Middletown transcript., 1899-02-11

DR.. David Gill thinks that the dog star
Sirius, is $1,000. 600, 100000 miles from the
earth. An object moving mile minute
would require 81 million years to travel so
far.
An increased use of compressed air as
motor is reported in several localities. The
N. Y. Central R. R. Co. is having heavy
locomotive for 100' mile runs equipped for
using this form of energy, which promises
to divide the field of locomotive transporta
tion with the electric fluid and steam.
In recent race to secure S750,000 mail
contract, train on the Chicago & North
western railroad. competing with another
on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy line,
ran the 492 miles from Chicago to Omaha
in less than ten hours, going sometimes as
fast as 110 miles an hour. This is said to
eclipse all previous records for so great a
distance, and shows that a schedule speed
of go miles or more is possible for fast mail
trains on the best roads.
= EASTERN PHILosoPHY-TRANsLATED FROM
THE sANscRIT.
What good is soap to negro and advice to
a fool.
1t is excellent to impede an unjust man;
but if this be not possible, it is excellent not
to act in conjunction with him.
Be not friend to the wicked-charcoal,
when hot, burns; when cold it blackens the
fingers.
Men who have not observed proper dis
cipline, and have not gained treasure in
their youth, perish like old herons in lake
| without fish.
Daily practical wisdom consists of four
things:-To know the root of Truth, the
branches of Truth, the limit of Truth, and
the opposite of TRUTH
When trust is gone, misfortune comes in;
| when confidence is dead, revenge is born;
and when treachery appears, all blessings
| fly away.
Whoever, NOT being sanctified person,
kpretends to be Saint, he is, indeed, the
lowest of all men, the thief in all worlds,
/ iucludiny fh OF of Prohpoo
Like beautiful flower, full of color, but
without scent, are the fine but fruitless
words ofhim who does not act accordingly.
| WHAT AMI2
lam ray. The fount of Light I cannot
circumscribe. And yet fly. Through the
dark nights fly, through stars and pallid
moons; kindle epheheral scintillations, I
send out my trembling light towards infn-
ity's eternal fame, from which shines forth
the sun of all suns. And now I darken,
totter, pale; lose my breath, shoulder
like spark.
am spark of eternity; and am pil-
grim. Even today shall pass away, after
an hours stroke, together with the smoke
of the shepherds fire, which writhes in blue
strands over the forest in the eve, and dis
appears in the tears of the dew before the
night. Even today shall be divorced from
that power. which holds me here from the
/ twilight to the twilight, and the sun shall
not see me more with his golden eyes.
am a spark of eternity. Beyond the
cold ashes shall exist even to the dawn,
And then in my own embers shall
/ wax in brightness, glow as gold and burn
as ruby; shall pass through the grayness
of the dust Of this my bed, and before the
rosy dawn shall have bathed herself in dew
before the golden sun shall have lifted his
brilliant gaze from beyond the seal shall
strike into the flames of life.
The soul. bird builds her cage herself
with songs and Tapping Of her wings
enters then it's gates all facinafed with the
life.
But soon the winged guest, from the in
fnity, newcomer, striking her prisons trel-
| lis wall, reddens her golden pinions with
the ruby blood: Sai
She bushes then in the, dusky shadows Of
her house; longing eats her heart away
for the freedom of the dawn.
Till overcome with pain she strikes her
breast against the walls and breaks the
cage herself. =
With songs and tapping of her wiAgs,
from the dusk (called lifel she flies away
near to the gates Of the eternal light.
In the new morn that dawns maiestically
above the world, put aside the black and
sombre harp that plays and sings 50 sadly.
For. from the oceans farthest shore, with
the first daybreak bushes, with the golden
arrows of the sun, there comes on rosy
wings. all radiant with 6ery auroras, . new
song, bird Of the arriving Spring. msm