Daily Republican., 1884-09-03
RELIGIOUS.
VICTOR HUGO.

The aged Victor Hugo, the revered
poet Of France, now past fou score,
knows nothing Of the joyless gloom OF
Ingersoll and Bradlaugh as they look
beyond death. His own words give
but expression TO his sense of immor.
tality
feel In myself the future life.
am like forest which has been more
than once cut down. The new shoots
are stronger and livelier than ever l
nm rising, know, toward the sky
Tue sunshine Is on my head. The
earth gives me Its generous sap, but
heaven lights me with the reflection
Of unknown worlds. You say the soul
il not hing but the resultant OF bodily
powers. Why, then, is my soul more
luminous when my bodily powers be-
gin 10 fail ?
Winter is on my head and eternal
spring Is in my heart. Then breathe,
at this hour, the fragrance Of the lilacs,
the violets and the roses az at twenty
years. The nearer / approach the end
the palmer l hear around me the im-
mortal symphonies Of the worlds which
invite me. 1t is marvellous yet simple.
1t is fairy tale, and 1t Is history. For
half century have been writing my
thoughts In prose, verse, history and
philosophy, drama, romance, tradition,
satire, ode, song-I have tried all.
But feel that have not said the
thousandth part of what is In me.
When i 90 down to the grave l can say,
like 80 many others, l have finished
my days work : but cannot say Il
have flushed my life.' My days work
viii begin again the next morning. The
a ~. IL 10,
thoroughfare 1t closes in the twilight
to open with the dawn. 1 improve
every hour BECAUSE love this world as
my fatherland. My work is only be-
ginning. MY monument Is hardly above
It's founda alton. l would be glad to 500
II mounting and mounting forever
The thirst for the infinite proves in
Unity"
CLERGYMEN AND THEIR HEARERS.
first. He occupies conspicuous
place, inviting the eyes OF the hearers,
so that, being seen, he can be the better
heard.
Second. OF course he looks at you,
for you, among others, are the one ad
dressed; and it Is but fair that be should
receive as good as he gives and you
would think 1t strange If hr should look
anywhere else but ut you.
Third. Looking at him encourages
the preacher to believe you are attend
| ing and interested In what he says.
Fourth. If it would be uncourteous
not to look at q person holding con-
versation W 18th you, Is 1t less so TO avert
the eyes from the preacher while he Is
addressing you?
Fifth. AS teacher of the most mo-
men tous of all truth, he has right to
every testimony you can give him OF
your interest in what he breaches, and
looking at him is one of these testi-
monies.
Sixth. Look at the preacher, because
your good example will aid in recalling
the wandering eyes Of others, rebuke
their In attention, and restore Their
sense OF propriety.
| Seventh. Looking q. tbs preacher Ii
eminently favorable to keeping UP the
minds attention to his message. The
eye helps the ear, and both help t6
fixedness of thought upon what Ii
uttered.
Eighth. Gazing in all other direc
lions than at the speaker gives him tht
Encouraging belief that you are not
good hearer.
Stock rating has made Holland on'
of the We ~ hest agricultural countries
in the w"rii Land there is worth from
1.-TWO to folr thousand dollars an acre
lnine acres out of every ten are kept il
Igrast, and pays the owners large divi
QguQs.