Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-12-19

the best ivory cigarholdcr you can i'm
port from brussels and have standing
outside his door Il pranCing span that won
the prize at the horse fair, and leave him
estate enough to make him Independent of
all struggle, aud what will become of him?
n lie do not die early Of inanition or dissi-
patton ne will live useless life, and die an
unlamcnted death, and 60 into FOOLS
eternity.
But what has been thc history Of most
of the great Ccdars in merchandise, in art,
in law, in medicine, i'll statc3manship, in
Christian usefulness? John, get up and
milk thc cows; it's lntc It's half past in
the morning Split an arnlful of wood on
your way out SO chat we can build the fires
FOR breakfast Put your bare feet on the
cold Oilclolh, and break the ice i'll your
pitcher before You can wash. Yes; it has
been showing and drifting again last night
and wc will have to breal; the roads The
boys educational advantages, long oak
plank without pny back to it, in country
school house, and stove throwing out more
smoke than heat. Pressing on from one
hardship to auot y. After while II posi-
ton on salary or wages small enough to
keep lie. but keep il at it's lowest ebh.
Starti;g in occup tion or business with
prosperous men trying to fight you back
at every step. But nftcr1 good while fairly
ON your feet and your opportunities widen
ing and thea b; some sudden turn You are
tr;umnhaur. You Nro MASTER OF the situa-
ton aud dcGan. Of all earth and he'll
THE s"uo1L rOE ln..D-'.
\ Lob&1cn CEDAR. JUim Milton on his
WY upto tho til'pre af the worlds sacred
ro"sy mr.; .-. Lis Copyright of " Paradise
Lost for .3 ia tutcr payments. And
William Shnk, fsgr, on his WAY Mp 20 ha
acbruVl,d,.,i d., rrclteat draH1tist Of al
ages must t'Il "trscs - tho door OF the
London theatre Tor sjNr"ucc and Homer
must s.rG SIC through total hlindIos, to
Immortality, and JOHN BIuvau must cheer
himself on the way up by making a Il te
out of his prison stool, and Canovn, the
sculptor, must toll On through orphauaEr
modelling a lion in butter before he could
cut his statues in marble. And the great
Stephenson must watch cows in the field
for Il few pennies and then become astokcr,
and aftcrward mend clocks before he puts
the locomotive on its track aud calls forth
piaudit, from parliamcnts and medals
from kings. Abel Stevens Is picked up a
neglected child Of the street, and rises
through his Consccrctcd geniU' to be one
OF he most illu-t "iOus clorcymen and his
torinus Of the century. And bishop James
of the same church in boyhood worked his
passage from Ireland to America and up
to usefuluess where, in the bishupric he
Was second to no one who ever adorned it.
Wilhelm baushmeut Nenophon wrote his
"Anabasis' and Thucydide, his History
of the Pelopounesian War" and Victor
Hugo must be eXiled for many years to
the island Of Guernsey before he can come
l,nt boiglt II tfnot t,,t,- Of li- pcur,-
tiymen that crowds Champs Elysecs and
the adjoining boulevard, with one million
mourners AS his nearsc rolls down to the
Church of the Madeleine Oh. it is a tough
old world, and it will keep Won back and
keep You down and keep You under as long
rs it can! Hail sons and daughters Of the
fire!
Stand as the anvil when the stroke Of stalwart
mon falls fierce aud fast
Storms hut more deeply root the oak whose
hrawny arms embrace the blast:
Stand like m anvil; noise and heat are born Of
earth and die with time:
The soul. like God i's source aud seat is solemn
STILL serene, sublime
Thirty wears from now the foremost men
in al! occupations and profess .un, will be-
those who are this hour in awful struggle
! Of early life. many of them without fv,
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