Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-13
"Old Ago."


fire. the arm chair and the shady nook, A rude
wind would jostlo tho full grown apple from 1t
hough. full ripe, full colored too. The internal
oharactcristics correspond. General activity 10
less. Salient love Of new things and Of new por-
sous, which hit tho young mans heart. iadss away.
lilo thinks tho old is better. IIe Ia not venture
some he keeps at home. Passion oncs stung
him into qnckencd lite now that glad fly 10 no
more buxzing in his cara Madome do Stael finds
compensation in science for tho decay Of tho pas.
sion that oncc fred her blood hen.hcn Socrates
seventy years old. thanks gods that hc 10 free
from the "rnvenous boast" which had disturbed
his phosophc medtations for many years. Ro-
nance IL the child Of passion and Imagination
the sudden father that tho long protrac,ing moth
er this. Old age is little romance. Only some
rare man, like Wilhelm Won llumbod., Keeps II
sill fresh in hi- bosom. In intellectual matters,
the old loves to recall tho old times, to revivo
his favrrto old men no new ones half NJ fair -
So in Homer Nestor. who Ia the oldest of the
Greeks. Is always talking Of the old times before
tho grandtathers Of the men then living Ind como
into being mot such M 1.-Two in those de-
generate days. Verse loving John Quincy
Adams. turns of from Byron and Shelley and
Wels"d and Goethe and return. to tho Pope
Elder brewster expects 10 hear 81. Martins and
Old Hundred chanted in Heaven. 10 him hcav.
IN comes in the long used musical tradition. The
middle aged man looks around at tho present lie
has found out that it is a hard world he hopes
less works more The old man looks back on tho
field he has trod this ia the tree planted this 10
my tootstcp;" and he loves hia old home, his ear
ruge. cat dog. stuff and friend In lands whore
the vine grows havo seeH nm old man sii all
day long. sunny autumn day, before his cottage
door in great nrm chnir. hi, old dog crouched
ut his feet. in the genial sun. The autumn winds
played in tho old mans venerable hnirs above
him on the walls. purpling in tho sunlight, hung
the full clusters vi tho grape, ripenina and ina
turing yet moro. Tho two wcr" just alike, the
wind stirred tho vine leaves aad they fell; stirred
the old mans hair aud it whitenel yet moro. -
Both were waiting for the Spiri. it them to be
fully ripe, Tho young man looks forward-thc
old man looks back. How long the shRwdows
lio III tho setting sun tho stecpc mile long,
reaching across thfplain ; "a tho sun stretches
out tho hills in grotesquc Dimensions. So are
tho events Of liGc IN tho old mans consciousness
An "ArrEcriSG lscnENr" uroN THE CARS
While Deputy Sheriff Dnacom was route for
Auburn on Tuesday, having In charge o.
Bixby and Others. for incarceration Mt tho State
Prison. M incident occurred which is we'll worth
relating. Our informant states that when tho
train stoppcd Mt ono Of tho Intermediate stations,
abrighteyed. intelligent boy podlar cana aborad
with basket oi fine cherries. lilo passed through
the car' disposirg of his fruit in the customary
wny TIL he rcached tho conviets, when he stopped
abruptly, and east look Of unutternble sorrow
upon the men who were manacled together. as
though be comprchended at glance their history
and their gloomy destination. Without opening
his lips he .at down his basket. and dipping up
several double bandInll of cherries. tossed them
nto tho prispner. laps, Then. without waiting
ior any reply be pikcd M his hnskct and ran 70
the end u the ear. Here he snt down for mo.
mcnt, very thnughiuliy. and then suddenly
splinging up. NJ if electrified with some idea. ran
back Ia the pnrty, and lifting up his basket emp
tied ita entire contents into the scal. Then,
unable longer to control his emotions he burst
iato fit "i loud crying mud rushed on. Of tho ear
The act had been gnnncmlly observed by tho
passengers. nearly all Of whom started to their
fest in astnni-bmrnt Naturally, nl supposed
thnt tho child wns IN some way related to one Of
ihe prisoners, but it readily nsccr,aincd that
he was quito n stranger To all Of them. Several
kind hearted persons suggested, almost simul.
tancou,ly. that collection he taken up, and
every one else echoed the proposition. The boy was
captured and brought back, and the Int having
lccn circulated, ho was presented with very
handsome sum Ut money. Ths'litte fellow aecep-
tod it, though not without exhibiting some degree
oi reluctance. On heing urged to carry it 10 bis
mother. however, his eyes sparkled with q very
different emotion, aud he thankfully posketed the
cash.
MODEL DuN.--Is not this the m,st delicate.
ly done dun that ever was done! II is circular
to delinquent -ubscrbers from our cotemporarics
Of the n. Y. Home journal, and 1t Is certainly o
medol in its way:
lloMs JOURNAL OrricE, l07 Fulton street,
New York - 1860.
Dear Srln tho hurry Of your engagement,
you have doubtless overlooked and forgotten, rs u
'rfe, the small sum Of year. Indebtedness to