The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-01


They thought they would like to be
Tom Hoods or Charles Lambs or Ed
gar A. Poes. They mingled wine and
music and the spectacular. They were
worshipers of the harlequin, and the
Merry Andrew. and the buiIoon, and the
Jester. Life was to them foam aud bub-
BILE and exclamation and registering and
grimace. They were so full of glea they
could hardly repress their mirth even
on solemn occasions, and they came near
bursting out hilariously even at the bur
ial because there was something so dol
orous in the tone or countenance of the
undertaken.
After awhile misfortune struck them
hard ON the back. They found there was
something they could not laugh at. IN
der their late hours their health gave
| way, or there was death in the house
Of every green thing their soul was ex-
foliated. They found out that life was
more than joke. From the heart of
God there blazed into their soul an ear
nestness they had never felt before
They awoke to their sinfulness and their
| immortality, and here they sit at 60 or
| 10 years OF age as appreciative Of all in
nocent mirth as they ever We're, but they
are bent on style of satisfaction which
! in early life they never hunted-the
evening Of their days brighter than the
morning In the morning they devoured
the prey, but at night they divided the
spoil.
| Then there are Others who started out
for financial success. They see how linn
Der the rim of mans hat is when he
bows down before some one transpicu-
Gus. They felt they would like to see
how the world looked from the window
Of 81 900 turnout They thought they
would Like to have the morning sunlight
tangled in the headgear of dashing
span They wanted the bridges in the
park to resound under the rataplan of
their swift hoofs. They wanted gilded
baldric, and SO they started on the dol
! lar hunt. They chased it up one street
! End chased it down another. They fol-
lowed it when it burrowed in the cellar.
They freed it in the roof.
Wherever dollar was expected to be.
they We're. They chased it across the
ocean. They chased it across the land.
They stopped not for the night Hear
ing that dollar even in the darkness
thrilled them as an Adirondack sports
man is thrilled at midnight by looms
laugh, They chased that dollar to the
money vault. They chased it to the gov
ernnent treasury. They routed it from
under the counter All the hounds were
out-all the pointers and the settlers.
They leaped the hedges for that dollar,
and th,y cried: Hank away! A dollarl
A dollar And when at last they came
upcii it ana had actually captured it
their excitement was like that Of a fall
coner who has successfully flung his fest
hawE
In the morning of their life, oh, how
they devouied the preyl But there came
better tine to their soul. They found
ont that an immortal nature cannot livt
on bank stock, They took up North
ern Pacific bond. and there was a hole il
it through which they could look int
They saw some Ralston, living at til,
rate Of $4,000 a month, leaping from
San Francisco wharf because he coult
not continue to live at the same ratio
They saw the wien and paralytic bank
ers who had changed their souls int
molten gold stamped with the image o
the earth. earthly. They saw some grea
souls by a7arice turned into homunculi
and they said to themselves. Il will seel
after higher treasure"
POOR THING TO HUNT.
T--q.n t.i..s CINE they did not cari
whether they walked or rode, if Chris
walked with then: nor whether the,
lived ID 4 taans--1,l or in a hut, if the,
aveit fla5 r The shadow of the Almighty
nor whether they were robed in Frencl
b.,oadcloth or in homespun, if they hat
tL8 robe Of the Saviour's righteousness
nor If they were sandaled with morocco,
or calfsiin, il they were shod with tn