The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-10-26

pcsnt you sofa 70 ono mTS- Au1AI10'
pool for fourteen cents; you will
think about the 6rkin Of axle grease
you painted with butter and sold for
thirty>seven cents for table use; you
will think of the mortgage you fore
closed on poor Ragsweed's farm after
he had paid you thirteen per cent.
tor the money tor ten years; you will
think of the loads of three feet cord
wood you hauled to town and sold
at full market price; you will think
OF the sand you siited in the brown
sugar; you will remember how yon
sold 1,700 pounds of coal for a ten;
you will think OF the paper you took
tor year and half and never paid
Tor; you will recall thousand little
WEAKNESSES and weaknesses of which
you have been guilty; you will think
how you made your money and how
precious little good it is going to do
you in the country with you are go
ing; and poor man, if you have fas~
tened your faith AID trust to nothing
better than Mother Shipton, or Ven
nor or Gen Hazen, or some celestial
tramp of comet. the sound OF the
trumpet, the voices ot the beasts, the
seven thunders, the hail and the fire
mingled with blood, the darkeped
sun, the walls OF wrath aud the voice
of the eagle could not add to
your fears. When the end oil the
world comes tor you. that will
be the only end you will take
any interest i'll. 1t will be awful
enough for you, if it comes before
you are ready Tor it. and unless you
know you have dead sure thing ON
eighty -nine years or mTe-and you
know whether you have Oh nOt--you
keep one eye open all The. time tor
the end of the world.
So, don't worry about two coma
cts, or conjunctions. or perihelia, or
ec!ipses, or the spots on the sun. They
have nothing to do with your case at
all. You may not live TO see the
world burned up, and you pass away |
in the great fnal dissolution OF all |
thugs terrestrial, but you are going
to live to your end Of the world, and
don't you forget it. That's all you
have TO do with it. You go home
now, aud quit worrying about prop |
necles. Admire the comet without |
lear. Study astronomy Tor it's won>
ders and beauties, and not tor tanct-
iul and ignorant and supersiitlOus
terrors. You go home aud sell clean
goods by full measures and honest
weights; teach your clerks that a
tkirty.five inch suck dosen'L measure
a yard OF dress goods; don't weigh
yourself on the hay, and the wagon
BY itself; make your ton OF coal " eigh
Lwenty hundred, and cut your wood
tour feet long; be honest and square
in your dealings; pay your pew rent
every week, and your newspaper SUBJ
scrlption i'll advance; read the revls
ed Testament ottener and 60 to
church regularly; be manly and pay
debts as fast as you can, and live 50
that you can look every man in the
eyes when YOU meet him; give up
swearing and try family prayers as
substitute; don't be afraid OF any
man that ever wore hat, and always
stand by your own honest convic-
tions, and then, il some night comet
with a tail like torch light process
sion, and the perlhelion of Jupiter,
and an eclipse of the sun, and old
Mother Shipton, should file into your
front yord and kick and thump at
the door: eve want you, old mani"
you would hop cheeriully out OF bed,
and shout back: "All right; wait till
/ get on my troussersw and go out
and jim the procession without q
tremor.
Bless your tiinid soul, non-paying
subscriber, the other end of the
world is nothing, if you only shape.
this end as nearly right as you know
how.