Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-29

toward their infirmities, patient with their
mistakes and even follies.
Having himself tottered irreso1ute on the
edge of the commission of an extreme act of
folly. from which he had been rescued solely by
providential Intervention, he was able to
make allowances for lack of Judgment or weak
ness of resolve in others.
Jeremiah saw that Philip bad quarrelled
with Salome, and, without inquiring into the
occasion. he understood sufficient of their sew
eral characters to see that the best possible
means he could adopt for reconciiing the diff
ference was to give them holiday together
.abroad-to let them travel on the continent Tor
some time, and mutually learn much OF which
both were ignorant. He according wrote to
Philip not to return to Mergatroyd till Christ
mas. He wished, SO he said, himself to spend
soma months at the mill in recovering the
threads of the business which had fallen from
his fingers, and to settle thoroughly down again
into the old groove of life.
This enabled Philip who was literally sup
piled with money, to visit Paris, Rome, Milan,
Venice, and return to England by the Rhine
He and Salome made travelling acquaintances,
some agreeable, all instructive; they saw France
staggering after its humiliation, and Germany
rufhing in its pride of victory; they shared
small adventures, and equally small jokes such
as spring up on all travel, and are as poor to
preserve as the flowers gathered. They saw
together picture galleries, heard together
operas, and together acquired fund Of ex-
perience in life in many aspects unattainable
at Mergatroyd- The tour was, as Jeremiah de-
signed, educative to both, and 1t broadened
and deepened their mutual sympathies. 1t
did more; it bound them togethers as chums In
the same school, where both read out of the
same books and summed on the same slate,
and wrote out the same moral sentences in
hnir
they assisted each other; what escaped the eye
of one was perceived by the other, and each
took delight in drawing the attention of the
other to what he or she observed.
They laid up together fund of pleasant rec
objections to which to revert when holiday was
over and work began; shifting diorama of
transform and beautify the interior of the
drum when they were recalled to the obligation
of treading it.
But not so only. When they returned to
work, it would be to hope and scheme tor such
another excursion together in the future,
though perhaps they could scarcely look for an
other of the same duration. The retrospect
would enrich. and the prospect stimulate. and
Danish tedium and the sense of drudgery from
their life and work at smoky Mergatroyd.
What veins of interest had. moreover, been
opened to both-howers scenery, pictures,
music, antiquities, social customs, political in
stitutions, European history past and that
making under their eyes, such were no longer
dead words but living interests, germs of
intervals of work, in relaxations from task, by
the aid of books and papers, and in common.
As mention has been made of the saying Of
an American, the writer ventures to quote an
other-the remark made to him by Belgian:
Il perceive that when Flemish shopkeeper
has realized little money over the necessities
of life he SAYS to himself, Now will buy a
picturer The German under the came circum-
stances says, Now my son shall learn another
languager The American says, Now will see
the worldp The Englishman says, Now will
have salmon, though it is 4 shillings poundp
They fill their minds-your man his stomach"
There have been found toads imbedded in
stone which are supposed to have occupied the
same position for even 5000 years. For 5000
years their minds have never travelled beyond
the cavity in which. enveloped in obscurity,
they have squatted; and men will allow them
selves to settle down into holes exactly
fitting them, in which they will sit
out the span of their allotted days
yond it, an ambition outside it. Indeed, we
live upon Goodwin sand, that is ready to en-
guilt us, to suck us down and imbed US in its
heart. unless we bestir ourselves and resist the
downward suction. Let the reader look around
him and see how many of those he knows are
talk about their holes. TO be touched by moth
ing which does not affect their holes, are un-
concerned about everything save the texture
of the stone that encloses them, and the slime
that drapes the walls of their hole.
We do not say that the only means of escape
from such bondage and mental qualification is
continental travel; there are a hundred ways
of escape from petrifactlon. If only we will use
them, and use them persistently. In the case
under consideration it happened to be the way,
and the most effective way, in which Philip
and Salome escaped from the holes into which
they were about to sink and become sealed up.
But there IS one way IN which the overplus
of money will never help to deliver us from