Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-02-09
MisfdIaneolls.
Sunday Reading.

| DYINe.-There is dignity about tha
going away alone, which we call dying
that wrapping of the mantle of Immortal
ity about ps; that putting aside with
pale hand the azure curtains that are drawI
around this cradle of world, that ven
turing away from home for the first TINT
in our lives, for We are dead, there is no
thing dead to speak Of, and seeing foreign
countries not laid down on maps We know
about. There must be lovely lands some
where starward, for none ever return thai
go thither, and we very much doubt if any
would if they could. sg
The ART OF NOT QuARRELINa.-HoN
is it we never quarrel Mrs. Xantppes-
Well, I will tell you. You ses, for quar-.
rel, and especially good quarrel, it IS ne.
cessary to have two parties. One person
can't make quarrel. Now, if l am In a
quarrelsome humor and break out, my wife
remains cool and collected, and doesn't say
a word. If my wife is peevish and dis
plays more temper than is becoming In
ore of her beautiful sex, !, her husband
remain unmoved as the monument, or else
cheat myself into the belief that ! am
listening for the moment to one of Crisis
heavenly songs. Thus, while one party
is Mechanically fuming, the other is as cool
as cold potato. In all our quarrels there
is, in this way, always controlling power.
Seriously, we never quarrel, because there
is pbilosophic compact between us never
to quarrel together. We only quarrel one
at time, and it is astonishing, if you
leave quarrel alone, how very soon it dies
out! That's our secret madam, and l
should advise you and all Xantippes to fol-
low it.-Punch.
"HE HAS NOT AN ENEMY IN THE World" :"
Hasn't! Well, we are sorry for him,
for he has mighty little character who has
no enemies. He is nobody who has not
pluck enough to get an enemy. Give us
rather as our idea of manliness, one who
has many enemies, one who has candor and
fearless love for the thing be sees to be
right. The man of earnest purposes,
strong will and love of principle, for its
own sake, must have enemies. But this,
so far from being i'll, is to him good. The
strong tree is more deeply rooted and fas'
tened in the soil by the blast than the sum-
mer breeze. A man never knows how
much there if of him until he has confront
ed and braved opposition. I
1t is the grand comfort of Christian
to look often beyond all that he can pos
sess or attain here; and as to answer Others
when he is put to it concerning his hope,
so to answer himself concerning all his
present griefs and wants; '"I have poor
travellers lot here, little friendships and
many trials; but yet 1 may go cheerfully
homewards; for thither l shall come; and
there 1 have riches and honor enough-a
palace and crown awaiting me. Here no
thing but depth calling unto depth-one
calamity and trouble las waves) following
another; but / have hope of that rest
that remaineth for The people of God
l feel the infrmities of mortal state; but
my hopes of Immortality content me un-
der them. ] find strong and cruel assaults
of temptations breaking in upon me; but,
for all that 1 have assured hope of full
victory, and then of everlasting peace
Leighton.