The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-12-11
Other Worlds TIRan Ours.
The world of human affairs is in


the tree-foliago, and tho colors and
smell of the flowers como to him and
cure him. He remembers the park
fondly, and is impclled afterwards To
return to it. Now his mind is well,
his spirit is proud. The same park is
there, but tho visitor has no power to
SEQ it. He may begrudgo the time
taken in tho trip.
a farmer goes across fine field. He
discovers n Canada thistle, and panic
takes hold of him. He goes home and
endeavors to affect the minds of his
sons with the same alarm. They must
all get their hoes and search for
thistlos, or the farm will be overrun
and thcy will all be ruined. A lady,
visiting this farm, goes across the
same field. She discovers lonr-
looked for plant. Her heart is all
aglow, and she takes such vicw of
the surroundings that she afterwards
sits down and writes to friend that
she will ever regret this friend might
not have been there just then to share
the scene. She would even have
guessed that her host, the farmer now
Panic-strickcn over the thistle, would
only have to 90 to that samo spot TO
get the emotions which she cnioycd.
Now let us imagine that her friend, to
whom she writes, by some chance wcro
| traversing that field and there heard of
tho death of husband or Child. All the
beauties of the scene would still be
there, but tho sad effect which they had
on the farmer would be intensified ten
thousand times in the mind of the re-
cfpient of such news. How truly
northumberland speaks in the second
past of King Henry Fourth:
Yet the first brinRcr Of unwelcomc news
Hath but losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever alter as II sulIcn hell,
Remembered knoling departed friend"
Each man upon this earth lives in
his own world, cocoon, n chrvsalis
which has grown less pcrmcable each
I year. 1t is idle for us to present our
world to him-whcn he is not in the
mood to leave his invisible shell. Thus
the author, the painter, the statesman
all who depend for their success on
! reaching the inner and finer attributes
of their associates-must abide q patient
time. What elected antipathy ycstcr-
day may pass with apathy to-day; may
meet with sympathy tomorrow.
The car of Rusiia reigns an absolute
monarch because his nations are
pleased that he should. When he
! passes by, the peasant feels an exalta-
tion of spirit, and believes that he is in
the presence of something holy. Lot
us suppose some angel visited every
homo in all the Russias and spoke to
boyard and peasant with the power of
truth. The ten diadems at Moscow
would count for no moro than tho same
number of crowns in the property
room of q thcater. No assassin would
mood fn II
at st. Petersburg. The car would be
an impossible parsonage.
Louis the Sixteenth of France WAS
yesterday saint and king. His
associates were counts and dukes and
marquises. To-day his people are
changing their minds. Tomorrow tho
king will be a condemned and executed
felon. His associates will be wander
ers on the face of the earth. Even tho
church, the very basis of French So
ciety, will be torn out of the hearts of
the people. and God and government
both be defied and set at naucht. The
rest of the world, unable to SEQ the
light let in by the French revolution.
will look on in dismay and believe tho
people of whole nation have pone,
mad at one and the same time.
Somc years ago German PAPER
carrier on West Madison street in Chi
cago arose at o'clock n. m., washed. Z
dressed, took street-car, visited the
various newspaper Offices, got his
papers, returned to his house. laid his
pile OF papers on counter-thc place
was laundry-went to the bed Whero.
his wife was still sleeping, shot her
dead, and then lay down beside her
and took his own life in the same way.
Now what gulf there was between
the goings and cOmings of this man
and the life within him. Truly, tho
mastor was away. Had you met the
body of this man on the street YOU
would simply havo been speaking to
tho everyday attributes to whom he
had left tho charge of his being.
To-day n shoemaker opens shop at a
new stand. A caller asks for Thomn-
son, tho former tenant. The inquirer
is informed very politely that Thomp
son has moved to Dakota. The next
caller is told less politely. Tho next
caller is spoken to formally; tho next
curtly; the next half angrily. Now
you yourself drop in to see Thompson.
You leave that shop with tho imprcs-
sion that you met tho "champion mean
is-kecping shop in Thompson's old
place. But you have not. 1t did not
rain as hard as you supposed. You
stood under the caves of q larne roof
and got all the water. That other man
does not move along in the street-car.
lie is not brute necessarily. His lit.
tlc world may be in utter darkness,
nls wifo may have diod Yesterday.
oho may even be worse than dead TO
him. Last week he would have como
the whole length of the car to oblioo
you. You ask tho name of the strcct
from a chance passer. Think of itl
nc may have been neglecting his most
important interests for Two dayg. Ue
may not even have been able to receive
money from debtors on account of tho
hrcs of grief. passion. disappointment
which surge within him. Is it not n
wonderful thing il he shall give YOU e.,
decent answcrP
'Wo are such thing as dreams arc
made on"-ncver were trucr words
spoken! Let lis go out among our fell
lows with exceeding charity. II wo
could SEQ into their true existence. our