Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-06-06
Monuments to the No.,

w '"e Dead,
1t has been wisely rena,l.,
consistency is q jewell" bntMhed d
of the remark strangely e aus ssSl
elected to add that it was enough
the diamond. ts'et N
All through their Lifetime
and find fault with public men. We S tsl
they ever do quite meets ous Nothi
ton. We feel that we could hsppe'
so much better if We had beaa uaSe d
places. We wound our fr;a, N "
cold looks and cross words Da Is, u
prove our children with harshHe
speak unkindly to the poor o11 /
or mother, who tries our pat; .u la3
seemingly needless questions, u We \
our minister's best sermons all to Veg
and say that he had better on; y peg
ing and go to saving wood. w prey
satisfied with our family phvs Se ss
we take patent medicines nntS 4
not care whether we live Or ~; We
then say that we were not treaty. a;e' 4
erly in the first place.
We are a race of fault-fnders
The husband will feel himsol,.
tyr of the first water if he find.
in the toe of his stocking: he a.,
sulky for half a day if his a;s wy
fifteen minutes late, and he will =.
out at his wife about it, and So, ~
into the lachrymose state; and s III
wish she had remained an old -" n
and he will think how much bas
Brown is, and Brown has never r'p ].
RED; but when that wife dies. he, !
band forgets her short-cominos ]
proceeds to remember her in m,,
and make q sort of saint of her
just so we do with regard to on, /,
lie men. We tear their charac,s,
shoe-strings when they are aliys
when they are dead, we begin to !,
money for monuments to their MANI
And it is perfectly astonishing h
mans fame grows after he is dead
Now all this sort of thing is not /,
ense. The dead have no need Of
kind offices. It matters noth;nr
them what the leading newspaper
of them. All the Mandatory noted
the obituary columns are of no ace1
to them. A monument reaching NJ
skies is worth no more to a dead
than a pine single placed at the 1
Of his grave.
Our duty is to the living-not to
dead.
Your hard-worked wife-who du
her lifetime never has a cent she
call her own, who tolls until SHED
toll no longer, to save up money vi
you will expend in 8 monument to
memorate her virtues after she Isl
would have been much more D
flied by the price Of that marbld
vested in comfortable clothing and
in the kitchen when she stood I'M
of it. And you would have displs1
much more sensible affection for
by spending the money on her ID
her life, than by spending it Oh
tombstone after she is dead.
And how is it about kind words:
are ali ready to say pretty things 4
those who are dead. Then We red
Der only their virtues. Why is |
just as easy to see their good qad
while they are living?
Why not be charitably blind to
faults while they are here?
Why not erect our monuments 4
living instead of the dead?
Why not, all the way along, bd
mind that our living friends arei
respect just as good and as
as they will be when thev
dead and that it is of vastly noel
sequence to them that we Treasure
now, rather than when they have A
beyond all care or thought of edl
love?
If we could learn to speak as II
of our living friends as we do OIL
dead ones, it would show US in q b
light to our own hearts, and when
one Of our dear ones went or the|
known way, we should never ha1
regret the kind offices we might
done for him.-Kate Thorn, IN !
York Weekly.