The Newtown bee., 1907-03-15

ye visited me- It did not take long to satisfy the fine and expenses, in the morning, and the prison warden treat ed his editor charge like the gentle man that he was, showing Robin through the jail and seating him at the warden's table for welcome breakfast.
 The jail episode naturally affected the young mother, with whom matters went from bad to worse. Both moth CTS were summoned, council of doc tors held, a change made in nurses and finally the pale invalid began to draw back from the dark portals of despair. Meanwhile, little Ruby had dropped the brittle thread of her brief life and Robin had to lay away her tiny form, which could not be taken into the church, the mother being too critical l ly i'll for services at the house. With | the coffin left in the vestibule of the | church and his wife's life trembling | in the balance at home, the editor | could feel the clouds lowering about his path. He knew it to be true, as Henry Clay Trumbull had said, ''If we are without tribulation, there is no | harvest and no garner" but for the present the rain of tears was too heavy | to expect the coming rainbow of hope. A pastor, with heart of gold and neighbors, whose sympathy and help flowed on with loving constancy, did much to bear up the fainting spirit. In this era of trained nurses, Of the soEsst losses saa is shas watching which brought hearts together and glorified the suffering with halo of active charity.
 It was now ls76, the Centennial position doing justice to the memora- ble anniversary. Editor Robin had the privilege of twice seeing it's great Corliss engine and myriad attractions in mechanics, art and allied branches l of display. The first trip was made ere the exhibits were fairly in place. The journey was by steamer, to ex- ploit an unsuccessful effort to adver- tise the water route as the better means of transportation. It was made in company with newspaper men gath cred to push the venture and prepared Robin for his second trip by rail, when he was accompanied by his wife and family friends. Editor Robin, his wife and sister-in-law stopped with Cam den friends, going back and forth to the grounds by the slow and packed horse cars then in vogue. Such weary miles of tramping! Such surfelt ol eye with skill, elegance and beauty Such a scramble for the car on that worth all the outlay of strength, im- patience and money? Robin barely saved his wife from being crushed in the narrow, winding. passages Of the
 
 en in, as we'll as the exposition. What a pleasure exertiOn most of our picnic trips are anyway, especially when un- dertaken in jam at reduced rates or when trying to keep up with the pro- cession at some fashionable resort! II the mass of mankind worked as hard and strained their powers to the limit
 in the daily routine, as they will ir
 trying to amuse or please themselves
 this old worlds business would hum
 where it now lags We are all bu,
 children of larger growth, choosing the
 pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
 arch, when the gold is really to be go,
 from the potatoes, corn or other pro
 duce won from the bosom of Moth
 CT Earth by honest sweat and well di
 vided industry, or from the indoors
 occupation in which one is engaged
 The trouble lies deeper than naLura
 craving. It is the unsatished imag.
 of the Maker fed on husks and eve
 vainly clamoring for more, wherea
 satisfaction lies in the other direction
 with less clamor and more appropria
 tion of the divine for the satisfaction
 of soul hunger.
 Time passed on and the unhistorical
 the uneventful, is uniformly the peace
 full, the happy, the contented. I'm
 monuments of time invariably sugges
 significant events. Waterloo speak z of God interposing to put an end tt
 Napoleon overweenlng ambltioI
 and blocdshed. The Declaration
 of Independence is linked with th'
 wintry suffering of Valley Forge. The
 Emancipation Proclamation of Lin
 coin is wrapped up with an interne
 cine strife, before it was decided tha
 this republic could no longer exist hal
 Robin and in each individual life, the
 unnoted months speak of dOmes
 tic bliss, of fruitful industry 0
 the nurture of those less honore'
 characteristics of fidelity, of punctual
 ity, of gentleness, of self restraint, o
 forbearance, of mutual helpfulness, o - subtle, but beautiful sincerity, of con
 tidence: of goodness, of that delicat = Sensitiveness to please which IS tn
 blush of beauty in character as in feat = ure. Thank God for the myriad live
 of sacrifice and virtue which only Hi " pen records, but which His judgmen o- shall one time honor before mankin rs in that day when the first of eartl as shall be last of Heaven.
 Iy The second child of Robin and Rub 1T was also daughter and the home wa eo again bright with innocence, that uni 1e versal charm before which age. an Il. wearied experience are ever glad t. ''s bow. Nothing is sweeter than child Io hood. Nothing carries one back so II 1e resistab ply to ones own unremembere as innocence, yet shall the apple blow b oI alone valued for it's fragrance an ,,s beauty, without thought of the frul ie of which it is the potency and prom at ise?
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 le Backward. turn backward. oh time in tn ru flight,
 1e ~e 'NO
 ttl May be sentimental poetry, but ,tr is impossible, except to the imagins tn tion, and since God intended tha t. we should pass this way but once, ho' he futile to wish to be elder in youth an al- youthful in age! To grasp the fleetin
 moment as it flies is the true wisdom ys the genuine happiness. He who car st not be at peace in his soul in the pre- as ent moment, amidstthe presentcircun le, stances, however forbidding, has fai D. ed of the divine lesson in life. Ther .e. is no yesterday for us That is o 1i- God s record. There is no tomorrow [al Now the eternal Now is all we knO,