Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-10-07

silly head which he bobs into the sand to
shut out ali sight of he world. Unlike him,
his human counterpart ranges through
every climate, unfeat hered and unhonor-
ed. Some even in your community
Let us at them and be done with our
bird pointer for while.
Thou money-lover, with not only head
but heart bent down behind few ring
ing coins through n world whose
beauties aud noblest joys are to thee iu
visible, the avenger il stealthiIy APP
preaching. 4 little twinge OF pain some
where, a little numbness in your brain, a
great deal OF turning hither md thither
to famed physicians hat are these but
warnings OF your fate? Your tiny heap
seems so important to you that you thrust
away the very thought OF death and few
erishly desire to feel forever the magic
thrill OF wealth within your grasp. You
long to get more; you build it up around
you like a wall.
Fool! Helped by wealth you may fly
on the wings OF the morning to the ut
termost parts OF the earth, but swiiter
OF death will reach you, and then what
have you? The heap that you trusted in,
as a fortress with trou BILE proof bastions,
will not save you from the glazing eye
and the rafting throat, the cammy
sweat and the vague picking at the bed
clothes. These are yours by a common
humanity, and when they come to you,
not hing material can be taken away into
the darkness. Something cannot be taken
away from nothing; your life is nothing
az you have lived it. You Will close your
ewes and lie liteless beside the beloved
wealth that has already closed your eyes
to the needs OF The paipitating world OF
misery.
But do | intimate that only ordinary
deaf h experiences " iii come to youP Nay,
il do, | lie; for there Will b. an out
stretching OF other eager hands toward
your golden heap they are even now
waiting for your deaf II in order to scram-
bic for your possessions and "a likely as
not. behind fragments OF your -oul ALI
will crouch another generation OF fools.
l. that att? W; for Il YOU love wealth
more than kindness; I you gat her from
expressions; II YOU wrong and cheat in
order to rake more and more around you,
your memory NH tr eru-t.d over With
gangrcuua- batred-. Peasant and Won
derfully useful though money may be,
have you indeed chosen the better part OF
it in coutsnti.lg yourself With ae4ulsi-
ton? Under the effort, your head With
its noble powers. Is bowed lower even
than the anlnnis' WHO toy getting give,
and having done all, stand to serve hu-
manity. But you get and give not and
the service OF humanity in any form Is
out OF your range OF vision: your head is
too low.
Thou fashionable woman, hiding thy
nakedness behind trumperies that change
with the changing day; contenting thy
self with world limited by patterns and
rounded out by tiouuces; thou art also
among the o- riches. Prinking and
pruning and phiisudering, covered With
the products OF creatures more gentle,
and with flowers more fair than yourself,
you go your way as though the body
were more important than the mind neg
lectiul OF the fact that the mind adorned
and the spirit sweetly and gently cult
waited will last long after the skin has
wrinkled and the eyes have lost their
sparkle. Compared with the fabric OF
your mind, your body is but hasting
thread
Yet behind contemplate hil!ock OF
clot hes you bow your beautiful head un-
til you no more the wide world Of
noble womanhood to which you are
surely called. How selfish you are,
Your father needs must deck you though
his aged head calls for 'rcst; you cry,
Give, give TO 10th Fat her and hus band,
not that you may make any return either
to them or to the world. You circle
around yourself, you admire yourself,
you pleasure in humhllug those less
gorgeous. DO YOU call that ltriH9' Can
you by any -tretch OF your perverted