Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-05-02

Man is the creature of interest and
ambition. His nature leads him forth
into the struggle and hustle OF the
world. Love is but the establishment
of his early life, or Il song piped IN the
intervals of the acts. He seeks for
fame, for fortune, for space in the
worlds thought, and dominion over his
fellow men. But a woman's whole life
is history of the affections. The
heart is her world: it is there her am
bition strives for cmpire-it is there
her avarice seeks for hidden treasures.
She sends forth her symPathles on add
venture; she embarks her whole soul
in the traffic of affection; and if ship
wrecked, her case is hopeless-ior 1t is
a bankruptcy ofthe heart. When dis
appointed, she is like some tendertrec,
the pride and beauty OF the grove;
graceful in its form, bright in its TO-
liage, but with the worm preying at
its heart. We find it suddenly with
ering, when it should be most fresh and
luxuriant. We see it dropping its
branches to the earth, andshedding leaf
by leaf until wasted and persisted away.
L falls even in the stiffness of the for
est; and as we muse over the beautiful
ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the
blast or thunderbolt that could have
smitten it with Washington
Irriag.
Disappointed pursuers deny the exis-
tence of happiness, and call 1t a phan-
tom present to the view, but perpetu-
ally GLIDING the grasp. Where did
they hope to seize itl On the stormy
road of ambition, on the sunny and yet
sterile waste of prodigali,y, or in the
grovelling valley of slavish avarice?
Amid such scenes it never protested to
dwell; it will be found sheltering under
the covert of AN independent mind, and
blooming in deeds of silent benevolence;
it is his, who, "having nothing, yet
possesseth all things"
A man in prosperity forgets every
one; and in adversely every one for
gets him. In prosperity he appears to
have lost his senses; and when loaded
with mislortunes, he is said never to
have had any. In his sudden eleva-
ton, he becomes diScontented with all
the world; and when hurled to the bot
tom of the wheel of fortune, all the
world are discontinued with him.
FideHty.-"After the execution OF
Sabinus, the Roman general, who suf-
fered death for his attachment to the
family of Germanicus, his body was
exposed upon the precipice of the Ger
monte, as a warning to all who should
dare to befriend the house of Germa-
nicus. No friend had courage to APP
proach the body; one friend only re-
manned true-his faithful dog. For
three days the animal continued to
watch the body. His pathetic howlings
awakenedthe sympathy ofevery heart.
Food was brought him, which he was
kindly encouraged to eat: but on TAX
ing the bread, instead Of obeying the
impulse of hunger, he fondly laid it on
his masters mouth, and renewed his
lamentations; but did not quit the body.
The corpse was at lengththrown in.
10 the Tiber, and the generous creature
leaped into the water after it, and clasp
ed it between his paws, vainly endea.
Toring to preserve it from sinking"
Se,cing on Glazed Calico.-By pass
ing a cake ofwhite soap a few times O.
yer piece of glazed calico, or any
other sttiened material, the needle
VIII penetrate with equal facility as il
Will through any other kind of work.
The Patronesses Of the School Of Indus.