Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-29
THE WORLDS PRAYER.

v with that reverence. which is due to superior excellence. and that regard which should ever be cherished for exalted greatness.
 Almighty Dollar. without thee in the world we can do nothing but with thee we can do all things. When sickness lays its palsied hand upon Us. thou canst provide the tenderest nurses. the best of physicians, and when the last struggle of mortality IS over. and we are being borne to the resting place of the dead. thou eanst provide a band of music and a mili- tary escort to accompany us thither' and last but not least, erect a mag nitlicient monument over our graves with Icing epitaph to perpctuate our memory.
 And while here in the midst of misfortunes and temptations of this life, we perhaps are accused Of crime and brought before magistrates. thou Almighty Dollar. canst secure to us q feed lawyer, a bribed judge, packed jury. and we get out scott free.
 Be with us. we pray thee. i'll all thy decimal parts. for we feel that thou art one altogether lovely and and the chicftest among ten thous- and.
 We feel there is no true condition in life where thy potent and all-pow- erful charms are not felt. In thy absent how gloomy is the hearth stone: but when thou, 0, almighty Dollar, art with Us, how gleefully the beefstalte sings on the gridiron, how genial the warmth that good two foot wood and pinc-knots diffuses throughout the apartments. and what an exhuherenec of joy continues to swell in every bosom.
 Thou art the joy of our youth, and the solacc of our old age. Thou canst adorn the gentleman. and like wise feed the Jackass. Thou art the favorite of the philosopher, and the idol of the lunkhead. Where an election is to be carried, o. Almighty 1 Dollar. thou are the most potent ar gument of politicians and dcmagog- ues. and the umpire that decides the ] contest.
 l Almighty Dollar. thou are worship 1 ed the world over. Thou hast no hyp- ocrites in thy temple or false hearts at thy alters. Kings and eourtiers bow before thee and all nations adore. Thou art loved by the civil 1 iZed as we'll as savage. with unfeign- ed and unfaltering affection. l o. Almighty Dollar, in the ac- uuirement and defense of human l liberty thou hast placed armies in the i field and navics on the ocean. At l the uplifting of thy powerful hand i their thundcrS would break and their ! Tightening flash. Thou hast bound continents together by the telegraph ! cables. and made the varied product of our country available to all by q perfect net work of railroads. The forest has been prostratcd and the desert made to blossom as the rose.
 We continue to regard thee as the handmaid of religion. and the twin sister of charity. When the light of thy shining countenance breaks through the gloom of famine-stricken Ireland. the shamrock wears q green er hue, and the harp resounds in its loftier strains. while weeping mothers and starving children. rise above their walls of woe. as their hearts and heels resound 10 the thrilling strains of St Parick's E Day in the Morning. ."
 When our brother and sister of the Sunny south are smitten hip and thigh" by the climate scourgc of yellow fever. and Restitution prevails in consequence of the cessation of in- dus,rieS. and suffering is increased from lack of nurses and medical at tendants, and they call for thee AL mighty Dollar of the north. thou go- est on the wings of love to the rescue while the air that was discordant with groans and Shrieks, becomes relolent with the collaboration melo- dies of Yankee Doodle.
 0. Almighty Dollar he with Us. wc beseech thee. attended hy an mex prcssiblc number of thy ministering angles; made in thine own image even though they he hut silver quar- terS, whose gladdcning light shall il- luminate the vale of pcnury and want with heavenly radiance, which shall cause the awakened soul to break forth in acclamations of joy.
 Almighty Dollar thou art the awakener of our energies, the