Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-30

Another thing decided in the same high
place is that happiness Is the result of spir-
itual condition and not OF earthly env iron-
ment. II we who may sometimes have
thousand dollars to invest find 1t such a
perplexity to know what to do with it and
soon after find that we invested 1t where
principal and interest have gone down
through roguery or panic, what must be
the worrimeht oil those having millions tc
invest and whose losses correspond in mag.
nitude with their resources! People who
have their three or four dollars Il day
wages are just as happy as those who have
an income OF $500, ,005 year.
Sometimes happiness is seated on q foot
stool and sometimes misery on the throne,
All the gold OF earth In one chunk cannot
purchase five minutes of complete salts.
faction. Worldly success is an atrnos phere
that breeds the maggots of envy and ieal-
ousy and hate. There are those who will
,, never forgive you If you have more emo!u-
ments or honor or ease than they have
To take you down is the dominant wish
OF most OF those who are lot as high as you
are. Tney will spend hours and days and
years to entrap you. They will hover
| around newspaper offices to get Que mean
line printed depreciating you. Your heaven
is their hell.
dying President Of the United States
said many years ago in regard to his Iife-
| time OF experience, 'It doesn't pay" The
leading statesmen of America In letters OF
advice warn young men to keep oat of
politics. Many OF the most success :ful
have tried In vain TO drown their trouble
| in strong drink, On the other hand, there
are millions OF people who on depurting
this life will have nothing to leav, rat u
good nama and u life insurance whose
ilumined faces are indices of illumined
souls. They wish everybody well. When
the fire pell rings, they do not go to the
| window at midnight to see II 1t is their
store that Is on fire, for they never owned
| Il store: and when the September equinox
| Is abroad they do not worry lest their
ships founder in Il gale, for they never
owned II ship, and when the nominations
| are made for high political Office they are
| not fearful that their name will be over
! looked, for they never applied for Office.
| There Is so much hearriness and freedom
| from care in their laughter that when you
| hear it you are compelled to laugh In SYM
| pathy, although you know not wha. they
are laughing about.
| When the children OF that family assem-
| bic in the sitting room OF the old home
stead to hear the fathers will read, they
! arc not fearful of being cut off with Il mill
| ion and n half dollars, for the old man
never owned anything more than the farm
OF seventy-ive acres, which yielded only
| enough plainly to support the household.
They have more happiness in one month
| than many have in whole lifetime.
| Would to God had the capacity to ex.
| plain to you on how little man can be
| happy and on how much he may be
wretched! Get you heart right and all is
| right. Keep your heart wrong and all is
wrong. That is principle settled in
| heaven.
| Another thing decided in that high place
| is that this world is q schoohouse or col
ege for splendid or dlsgraceful gradua-
tion. We begin in the freshman class of
| good or evil and then pass into the sopho-
more and then into the junior and then
into the senior, and from that we graduate
/ l., anll tIn,-n DE-,
IN elective course" where the student
selects what lie will study-muthematfcs
or the languages or chemistry or philoso-
phy-and 1t is an elective course we all
take in the schoolhouse or university of
| this world
We may study sin until we are saturated
| with it or righteousness until we are eXem-
| Publications. of it Graduate we all must,
but we decide for ourselves the style of
graduation. 1t Is an elective course. We
can study generosity until our every word
and every act and every contribution of
money or time will make the world better.
or we may study meanness until our soul
| shall shrink up t. a smallness unimagina-
Bile.
| We may, y,under God, educate ourselves in
to self control that nothing can anger or
| into an irascibility that will ever and anon
keep our face flushed with wrath and every
nerve a-quiver, Great old schoohouse of
| Il world In which we are oil being educated
for glory or perdition!
Some have wondered Why graduation
day in college Is ,called commencement
day. when it is the last day of college ex-
ercses, but graduation days are properly
called commencement day. To all the
graduates 1t Is the commencement of active
life, and our graduation day from earth
| will be to us commencement of our chief
life, our larger life, our more tremendous
life, our eternal life. But what day COM
mencemen. day on earth Isl The student
never sees any day like 1t. At any rate, I
never did.
When Pompey landed at Brndisi, Italy,
returned from his victories, he disbanded
the brave men who had fought under him
and sent them rejoicing to their homes,
cnariot was followed by princes in chains
from kingdoms he had conquered, and
flowers such rs only grew under those
Italian skies strewed the way, and he
| came under arches inscribed with the
name, OF battlehelds on which he had
triumphed and rode by columns which
told OF the 1900 cities he had destroyed
and the $4,000. 900 people he hal con-
quered or slain. Then the banquet was
spread, and out of the chalices file ! to
the brim they drank to the health of the
conqueror. Belisarius, the great soldier,
returned from his military achievements
and was robed in purple and in the pro-
cession were brought golden thrones and
| pillars Oh precious SlOEeS anu tue tuTui-
| ture OF royal fe asts, and amid the splen-
dors OF kingdoms overcome he was hailed
to the hippodrome by shouts such as had
seldom rung Through the capital. Then
also came the convivialities In the year
374 Aureian made his entrance to Rome in
triu mphal car, in which he stood while a
winged figure of Victory held II wreath
above his head. Zenobia captive queen of
Palmyra, walked behind his chariot, her
person encircled with fetters of gold, un-
der the weight of which she nearly tainted.
but still a captive. And there were in the
procession 200 lions and tigers and beasts
of many lands and 1000 gladntors excused
from the cruel amphitheater that they
| might decorate the day, and Persian and
/ Arabian and Ethiopian ambassadors we're
In the procession aud the long lines of cap
tives, Egyptians, Syrans, Gauls, Goths and
Vandals.
II was to such scenes that the New Tes-
lament refers when it spoke OF Christ
'havlng despoiled principaities and pow
ers, He made II show OF them, openly tri-
um phing." But, oh, the difference in
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