The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27
DELAYED AN HOUR.
How to Find the True Weight and Value
of Things in the World.

How to Find the True Weight and Value
of Things in the World.
The train stopped suddenly between
two stations. Several of the passen-
gers 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
passengers instantly fell into depths OF
gloom and despair.
This is simply intolerable!" NUT
tered one middle-aged man to his COM
panion. 81 shall not reach the city
before the market closes. 1t will cost
me 1000 or $1,000"
A physician dropped his newspaper
and paced impatiently up and down the
car. can hour late with all my pa
tients!" he exclaimed.
care any of them in immediate
danger?" asked a bystander.
mo. But an hour late! 1t is I'M
bearablern
A young girl looked at her compan-
ions with the tears in her eyes. 81 am
going into town for the trimmings 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 con-
ductors and brakemen, as if they were
personally responsible for the delay.
II am to lecture this afternoon be-
fore the Lyceum, " he explained in hot
Indignation. ''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. Il
was telegraphed for. l shall not see
him alive"
But while, with most of the passen-
gers, there was secret conviction that
the wheels Of the universe had stopped
because they were delayed in theirpur-
suits of work, one woman sat silent and
tranquil.
She was near the end of long life
of pain and hardship and experience.
| She had come, too, near enough to
God who ruled over all lives to under
stand how every event and accident,
great or little, has its place and pur-
pose in the Eternal Order, as have
notes floating in the sunshine. She
was close enough to the gates of the
future life to see how little in its inf
mite height 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, lis to note how
different men, each with his own
scales, weigh the same objects, and at
tach to them different values"
The lost bit of finery which brought
tears to the eyes of the schoolgirl was
lighter than feather in the eyes o.
the stock broker; and his loss of thou
sands was contemplate to the man
whose child was going from him into
the grave without a word; and doubt
less even his pain seemed momentary
and trivial in the vision of the angels,
to whom a thousand years are as day,
and death but momentary change OF
life.
How, then, are we to find the true
weightand value of things in the world d:
In the United States Mint, when they
built machine for weighing coin with
absolute accuracy, they sank shaft
deep into the earth and through upper
formations, which are shaken by pass
ing jars, and rested the foundation
upon the immovable 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 ever
lasting rock below only can weigh the
events and belongings of the world at
their real YOUTHS COmpQnjOR.