Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-19

si0nally triclsles through at wrong timei
a and is suppressed by them until they car
4 hold it no longer, and all the barriers
burst into unlimited gufIaw and cachinna
70 ton, as in high weather the water has
trickled through a slight opening in the
milldam, but afterNvard makes wider and
: wider breach until il carries all before il
with irresistible freshets Do not be toe
: much offended at tho noise your children
: now make 1t win lie still enough when
one of them is dead. Then you would give
. your right hand to hear one shout from
/ their silent voices or one step from the
! still foot. You win 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 Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
where children are put on the limits, and
!. whaeked and cuffed and ear pulled and
senselessly called to order and answered
, sharp and suppressed, until it is "a won
der that under such processes they do not
all turn out AIodocs and Mana Sahibsl
What is your influence upon the neigh
. borhOod the town or the city of your resi-
denee? win suppose that you are n star
of wit. What kind Of rays do you shoot
forth? Do you use that splendid faculty to
irradiate the world or to ranlSle its bless
all the apostolic college of humorists The
man that makes me laugh-is my benefac-
tor do not thank anybody to make me
cry. 1 can do that without any assistance
We sll csy enough and have enough to cry
about. God bless all sl1illful punstcrs, all
reparteeists, all propounders of ingenious
conundrums, all those who mirthfuIly sur
prise us with unusual juxtaposition Of
words. Thomas Hood and Charles Lamb
and Sydney Smith had divine mission,
and so have their SUCCESSORS in these times.
They stir into the acid beverage of life tho
saccharine. They make the cup of earthly
| existence, which is sometimes stale, effer-
vesce ard bubble. They placate anlmosi-
ties. They foster longevity. They Stay fol-
/ lies and absurdities which all the sermons
Of all the pulpits cannot reach.
They have for example Elijah who
made fun of the Baalitcs when they called
| down fire and it did not come suggesting
that their heather god had gone hunting
or was off on n journey, or was asleep, and
nothing but moderation could wake him.
/ saying: Cry aloud, for he is god. Either
| he is talking or pursuing, or peradventure
he sleepeth and must be awaked. They
| have an example i'm 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 amuse-
ment at physical defects forwhich the vic
tins are not responsible? Are your powers
of mimicry used to put religion in con-
tempt? Is it bunch of nettlesome in
vective? Is 1t bolt of unjust scorn? Is it
fun at others misfortune? Is it glee at
their disappointment and defeat? Is il
bitterness put drop by drop into cups Is
it like the squeezing of Artemisia alb
sinthium into draft already distaste-
fully pungent? Then you are the star
Norwood Yours is the fun of Il rattle
snake trying how well it can sting. 1t is
the fun of a hawk trying how quickly it
can strike out the eye of dove.
Worldly Prosperity.
But win change this ard suppose YOU
are a star of worldly prosperity. Then you
have large opportunity. You can encOw-
age that artist by buying his picture You
can improve the fields, the stables, the
highway, by introducing higher style of
fowl and horse and COW and sheep. You
can bless the world with genealogical
achievement in the orchards. You can adj
vance arboricultwe and arrest this death
full iconoclasm of the American forests
You can put piece of sculpture into the
niche of that public academy You can en-
dow a college. You can stocking 900
bare feet from the winter frost You can
build a church. You can put a missionary
of Christ on that foreign shore You can
help ransom a world. A rich man with
his heart right-can you tell me how much
good 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 city, town or neigh {
borhood that has not glorious specimens
Of consecrated wealth.
But suppose you grind the face of the q
poor Suppose when n mans wages are
due you make him wait for them because
he cannot help himself Suppose that, be- /
cause his family is sick ard he has had ex- I
ira expenses, he should politely ask you to {
raise his wages for this year, and you =
roughly tell him if he wants a better place !
TO go and get it. Suppose by your manner
you act as though he were nothing and ?
you were everything. Suppose you are self
sh and Overbearing and arrogant. Your !
first name ought to be Attila and your I
last name Attila, because you are the star u
Norwood, and you have imbittered one a
third if not three thirds of the waters that Il
oil past your employees and operatives r
md dependents and associates, and the "
Ong line of carriages which the undertaken Il
,rders for your funeral, in order to make W
he occasion respectable viii be filed with u
wice as many dry, fearless eyes as there !.
ire persons occupying them. Y
There is an erroneous idea abroad that
hat there are only a few geniuses. There n
III l.
women who have especial adaptation and a.
thickness for some one thing. 1t may be n,
,reat, it may be small The circle may be u
ike the circumference of the earth or no
anger than n thinlble There are thou
ands of geniuses, and in some one thing u
on are a star. What kind of a star are ~
on? You will be in this world but few ~
minutes a s compared with eternity the W
tay of the longest life on earth is not more =
han n minute. What are we doing with "a
hat minute? Are we imbittering the do ~
nestle or social or political fountains, or y
re we like Noses who, when the Israel w
.cs in the Wilderness complained that the "a
rnters Of Lake Marah We're bitter and they ~
ould not drink them, cut off the branch ne
a certain tree and threw that branch in no
D the water, and it became sweet and ~
Iaked the thirst of the suffering hostS ~,
re we with a branch of the tree Of life m,
weetening all the brackish fountains that 5o
re can tOuchY an
Three Wishes. nv
Dear Lord, send us all out on that mis- biz
ION. All around us imbittered lives-im- TIN
Uttered by persecution, imbittered by by ST.
imbittered by poverty, i'm gr
Uttered by pain, imbittered by injustice aft
by sin. Why not go forth and no
veeten them by smiles, by inspiring of
-ords, by benefactions, by hearty counsel tic
y prayer, by gospelized behavior Let us asst
smenber that if we are wormwood to Da
theirs we are NORWOOD to ourselves, and up
ur life will be bitter and our eternity Bit til,
,rer. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the on arS
sweetening power that is sufficient. 1t Sta
veetens the disposition. It sweetens the foI
lanners. 1t sweetens life 1t sweetens its