Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-29

my voice had power to thunder tho life
story Of which I had been witness
INTO the ears Of all living men.
IT MUST BE IN THE MAN.-Figs do
not grow on thistles. Example does
not seem to affect some men-results
produce no wisdom. Fools seldom
discover their folly. They do not be-
licve miracles even. They cape OPEN
mou'hed at the success of progressive
men; but cannot comprehend the cause,
though they stare at it. If they do
comprehend, they have not the force to
execute. 1t must be IN the man. In
dolence finds sort Of negative content,
that requires sort Of earthquake
shock to shake off. encouragement is
not appreciated, scarcely noticed. The
man with FIVE or ten talents easily and
surely acquires other FIVE or ten. The
man with one buried for safe keeping
spends his life watching the spot where
it is buried.
| Success does not come by wishing It,,
but by working for it. There is more
time los: in envying the successful
man the fruit of-his labors, than is ne
cessary to consume in securing equal
results. Some men must live life
time to learn how to live, and then
they do not do it. 1ndecision is to be
resisted. What We wish that is worthy
may be obtained by acting at once.
We lose by delay more than We gain by
waiting for good time. The man
who is determined to grow good crops,
secure comforts. and increase the ap-
planes to his enjoyment and useful
ness, will find means available, and
ways open noaD. Force is required
that is all.-Prairie Farmer.
OLD AaE-An inarmity which no
body knows. Nothing can exceed our
early impotence to escape from youth
to manhood, and appear older than
we are. The first longing is natural,
fer hope is before US, and it seems
possible to anticipate that which we
must soon reach but the second is a
weakness, not less strange than gener-
al, for we cannot expect to recover that
from which We are perpetually flying,
or avoid that to which We are inces-
sanity approaching. If by putting
back our own date we could arrest the
great clock CT time, there would be an
intelligent motive for our condnct.
Alas the time-piece of cd Chronos
never stops. Women, who imagine
their influence to depend on their per-
sonal attractions, naturally wish to pre-
serve their youth. 1t is in their power
to do so for she who captivates the
heart and the understanding, never
grows old and as men are generally
estimated by their moral and intellect.
ual, rather than their baptismal recon-
mendations-as a philosopher Of fifty
is preferred by all those whose prefer
ence is worth having, to fool of twen-
ty-there is something very contompt-
ible in male horror Of senility. So
prevalent, however, is the feeling, that
with the exception of one individual,
who has obtained an enviable immor-
tally as 'mlddle-age Hallam,'' we
have no chronology for man or woman
at or beyond the meridian Of life.
SOCIAL LIFE NOT THE CHIEF END OR
MANA popular lecturer at Chicago
lately advocated with some plauslbility
the drinking and dancing customs Of
other countries, as means Of promot-
ing social intercourse, and adding to
the grace and animation Of society in
general, to which the Congregational
Herald gives the following response
The value of social life las been un-
duly magni6ed. 1t is Of far less mo-
ment than domestic life. That man
should please and entertain his neigh
bors or acquainsances, for q few mo-
ments or hours, it may be, while be is
Win them, dwindles into insigni6cance
BY the side Of the question-whether
he makes happy the companion of his
life, and the children whose veal or
woe, for time AMI eternity, depends
much on fathers influence. That
woman should be fascinating at the
social party, what is it compared with
shedding the radiance of love and kind
ness on husband and children in her
family? Any social life that would
interfere with these most sacred home
duties, will prove curse, not alone to
the family Immediately affected, but to
society at large. We shall owe no
gratitude to him who shall so solve the
social problem as to disturb the happi-
ness of the Preside.
MUST BE TRAINED SOMEWHERE.
Prof. Mayhem says children must be
trained somewhere. This is true; and
people who are blessed with what are
sometimes called ''pledges of ahec-
tom should ponder upon what he
says in the following paragraph:
Let it be borne in mind, that all
children in every community will be
somewhere and somehow and that it
devolves upon citizens and parents to
determine whether the children of the
present generation shall receive their
training in the schooI-h0use or on the
street; and if in the former, whether
in good or poor schools.
QUESTIONS FOR SMALL AND LARGE
Commemorative guarded you when
in health, and eomforted you when i'll I?