Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-07-17
MEDITATION OVER A CUP OF TEA.
When | was a boy

Why then, is there not something in
man that wholly poriShesH 1t is
against sound religion 10 believe IT,
but the world would lead one 10 i'm,
agine it, The hills are there. see
| them AS | write. They are the cloud
or wa, that diguihed my 10th year,
And tho river is there, and flows by
that Same meadow beyond my door;
from ABOVE Coldwatham the same vast
horizca opens westward in waves OF
| reCed.gE rreStS more Chaugeable and
more Immense than is even our sea,
The same sunset at times bring il all
! in Sp.owGor, for whatever herds the
weston clouds together in our stormy
| EVENINGS is as stable and as yisorous
as The county itself 1t, therefore,
there Is something some, it is | that
have lost it.
| Certainty SomcthnE is diminished
! tthe ,"lcsts and the tradition OF the
west forbid me to say that the soul
can r.ush), certainly something is dt-
minislr3 what? Wen, ! do not know
its na"o, nor has anyone known 1t
face 70 .aec or apprchended it in this
life, but the sense and influence
alas, especially the memory Of it.
lies in tnr words ,,Nybpn was n hoy 8"
and If I write thps, words arain IN any
document whatsoever even in n law.
ver's letta,, without ,amittins at onre
a fu]-hInndrd and pellrpipe par,nthc.
sis may the s,yen devils of sons, take
Iaway fine last remnant of the iov thcy
Ilend mo
When WINS u hoy thor, wns moth.
inc nil ahopt tho vi0ae, ar the woods
that had NOT IFS livinp pod and ALI
those pods wera good oh, How tho
country. and its mir shnrr from within,
what meaning Law in unexnected
oIimps,s of far horizons. what 81 Friond
ono vos with t,o clouds,
Wru au con say to Tho tbeolopi
ans is thie.-
81 will GRANT won TINT the SOM does
nor der,,., Won know moro of e,ch
chino, t,op J 1o n,t Won on vnrr
side rnst GRANT mo that tbaro is
sor,rfnino u.hic, aocg NOT ,pt,r int,
van. s,st,r, Tbot Inns porlshea onl
moan to mourn Il a1I tho DAYS of my
life pray 40 NOT iptcrfnrn win TINT
/ MACMILLAN, ritr,lo
Whom ! WINS 81 how know rot,ro
nc n rhi1d knows ite nnrso and 10, !
. denounced fnr a drnp fnnpd IN SIM
| mort this fna iretinot many. ARGUMENTS
. MI of which aro sim soupd thnuph
, NOT nne of tbom would nravan, mo
NOW fran drinI,inr my ooth cun ~
was irtrodnrod Into ona DUNN, cor
runt noriod II u,ae. IN oyotic Il ,,,,s
! sham ovbiIorort IN which fatal re.
/ actions cou1d rnt Inf attach II vos
M mart of tho diat of tho natural pon
The two nations that alone consume
, tho rngIish and tha Chinase-ore he.
come Inv Tic barnfuI infuonce On tbo
= irooirotiop tho most nasil, docoivoa
j.. in the world Tbeir notifies ore n mass
S Of bombastic illusions Also n dries
| tbeir skins II fans tho liver boraons
/ tba coats of tba stomach mal,ae tho
' brain feverishlv active rots the nerve.
, tbeless I now dripI, q and sbo1I dr,nl,
5 #. for of all the effects of are none is
4 more profopnd than this. that Il leads
; men tn the worshin of some ono snirit
, less erect than the angels A cave nm
( egotism nm irritahiIitv with ragord "a
details an anxious craving a copsum.
mate satisfaction in the performance
t If the due rites an asctnev NJ bahit
all proclaim the seniIe beresv the mn.
torial religion confess IN ton
l All is arranged IN this omit with tho
, nrecision of nm ancient croad The
| matter Of the sacrifice must come from
} China. re that would drinI, indian
7 tea would smoke bav The NOT nns,
he Of metal and tho metal mpst be q
white metal NOT cola mr. irrn wbo bao
! NOT Known the aciditv and noncity ot
, tea from the siIvor,piIt or golden
, spoutq The NOT mnst first no warmed
> nv pourinp IN a IittIo hoiIiro wotor
rbe word boiling sbould aIvaye ho
nnderlined,. thop tho wator is norrod
: away and fau words are cold Thon
mo Too e. M, u ond nnra,,, aa.,
snreade IN tbo stoaro ,rhon e. Az