Owingsville outlook., 1899-03-16

our SIN dCtOl>tN tatln. Iidil, HtlH-
ing star. Keep on shining with cn.
couraGemcnt and Christian hope.
Some of You are evening stars. and
YOU are cheering the last daN> uf old
people. and. though cloud sometimes
comes over YOU through the qucrulous-
ness or unrcasOnablencsS of Your aged
father aud mother il il onlN for a mo-
mrut. and the star soon comes out
clear again aud il seen from all the
balconies of the uciphhurhuud. The
old people will forgive YOUR occasional
shortcomings. for they themselves sew
cIal times lost their patience with Nod
when YOU were Young. and perhaps
whipped YOU when YOU dad not deserve
it. Hail. evening star. Hang on the
darkrning >kl Nour diamond curonct.
but are amy of You the star Worm
wood? DO You >culd and %rOwl from
the thrones patcrual nr maternal? Are
NouT children CNcrla>tinglN pcckcd at?
Are YOU always CRYING Hush" To the
merry voices and swift feet aud to the
laughter which occasionally tricklrS
through at wrong times and j. sup
pres >cd bN them until they can hold il
no longer. and all the barriers burst
into unlimited guilaw and cachinna-
,ion. ~ in this weather the water has
tricklcd through a slight opening in
the mldam. but afierward makes
wider and wider breach until it carries
all before IT with irresistible freshct?
Do not he too much offended at the
noise YOUR children now make. II will
he still enough when one of them ~
dead Then Nou would give Your right
band to hear one shout from the silent
voice or one step from the >till foot.
Nou will not any of you have Ia wait
very long before your house is stiller
than YOU want il. Alas, that there
are so many homes not known To the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
tuChildren. where childrenar whacked
aud cutfcd and ear pulled. and sense
lcs>ly called To order. and answered
sharply. and Impressed. until il i a
wonder that under such processes they
do not all turn out Mana Sihibs,
What is your influence upon the
reighborhood. the town or the city of
your residence? ! will suppose that
YOU are Il star of Wit. What Kind of
rays do you shoot forth: DO YOU use
that splendid faculty to irradiate the
world ar To rankle il? | bless all the
apostolic college of hnmorists. The
man that makes me laugh is M, bene-
factor do not thank anybody TO
make me cry. | can do that without
assistance. We all cry enough and
have enough to cry about. God bless all
skillful punStcrs. all rcpartccisis. all
propounders of ingenious conundIums.
all those who mirthfully surprise
us with unusual juNtaposition of
words Thomas Hood and Charles
Dickens aud sydney Smith had a divine
mission. and 50 have their success, ors in
these times. They stir into I'll" acid
beverage of life the saccharinc. They
make the cup of earthly existence.
which j. sometimes stale. cffcrvrSce and
bubble. They placate animGsities.
They foster longevity. They slay fol-
lies and absurdiries which all the SER
mons of all the pulpitS cannot reach.
But what use are you making of your
wit? Is it besmirched with profanity
and uncleanness: DO you employ il in
amusement at physical defects for
which the victims are not responsible
Are your powers of mimicry used TO
put religion in contempt? Is it Il bunch
of nettlesome inyectivea Is il bolt OF
unjust scorn? Is il fun at others mis-
fortune? Is il glee at their disap-
pointment and defeat? Is it bitterness
rYput drop by drop into cup? Is 1t like
y The squeezing of Artemisia absinthium
into n draft already distastefully pun
: gent Then you are the star Worm
/ wood. Yours is the fun of a rattIrsnake
trying how well it can sting, 1t is the
( fun of a hawk trying how quick ii can
strike out the eye of a dove.
But Twill change this and suppose YOU
are star of worldly prosperity. Ther
you have large opportunity. You can
encourage that artist by buying his pic,
ture. You can improve the fields. the
stables. the highway. by introducing
higher style of fowl and horse and COW
and sheep. You can bless the world
with pomological achievement in the
orchard. You can advance arboricul.
ture and arrest the deathful destruc
| tion of the American forests. You ear
put piece of sculpture into the niche
of that public academy, you can endow
college. You can stocking 1000 bare
feet from the winter frost, YOU can
build a church. YOU can put a mission
AIRY of Christ on that foreign shore
| you can help to ransom Il world.
rich man with his heart right--can You
tell me how much good a James Lenox
or a George Peabody or Peter Cooper
or William +. Dodge did while living
| or is doing now that he is dead? There
is not city. town or neig hborhood tha,
has not glorious specimens of conse
| Grated wealth.
But suppose you grind the face of the
| poor. Suppose, when a mans wages are
due, you make him wait for them be-
cause he cannot help himself. Suppose
that. because his family is sick and be
| has had extra expenses, he should po-
| litely ask you TO raise his wages, and
you roughly tell him if he wants a
| ''''Ni paw W 20 anu S'a ~ ''uIpoSS'
| by your manner. you act as though ht
were nothing and you were everything
| Suppose YOU are selfish and overbear.
! ing and arrogant. Your first name
ought to be Attila and your last name
| Attila. because you are the star Worm
wood, and you have imbittered one
third IL not three-thirds of the waters
that roll past your employees and op
cratives and dependents and associates
and the long line of carriages which the
undertaken orders for your funeral. in
order to make the occasion respectable
will be filled with twice as many dry
cupying them. You will be in this
world but a few minutes. As compared
with eternity. the stay of the longest
| life on earth is not more than min
ute. What are we doing with that
minute? Are we imbittering the do
mestic or social or political fountains
or are we like Moses, who, when the
lsraelites in the Wilderness complained
thst the waters of Lake Marah were
bitter and they could not drink then
their leader cut off the branch of Z
certain tree and threw that branch
| into the wafer, and il became sweet and
silked the thirst of the suffering host
Are we with a branch of the tree OF
life sweetening all the brakish foun
! tains that we can touch?