The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-11
Words of Wisdom.

The Divine Mind is tho ocean from which
all truth originally springs, and to which if
ultimately returns. To trace out the shares
of that shoreless sea ; to measure its meas.
ureless extent. and to iathom its unfathom-
able depths, will be the noble and iovous
work of eternal ages. Hitchcock.
There are persons of that general mill.
anthropy and easy tempers, which the world
in contempt, generally calls good-natured.
who seem to be sent into the world with
the same design with which men put little
fish into r pike pond, in order to be de-
voured by that voracious water hero.
FIELDING.
A kings jester was once asked, "Whlt
kind of place do you think heaven to be?'
ga place." he said, "where naught but
good is spoken of the neighbor." "And in
what" it was again asked, "does its su-
preme happiness consist" "In the feeling
that no one will SANDER me there, and that
if have any faults, it will be so unfash-
ionable to speak of them that l and you
will soon forget them"
Nature, before it has been touched by
man, is almost always beautiful, strong and
cheerful 10 mans eyes; but nature, when
he has once given it his culture and then
iorsaken it, has usually an air of sorrow
and helplessness. He has made it live the
more by laying his hand upon 1t and touch
ing it with his life. II has come to relish
of his humanity and it is so favored with
his thoughts and ordered and permeated by
his spirit, that if the stimulus of his pres
ence is withdrawn it cannot for long
while do without him and live for itself as
fully and as well as it did before. Jean
Ingelow.
After the shower, the tranquil sun;
Silver stars when the day is done.
After the snow the emerald leaves;
After the harvest, golden sheayes.
After the clouds, the violet sky;
Quiet woods when the winds 90 by.
After the tempest the the lull OF waves;
After the battle, peaceful graves.
After the knell the wedding bells;
joyful greeting from sad farewells;
After the bud, the-radiant rose;
After our weeping. sweet repose.
After the burden, the bllssful need;
After the furrow, the waking seed.
After the flight the downy nest;
over the shadowy rlver-resf.
Money and its problems are the best of
all topics for political controversy and
party organization. Slavery was bad, a
very bad topic. The discussion of it led
to blows and bloodshed. All questions of
moral and conscience are bad in politics.
But these money questions are, as my girls
say, ''just SPLENDID" Everybody knows
so much, and knows it for certain. There
are so many self-evdent truths, the which
if any man deny, he Is doubtless ne better
than an ass. By and by, if the discussion
continues and party lines are drawn and
one doctrine or the other controls legisla-
ton, all goes well, no matter which doc
trine prevails. Because, whatever finan-
cial policy may be adopted, there will come
to pass about once in twenty years or less
revulsion or panic. The party in power
of the panic. The "intelligent masses
will rush to the other party or the opposite
doctrines for belief. Thus will come 10
pass series of bloodless political equili-
brations, to detect and contemplate which
is ever a delight to the philosophie mind.
Thomas X. Beecher, in the Independent.