Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-10-11
TWILIGHT MUSINGS.


a twelvemonth ago, the green leaves grow
pale, then yellow, then brown and dry-and
fall in r~ustlinS showers to the earth. The
years grow shorter as Times hurried steps
steal by. The young stripping looking up to
the threshold Of manhood signs impatiently
at the laggard march of years, while the old
gray haired pilgrim sits down and remem-
bers and remembers! of childhood's sports,
Of manhood's hopes, Of the pangs and feeble
ness Of old age, and tells the boy at his knee
of how short the years are nOU to what they
were then! Well, the fight of years brings
on the Future, and that is what we all wish
to see for it promises richer blessings than
the Present or the Past. The Future J the
Future! ! there is always n bright star OF
Hope shining out from the clouded Future
The eye of the toiling pilgrim is all the time
fixed steadfastly on the glimmering beams of
that star, but it doth sometimes happen, aye,
and often too, that the star the eye SO loves to
rest upon is so far away that it is beyond the
vale and the dread river, and shines only in
truth aud purity in the bright upper sky of
Heaven
WINTER, cold, piercing winter, will soon
pbe upon US. To the rich it will bring the
festive reunion and the joyous pleasures of
the social circle around the comfortable hearth
stone OF bountiful homes. To the poor it
will bring-ah want, misery and hunger is
the wild chorus Of the storm to them. How
n,ouu Moon com;I;ao - +boro IN any nni0h.
borhood, to whom a cord of wood, a / barrel of
-four, or a bundle of old clothes even, would
prove q blessing? If Heaven has blest US
with a liberal abundance, out of that album
dance let us make others happy, and we,
ourselves enjoy the luxury of doing good
" The poor ye nave always with you"
4 HUNGER is a disturber Of the peace
The p~opulace becomes restless when the gas
trio juice begins to gnaw at the stomach
Who ever heard Of a bread riot among the
/" poor Irish" when they had a liberal allow
ance of potatoes and soup 2" Ifyou would
enjoy q sociable chat with a fellow-mortal,
approach him just after a sumptuous dinner.
If you would preserve the g peace and quiet
Of the parish" make bread and fat pork the
attorney. We once knew a cross grained
chunk of humanity who was savage as q bull
fyste when he had a collapsed stomach, but
after a feed on beef or oysters would nestle
down as docile as a sick lamb on a bed ofro-
SEES. This is a large and interesting field for
thought and experiment. Political econo-
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r gate and expound.
| 4 NOTICE LEA good husband, warran-
} ted sound and kind in any kind of harness,
especially in the matrimonial. He is of q
some figure and action, and can trot his two
babies in an hour easily stands to the era
3 die without firing, never snuffs at the dish
cloth, is not afraid of locomotives, not even
, those of the crazy old Colony road. He is a
smart traveller, and is in every respect a good
: family beast. The present owner being about
to emigrate to California, the above property
' must be sold without delay"
f So advertises q strong minded woman I'M
s der suspenders, in one of our exchanges :
, Old maids, that have grown brittle, can now
e be welted to the beast" Bachelors, with
| one small tea cup, can thank their buttons
and take courage. To be called a "family
/, beast !" Mine Got! vat a prosecuted set o.
r beeples we he animals are, to be surei
; Sick HEARTS can be cured in less thar
+ no time by the following mento-physico-mat
q rimonico mixture nine yards Of calico mad
+ up, an armful of pulsating humanity, sever
shillings sixpence worth of paper, (such a
g clerks keep in Office a parson, a sofa, tw'
canary birds and a bunch of green house hol
1t ly hooks or gerauium. People afflicted j
- that way, should get a box. Price, some
st times more than you are able to payl
lg ANTI-DIMITY.-We lay no claim to th
v authorship of the following epigram W
II, want that distinctly understood for we hav
sins enough of our own to answer for, in a
to conscience, especially when uuOomen are i
the jury-box ::
er When Eve brought 400 to all mankind,
W. Old Adam called her Womon:
y But when she GOOD with love so kind,
TO He then pronounced it t0OO-nndR.
n But now with folly and with pride
Their husbands pockets trimming,
The ladies are so full of 10hims,
so The people call them 'ohim-en.
lg- r A PHILOSOPHERS, Sir Isaac Newton, v
believe, is said to have worn q ring contain
ing a powerful magnet capable of lifting mo-
than two hundred times its own weight
of No,C, we once saw a lover when he got h
he magnet safely fixed in a ring-called a we
=; ding ring, if we mistake not-looked just
if he felt like he was being lifted away up
- that unknown territory beyond the sew
nst stars.
asst + SoUALLs.-Some family squalls are be
as quieted by a lump Of sugar or q candy site
re, We have known a liberal application of bir
to equally eficacious. If your wife's face loo
,rs. cloudy and threatens a squall on her pa
OF our advice is to take courage, and double h
W. cape with your larboard arm, and as soon
possible, let your lips drop anchor on the CO
led al reef of the Smacks.
T MARRIED men are not safe repositori
" for secrets. If he loves his wife he will t
her all about it, she will tell her sister, a
0r;. her sister will so manage that the emit
rye neighborhood will know as much as you.
to When we have a secret, we make it q po
nre TO keep it a secret from married men.
cry 4 EXPERIMENTAL PHILosoPHY.-Askln;
s OF young heiress to marry you. OBLIoUE Pa
d osoPuY.-Looking very innocent, and say
nee. she misunderstood you, that it was conce
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