The Monitor-register., 1896-06-19

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said: " You never know you
have taken a pill till it is all 0
over.' 25c. c. /. Hood s. Co.,
Proprietors, Lowell, Mass. AAn~
The only pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla,
it. Hail, evening start Hang on the
darkening sky your diamond coronetl
But are any of you the star Worm
wood? Do you scold and growl from the
thrones paternal or maternal? Are your
children everlastingly pecked at? Are
you always crying "Hushi'' to the merry
voices and swift feet, and their laugh
ter, which occasionally trickles through
at wrong times and is suppressed by
them until they can hold it nc longer.
, and all the barriers burst into unlimited
outlaw and cachinnation, as in high
weather the water has trickled through
a slight opening in the milldam. but
afterward makes wider and wider
breach until 1t carries all before it with
irresistible freshet? Do not be too much
offended at the noise your children now
make. 1t will be still enough when one
of them is dead. Then you would give
your right hand to hear II shout from
their silent voices or one step from the
still foot. You will not any Of you have
to wait very long before your house is
stiller than you want it. Alas, that there
are so many homes not known to the So
ciety For the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, where children are put on the
limits and whacked and cuffed and ear
pulled and senselessly called to order
and answered sharp and suppressed I'M
til it is a wonder that under such proc
esses they do not all turn out Modocs
and Mana Sahibs.
What is your influence upon the
neighborhood, the town or the city of
| your residence? I will suppose that you
are a star Of wit. What kind of rays do
| you shoot forth? Do you use that SPLEEN
did faculty to irradiate the world or to
rankle it? 1 bless all the apostolic col
lege of humorists. The man that makes
me laugh is my benefactor. I do not
thank anybody to make me cry? I can
do that without any assistance. We all
cry enough, and have enough to cry
about. God bless all skillful punsters,
all reparteeists, all propounders Of in
genious conumdrums, all those who
mirthfully surprise us with unusual
juxtaposition of words. Thomas Hood
and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith
had a divine mission, and so have their
successors in these times. They stir into
| the acid beverage of life the saccharine.
They make the cup Of earthly existence,
| which is sometimes stale, effervesce and
bubble. They placate animosities. They
foster longevity. They slay follies and
absurdities which all the sermons Of all
the pulpits cannot reach.
Need of a Physician.
They have for examples Elijah, who
made fun of the Baalites when they
called down fire, and it did not come,
suggesting that their heather god had
gone hunting, or was off on a journey,
or was asleep, and nothing but vocifer-
alton could wake him, saying, "Cry
aloud for he is god. Either he is talk
ing or pursuing OR ~peradventure he
sleepeth and must be awaked." They
have an example in Christ, who with
healthful sarcasm showed up the lying,
hypocritical Pharisees by suggesting
that such perfect people like themselves
needed no improvements, saying, 1.-The
whole need not a physician but they
that are sick"
But what use are you making of your
wit? Is it besmirched with profanity
and uncleanness? Do you employ it in
amusement at physical defects for which
the victims are not responsible? Are
your powers of mimicry used to put re-
ligion in contempt Is it a bunch of
nettlesome invective? Is it a bolt of un-
just scorn? Is it fun at others misfor-
tune? Is it glee at their disappointment
and defeat? Is it bitterness put drop by
drop into a cup? Is it like the squeezing
of Artemisia absinthium into a draft
already distastefully pungent? Then you
are the star Wormwood. Yours is the
fun of a rattlesnake trying how we'll it
can sting. 1t is the fun of a hawk try
ing how quickly it can strike out the
eye of a dove.
But I will change this and suppose
you are a star of Worldly Prosperity.
Then you have large opportunity. You
can encourage that artist by buying his
picture. You can improve the fields, the
stables, tile highway, by introducing
higher style of fowl and horse and cow
and sheep. You a bless the world
with genealogical achievement in the
orchards. You can advance arboricul-
lure and arrest this beautiful iconoclasm
IF the American forests. You can put a
oiece of sculpture into the niche Of that
public academy. You a endow a col
lege. You can stocking a thousand bare
feet from the winter frost. You can
build a church. You can put a mission
airy of Christ ON that foreign shore. You
can help ransom q world. A rich man
with his heart right-can you tell me
how much good a James Lenox or a
George Peabody or a Peter Cooper or a
William E. Dodge did while living, or
is doing now that he is dead? There IS
not a city, town OR neighborhood that
has not glorious specimens of consecrated
wealth.
But suppose you grind the face OF the
poor. Suppose when q mans wages are
due you make him wait for them be-
cause he caunot help himself. Suppose
that. because his family is sick and he
has had extra expenses, he should po-
litely ask you to raise his wages for this
wear and you roughly tell him If he
wants a better place to go and get IL.
Suppose by your n you act as
though he were nothing and you were
everything. Suppose you are selfish and
o~yerbearing and arrogant. Your hrst
name ought to be Attila and your last
name Attila, because you are the star
NORWOOD, and you have lmblttered
one-third if not three-thirds OF the
waters that roll past your employees ano
operatives and dependents and assocl-
ates. and the long line or carriages
which the undertaken orders 1or you
funeral. in order to make the occasion
respectable, will be filled with twice az
many dry, fearless eyes as there are per
sons occupying them. -,
There is an erroneous idea aDroao
that there are only a few genluses'
There are millions of them-thatl Is, men
and women who have especial adapta-
ton and quickness for some thing
1t may be great; it may be small. Inc
circle may be like the circumference OF
the earth or no larger than q th1mble.
There are thousands of geniuses, and Ill
some one thing you are q star. Wha'
kind of a star are you? You VIII De Ill
this world but a few minutes. AS com
pared with eternity the stay OF the
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