The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-04-16
AN AUCTION ROOM.

"G0lng! gong! Soho'
day, as was walking through side
street in one OF our large cities, heard
these words ringing out from room
40 crowded with people that l could
lust see the auctioneer's face and up
l;ftad hammer above the heads OF the
crowd. =,
"Going! Going! Going! GoneP
and down came the hammer with
sharp rap.
do not know how or why 1t was,
but the words struck me with a new
force and significance. / had heard
them hundreds of times BEFORE WIN
only a. sense of amusement. This time
,, they sounded solemn.
.sGoing! Going! GoneF' :,
ssThat is the way it is with life"
,, said to myself-s'with time"
. This world is a sort of auction room;
we do not know that we are buyers;
we are, in fact, more like beggars; we
!, have brought no money to exchange
. for precious minutes, hours, days or
:, years; they are given to us. !here Is
g no calling out Of terms, no NOISY auc-
!, tioneer, no hammer; but, neyertheless'
= = the time is 'sgoing! going! gomez
. The more thought OF it, the more
: solemn did the words sound, and the
!, more did they seem to me good mot
:, y to to remind one of the value OF time.
4 When we are young we THINK oio
a people are preaching and prosing whel
q they say so much about lt-When .nes
. declare so often that days, weeks, ever
'n Years. are short. 1 can remember wher
az q holiday, a whole day long, appeared
- TO me an almost inexhaustible play
"a smell: when one afternoon, even
Va seemed an endless round of pleasure
~, ue and the week that was to come SCENE
W longer than does whole year now.
One needs to live many years befor
;;s,, one learns how little time there Is IN
no year-how little, indeed, there Will .
iy in the longest possible life-how man
,a' , things one will still be obliged to leaN
undone.
But there is one thing, boys al
girls, that you can realize, II you W.
fry-f YOU will stop and think about il
Ing little; and that is, how fast and no
steady the present time is shppil
hat away. However long life may seem
: of YOU, as you look forward to the whole
lew it. the present hour has only sixty mi
+ha utes. and minute by minute, second
~aS e second it is ''going! going! gomez
lers YOU gather nothing from it as itpasse
the Is "gone" forever. Nothing is so holl
rim lessfy lost as '.lost time" 1t NAL
5iful me unhappy when look back and
who how much time 1 have wasted; h
.ro much / might have learned and &c
So -, If had but understood how short IS
The longest hour.
oant on Ali the men and women who HI
:, tha made the world better, happier,
tor, W. wiser for having lived in it, have d
! nf so by working diligently and pers
sea entity. Yet, am certain that not
es tn one of these, when '.looklng packw
avail from his manhood's prime saw
,ften the spccter of his mis-spent time.
is it NOW, uoh soRpIoe p.L" raacb;no in
10 10 world can make any thing look to yo
. fa. eyes as it looks to old eyes; not
nine of it.
T. pin. But think about it little; don
~ - time slip away by the minute, b
Il +ha day, without getting something ou
FL :u it'll Look as the clock now and
,ronL and listen to the pendulum, saylr
, the the every minute, as it flies = sc
{ tbe going! gone!'
azing Where nobody bids, and nobody buys
niliar there is no auctioneer?
n tur- NO hamer, n,rar, ana nv menN N
,od as And yet the chance that is passing no
t1io,l never come back again!
Gojngl going! gone! Here is morn Of !
Dew and fragrance. and color, and ligf
million sounds a-tune.
of the Oh lookl Oh listen! Be wise, and tai
wonderful thing
A. Jewel such as you will not hnd III tine
d from ury of kingl
rm set Going! going! gonei What is next on T
anding An afterg9on e.%Hst OF purple anu s'i'' -"
an im- And large enough to hold all good
. Most Rid # in now. and crowd 1t full with l.
before and work, and fun!
ID were Goingl goingi gonel Here is a yea
their A whole magnificent year held out t
m long lass and ladl -,
90 had DAYS, and weeks and monthsl Joy
of tho Take it' amend it. buy with It, lend it, a
stle OF sently count your gains.
Douro: Goingl going! gone! The largest lo
tnat az last; -,
y guns, Here with its innn,te vsst "o''
toys, if Ont Of It may be wrought the deeds
rasures. and sage ,.,,,,.
ot up OF Come mth D,d, ,sds ne ont to useless age!
ass tho The Late Helen Jackson, in st. Ntchol
the red
luckily, ACKNOWLEDGE IHE "
modern 49,