The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-20
OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS.
Holm MeGovern, in The Current l

Holm MeGovern, in The Cnrrent.l The world of human aff air. IS in the mind. \ man visits the park to-day. Ills soul is Ill, and th. grassy expanse, the ,ree-foliAge, and the colors and smell of the f,wers come to him and cure him. He remembers the park fondly. and is impelied afterwards to return to it. Now hls mind is well, his spirit is proud. The same park is there, but the visitor has no poser to see IL He may begrudge the time -aken Tn the trip.
 A tanner goes across hne held. He discovers a Canada thistle, and a 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 missiles, or the farm will be oveTrun and they will all be ruined. A lady, visiting this farmer, goes across the same field. She discovers a long looked for plant. Her heart IS all aglow. and she takes such view of the surrounding that she afterwards sits down and writes 10 a flend that she will ever regret ,his friend might not have been there just then to share the scene. She would even have gaesse that her sost, the farmer nov pAnie-stricken ever the thistle, would only have to go to that same spo, to get the emotions which she enjoyed. Now let us imagine that her friend, to whom she writes by some chance were traversing that held and there heard of the death of husband or child. All the beauties of the scene would still be there, bur tbe ,ad effect which they had on the farmer would be intensified ten thousand times in the mind of the recIpient of such news. How truly Northum oerland speaks in the second part of k,ng Henry Fourth:
 Yet the first bringer ot un~eleome news
 Hath but a losing officc, and his tongue
 Sounds ever aftcr as sullen bell,
 Remembered knolling departed friend"
 Each man upon ,his earth lives in his own world, cocoon, d chry sails, winch has grown less permeable each year. II IS idie for Us to present our world to him when he Is not in the mood 10 leave his invisible shell. Thus the author. the painter, the statesman-all wEo depend for their success on reaching the inner and finer attributes of their associates mus, abide patien. tune. What clio ned antipathy yesterday may pass with apathy to day may meet ~ith sympathy tomorrow.
 The ezar of Russia reigns an absolute monarch because his nations are pleased that he should. When he passes by, the peasant feels an exalta,ion ofsprit, and believes that he Is Tn the presence of something holy. L-t us suppose some angel visited every home Tn all the Russi.s and spoke to boyard and peas ant with the power of truth. The ten dia- dems al Moscow would count for no more than the same number of crowns in the property-room of theatre No assassin would need 10 mole his way under the palace at S,. Petersburg{ The czar would be an impossible personage
 Louis the Sixteenth of France WAS yes .esday 3 saint and g x.ns. His associates were counts aud dukes and marquises. To-day hls people are changing their minds. Tomorrow the king W Il be condemned and executed felon. His as- soeiates will be wanderers on the face of the earth. Even ;he church. the very basis of French society. will be torn ou, of the hearts of the people, and God and government both be dehed and SC, a; naught The res, of ,he world, unable to see the ligh. let in by the French revo. luton, will look on Tn dismsy and believe the people of whole nation have gone mad al one and the same time.
 Some years agoA German paper-carrier on West Maaison street in Chic ago arose al 1 o'clock a. m, washed, dressed, took . ssreet.cST, visited the var,ous newspaper ofhces, got his papers, returned to his house, laid his pile ofpapers on a counter the place was laundry-went to the bed where his wife was sull sleeping, shot her dead, and then lay down beside her and took his own life in the same way. Nov what gulf there was between the goings and comings of this man and the h1e within him. Truly, the master was away. Had you met the body of this man on the street you would simply have been speaking to the everyday attributes to whom he had left the charge of his being.
 To-day shoemaker opens shop at | new stand. A caller asks for Thompson. the former tenant. The inquirer is in- formed very politely that Thompson has moved 10 Dakota. The next caller is told less politely. The mex, caller is spoken to formally the nex, curtlv the
 
 drop Tn to sec Thompson. You leave that shop with the impression ,ha, you met the champion mean man." You have seen him. There he is-keep,np shop in Thompson's old place. But you have not. IL did no, rain as hard as YOU supposed. You stood under the caves of large roof and go, aii ,he water. Ina, other man does not move along m the stree,-car. He Is not brute necessarily His little world may De m utter darkness. His wife may have died yesterday. She may even oe worse tan dead to h,m. Last week he would have gone the whole ieagsh of the car to oblige ,ou. You ask the name of the sireei from a chance Pas:er. Think oft! He may have been neeiectng his most important interests Tor two days. He may not even have oeen able to receive money from debtors oo account ot the fires of grief, passion, osappointmeat which surge within him. Is 1t not wouaesful thing # he shan eive you deceat ansver?