Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-09-17

properly IN your eAAN : uAUAea nave a lew
preferred creditors, and then make an as
Segment. Then disappear from the com
munity until the breeze - over and come
back and start in the same business. Do
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-
ingl How quickly Il will get you into high
social positionY What Il the use Of toiling
forty or ilfty 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
drop.
There are thousands to-day in that realm
who are anxious to keep In il. There are
thousands in that realm who are nervous
for fear they will fall out of II, and there
are changes going on every year, and every
month, and every hour which involve heart
breaks that are never reported. High So
cial life Is constantly in flutter about the
delicate question IA 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. I'm
certainty and insecurity dominant I'm that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture at
q premium and a life not worth living!
life Of sin. life Of pride, life OF In
diligence, life OF worldliness, a life de-
voted to the world, the flesh and the devil,
Is a 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 II no
had never been born"
Rit I gbnn ahov, x,p,. a Iffn hot tt.arth
living. A young man says: IL am here.
am not responsible for my ancestry.
Others decided that. lam not responsible for
my temperament. God gave mo 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-
structcd engine. ] must put II to the very
best uses, and | 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
ephoncs of communication with 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 inllnity of articulation. Yes,
hands with which to welcome or resist or
lift or smite or wave or bless-hands to
hely myself and help others.
Here is world which after 6000 years OF
battling with tempest and accident is still
grander than any architect, human or an
gelic, could have drafted. | have two
lamps to light me-a golden lamp and a
silver Tampa golden lamp set on the
sapphire mantel of the day, a silver lamp
set on the jet mantel of the night. Yea, |
have that at twenty Of age which dehes 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 it is
immortal. Seneca says it is immortal.
Confucius says it is immortal An old
book among the family relies, Il book with
leathcrn cover almost worn ont and pages
almost obliteratcd by oft perisal, joins the
other books in saying | am immortal,
have eighty years for IA lifetime, sixty years
yet to live. | may not live an hour, but
then must lay out my plans intelligently
and for a long life. Sixty years added
to the twenty | have already livcd-that
will bring me to eighty. | must remember
that these eighty years are only Il brief
preface to the five hundred thousand mill
ions of quintillions Of years which will be
my chief residence and existence. Now, |
understand my opportunities and my re-
sponsibilities, II there is any being in the
universe all wise and all beneilcCnt who can
"a
The young man enters life. He Is buff
fcted, he is tried he is perpleXed. A grave
opens on this side and a grave opens on
that side. He falls, but he rises again. lie
gets into hard battle, but he gets the vic
tory. The main course Of his life Is in the
right direction, He blesses everybody he
comes in contact with God forgtvcs his
mistakes and makes everlasting record Of
his holy endeavors, and at tho close OF il
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 man dies at 80 40, so GO
70 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 millincr for the girls. There is only
one musical instrument in the house, the
spinning wheel The food is very plain,
but it is always we'll 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 a good housewife. "Her children
arise up and call her blessed her husband
also, and he praiseth her"
Some years 60 by, and the two oldest
boys want a collegiate education, and the
household economies are severer and tho
calculations are closer, and until those two
boys get their education there is Il hard
battle for bread. One of these boys enters
the university, stands in pulpit widely in
fuential and breaches righteousness, judy
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 Il plea for the down
trodden and the outcast. One Of the
younger boys becomes a 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 prefers
farming life, and then he thinks he will be
able to take care of father and mother
when they get old.
or the two daughters, when the wat
broke out, one went through the hospitals
of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe
cheering up the diving and the homesic,;
and taking the last message to kindred fat
away, so that every time Christ thought oil
her he said, as of old: The same is my sis
ter and mother The other daughter has
bright home of her own, aud in the after
noon-the forenoon having been devoted
to her hOusehold-shc goes forth to hun
up the sick and to encourage the dis"uur
aged, leaving smiles and benediction oil
along the way.
But one day there start five kilograms
from the village for these five absent ones,
saying, "Come, mother is dangerously i'll.
But before they can be ready to start they
receive another telegram, saying, Come,
mother is dead" The old neighbors gathcr
in the old farmhouse to do the last office of
respect. But rs the farming son and the
clergyman, and the Senator and the mer-
chant and the two daughters stand by the