Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-06-21

oiN ~ III oiiN W III Ill Nl1ItIl Jjle nIfUS OF |
men have for years been running and each
day, i'll going, carries with it something it
had not when it came, but which can never
be forgotten until
''The world grows old,
The world grows cold,
And the leaves Of the Judgment Book unrolled."
Shut yourself up in a dark room where
only a single ray of the sun can enter. You
see, what? Only a long, slender pencil of
light. But hold a small vial of water before
it and that ray, III passing through the vial,
is resolved into its original elements and we
see on the farther wall all the colors of the
rainbow.
So with the mind, as it comes in contact
with the world all the elements of human
ity are brought out with vivid distinctncss,
and leave their impress behind them.
Hinged by time and colored by circumstance,
the rays OF the human organization are
brought into full and vivid relief; and as the
darkeDed room is illumined by the SINGLE
ray of light, SO the darkness of degraded
Humanity is lit up and the world made so
much the better.
Sydney Smith tells us that the fire in our
minds is like the fire which the Persians
burn in the mountains it flames day and
night, and is never quenched.
And yet. a match lighted ia little splin-
ter of wood with a coating of sulphur on one
end, and needing no more strength than
that little baby Of Florabelle's, playing on
the floor at her feet, can exert, to strike it
into a flame; but behold how great a fire it
kindleth. Through it cities are laid waste,
communities made homeless, nations des-
troyed.
DO YOU remember that Indian tree called
the Banyan, that sends its branches down.
ward to the earth from which it's roots draw
n~ourishment? Each branch, as it enters the
bosom of the ground, gathers strength and
/ sustenance enough to send another shoot
forward that shall in time drop gently down,
touch, embrace, and finally lie within the
t all-iudulgent bosom.
So the mind, adding to its treasury of good
!, or evil, sends another and still another
branch of influence into the field from which
it sprung. And though the originating
cause may have wholly disappeared, yet the
circle of it's influence, who shall say how fal
it shall extend, into what zones it will reach
what fruitful islands in far off seas it shall
touch?
But then. what if the soil is barren?
The farmer, in the morning, goes forth t(
h SOW his grain. Does he seek the soil that i
4 suited TO the seed, or does he take the stony
fields where even the thistles fail to grow
Does he take an old limb of a tree to scarf.
the ground. or the shining pillow, who's
l. sharp point shall enter deep into the soil ant
IF turn it up in generous burrows to the sun
% Is there any one of the readers OF the iius
j ASDMA who is in doubt?
IF the soil is barren, SO shall the life OF til
" man be. If the air is foul, SO shall the at
r. mosphere of his existence be.
- But if fertile, beauty and loneliness shal
~ delicht to dwell there. IT the air is pur
At and healthy, strength, power, beauty 1altl
- love. trlst-all1 these shall emanate there
y, from. and life shall be as a garden in bloor
Ia where all that is good and true shall gather
ot While time shall last.
III Remembering all these things, tritles &
IL they may seem to be, let us be careful the
nc 70 the words we speak, the deeds we az
he the impressions our conduct may leave upol
of Others. AS the spring which is purest at |
ar source gives forth healthful waters WIN
-, that which is foul aG its fountain head ylel(
only a beverage that will poison the syste'
~ of ali those who drink Of its waters, SO w
49, each one of us, may impart good or evil