Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume], December 06, 1877, Page 5, Image 5

About Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943

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TIHE GUEST.
from out the great world's rush and din
There camC a guest;
The inner court he entered in,
And oat at rest.
glow on the wild tide of affairs
The gstes were closeil
Afar the hungry host of cares
At last reposed
¶1i"n through the dim doors of the past,
All Iure of bl amm,
Curne boyi.h memories floating fast
lli3 mother's name.
.#Ah! all this loud world calls the best
I'd give," he said,
1'o feel her hand, on her dear breatd
To lean my head.
if cry within the crowned day,
That would he jiv,
Couil'l h,' but bear me far away,
Olce More her boy."
Thn's streagth is weakness, after all
iHe ;toot! confh('.3erl;
.NonC ijuite can still the heart's wild call,
None quile uar ble: sed.
Across the CeC that knows no fear
A saei n weplt fast,
As if s following ange' near
':hat momelnt 1 ased .
The sacroi ,silence of the room
Diid softly stir;
A spleni'rIr vuew within tliC gloom
of hey, ±'f h'r!
Out to the great world'sirush and 4i1
Has g, C ry gue t;
'hie battle blamC, the preiise men win
Are his-uot rest.
Far out timil the earth's tarmuoils
A strrirg m": 1 Et int ,
Upheld in tI jumiph anl in toils
By uieeli hlands.
lint who may lift with subtle wand
The mot r > we wear ?
I only kir 'w his mother's hand
Is on iiis hair.
I only know through all life's hnrma,
'Through s~in' alloy,
Somnehow, si.newhere tist mother's arms
Will reacth her hrbv.
THE JT3H4E CItCLE.
ffE NLEU OF FMIENDSHIP.
:elfish an! drettul people, who feel that
they have no friends, because they love none
hut thieiiselves, and their yearning for
iriends and love but adds to their fretful=
iess.-"Jewell," in Iealth Topics.
It is only the seltish and fretful who yearn
forfriends and lov e? Yearn, but do not re
veive? Away from society and friends;
away from those who made our youthful
days bright and pleasant; never to see them
again, perhaps-only to hear that one after
another is laid away for the long sleep; sep
arated front youthful friends; unable, by
circumstances beyond control. to form new
friendships, is it to be wondered at that
lennetinmes the patience and temper will give
way and one will be fretful and appear sel
ti h? It new friendships are formed it must
be with those with whom we have no eon
:geniality. Awi what are such friendships
worth, who we instinctively feel have no
sympathy with the finer and more elevated
(lepartmients of nature? who are incapable
of appreciating refinement of action or lan
:guge? who meet every effort at selt-eleva
tion, every endeavor to reach the "higher
life," with a wrrd oYt ridiculer Some writer
hras said, ' We have all the love and synpa
thy we deserve. If these are not worth
working for, we ought not to have them."
flow can we week for them? By being gen
tle, patient and loving, you would answer.
'l'oo often is it the case that those who
should be the first to encourage are the ticst
to deride, anl ,this continues till the heart
gVOWs sick and the hands weary, long before
the tuie conies to lay down the burden of
life and he at rest; uwtil one feels
"Wears` and tired of staying here
Where hearts are so sellioh and cold,''
And that it. i aallno- inpossiole to
Rear with the world as it is,
Nor nurmer with tliugs as they are.
A LOAD FROM HER HEART.
A lovely kind of beatific happinmesa played
for a umoament like sunshine on her lips, and
then she whispered : 'Oh, George; Iike
to hear you talk like that, you have been so
good to me ! You have given nmve a diamonid
locket, and a gold watch and chain. and
rings that an angel rmight wear outside her
gluves and not be ashamed ; and if 1 thought
that one day you'd be sorry you'd given me
all these nice things, and want them back
again, 1 should break my heart!"
Hle held her gently against his manly
breast, and answered with quivering voice
"Oh, my own darling, there is nothing on
earth that could happen that would mnake
we repent giving you a few tokens of my
love, or make me want them back aguia."
She sprung from his arms like a joyous
deer, she shook back her sunny curls, and.
with a whole poem in her hazel eyes, ex
claimed: "Oh, George, you have taken a
load from my heart! I've come to say that
I can't marry you, after all. because I have
seen somebody I like better, and I thought
you'd want your presents back again."
THE TRUE GENTLEMAN.
He is above a low act. He cannot stoop
to commit a fraud. Hle invades no secret in
the keeping of another. Hle takes selfish
advantage of no man's mistakes. H1te is
ashamed of inuendoes. He uses no4gnoble
weapons in controversy. Hle never stabs in
the darik. lie is not one thing to a man's
fact and another to his back. It by accident
he comes into possession of his neighbor's
counsels, he passes them into instant obliv
ion. Hle bears sealed packages without
tampering with the wax. Papers not meant
for his eye, whether they flutter in at his
window, or lie open before him in unregard
ed exposure, are secret to him. Hle profanes
no privacy of another however the sentry
sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks and keys,
bonds and securities, notices to trespassers,
are not for him. He may be trusted out of
sight-near the thinnest partition-any-.
where. Hle buys no office, sells none, ia
trigues for none. Hle would rather fail of
his rights than win them through dishonor.
