The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-05-02
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tNiu newspapers may HutlCes
bringing up tie rear end of an
advertisement. the letters st. +.
Probably they don't puzzle him
much; he simply regards them a.
cabilistic signs peculiar TO nrin-
ters, and certainly no fit theme
for song or sermon.
However this may be, that PAIR
oil letters has significance be-
yoad the range of type among
the shadows and out Into ths eun-
shine of that mosaic work We call
life.
10 the unlnltiated 1t Is only 81.
IT,; to the printers eye 1t ex-
pands into "tlil forbid" re-
minder that the advertisement 1t
waits on IL to he continued from
day to day, from month to mouth.
until ordered out oy him who di-
rected its publication.
The story of how many springs
that have brought the bloom of
the rose and the violet has been
told In that "ti." Wrought 10 the
green tracery of leaves that rise
and fall ON the bosom of the sir;
painted on the clouds at anchor
in the summer sea; carved or
the stone thresholds OF ever-golng
floods: silvered on the moon
medallion; craven on the round
raby of the morning sun; in the
scroll of the storm it is woven;
on the breath of the sea 1t is
broldered, and st f.. It'll forbid
Us the Story OF the world.
at. T." is written alike on the
drop of dew--tbat satellite of the
sod--and on the great world that
moves IN the b,eath aud bright
ems IN the smile OF God.
"T. f." rounds the summer Of
human hopes; it Is delicately
traced on beauty's brow; you
will find it in the rose's blushing
bud; you may see II 10 the ever
shining stars.
IT. f rs wrought in The helms
of the sweeping Tamerlanes Of all
times, and the silver thread of the
smallvoiced br, ok will not be
broken without il.
Nature has no stereotypes all
her advertisements are Published
with a It. f." and the types
that express her lovrliue.s are
silently distul bed, ard the graves
are filled WITH the elOquence of
yesterday. And even there, en-
ameled In the little billows Of
turf that break up earth's green
swald like a sea, there IS a "till
forbid" And so the silent swell
IF sod subsidies where graves
have been. and back TO the light
ard back to the air the dust Is
once mere waited.
"r. f.' Is woven into the
scarlet robe of Wrong. and the
pu pie garb of Power. Conquest 8
glowing wheels are marked wrh
d s't,f.," and the weariest bonds
that ever bowed humanity bes r
these letters stamped on every
link.
The young mother, bending
with look Of love over her child
iOrgets that IN that little ( ce, hid
IN the dimpls OF a cheek, or
shsdrd BY tress of golden hair,
two words are traced in Iife's blue
autograph that. eer long ohryed,
may leave her gazing up 20 the
iuii heaven, aud sighing that scm
b saith of summer AIR has waited
away forever the sweetest copy
IL all the world.
But the singer of the little song
that goes INTO all lands wherever
IT ls,spriog, reads no st. f." up
on It'd pInlon. He knows IT will
carol on 10 other times and win .
welcome; thar 1t will sing when
he Is dead that che olive leaf II
BEATS will never wIther; that By
and by a window will be opened
Ia heaven aud q hand will be put
forth, and, singing still, that
tuneful bird of his viii be touch
ed with the "whits radiance
Of immortal morning.
The thinker who Intrusts bis
living thoughts TO time--hir
thought instinct with beauty and
clog ent with truih-feels that
no ST. f." will Prove the end OF
all Its mission; that leaving the
red threshold Of his heart It br-
gins an independent b.ing, and
-1ill stand subllmrly there in the
Column OF the proof oI
pot TO die; this Is the