The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-05-20
CONS0LAllCN.
8tu Nyo in Q Redecaivo Mood. In
which He takes . Ph1looophioal.
View OF Life.

Dear friend, do you ever stand In the
dsn'rwe: Of n,emOry, WHEN the golden
sun lighte up the rs,ad over which Won
have Travelled, through the dust and
heat Of former years, and while you look
out over the iieldOf your great strugxles,
and victories and defeats, do you ever
wish yourself hack again beyond the
hour when first ambition filled your
hrart and made your present seem dis
tasteful, and pa)Or and mean in your
eyes? Did you ever figure gains and
JOsses, and ks k with we&riness and un-
r Vt upon your achievements? Does IL
not 49,. .ettnles occur to you that you
have dearly bought your position and
wealth?
All. who can buy the joyous hope and
toundtnx health Of sOre-t0ed h,y-l.Ood?
Whist wealth eau procure the free and
unallOyed satisfaction Of those days
when you ate your fish-bsit and stay In
water up to your eyebrows all day?
Would President Arthur to-day madly
fling away his sceptre Of power and
resign his lofty position ii be ca,uld once
nlOre be placed hack ut the threshold Of
life, with his islntalOOns hanging by one
home Esde sllspem1er?
How empty and how vain are the glOries
that crown the hero Of thousand bat
ties. How worthless are the ladle<i lallr-
elx that crown the bilious, pin,ply brow
vt greatness. We cOnlt'at with all hu-
inanity for proud position, aud just ~
We get our name in Drint we tind that
our digesii. n has gone lack on u, and
the Overtaxcd gastric department must
be sent to the shops for RI airs.
1t 10 u proud dav to the ambitious states
men, when In the flush Of victory he
stands before the ai.l'lau.iing host Of
tMse who carri d him upward tO this
glorious moment, when lie feels his own
strength and calmly surveys the CORY
fields over which he fought. But when
every m,an, who vOt II i.,r him. has ask
ed and pctitionesl i'm for nine dollar
,ostOftice ut hisolll home and threatens to
bolt all nominations aud disrupt the
PARTY II he cannot have it, there steals
over the aenses Of the greet statesman
the fruitless wish that he may be taken
lack to the old home where he SHARED
yo:,hers with IN old fish line, Or pasted
blue mud all over his freckelesl skinhnd
ran along the l,eaci, in the warm July
air, and scared the frisky horses Of the
young lovers who drove along the pcl,-
OIy SOO5c.
Greatness IL to Tx. sought for and de-
sir: because it stirs the xtagnant anabl-
ton Of man and helps him to kill time,
but fresh Iaure)s and bronze medals can
no, minister to u pair vi torpid kidneys.
The world Is full Of great men, men
who when they write their name ON
hotel r. ;,r: -e that they will BE-
interviewed hy newspaper men and
their words printed before break fast:
men who wear Prince Albert coats every
Il y and talk graln'latically even when
they are mad but the collection Of hap
ny n,en-mlen who laugh and have fun
and never nliAs mieal-is comp lmratively
small.
II We could look ut this life phiI0sophi-
cally and Iivt. on s>nla cr,u'kpr~ and calm,
the consuming ambition which fortunes,
the great would not come nigh u, and
when We died, the human l'cll-IlOun(ls
who survived ~ would not Zig up our
crlnlbliny homes, and spread our crrOrs
o,t before our gasl'ing, griunimg world,
while our wi.i w and orphans suffer n
thousand agOmies. Incl ,lt.~ against the
xlantierrrs of the dead. B:<~ssal is the
dead whose worthless dust iels l,gs alone
to lis sorr'wing relatives ami I" his
God Tie public did not feed him during
life, un,l in death cannot blacken his
nun,e.-L.uruM.iC TvOMer.l,ty.