Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-04-12

say, at any period of his life when he
could look upon them-there arose
among the Bigwigs such roaring land
raving, such pulpiting and petitioning.
and Numbering and memorializing,
such name calling and dirt throwing,
such shrill wind of parliamentary ques-
tion and feeble replving-where 81 dare
not" waited on II would'--that the poor
fellow stood aghast, staring wildly
around.
"Have provoked all this" said he
with his hands 10 his affrighted ears,
"bv what was meant to be an innocent
request plainly arising out of my fami-
liar experience, and common knowledge
of all men who choose to open their eyes!
1 don't understand, and am not under
stood. What is to come of such things Z"
He was bending over his work, often
asking himself the question, when the
news began to spread that pestilence
had appeared among the laborers. and
was Staying them by thousands. Going
forth to look about him, he soon found
this to be true. The dying and the dead
were mingled in the close and tainted
houses among which his life was passed
New poison was distilled in the always
murky, always sickening air. The
robust and the weak, old age and III
fancy. the father and the mother all
were stricken down alike.
What means of fight had he? He re-
manned where he was and saw those who
were dearest to him die. A kind preach
er came to him and would have said some
prayers to soften his heart in his gloom,
but he replied:
80, what avails it, missionary, to come
to me, man condemned to residence in
this feted place where every sense be-
comes a torment,an where every minute
of my numbered days is more added 10
the heap under which l lie oppressed!
But give me my first glimpse of Heaven
through little of its light and air; give
me pure water help me TO be clean;lighten
this heavy atmosphere and heavy lite. in
which our spirits sink, and we become
the Indifferent callous creatures you so
often see us; gently and kindly take the
bodies of those who die among us out of
the small room where we grow to be so
| familiar with the awful change that even
| its sanctity is lost 10 us; and, teacher
then will hear-none know better than
YOU how willingly--Of him whose
thoughts were so much with the poor,
and who had compassion for all human
\ SORROWS"
He was at his work again, solitary and
sad, when his master came in and stood
near him. dressed in black. His young
wife. his beautiful and good young wife,
was dead; so too, his only child.
master, tits hard to bear-I know it
but be comforted. | would give you
comfort if | could"
| The Master thanked him for his heart,
but said he: 80, you laboring men The
calamity began among you. you had
lived but more healthily and decently, l
should not be the widowed and bereft
mourner that am this day."
| "Master." returned the other, shaking
his head, 81 have begun to understand a
little that most calamities will come from
us, as this one did, and that none will
stop at our poor doors, until We are
united with that great squabbling family
| lily yonder, to do the things that right.
We cannot live healthily and decently.
unless they who undertook to manage
us provide the means. We cannot be
instructed, unless they will teach us; we
cannot be nationally amused unless they
will amuse us; we cannot but have
some false gods of our own, while
they set up so many of theirs in all the
public places The evil conseque noes of
III
ces of pernicious neglect. the evil conse-
quences of unnatural restraint, and the
denial OF humanizing enjoyments, will
all come from us, and none OF them will
stop with us, They always do; they al
ways have done-just like the pestilence.
| | understand so much, think, at last"
But the master said again: 20, you
| laboring men how seldom do we ever
| hear OF you, except in connection With
some troubled"
| MASTER" he replied. 81 am nobody,
and little likely to be heard of (nor yet
much wanted TO be heard of perhaps),
except where there is some trouble. But
it never begins with me. and it can never
end with me. AS sure as death it comes
down to me, and it goes up from me-"
| There was so much reason in what he
said, that the Bigwig family. getting
wind of it, and being horribly frighten-
ed by the late deSolatlon, resolved to
unite with him to do the things that
were right-at all events as far as the sad
things were associated with the direct
prevention. humanity speaking, of an
other pestilence. But as their lear wore
off, which it soon began to do, they re-
sumed their falling out among them
selves and did nothing. Consequently
scOurge appeared again-lOw down as be-
fore, and spread avengingly upward as
before, and carried off vast numbers oil
the brawlers. But not a man among
them ever admitted, i'm the least degree
he ever perceived ne had anything to dc
with it.
So Nobody lived and died in the old
old way, and this, in the main, is The
whole of NobOdy's story.
Had he no name? you asked. Perhap:
it was Legion. 1t matters little what hi:
: name was. Let us cali him Legion,
If you were ever in the Belgian viii
} lagos near the field of Waterloo, you will
have seen, in some quite little church, ;
monument erected by faithful cOmpan-
: ions in arms, to the memory of COlOne
} A, Major b, Captains G, d, and f. Lieu
. tenants F, G.. Ensigns H, L and j, sever
non-commissioned officers, and one hun
dred and thirty rank and file of th'
) earth. They bear their share of thu
. battle; they have no name but in tn
4 mass. The march of the proudest of u
E leads to the dusty way by which the.
: go.
!, A Great Bridge in Europe.
I, The largest bridge in Europe will b.