Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-06-30
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Again: this Haman's history shows NJ
that outward possessions and circum'
stances cannot make man happy. While
yet fully vested in authority and the chiei
adviser Of the Persian monarch, and every.
thing that equipage and pomp and splen.
dor OF residence could do we're his, he Is
an object lesson OF wretchedness. There
are to-day more aching SORROWS under
crowns Of royalty than under the ragged
caps OF the houseless. Much OF the worlds
afiuence and gaiety Is only misery in colors.
MANY a woman seated In the street at her
apple-stand Is happier than the great bank.
ers. The mountains OF worldly honor are
covered with perpetual snow. Tameriane
conquered half the world, but could not
subdue his own fears. Ahab goes to bed,
sick, because Naboth will not sell him his
vineyard. Herod Is In agony because lit
tie child is born down in Bethlehem. Great
Felix trembles because poor minister will
preach righteousness. temperanceer en- , amsa ana
the Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth was
there a straw-bottomed chair In France
that did not sit more solidly than the great
throne on which the French kings reignedF
We're I called to sketch misery In its
woret form, would not go up the dark
alley Of the poor, but up the highway over
which prancing Bucephali strike the
sparks with their hoofs and between statu-
ary and parks Of stalking deer. Wretch
edness Is more bitter when swallowed from
gemmed goblets than from earthen pitcher
pie here who are looking for this posi-
tion and that circumstance, thinking that
worldly success will bring peace to the
soul, let them shatter the delusion. 1t Is
not what we get, it Is what we are. Dan
iel among the lions is happier than King
Darius on his throne. And when life is
closing, brilliancy Of worldly surroundings
will be no solace. Death Is blind, and
sees no difference between king and his
clown, between the Nazarene and the
Athenian, between bookiess nut ana
national library.
In olden time the man who was to re-
ceive the honors OF knighthood was re-
quired to spend the previous night fully
armed, and with shield and lance to walk
up and down among the tombs OF the
dead: Through all the hours OF @ that
night his steady step was heard, and, when
morning dawned, amid grand parade and
the sound Of cornets the honors of
knighthood were bestowed. Thus 1t shall
be with the good mans soul In the night
before heaven. Fully armed with shield
and sword and helmet, he shall watch and
wait until the darkness fly and the morn
ing break, and amid the sound Of celestial
harpings the soul shall take the honors OF
heaven amid the innumerable throng with
robes snowy white streaming over seas OF
sapphire. .,. co. ,,,
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day of triumph. 1t took all the preceding
trials to make proper background for his
after successes. The scaffold built for him
makes all the more imposing and pictur-
esque the horse into whose long white
name he twisted his fingers ut the mount
ing. You want at least two misfortunes,
hard as flint, to strike fire. Heavy and
long continued SHOWS in the winter are
signs of good crops next summer. So,
many have yielded wonderful harvests OF
benevolence, and energy because they were
long while showed under. We must have
good many hard falls before we learn to
walk straight. 1t is In the black anvil OF
trouble that men hammer out their for
tunes. Sorrows tako up men on their
shoulders and enthrone them. Tonics are
nearly always bitter. Men, like fruit trees,
are barren unless trimmed with sharp
knives. They are like wheat-all the bet
ter for the failing. 1t required the prison
darkness and chill to make John Bunyan
dream. 1t took Delaware ice and cold
| feet at Valley Forge, and the whizz Of bull
| let's, to make Washington. Paul, when he
climbed up on the beach at Melita, shiver-
| ing in his wet clothes, was more of Chris
tian than when the ship struck the break
ers. Prescott, the historian, saw better
| without his eyes than he could ever have
with them. Mordecai, despised at the gate,
| is only predecessor OF Mordecai, grandly
| nountad