Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-09-22

anxious to have the binding Russian TheiI
ignorance is positively sublime, making
English grammar almost disreputable. And
yet the finest parlors open before them
Good morals and intelligence are not neces-
sary, but wealth or a snow of wealth IS
,, positively Indispensable. 1t does not make
any difference how you got your wealth, il
you only got it. The best way for you to
get into social position is for you to buy a
large amount on credit, then put your
property In your wife's name, have a few
preferred creditors, and then make an as
signment. Then disappear from the COM
munity until the breeze is over and come
back and start in the same business. Dd
you not see how beautifully that will put
out all the people who are in competition
with you and trying to make an honest liv-
Ing? How quickly 1t will get you into high
social position? What is the use Of toiling
forty or fifty years when you can by two or
three bright strokes make great fortune?
All, my friends, when you really lose your
money how quickly they will let you drop.
and the higher you get the harder you will
irop.
There are thousands to-day in that realm
who are anxious to keep in it. There are
thousands in that realm who are nervous
for fear they will fall out OF it, and there
are changes going on every year. and every
month, and every hour which involve heart
breaks that are never reported. High So
Gi'tt itiC ID pohStahtiy III u huttcI Tic
delicate question as to whom they shall let
in and whom they shall push out, and the
battle is going on-pier mirror against pier
mirror, chandelier against chandelier wine
cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equipage against equipage. Un-
certainty and insecurity dominant in that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture at
| q premium and a life not worth living.
A life of sin, life of pride, a life of in
diligence, life OF worldliness, life de-
voted to the world the flesh and the devil
is failure, dead failure, an infinite
failure. l care not how many presents you
send to that cradle or how many garlands
you send to that grave, you need to put
right under the name on the tombstone
this inscription: Better for that man il he
had never been born"
But l shall show you life that is worth
living. A young man says: 81 am hece.
l am not responsible for my ancestry.
Others decided that. l am not responsible for
my temperament. God gave me that. But
here am in the evening of the nineteenth
century, at twenty years of age. | am
here, and | must take an account of stock
Here have body, which is divinely con-
structed engine. l must put it to the very
best uses and 1 must allow nothing to
damage this rarest of machinery. Two
feet, and they mean locomotion. Two
eyes, and they mean capacity to pick out
my own way. Two ears, and they are tel
epnOneS OF communication WIFI all the OUT
side world, and they mean capacity to
catch the sweetest music and the voices of
friendship-the very best music. A tongue,
with almost infnity Of articulation. Yes,
hands with which to welcome or resist or
lift or smite or wave or bless-hands tc
hely myself and help others.
Here is world which after 5000 years oil
battling with tempest and accident is still
grander than any architect, human or an
gelic could have drafted. I have two
lamps to light me-a golden lamp and a
silver lamp-a golden lamp set on the
sapphire mantel of the day, silver lamp
set on the Jet mantel of the night Yea
have that at twenty of age which defies all
inventory of valuables-a soul with capac-
ity to choose or reject, to rejoice or to
suffer, to love or to hate. Plato says 1t is
immortal. Seneca says it is immortal
Confucius says it is immortal. An old
book among the family relics, a book with
leathern cover almost worn out and pages
almost obliterated by oft perusal, joins the
other books in saying l am immortal.
have eighty years for a lifetime, sixty years
yet to live. 1 may not live an hour, but
.hen must lay out my plans intelligently
and for long life. Sixty years added
20 the twenty 1 have already lived-that
will bring me to eighty. l must remember
that these eighty years are only brief
preface to the five hundred thousand mill
.ons of quintillions of years which will be
ny chief residence and existence. Now, 1
understand my opportunities and my re-
sponsibilities. II there is any being in the
universe all wise and all beneflcent who can
help man in suclr juncture. want him."
The young man enters life. He is buff
ieted, he is tried he is perplexed. A grave
opens on this side and grave opens on
hat side. He falls. but he rises again. He
gets into a hard battle, but he gets the vic
;ory The main course of his life is in the
right direction. He blesseS everybody he
ZONES in contact with. God forgivcs his
mistakes and makes everlasting record OF
his holy endeavors, and at the close of it
God says to him; "Well done, good and
faithful servant. Enter into the Joy of thy
Lord" My brother, my sister, do not
care whether that ,,:sd dies at ~, ~, 80, 80,
10 or so years OF age; you can chisel right
under his name on the tombstone these
words, His life was worth living"
Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in
olden times, there sits a mother. There are
six children in the household-four boys
and two girls. Small farm. Very rough,
hard work to coax living out of it. Mighty
tug to make the two ends OF the year meet.
The boys go to school in winter and work
the farm in summer. Mother is the chief
presiding spirit. With her hands she knits
all the stockings for the little feet, and she
is the mantua maker for the boys, and she
is the milliner for the girls. There is only
one musical instrument In the house, the
spinning wheel. The food is very plain,
but it is always well provided. The winters
are very cold, but are kept out by the
blankets she quilted. On Sunday, when
she appears in the village church, her
children around her, the minister looks
down and Is reminded of the Bible descrip-
tion of q good housewife. Her children
arise up and call her blessed; her husband
also, and he praiseth her"
Some years go by, and the two oldest
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household economies are severer. and the
calculations are closer, and until those two
boys get their education there is a hard
battle for bread. One of these boys enters
the university stands in pulpit widely in
fiuential and breaches righteousness, judg-
ment and temperance, and thousands dur
ing his ministry are blessed. The other lad
who got the collegiate education goes into
the law, and thence into Legislative halls
and after awhile he commands listening
senates as he makes a plea for the down
trodden and the outcast. One of the
younger boys becomes merchant, start
ing at the foot of the ladder but climbing
on up until his success and his philanthro
pies are recognized all over the land. The
other son stays at home because he prefer.
farming life, and then he thinks he will b'
able to take care OF father and mother
when they get old.
OF the two daughters, when the va
broke out, one went through the hospital
of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe
cheering up the diving and the homesicl
and taking the last message to kindred fa
away so that every time Christ thought o
her he said, as of old: ''The same is my sis
ter and mother" The other daughter ha
bright home Of her own, and in the after
noon-the forenoon having been devote
to her household-she goes forth to hun
up the sick and to encourage the discouI
aged, leaving smiles and beneiiction a
along the way.
But one day there start FIVE telegram
from the village for these five abseHt one
saying, "Come, mother is dangerously ill.
But before they can be ready to start the
receive another telegram, saying, "Com
mother is dead" The old neighbors gatht
in the old farmhouse to do the last Office
respect. But as the farming son and tt
clergyman, and the Senator and the me
chant and the two daughters stand by tt
casket of the dead mother taking the la
look, or lifting their little children to s,
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