Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-13
ing at one time 10000 miles of coast;

Ing at one time lO,OUU miles OF coast,
her Hamilcar leading forth 80 myriads,
or 300,O 600 troops; her Hannibal carry
ing out in manhood the oath he had
taken in boyhood to preserve eternal
enmity to Rome, leaving costly and i'm
posing monuments at Agrigentum a
CHASTITY heap of ruins; Carthage, her
colonies on every coast, her ships plow-
ing every sea; Carthage where are
her splendors now? All extinguished.
Where are her swords? The last one
broken. Where are her towers and long
ranges of magnificent architecture?
Buried under the sands Of the Ba-
gradas. AS ballast of foreign ships
much of her radiant marble has been
carried away to build the walls of
transmediterranean cathedrals, while
other blocks have been blasted in mod
ern times by the makers of the Tunis
railway. And all of that great and
mighty city and kingdom that the tour
list finds today is here and there bro
ken arch of what was once a 90 mile
aQueduct Our talented and genial
friend, Henry NJ. Field, in one of his
matchless books of travel, labOrs hard
to prove that the slight ruins Of that
city are really worth visiting. Carthage
buried in the cemetery of dead nations.
Not one altar to the true God did she
rear; not one of the Ten Command
ments but she conspicuously violated.
Her doom was settled in heaven when
it was decided far back in the eternities
that the nation and kingdom that will
not serve God shall perish.
Breeders of Discord.
Walk on in the cemetery of nations
and see the long lines of tombs-
Thebes and Tyre and Egypt and Baby
lon and Medo-Persian and Macedonian
and Roman and Saxon heptarchy,
great nations, small nations, nations
that lived a year and nations that
lived 500 years.
Our own nation will be judged by
the same moral laws by which all 9th
er nations have been judged. The
judgment day for individuals will
probably come far on in the future.
Judgment day for nations is every
day, every day weighed, every day APP
proved or every day condemned. Never
before in the history of this country
has the American nation been more
surely in the balances than it is this
minute. Do right, and we go up. Do
wrong, and we go down. l am not so
anxious to know what this statesman
or that warrior thinks we had better
do with Cuba and Porto Rico and the
Philippines as l am anxious to know
what God thinks we had better do.
The destiny of this nation will not be
decided on yOnder capitOline hill or at
Manila or at the presidential ballot
box, for it will be settled in heaven.
Another thing decided in the same
high place is that happiness is the re-
suit of spiritual condition and not of
earthly environment. If we who may
sometimes have a thousand dollars to
invest find it such a perpleXity to
know what to do with it and soon
after find that we invested it where
principal and interest have gone down
through rOguery or panic, what must
be the worriment of those having mil
lions to invest and whose losses cor
respond in magnitude with their re-
sources! People who have their three
or four dollars day wages are just
as happy as those who have an income
of 100000 a year. Sometimes happi-
ness is seated on a fOOtStOol and some
times misery on the throne. All the
gold Of earth in one chunk cannot pur-
chase five minutes of complete salts
faction. Worldly success is an atmOs-
phere that breeds the maggots Of envy
and jealousy and hate. There are those
who will never forgive you if you have
more emoluments or honor or ease
than they have. To take you down
is the dominant wish of most of those
who are not as high as you are. They
will spend hours and days and years
to entrap you. They will hover around
offices to get one mean line
printed depreciating you. Your heaven
is their helix
A dying president of the United
States said many years ago in regard
to his lifetime of experience, cit
doesn't pay" The leading statesmen
of America in letters of advice warn
young men to keep out of politics.
Many of the most successful have tried
in vain to drown their trouble in strong
drink. On the other hand, there are
millions of people who on departing
this life will have nothing to leave but
a good~ name and a life insurance
whose illumined faces are induces Of il
lumined souls. They wish everybody
well. When the fire bell rings, they do
not go to the windows at midnight to
see if it is their store that is on fire, for
they never owned a store, and when
the September equinox is abroad they
do not worry lest their ships founder in
a gale, for they never owned 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 of
fee. There is so much heartiness and
freedom from care in their laughter