Ile will eat honest bread. lie tramples on
no sensitive feelings. Hle insults no man.
If he has a rebuke for another he is straight
forward, open and manly. He cannot ties
centl to seurility. Billingsgate does not lie
on his track. Of woman, and to her, he
speaks with decency and respect. In short,
whatever he judges ihonorable he practices
toward every one. IIeis not always dressed
in broadcloth. "Some people," says a dis
tinguished bishop, "think a gentleman
means a man of independent fortune-a man
who fares sumptuously every day.; a man
who need, not labor for his daily bread.
None of these makes a gentleman-not one
of them-nor all of them together. I have
known men of the roughest exterior, who
have been used all their 'lives to follow the
plow and to look after horses, as thorough
gentlemen in heart as any noblemen who
ever wore a d'ioal coronet. I mean, I have
known them as unselfish, I have known
them as truithtful, I have known them as
sympathizing; and all these qualities go to
make what I understand by the term 'gentle
man.' " "It is a noble privilege which has
been sadly prostituted; and what I want to
tell you is, that the humblest man, who has
the coarsest work to do, yet, if his heart be
tender, and pure, and true, can be, in the
most emphatic sense of the word, 'a gentle
man.'"-The C0/ristian Staiesmpan.
BILLINGS ON MARRIAGE.
Sum marry for love, without a cent in their
pocket or a drop of pedigree. This looks
desperate, but it is the strength of the game.
Sum marry because they think wimmin will
be scarce next year, and live to wonder how
the crop holds out. uam marry to get rid
of themselves, and cover that the game
was one that two cou d play at and neither
of them win. Sum marry the second time
to get even, and find it a gambling gamie
the more they put down the less they take
up. Sum marry tu be happy, and not find
ing It, wonders where all the happiness goes
to when it dies. Stum marry, they can't tell
why, and live, they can't tell how. Almost
everybody gits married, and it iz a good
joke. Sum may ry in haste, and then set
down and think it carefully over. Sum
think it carefudly over first, and then set
down and marry. Both ways are right, if
they hit the mark. Sum marry coquets.
This is like buying a poor harm, heavily
mortgaged, and working the balance ov yor
days to clear oph the mortgages. But, after
all. married lite is full as certain as the dry
goods business. Kano man kan swear exact
ly where he will fetch up when he touches
calico. Kno man kan tell jist what calico
has made up its mind to do next. Calico
don't know herself. Dry goods ov all kinds
is a child ov eirctunstances. The man who
stands on the brink shivering, and dasent. is
more apt to ketch cold than he who pitches
his head fast into the river. If ennybody
asks you whi you got married (if it need be)
tell hint you don't reeollekt.
TWILIGHT.
"The day is done, and the darkness
Fails from the wing of -night,
As a feather is walled downward,
From an eagletin his flight."
IHow beautifully the poet has portrayed
the twilight hour ! As the sun fades from
sight and the shadows fall softly over moun
tain aid plain, we let the cares of the day
slip from us a garment, and, seated by the
window, gaze out into-the twilight. Before
we are aware, the misty tears steal into our
eyes-yet not 'wholly because we feel sad,
but a certain something we cannot define
seems to hover in the air at this hour which
causesithe tears totilow. We look back to
the home circle we have 'left. Happy they
who find thatihousehold bhand complete, who
miss not one face, who see not one vacant
chair, t-twhose door the dark Death-angel
has never knocked. Then, too, we Indulge
in dreaming, and far down the dim future
we see ourselves-after yeirs of patieuit toil,
crowned with honor and flune-perhaps.
For but few of these 'dreams may ever be
realized. Yet they give us courage to strug
gle on, and sometimes we turn away, with
nobler purposes and alms than we have had
for many a day, just because we watched
the day fade into twilight, the twilight into
night.-Dirigo Rural.
SHE PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
Like a dutiful uncle, he was striving hard
to marry off his scapegrace of a nephew,
and almost in despair of accomplishing his
purpose in any other manner, resorted to a
matrimonial agency. He is well received,
and the agent hands him a register contain
ing the list of ladles she has in stock, de
scriptions of them, their fortunes, and so on.
He carelessly turns over the pages till at
once his attention is riveted by the sight of
his wife's name. He rubs his eyes and reads
it over; there is no mistake. She seeks an
alliance with a man between the ages of
twenty-eight and thirty-five, not less than
five feet six inches high, a blonde preferred.
Stricken with horrow, and fancying that
there was a queer in his coffee at breakfast,
he drops the fatal book and makesfor home.
Yes," says the wife, "that is my name. I
put it down when you were so sick with
pneumonia last spring, and the doctor said
we should prepare for the worst.-French
Paper.
TRANSIENT TROUBLES.
