Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-23

Is suppressed hJ them until they can holu IL
no longer and III the barriers burst into un-
limited guffav and cachinnation, as in high
weather the water has trickled through a
slight opening in the mill dam, but afterward
makes wider and wider breach until it car
ries all before it with irresistible freshet. Do
not he too much offended at the noise your
children now make. It will be still enough
when one of them is lead Then you would
give your right hand to hear one shout
from their silent voices or one step from
the still foot. You will not any of you
have to wait very long before yonr house Is
stilier than YOU want it. Alasi that there
are so many homes not known to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
where children are Put on the limits and
whacked and cuffed and ear-pullcd and sense
leSsly called 10 or,ie- and answered sharp and
suppressed until it is wonder that under
such processes they DO not all turn out Mo
docs and Mana Sahihs.
What is your influence upon the neighbor-
hood, the town or the city of your residencei
will suppose that Won are star OF wit
What kind Of ravs do YOU shoot forth! Do
you use that splendid faculty to irradiate the
world or to rankle it! / bless all the apos-
tolic college of humoristS. The man that
makes me laugh is my bencsactor do not
thank ANYBODY to make me cry. | can do
that without any assistance. We all cry
enough and have enough to cry about. God
bless all skiIlful punsteTs, all rHparteeists, all
prupounders Of ingenious conundrums. all
those who mirthfully surprise us with I'M
usual iuxtaposition of words. Thomas Hood
and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith had a
divine mission, and so have their SUCCESSORS
in these times. They stir into the acid bever-
age of life the sacchariue. They make the
cup of earthly existence, which is sometimes
stale, effervesce and bubble. They piacate
animosities. They foster longevity. They
slay fcllies and absurdities which all the
sermons OF all the pulpits cannot reach
They have for examples Elijah, who made
fun of the Baalites when they called down
fire and it did not come, suggesting that their
hcathen god had gone hunting, or was OFT on
Journey, or was asleep and nothing but
vociferation could wake him, saying: 'Cry
aloud for he is a god; either he is talking or
pursuing or peradventure lie sleepeth and
must be awaked" They have an example in
Christ, who with healthffl sarcasm showed
up the lying, hypocritical Pharise,-', by sug-
HtSllll- liub sum TiItNb iAh'
selves needed no improvements, saying: "The
whole need not physician, but they that
are sick"
But what use are you making of your wit!
Is it besmirched with profanity and unclean-
nessl Do you employ it IN amusement at
physical defects for which the victims are
not responsible. Are your powers of mirnicry
used TO put religion in contempti Is it n
bunch of nettiesome inyective! Is it u bolt
of unjust scorni Is it fun at others mis-
fortune. Is it glee at their disappointment
and defeatl Is it bitterness put drop by drop
into cupl Is it like the squeezing of arte-
misia absnthium into draught already dis
tastefully pungenti Then you are the star
Wormwood Yours is the fun of a rattle
snake trying how well it can sting. 1t is the
fun of hawk trying how quick it can strike
out the eye of u dove.
But will change this, aud / will suppose
you are star of worldly prosperity. Then
you have large opportunity. You can en-
that artist by buying bis picture
You can improve the fields, the stables, the
highway. by Introducing higher style Of
fowl and horse and cow and sheep. You can
bless the world with genealogical achieve
ment in the orchards. You can advance
and arrest this deathful icouo-
ciasm of the American forests. You can put
a niece of sculpture into the niche of that
public academy. You can endow college
You can stocking a thousand bare feet from
the winter frost. You can build a church,
You can put missionary of Christ on that
foreign shore You can help ransom world.
A rich man with his heart right. Can you
r
George Peabody or Peter Cooper or a Will
lam E. Dodge did while living, or is doing
now that no is dead! There is not city.
town or neiShborhood that has not glorious
specimens Of consecrated wealth.
But suppose you grind the face of the poor.
Suppose when mans wages are due you
make him wait for them because he cannot
help himself Suppose that because his
family is sick and he has had extra expenses
he should politely ask you to raise his wages
for this year, and YOU roughly tell him if he
wants a better place to go and get it, Sup
pose by your manner you act as though he
were nothing and YOU were everything.
Suppcse YOU are selfish and overbearing and
arrogant Your first name ought, to be At
lila, and your last name Attila, because you
,re the star Wormwood and you have en-
Filtered one-third, il not three-thirCls. of the
waters that roll past Your EMPLOYEES and
operatives and dependents and associates.
md the lone line of carriages which tine nm
iertalSer orders for your funeral in oriar to
naks the occasion respectable. will he filled
With twice as many dry. fearless ewes as there
ire persons ocrupying them. The clumsy
,all bearers NAV make the gates of vour
4na&e by striking your silver
lancled comm against them' put the world
VIII feei no jar as you so OUT Oh II.
ihere Is an erroneous iaea abroad that
mere are ohis le" eeniuses. ihere are
Millions OF then' that Is, men ana women
Sho nave eSpecial adaptatlon ana qulckness
or some one thing. III may De great II may
'e small Inc circle may De Ike the circum-
erence OF the earth or no larger than a
himnie inere are thousands OF geniuses
lere TINS morning, anu IN some one thing
ou arc star. nat hlhd OF star are
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