The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-15
En0ugh-MOre.

OF tnis my son was dead, and Is now aiive
again, he was lost, and is found 70
Enough-MOre.
When has one enough so that he feels free
to enjoy the world? 50 that he does not max e
the mere accumulation Of means the primary
and principal object of existence? He has re-.
sources for supplying the various demand 8
liable to be made on him for the necessaries
and comforts of life. Then why does he not
at once enjoy? finding pleasure where It is
hidden, all about him. Why do you not ra-
tional reader2 Give a part of your time and
money to the making yourself and others hap
py, and you will not die social and moral
bankrupt.
Enjoy to-day. II 1t storms out-of-doors, be
the domestic sun more inter sely radiant. En-,
joy the children; enjoy the society Of your
wife. Talk with them: read pleasan. books
to them; play with them; make yourself
necessary to their happiness. Teach them 10
enjoy home. Then, long life to you
How is this? After you do this or that
when position shall have been attained--you
will indulge little ease. will relax the ten
sion which weakens the fbers of life, and ro b
the spirit OF its due proportion OF vitality.-
Then you will find recreation, and give part
Of your time to the enjoying of life' This
is fatal. You must begin now. and enjoy
life in passing through it's perils, in riding over
its roughnesses! Pluck the flowers as they
open their blossoms on the dusty path you
tread, or you lose their fragrance forever
when you return to Geek them, they will be
withered.
But the eminence just above you looks so
green, so smooth, and its outline is so regular.
you would like to plant there your vine and
fg-tree
All, friend when that eminence shall be at
tanned, another, little higher, will tower
aloft, overlooking the plain on which you then
will stand, ebstrncting the view in that d.
rectioh. You wish your horizon clear and
broad. Consider; is landscape with no en-
inences breaking the directness Of the hori-
zortal line, or prospect TO form position
where you must look down for object on which
the eye can rest, more pleasing than one
gives the plain with the mountain rising grand
ly from its side? Would You live on the
mountain top clingirg to its Jagged, naked sur
facefrom which the warmth is all reflected
into space? content; enjoy what the
mountain gives to those dwelling at its base
1.-The pictures of unequaIed beauty which the
sun paints en- the mist and thick clouds it
gathers in gorgeous masses of drapery about
its top, and the streams it sends gambolng
down to the plain.
A little higher! When there, yonr feet
will refuse to stay till the position next higher
shall be reached: and 50 on, till their climbing
is arrested by the grave.
ENJOY life now; il yon wait till possible
amount Of wealth be amissed, you may die
beggared in humanity.
A little more! n you wait for this, you
will repeat the words till they are smothered
by the shroud. Now is the time take it; use
it. or it departs forever.
Enjoy as yoa Dork; be not negligent; waste
nothing but, with fair prospect OF meeting
the liabilities Of existence, enjoy what is about
you-helping others to do the same 30 far as
you have means. Thus, assisting others,
means will increase with your enjoyment, il
your enjoyment involve no sin.
81 have enough to be comfortable,o said
farmer Fairacre; shut It is q sh~he fcr a man
to give up business just as he best understands
it.0
Then give part Of your time to business,
and the remainder Of it to mental and social
pleasures and physical recreation.
~ have special plan for the next two years;
then shall do ss you advise me-" he replied.
Before six months passed, farmer Fairacre
was buried. Cause OF death--congestion Of
the brain, occasioned BY too protracted and
intense application to business. Life Illus
tro.ed.
THE DIcKENs' DrrrIcuLrY.-A New York
correspondent Of the Boston ssAtlss and Bee,n
says:
1.-THE scandalous reports about Dickens and
his family have excited much attention hers---
but the manly card OF Mr.. Dickens, published
in Household Words, relieves him from the
impuiatioR of in6delity. Twas yesterday con-
versing with gentleman well acquainted with
the Dickens family. and he attributes the diff
ference between the novelist and wife to di-
verse views they take in regard to the relig-
ious education Of their daughters. Mr.. Dick
ems is decided latitudinarian in his views,
and generally attends the Unitarian Charch,
while Mrs. Dickens, an Edinburg lady, brought
up in the stricter doctrines OF Presbyterianism
still clings to the religious IDEAS inculcated in
ker youth, and naturally wishes her daughters
brought up in the same way. The fact Of the
daaghters siding wilh the father, merely shows
that like most young people, they approve Of
those doctrines that offer more freedom, and
are generally more attractive In appearance 1t
least.D
The Paris physicians, sustained by the opin-
lon Of DR.. Hayward Of Boston, had, up to
June II. four times applied white hot irons to
Senator Summers neck and back. for q cauteri-