Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-06
Oar LiffIa Grisfs

The train stopped suddenly between two
stations. Several of the passengers rushed
out of the car excitedly, and came back with
the tidings that there was an obstruction
on the track which would cause the delay
of an hour
The countenances of most of the passen-
gers instantly fell into depths of gloom and
despair.
This is simply intolerable p muttered
one middle-aged man to his companion.
" | shall not reach the city before the
market closes. 1t will cost me $4,000 or
$1,000"
A physician dropped his newspaper and
paced impatiently up and down the car.
An hour late with all my patientsr p he
exclaimed
Are any of them in immediate danger?"
asked bystander
No But an hour late. 1t is unbeara-
ble"
A young girl looked at her companions
with the tears in her eyes. g. am going
into town for the trimming for my dress.
Now it will not be done in time. | shall
have to wear my old blue to the party"
A short, pompous old man talked loudly
and necessarily, scolding conductors and
brakemen, as if they were personally re-
sponsible for the delay.
81 am to lecture this afternoon before
the Lyceum," he explainedin hot indigna-
ton. "The audience will have to wait
twenty minutes"
A young man sat immovable, his head
bent upon his breast, his face set and hard
My little boy is dying" he said to
some one who questioned him 81 was
telegraphed for. l shall not see him
alivew
But while, with most of the passengers,
there was a secret conviction that the
wheels of the universe had stopped be-
cause they were delayed in their pursuits
of work, one woman sat silent and tram
gull.
She was near the end of a long life OF
pain and hardship and wide experience.
She had come, too, near enough to the God
who ruled over all lives 10 understand
how every event and accident, great or lit
tie, has its place and purpose in the Eter-
nal Order, as have notes floating in the
sunshine. She was close enough to the
gate of the future life to see how little in
Its infinite hight and meaning was the old
ball dress, or the fall of stocks, or even the
loss of an hour with the dying child.
Zone of the most singular studies in
life" says Bouchet, sis to note how differ
ent men, each with his own scales, weigh
the same objects, and attach to them diff
ferent values"
The lost bit of fnery which brought
tears to the eyes of the school girl was
lighter than a feather in the eyes Of the
stock broker; and his loss of thousands was
contemplate TO the man whose child was
going from him INTO the grave without a
word and doubtless even his pain seemed
momentary and trivial in the vision of
angels, to whom thousand years are as a
day, and death but momentary change of
life.
How, then, are we to find the true weight
and value of things in the world?
In the United States Mint, when they
built a machine for weighing coin with
absolute accuracy, they sank a shaft deep
into the earth and through upper forma-
tons, which are shaken by passing Jars,
and rested the foundation upon the immoy-
able granite beneath
The man who digs in this way to find a
foundation for his life, through the flowers
and surface growths which shake with
every storm to the everlasting rock below,
only can weigh the events and belongings
of the world at their real value Youth s
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