The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1882-11-11
Little Things.

contempt upon littlo things Tn
most precious stones are noHsr o
gigantic size. A diamnn tnot lM 90
than pigeons egg has been sold 70
millions Of dollars How man,
tons Of chareoal--whieh Is the sam,
thing IN another would tht
purchase 7
The smallest things are often thc
most beautiful. solomons in all III,
glory meyer wore such a mantle al
that which clothes the modest lily
OF the valley. The great sun flower
may stare You. ont Of oountonanet
with itaihpgA black and yellow eye
but tho daisy by the rivers brink is
moro seductive and lovely The
humming bird il dressed in robes oil
Yariegated splendor, which the
crane and condor and naughty eagle
might envy. The clay upon which
the city Of Richmond stands. Is re.
solved by the microscope into a
dust ovory particle Of waieh..is a
shell, marked with artistic won
derfol designs, which was, n days
gone by, the home of a living erea-
ture.
In eating lettuce salad, you have
probably crushed thousand tiny
beings, who, you baa Inspected
them With powerful nagnifor,
would have fascinated you with
their SOFT pleading. go1olla.hke
eyes, and spoiled the appetite for
your salad. A little spock Of mould
may encompass world Of beauty,
hedges and forests, and sylvan no.
treats, peQpled with happy beings,
playing amnpn tn Z =
detects. A drop OF water may con
tain another world of living things,
full of grace ana action, and jewel
ed like the rainbow seemingly
moved by the same passions which
inspire cur more pretentious race.
After all every thing is compare
tive, and, for aught we know, this
great globe that we inhablt, as com:
pared with the unbound universe,
may be to that only what this drop
of water is to the ocean. ~
Then SEQ what may como Of 4 lit
tie thing. A spark, blown by the
wind, lays u great city in the dust,
wIping out in day the work of
many a weary year. treasures of art
which nothing can replace, scat
tering in an hour great pictures
which had boon long accumulatlng,
and leaving the busy streets a will
derness. The air is full Of the seeds
of life and death, but no eye ever
saw them, and they cannot be
weighed OF measured or detected by
any instrument made by man, And
these INVISIBLE germs, or spores,
may tale the king from his throne,
and the beggar from bis hovol, AMI
lay them down to sleep together in
their common bed OF earth.
take an acorn from my pocket
it ia very symmetrical in It's form
and the color is pleasing to tho eye
but it is small and fragile, and
might easily crushit with my teeth
Instead Of doing that, lay it IN the
soft and fertile soil, two or tnro,
inches deep, and leave it thoro
THIS is the Last l see OF \, and per
haps nevcr think Of it again. 4
hundred years hence, long after
ON dead and forgotten, q wear!
traveller lies down to rost under tn,
shadow Of a mighty oak; lonl
branches are waving mi tho wind
birds have made their nests there,
world Of foliage Is blooming owe
, his head, and he thanks the kin
, providence that has given him sue
q a cool and shady retreat. Some
what later on the mighty tree ha
! vanished from itg place, and far o
on the shore they orc building
' great ship, ribbed with'cak, whioI
. after 1t is launched, COOS off upo
= the sea- carrying from port to po
u the spoils Of every clipo. Or the
may have converted the old tree il
b to q bridge, that spans some bros
river, across which tho tide Of tra
= el flows, generation after gonos
d ton. Or il may have become u
l. framework of a stately mansio
o that will have tho storms Of contu
- les, and whore children IN long gu
oossion, will DO born aud live Al
A. Idio. Ard al this was latent m th
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