Most of us have had troubles all our lives,
and each day has brought all the evil that
we wished to endure. But if we were asked
to recount the sorrows of our lives, how
many could we remember? How many
that are six months old should we think
worthy to be remembered or mentioned?
To-day's troubles look large, but a week
hence they will be forgotten and buried out
of sight.
"" If you would keep a book, and everyday
put down the things that worry you, and
see what becomes of them, it would be a
benefit to you. You allow a thing to an
noy you, just as you allow a fly to settle on
you and plague you ; and you lose your*
temper (or rather get it; for when men are
surcharged with temper they are said to
have lost it); and you justify yourself for
being thrown ofT your balance by causes
which yoi (10 not trace out. But if you
would see what it wvas that threw you off'
your balance before breakfast, and put it
down iin a little book, and follow it out, andl
ascertala what becomes of it. you would see
what a fool you were in the matter."
The art of forgetting is a blessed art, but
the art of overlooking is quite as important.
And if we should take time to Write downm
the origin, progress, aind outcome of a fewv
of our troubles, it would nmake us so asham
edl of the fuss we make over them, that we
should be glad to (Irop such things and bury
theim at once in eternal forgetfulness.
Life is to short to be worn out iin petty
worrics, fretting hatreds, and vexalions,
Let us banish all these, and think oau what
soever things are pure, and lovely, and gen
tie, and of good report.
SUCCESSFUL HEN.
"Who are they?" They art those met
who, when boys, were compeled to work,
either to help themselves or their parents,
and who, when a little older, were under the
stern necessity of doing more than their le
gitimate shaire of labor; who as young men
had their wits sharpened by having to devise
ways and means of making their time more
available than it would he uni er ordinary
circumstances. Hence, In readJingthe lives
Qf eminent men who have greatly 4istin
guished themselves, . We find their youth
passed in self-denials of food, sleep, rest
and recreatlon. They sat up late, rose earty
to the performance of imperative duties, do
ing by daylight the work of one man, anu
by night that of another.. A banker of high
integrity, and who started in life without a
shilling, said, the other day,
"For years I was in my place of businpas
at sunrise, and oftenrdid net leave it for 'it
teen or eighteen hours."
Let 'not any youth be discouraged if he
has to make his own living, or even to stip
port a widowed mother or sick sister, or un
fortunate relative, for this has been the road
to eminence of many a proud name. This
is the path which men have often trod
thorny enough at times, at others so beset
with obstacles as to be almost impassable;
but the way was cleared, sunshine camne,
success followed-then the glory and re
nown.
THE celebrated Henderson, the actor, was
seldom known to be in a passion. When be
was at Oxford he was one clay debating with
a fellow student, who, not keeping his tem
per, threw a glass of wine in his thee. Mr.
Henderson took out his handkerchief, wiped
hisaface, and coolly said: "That, sir, was a
digression; now for the argument."
THAT the beautiful scenery around Am
herst is duly appreciated by the students,
and that they do all in their power to show
its charms to others, can be seen from the
4following: On a very dark, rainy evening,
recently, a student went to call on a young
lady. "Is Miss - at home this evening ?"
'Oh no, sir," was the reply, "she has gone
out with Mr. W-, of the senior class, to
v4ew the Holyoke range by moonlight."
MARRIAGE Is decidedly the most import
ant part of the ordinary woman's destiny.
She can do very well without marrying, If
she only thinks so; but if she marries, her
whole future depends on her choice of a hue
band, for "to marry" means to most to fol
low the fortunes of the man chosen, abide
by the laws he lays down for his h ehold,
dwell where he decides, and take ofom his
hands as much or as little as lie is able or
willing to bestow. Wastes make little differ
ence in destiny after the wedding ring is on.
A CLERGYMAN was recently annoyed by
people talking and giggling. lie paused,
'looked at the disturbers, and said, "I am
always afraid to reprove tnose who misbe6
have, for this reason. Some years since, as
I was preaching, a young man who sat be
fore me was constantly laughing, talking
and making uncouth grimaces. I paused
and administered a severe rebuke. After
the close of the service agentleman said to
me: ' Sir, you have made a great mistake;
that young man is an idiot.' Since then I
have always, been afraid to reprove those
who mxisbehave themicives in chapel, lest 'I
should repeat that mistake and reprove are
other idiot." During the rest of the service
there was good order.
GOLDEN SHEAVES.
Henuceforthl I'll bear
Aflhiction, till it do cr~y out itself,
Enough, enough, and die. Sh~akepeare.
-Rise early, if you wvlbh to become rich
and conquer an enemy.
-We must mnot itidge a man by a word or
a single action. Life is oomposed of so many
inconsistencies, that we should elten take
the exception for the rule.
-What is the most beautitul tlhing.? The
universe. Tfhe strongest ? Necessity. The
most difficult? To know ourselves. The
easier't?. To give advice. The rarest? A
true friend.
-Every man ought to aim at eminence,
not iy putting others down, hut hy raising
hmimself ; and en~joy the pleasumre of' his ownm
superiority, imnoginary or real, without in
terrupting others in tile same telkiciy.