The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17
RaniditY of Times Flight.

| OWlIGly gllde Gne years OF our lives.
They follow each other like the waves of
the ocean. Memory callsup the persons
we once knew-the scenes in which we
were once actors. They appear before
the mind like the phantoms of night
vision. Behold, the boy, rejoicing in
the gayety of his soul! The wheels of
time can not move too rapidly for him.
The light of hope dances in his eyes; the
smile of expectation plays with his lips
He looks forward to long years of Joy to
come; his spirit burns within him when
he hears of great men and mighty deeds;
he longs to mount the hill of ambition.
to tread the path of honor, to hear the
shouts of applause Look at him again.
He is now in the meridian of life; care
has stamped its wrinkles upon his brow;
disappointment has dimmed the luster
of his eye; sorrow has thrown its gloom
upon his countenance. He looks back
ward upon the walking dreams of youth,
and signs for their futility Each re-
volving year seems to diminish some
thing from his little stock of happiness,
and discovers that the season of youth,
when the pulse of anticipation beats
high, is the only season Of enjoyment
Who is he of aged locks? His form is
bent, and totters; his footsteps move but
rapidly toward the tomb. He looks
back upon the past; his days appear to
have been few; the magnifcence of the
great is to him vanity; the hilarity of
youth, folly; he considers how soon the
gloom of death must overshadow the
one and disappoint the other. The
world presents little to attract and
nothing to delight him. A few more
years of infrmity, inanity, and pain must
consign him to idiocy or the grave. Yet
this was the gay, the generous, the high
souled boy who beheld the ascending
path of life strewn with flowers, without
thorn. Such is human life; but such
can not be the ultimate destinies of man.
Chinese Version of the Prodigal Son.
GA man, he two sons. Son speakee
| to father; father got money give some
he father he take it all rightee. just
now give you half. He gives him half
he go long way-ikee me come China to
New York. No be careful of money,
use too much money oil gone he velly
hungly. He went to man. He wantee
work, he say; all right; he tell him
feedee pigs. He giyee pigs beans he
eatee with pigs himself. He just now
talkee My father he Itch man-muchee
money. What for me stay here hungry
L want to go back and see my father. l
say to him, velly bad. He knows
bad. Emperor God see bad. No be
son, me be coolie. He go back hugee
way, father see him. He takee him on
the neck. Son say, Il velly bad. lust
now no be your son. His father talkee
to boy and say, Gettee handsome coat;
gives he ring, gives he shoes; bring fat
cow-kille cow, give him to eat. They
velly glad. He alice samee dead, just
now come back alive; he lost; he get
back. Number one son come. He hear
music he tellee coolie, What for
makee music 2 He say, Your brother
come back your father velly glad he no
sick; he killee fat cow Number one
son velly angly. Father he comes out ;
he say, No, no be angly.' Number one
son say, 1 stay all time by father; never
makee him angly. Ny father never
killee one fat COW for me. My brother
he velly bad he use money too muchee:
he have fat COW and music. Father
say, You no sabes; he just dead he
now comes to life; he lost now Gomez
back. Theymakee music"