Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-06-15
AvIEW OF LIFE
Not AS An Optimist Nor AS a
Pessimist, But Simply AS
Il LOCKER On.

tentiop! Here, there and everywher
" e see little men and women scuIry
Iingabout, intention their small affairs
They run in and out OF their littI
houses, board little trolley cars, rid
in little carriages or in little puff n
automobiles that appear terrifyin,
sometimes to these little people
What ii lesson it is to stand on
height, al owe the Turmoil where tn
Isky Is clear and the air is pure-t'
lest Oh an elevation where you vii
be removed from terrestrial strife
and look down upon the swarm O
human ants who rush to and fro! Ii
some little hail there is an assembly
of little people who storm and shout
chatter and gesticulate as it the
whole future of the universe depend.
ed upon the result of their meeting
Perhaps they are electing a delegat.
to some political convention, or, more
probably, they are calling a strike
That will throw a city into an up
roar aud call out hundIe eds of little
| officers to brandish ter little clubs
ami dodge little brick bats.
We see little people scratching the
earth with little tools, building with
little saws and hammers, holding up
| quaint little shelters over their heads
which they call umbrellas, to protec.
themselves from the sunshine and
the rain. Little trains run puffingly
along, but if they should be wrecked
straightWay there ensues a great
commotion among the little people
| who are torn and mangled as ants
are crushed beneath the tread of a
heavy tuoi. There are little factories
of many kinds, sending up clouds Oh
sinOhe 10 the heavens, little 81 5
sail over the seas and little anu ais
are driven about by these supe. ior
little men.
Maybe there is a war. Away in
some corner of the globe arnle, o1
little soldiers push each other back
ward and forward, Staying each other
p~itiieso. y and shedding Quantities &;
D ocd. To t4eA the eusIuntty ii a
Million years l. nothing. They tLiDk
tie worlds events are directed h.,
their uny efJr.s and they s;l Il, sic
furlousIy, oblIvI OF the graz uu-
Iver3e which gbe3 Oh .esaru rs> o1
which side was the btss-. 7 Z!
may be all king h ) yIy 3n tais i4ttl,
earth, but What n3a,tois tbs .tl-po-
which r-Notrc III the heav CeasG-
>, II a4y ~ith an age W reckon
IOt,.f A.-t Uy.f-tad ,HIlg the spec.
f earth Vaic.I Ne call our oW"?
Renewed fr IN the petty schen IS
the small trIckerje:, the little follies
&udfOIble5 that sway the masses, ore
IS overp ,Wered by the insignIftoauc,
of it ali. a majority of human beings
are but units. Some attain to fame
and others becomegreat witha power
that, mayhap, convulses nations, but
how quickly are they gone and how
soon forgotten! Yet, TO every one OF
these little beings his small affairs
are momentous. He is happy or mo-
rose as the world Wags to please or
di5please him, and is so intent upon
hislittle schemes that he forgets to
lock about him; forgets to note the
vastness by which he is surrounded,
the ignorance in which he is envelope
ed, and the helplessness which makes
him a pupetin the hands ofan unseen,
inexplicable pOWer-the Power that
rules, and creates and shapes human
destinies. He is intent on his petty
affairs and he does not pause to con-
-ider that it will all be the same two
hundred years hence.
After all this fevered scurrying
about, the little struggles, the little
achievements and the little failures
after the rout is ended and old age
comes on, bringing weakness and
senility, what then? Each little Great
| ure must endure the common fate.
He is put in a little box and sleeps
in a little grave, beneath a little
mound of earth
$50 live that when thy summons
comes to iOin
Interchangeable caravan that moves
Towards that mysterious realm where
each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls OF
death
Thou go not, like the quarry slave
at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, su
stained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach
thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery o
his couch
About him and lies down to pleas
ant Dreams"
A Dinner Invitation.
After a hearty meal dose oil. Kodo
dyspepsia Cure will proven an ,attacl
of Indigestion. Kodol Is a Thorough
Idigestant and guaranteed cure TO
Indigestion, Dyspepsia Gason In
stomach. Sour Risings, Bad Breatl
and all stomach troubles. N. Wat
kins, Lesbus, Ky.,says; 81 can testif,
Ito the efficacy of Kodol in the cure c