gloom! No; there is a
world beyond the reach of winter; the
world of the affections, the world Of
human sympathies, which gather and
cluster around the fireside. Here love
dwells; here the intelligent mind looks
abroad ovor the great surging, strug-
Cling multitudes of the world; reads
the ebbs and flows Of public sentiment
ard watches the rise and fall Of gov
ernmants. .e.,.>-.
sTis pleasant, from the loop-holes Of retreat
To peep at such world"
We think one of. the finest things in
our literature, and one of the most
truly American ever written, is Whit
tiers splendid descriptions, in ''Snow
Bound . of the New England family Of
the olden time, in their Lighthouse, gath
cred around the rearing fire, while with
out the tempest roared over the great
fields of snow:s @'as
| '"Shut in from all the world without,
We sat the clean-winged hearth about
Content to let the north-wind roar ,-..
In bat11ed rage at pane and door,
While the red logs before us beat *
The frost line back with tropic heat
And ever, when louder blast
Shook beam and rafter as it passed,
The merrier up its roaring draft
The great th-oat Of the chimney laughed,
The house dog on his paws outspread,
| Laid to the fire his drowsy head,
| The cats dark silhouette on the wall
A eouchant tiger seemed to fall;
And,-fOr the winters side meet
Between the andiron's straddling feet,
The mug of older sinmered slow,
The apples sputtered in row, .
And, close at hand, the basket stood,
With nuts from brown October's wood"
But to do justice to this fine poem We
would have to quote the whole book.
The great lesson we would preach to
our readers is, first intelligence to i'm.
prove their condition, secondly cheer.
fulness in that condition. By cheer
fulness we mean not stupor but philoso.
ply; the spirit that makes tho best Of
surrounding circumstances and sees
the soul Of goodness even in things
evil" 3. s.'2@t -
And so, friends, we would say to you,
go into the coming winter with cheer
full spirits and clear heads. Remember
not the few who are richer, but the
multitudes who are poorer; count up
your possessions not your wants; your
blessings. not,your misfortunes. Make
your home bright with love and con-
tentment, and,-though it be Of the
hsmblest,1it will shine with . light
oftentimes denied to palaces. -
Do not isolate yourselves from your
neighbors.. Organize meetings for dis
cussions, for supper parties. even the
dance; for the pure and innocent
movements Of the dance are better than
faces that glover and hearts eaten up
with dscotent.. 80. .
So shall you triumph over the hos
tility of tho season, and make storm
cold and darkness beautiful. '.i1s;
Rememer how Robbie Burns paints
the merry making Of. the poor. Scotch
peasantry. Their rude and homely
fare. their holden gray, theirs severe
climate, could not quench the light of
intelligence and cheerfulness within
then: 80 -
WI merry sangs snd friendly cracks,
An unco tsies an funny Jokes, s~s'1s
Their sports were cheap and oheefy,ia
Till buttered so'ons, wi fragrant hunt, -
| Set . their gabs . steofih,i e,,. ~.
Syne, wi social glass, o. stFunt sa;.
They parted af careerin' 4 !.
! Fu' blithe that nicht.
We cannot conclude this article bet
ter than by quoting the advice Of, Jerer
my Taylor: -. s'stls''s sa.si:s.c9
Enjoy the present, syhateyer it may be,
and be not solicitous for the future; for it
you take your foot from the present stand
ing, and thrust it forward to- to-meffow's
event, you are in restless condition: it is
like refusing to quepch your present thirst
| by fearing you viii want to drink the next
day. If Tomorrow, you should want, your