Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-06-19

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hours temporary pleasure pay the price
of perishing miserably in the winter of
our old age. The industrious ants are
wiser. By little forbearance at the
moment, by setting just value ON the
future, and disregarding present temp
tation, they secure an honorable and
comfortable asylum. All nature, my
son, is volume, speaking comfort and
offering instruction to the good and
wise. But the fool saith in his heart,
There is no God;' he shuts his eyes to
the great book Of Nature that lies
open before him. Your fote, my dear
Theodorick, is il your own hands,
Like Hercules, every young man has
his choice between pleasure, falsely SO
called, and infdmy, or laborious virtue
and fair fame. In old age, indeed
long before, we begin to feel the folly,
or wisdom, of our selection. conf
IDENTIFY trust that you, my son, will
choose wisely. In seven years from
this time, you will repent, or rejoice, at
the disposition which you make of the
present hour"
"RoANoKE, June 10, 1s2l.-You
do not overrate the solitariness of the
lite lead here. Ii is dreary beyond
conception, except by the actual suflel-
er. ] can only acquiesce in it, as the
lot in which have been cast by the
good providence Of God; and endeav-
our to bear it, and the daily increasing
intirmities, which threaten total help
lessness, as well as | may. MANY
long weeks have passed since you
heard from me.'-And why should |
writel To say that had made another
notch in my Talley?---or to enter upon
tho monotonous list of grievances, men,
tai and bodily, which egotism itself
could scarcely bear to relate, and none
other to listen to. You say truly: there
is no substitute for what you name,
that can fill the heart The bitter
conviction has long ago rushed upon
my own and arrested its functions.
Not that it is without its paroxysms,
which | thank Heaven, itself, alone,
is conscious of. Perhaps | am wrong
to indulge in this vein; but | must
write thus, or not at oil. No punish
ment, except remorse, can exceed the
misery | feel. My heart swells to
bursting, at past recollections; and, as
the present is without enjoyment, so is
the future without hope; so far, at least,
as respects this world"
) c. l,I In
yours, is employment. BE not solita-
~; be not idlep was all that Burton
could advise. Rely uponit; life was not
given us to be spent in dreams and rev.
erie, but for active, useful cxertlon;
exertion that turns to some account to
ourselves or to others-not laborious
idleness. q say nothing of religion,
which is between the heart and its cre-
ator.) This preaching is, know, fool
ish enough: but let it pass. We have
all two cdGcations; one we have given
to us; the other we give ourselves; and,
, after certain time of life, when the
character has taken its play, it is idle
to attempt to change it,"
MONDAY MORNING, JAN. 81, 1922.
eel have just received your letter of
Saturday, which | read with much
pleasure; although cannot think you
are right in giving up exercise alto
gether. You know my opinion OF ie-
male society. Without it we should
degenerate into brutes. This observa-
ton applies with tenfold force to young
men, and those who are in the prime of
of manhood. For, after a certain time of
life, the literary man may shift "a poor
one, Igrant) to do without the society
ofladies. To young man nothing is
so important as a spirit of devotion
(next to his Creator) to some virtuous
and anliable woman, whose image may
occupy his heart, and guard it from the
pollution which besets it on all sides.
Nevertheless, trust that your fond
ness for the company ofladies may not
, rob you of the time which ought to be
devoted to meditating on your profess
, sion;and, above all, that it may not ac-
qure for you the reputation of Dan
, gler-in itself bordering on the con-
temptible, and seriously detrimental to
$ your professional character. A eau
> tious old squaretoes, who might have
no objection to employing such a one
t at the bar, would, perhaps, be shy OF
5 introducing him as practitioner in his
@ family, in case he should have pref.
D ty daughter, or neice, or sister; altho'
/. all experience shows that of all male
# animals, the Dangler is the most harm
r less to the ladies, who quickly learn,
: with the ntuitive sagacity of the sex,
!. to make a convenience of him, while
# he serves for a butt, also.
), "Rely upon it, to love woman as
:. "a mistress although delicious dc.
!. lirium, an intoxication far SURPRISING
g that of Champagne, is altogether unes'
!. sential, nay, pernieious, in the choice