Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-02
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The train stopped suddenly between
two stations Several of the passengers
rushed out Of the car excitedly and came
back With the tidings that there was an
obstruct. IN on the track that would
cause the q. lay OF an hour.
The eountenances OF most of the pas
sengers instantly fell into the depths Of
gloom and despair.
.Thi. ia simply intolerable ;" muttered
one middle aged man To his companion
II shall not reafh the city before the
market closes IL will cost me three
or four thousand dollars"
A physician dropped his newspaper
aud paced impatiently up and down the
car. IAN hour late with all my pa
tients ~ he exclaimed =
care any of them in immediate dan
ger?"
No But an hour late, 1t Is unbear.
abb"
A young girl looked at her compan
ions with the tears In her eyes. IL am
going into town for the trimmings for
my dreas 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, scoiding eonduc-
tors and brakemen, as II they were per
sonallv responsible for the delay.
IL am to lecture this afternoon before
the lyceum," he exclaimed in hot indig
nation 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. II was
telrgraphed for, | shall not see him
alive
But while with most of the passengers
there was secret conviction that the
wheels of the universe had stopped
because they were delayed in their pur-
suits or work, one woman sat silent and
tranquil.
She WAS near the end of long life of
pain and hardship and wide experience
She had come, too. near enough to the
God who ruled over all lives to under
stand how every event and accident
great or little, has its place and purpose
in eternal order, as have notes, floating
in the sunshine. She was close enough
TO the gate of her future life to see how
little in its infinite height and meaning
was the old hall-dresa, or the fall OF
stocks. or even the loss Of an hour with
the dyisS child -,.-. 49, =
'Onsaoi the most singular studies in
-life,asays Bouchet. SIS 20 note how diff
ferent men, each with his own scales,
weight the same object sand attach to
them different values =
The lost bit of fiuery which brought
tears to the eyes of the scbon! GIRL was
lighter than feather ia the eyes ofthe
stock broker; and his loss of thousands
was eontemI tible to the man whose child
was going from him into the grave with
out q word; and doubtless his pain
seemed momentary and trivial ia the
vision of angels, to whom a thousand
years are Is day and death but a
momentafy change Of life.
How, then. are we to find the true
weight and value of things in this world
In the United States mint, when they
built a machine for weighing coin with
absolute accuracy they sank a shaft deep
into the earth and through upper forma-
tions, which are shaken By passing Jars,
and rested the foundation upon immov-
able granite beneath.
The man who digs in this way to find
a foundation for his life, through the
flowers and surface growth. which shake
with every storm, to the everlasting
Rock below. only can weight the events
and belongings OF the world at their real
value - Youths ConpGnioH.