Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-10

ny tie Wayslde, and each must solve fin.
problem or fall Il victim. But. alas 50 many
are needless of the war1,inr Thov 81 ~,
'''e '''ah charles Dickens tells US about. as
II they had taken life unfurnished. and
TIC upholsterer were never comino>,, fins
gong through life without a thou~hr Of
decorating it worthy of the owner. or dram
ing 1t with fabrics OF beauty living ON with
'kooms to Lett staring ut those who look
at tlem> from their low foreheads and ex-
p~rrssioniess eyes.
20 through a house neglected by its own
er; decay is written upon its portals. and
desolation sits in its unfinished apartments.
an air OF neglect overhangs the place, and
we leave it behind us as though a pestilellce
bfoooed over it. Then take Il life, and find
lt-like the house-unturnished: the spider
webs OF Indifference are upon the walls: the
dust OF degradation lies upon the mantles.
and the rubbish of wasted years is scattered
upon the floors, while up and down the de-
serted corridors goes the MANS good angel.
seeking for ONE pleasant spot us travellers
seek for an oasis in the desert; but, finding
none. at last-disappointed, disheartened.
sad and sorrowful-goes away to close the
volume of a life between whose title pare
and ffnis there is only Il dreary, dreary
blank a meaningless history, whose only
lesson is this bitter satire on humanity:
1.-The life taken unfinished was kept so
until its close"
In tho ct1,Oo1 nf tho u-orl1 oo,.alJ .. e.:
the school of the books, this lesson applies to
us.oneand all. In the storehouse of the mind
there are vacant chambers and empty closets,
and it is for us to fill them with the mea-
sures of the useful, the beautiful and the
good. We should not be so taken up With
the practical duties as to ignore entirely the
practical pleasures of life. We should see
in the field of wheat something more than
the bread that is to come from it after it has
been gathered and winnowed and passed
between the upper and the neither milestone.
We should see something NOR" in the pink
eyed blossom Of the apple tree char the
fruit that is to follow in due course of ma
ture. We should see something more in the
river that runs to the sea than the conyen-
lent channel for ships of m For in
the grain of wheat is the lesson of immortal
ity in the apple blossom the world-old truth
Of natures reproduction; and in the river
the ever-abiding evidence of the falling rain
that watereth and replenisheth the earth.
Nature, in all her moods, is the study of a
life time, and even then, such as Humboldt
himself can only confess that they have but
mastered the alphabet of its language.
Are our young readers discouraged at the
thought? OF this there is no need. AS, In
looking out at the world we see but Il mar
row margin, yet know that beyond it space
stretches out her limitless arms, so, though
in the world of knowledge we can but see
the outer edge, let us not grow weary and
turn our eyes away, because beyond oul
present vision lie vast and unknown plains.
where temples have been built and shrines
erected, and to which pilgrimages have beer
made by others who have gone before AND
in whose steps we may not follow. Our duty
is to be earnest in our work to mark on
our plan and then follow it to the best of oul
ability. Then there will be ia our iiyes nc
unfinished room. Then the great riddle
will have been rightly read. Our service
be it great or small, as is our sphere of ac
tion-will show that the school of the worlt
and the lessons we learn therein have beer
to our profit and not to our disgrace. W.
were faithful and true as far as in us lay
Was not the widows mite accounted more
than all the gifts the rich men threw int
the treasury? 1t was because it was all sh'