Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-22

sec who seemed the happiest people pass.
ing. judged from their looks
the happicst people were not those who
went down into Wall street, for they had
on their brow the anxiety Of the dollar
they expected TO make; nor the people
who came out Of Wall street, for they
had on their brow the anxiety of the dol
lar they had lost; nor the people who
swept by in splendid equipage, for they
met carriage that was finer than theirs.
The happiest person in all that crowd,
judgiag from the countenance, was the
woman who sat at the apple stand knit
ting. | believe real happiness oftener
looks out Of the window Of an humble
home than through the opera glass Of the
gilded box Of a theater.
| find Nero growing on a throne.
find Paul singing in dungeon. / find
King Ahab going 10 bed at noon through
melancholy, while near by is Naboth con-
tented in the possession Of a VINEYARD.
Haman, prime minister Of Persia, frets
himself almost TO death because a poor
Jew will not Tip his hat; and Ahithophel,
one ofthe greatest lawyers Of Bible times,
through fear of dying. hangs himself.
The wealthiest man, forty years ago, in
New York, when congratulated over his
large estate, replied: "Ah! you don't
know how much trouble have in taking
care Of it," Byron declared in his last
hours that he had never seen
more than twelve happy days in
all his life. ! do not believe he
had seen twelve minutes of thorough
satisfaction. Napoleon ] said: II turn
with disgust from the cowardice and
selfshness Of man. hold life horror;
death is rep0se. What | have suffered
the last twenty days is beyond human
comprehension" While, on the other
hand, TO show how one may be happy
under the most disadvantageous circum-
stances, just after the Ocean Monarch
had been wrecked in the English chan
mel, steamer was cruising along in the
darkness, wher the captain heard a song,
sweet song, coming over the water,
and he bore down toward that voice, and
found il was Christian woman on a
plank of the wrecked steamer, singing to
the tune Of St. Martins:
Jesus, lover Of my soul,
Let me TO thy bosom fly,
While the pillows near me roll
While the tempest SIN is high.
The heart right toward God and man,
we are happy, The heart wrong toward
God and man. We are unhappy.
Another reason why we should come
to this spirit inculcated in the text is the
fact that all the differences Of earthly
condition are transitory. The houses
you build! the land YOU culture, the
places in which you barter, are soon 10
90 into other hands However hard you
may have it now. if you are a Christian
the scene will soon end Pain. trial, per-
secution never knock at the door Of the
grave. A coffin made out Of pine boards
is just as good resting place as one
made out Of silver mounted mahogany
or rosewood. Go down among tho
resting places Of the dead, and
you will fEd that though people
there had a great difference IL
worldly circumstances, now they are all
alike unconscious. The hand that greeted
the senator, and the president and the
king is still as the hand that hardened On
the mechanics hammer OF the manu-
facturer's wheel. 1t does not make any
difference now. whether there is a plain
stone above them from which the tray-
eler pulls aside the weeds 10 read the
name or a tall shaft springing into the
heavens as though To tell their virtue 10
the skies.
In that silent land there are no titles
for great men. and there are no rumb-
lings Of chariot wheels. and there IS never
heard the foot of the dance. The
Egyptian guano which is thrown on the
fields in the east for the enrichment Of
the soil, is the dust raked out from the
sepulchers of kings and lords and mighty
men. o the chagrin Of those men il they
had ever known that in the after ages Of
the world they would have been called
Egyptian guauo.
OF how much worth now is the crown
of Cgsarl Who bids for III Who cares
now anything about the Amphctyonic
council or the laws Of LvCurgus: Who
tremhles now because NerXes crossed the
Hellcspont on a bridge of boats; Who
fears because Nebuchadnezzar thunders
at the gates Of Jerusalem? Who cares
now whether or not Cleopatra marries
Antony Who crouches hefore Ferli-
nand, OF Boniface. or Alaric? Can Crom-
well dissolve the English parliament now! /!
Is William, prince Of Oaugc, king Of
the Netherlands No. NO! However
much Elizabeth may love the Russian
crown, she must pass it to Peter, and
Peter 30 Catherine, and Catherine 10
Paul, and Paul 10 Alexander, and Alex
ander l. Nicholas. Leopold put the Ger
man sccptcr into the band Of Joseph, and
Philip comes down or the Spanish
throne 90 let Ferdinand 60 on. House
uf Aragon, house Of llapsburg, house Of
Stuart, house Of Bourbon, Quarrcling
about everything else but agreeing in
this, The fashion of this world
passcth away" But have all these dig.
nitnrics gone? Can they not be called
back2 ! have been in assemblagcs where
| have heard the roll called, and many
distinguished men hnve answered. II /
should call the roll today Of some OF those
mighty ones who have gone, wonder if
they would not answer, viii call the
roll. will call the roll " the .ings
first; Alfrcl the Great, William the
Cguqucror! Frederick ii, Louis XVI,
No answer, will call the roll or the
poets: Robert Southcyl Thomas Camp.
bell! John Keats George Crabbe! Robert
burns! No answer l call the roll Of