Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-09-16

Sandy HOOK, New York, and Golden
Gate, San Francisco, it were asked that
all those that had been sometimes badly
treated should raise both their hands,
and full response should be made, there
would be twice as many hands lifted as
persons present. say many of you
would declare: 1--WE have always
done the best we could and tried TO be
useful, and why we should become the
victims Of malignment, or invalidism, or
mishap, is inscrutable." Why do YOU
not know that the finer a deer, and the
more elegant its proportions, aud the
more beautiful its bearing, the more
anxious the hunters and the hounds are
to capture it, Had that roebuck a
ragged fur and broken hoofs and
an obliterated eye and hmping gait
the hunters would have said: "pshawl
don't let us waste our ammunition on a
sick deer" And tire hounds would have
given few sniffs Of the track and then
darted OF in another direction for better
game. But when they see deer with
antlers lifted in mighty challenge to
earth and sky, and the sleek hide looks
as If it had been sInnothed by invisible
hands, and the far sides inclose the
richest pasture that could be nibbled
from the bank of rIls so clear they
seem to have droppel out Of heaven,
and the stamp of its foot defes
the jack shooting lantel1 and the rife,
the horn and the hounC, that deer they
will have If they must needs break their
neck in the rapids. So il there were no
noble stuff in your make up, if you were
a bifurcated nothing, if you were a for
lorn failure, you would be allowed to go
undisturbed; but the fact that the whole
pack is in full cry after you is proof pos
tive that you are splendid game and
worth capturing. Therefore sarcasm
draws on you its "finest bead" There
fore the world goes cunning for you with
its best Maynard breech loader. Highest
compliment is it TO your talent, or your
virtue, or your usefulness. You will
be assailed in proportion TO your
great achievements. The best and
the mightiest being the world ever
saw, had set after him all the hounds,
terrestrial and diabolic, and they tapped
his blood after the Calvarean massacre.
The world paid nothing to its Redeemer
but a bramble and cross. Many who
have done their best 10 make the world
better have had such rough time of it
that all their pleasure is in anticipation
of the next world, and they could ex-
press their own feelings in the words of
the Baroness Of Nairn at the close OF her
long life:
Would you be young again
So would not I;
One tear 81 memory given,
Onward III HE;
LIES dark wave farded Ger
All but at rest on shore;
Say, would you plunge once more,
With home so nighy
II you might, would you nov
Retace your ways
WapdpT through stormy wilds,
Faint aud ustrayS
Nights gloomy watches hed
Mornlnc all beUIning red,
Hopes smile around Us shed,
Heayeuward, away
Yes; for some people in this world
there seems no let up. They are pursued
from youth to manhood. and from man.
hood into old age. Very distinguished
are Lord Staiiurd's hounds. and Earl Of
NarbOrouch's hounds, and the Duke Of
Rutland. hounds, and Queen Victoria
Iays $500 per year to her master of
buckhounds. But all Of them put to-
gcther do not equal in number, or speed,
or power to hunt down, the great ken
nel of hounds Of which sin and trouble
are owner and master.
Eut what is a relief for all those pur-
suits Of trouble, and annoyance, and
pain. and bereavement Ny text gives
II to YOU in a word Of three letters, but
each letter is a chariot il you would
triumph, or throne if you want TO be
crowned, or a lake if you would slake
tour thirst--yea, a chain Of three letters
-G-o-d the one for whom David
longed, and the one whom David found.
You might as well meet a stag which,
after it, sixth mile of running al the top
most speed through thickct and gorge,
and with the breath Of the dogs ON its
heels, has come in full sight Of Scroon
lake and tried to cool its projecting and
blstered tongue with a drop Of dew
from blade Of grass, as 10 attempt TO
satisfy an immortal soul. when flying
from trouble and sin. with anything less
deep, and high, and broad, and immense,
and infinite, and eternal than God. His
comfort, why ii embosoms all distress.
His arm, II wrenches of all bondage. His
hand, il wipes away all tears. His Christly
atonement, il makes us all right with the
past, and all right with the future, and all
right with God, all right with man, pnd
all right forever. Lamartine tells us
that King Nimrod said 10 his three sons;
Here are three vases, and one is Of
clay, another Of amber, and another OF
gold. Choose now which YOU will have. "
The eldest son. having the frst choice,
chose the vase of gold, ON which was
written the word "empire," and when
opened Il was found 10 contain human
blood The second son, making the next
choice. chose the vase Of amber, in
scribed with the word glory" and
when opened Il contained the ashes Of
those who were once called great The
third son took the vase Of clay, and opening
IL. found il empty, but ON the bottom Of Z
was inscribed the name Of God. King
Nimrod asked his courtiers which vase
they thought weighed the most Tho
avaricious men OF his court said the vase
Of gold, The poets said the one Of am-
ber But the wisest men said tho empty
vase, because one letter OF the name OF
God outweighed universe.
For him / thirst, for bis s,ra.. has,.