The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-06-23
VOL. vII.---NO ~.

such one excites sympathy oftener pity,
mingled with an impatient feeling at the
obstinate indulgence of misery without
cause.
Thou art some great woman, sure.
the fact begins to sit ON thy forehead -
clad in grey hairs--twenty years sooner
than on a merry mjlk-maid's." The old
dramatist was right Wealth, fashion.
fame, trace an impress on the character.
that writes its nature very plainly on the
countenance. Carking care, anxious
thought and corroding jealousy, are the
worlds gifts toits votaries; they press
the spikes, wreathed to the eye with flow
ers and gems, to their hearts, and crush
out all of truth, hope and love that ever
fingered there.
Eyes bright as Northern stars-heart
cold as Alpine ice--mind warped by sci.
fshness-such beings are not unfrequent
on life's highway. No eye blesses with q
clearer light their coming, or darkens at
their departure. The world is no better
for their having lived in it, nor any the
WOTSe When tBey ltdVt III.
Contrasted with these, are the warm.
hearted, earnest workers practical.
clear-seeing, open handed. They rear
our Colleges, support our Churches and
build up our towns. They live for all
time, and though their names die, their
deeds are immortal. We need more Of
them--these men whose "open eyes de-
sire the truth" and who turn to scorn the
falshood of extremes.
Society too has its oddities-its charac-
ters, whose prevailing feature is vanity
and ostentation. ,- was an example.
She delighted in dress, but having NO
taste, generally appeared decked out in
gaudy, unbecoming patterns. Her mer-
chants could persuade her to buy any
thing they chose to palm off as the fash
ion. Her money she idolized-refne-
ment copied-and succeeded in making
burlesque on gentility. There is no vul-
garity like that of seeming to be what
one is not.
Some think eccentricity mark ofgeni-
us; others, of insanity. l believe it is
neither, but rather is it born of an ill-bal-
lanced mind or miserable heart. "Is
not Miss - very eccentric p asked q Ia
dy. mol" was the answer; but she
has, ! am convinced, suffered some great
afiliction that has preyed upon her spirits
till she does not care about appearances.
She deserves our sympathy, not reproba-
tion.' Sometimes eccentricity is assum-
ed for the pleasure of having a way Of
ones own. Sometimes people happen to
be above the comprehension of our minds,
and we call their superiority eccentricity.
In any way, we must not flatter their van
ity, or wound their sensitiveness by tell
lug them of it.
Discipline is essential to the formation
Of all great characters. From the fur
mace alone is brought out pure pold.-
The loveliest character is one Of strong
purified by trial, cultivated in
tellect, controlled by deep piety, sympa-
thies universal as woe,broad as humani-
ty. Wherever you meet such, you must
andlove them, for, like "The
majestic reach of coupled suns" they at
tract within their sphere all that is good
and pure in nature. Some style itenthu-
siasm shallow minds pronounce it delu-
sion, but there is an inner law of being
that attracts one to some persons 90
strongly that A moments space, mys-
teal interchange Of tone or look, binds
as to them in strong sympathy, fast and
forever" While in other cases it is as
powerful repelled, and forbade even .
common friendship. Like the sensitive
plant, the spirit shrinks within itself when
by an uncongenial intelli-
gence, and only expands when the unwcl-
come intruder has passed away.
Whether You call this an intuitive per-
,epticn Of good and evil, trance Of i'm
pulse or what not, it exists, and every one
las felt its influence to a greater or less
iegree.
The fact is, that in this busy, everyday
existence of ours, we never stop long
enough to listen to this voice from the in
Ter world. We form our judgments cold
y, negligently, hastily the beauti-
ul charity OF earlier beliefs, nonsense,
md set it down to the wild pulsations Of
foung blood We form too many friend
'hips on the principles Of policy and self
interest, and when We are disappointed,
urn in to draw character generally, with
! hazel pencil and paint it with black
Tipped brush.
What Is n Coouefte
a young lady Of more beauty than
ense; more accomplishments than learn
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