Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1865-09-21

And meets refusal with struggle ana shouI
| Then failing to conquer, with passionate cry
| He ouiyefs his lips Keeps tear in hiseye:
| And so wins the battle this wise littie.thing,
| He knows the world over that Baby is King.
We would rather be the court gardener who
watches and protects an aloe for fifteen years,
until at lastit opens to him the heaven of its
blossom, than the prince who is hastily called
to look at the opened heaven.
Probably certain ideal delicacy and purity
of the female soul can be developed nowhere
so beautifully as in the highest postion-as the
loveliest flowers bloom on mountains, and the
sweetest honey comes from hilly countries.
Do YOU know whether the little boy who
plucks flowers at your side may not one day,
from his island Corsica, descend as a war-god
into stormy universe to play with storms and
to destroy or to purify and to sow?
8 People talk Of the joys Of youth. But are
they not balanced by the miseries of youth
Sorrow to the experienced is sorrow but sor-
row to the inexperienced is despair. The man or
woman who has seen much of life knows, that,
however bitter the grief, it must pass; but youth
knows nothing Of this. tt...-f -.
Our immediate future demands thought our
earth is filled with gunpowder-like the age Of
the migration of nations, ours prepares itSeli
for spiritual and political wanderings, and un-
der all State buildings, professional chairs, ana
temples the earthquakes. 81, .ra. .re s-a..r
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature :
but, the pretter kind of thing it is, the more
desirable it is that it should be the prettlcst oil
| its kind. One daisy differs not much from
another in beauty; but violet should look and
smell the daintiest We were always squeamish
IN regardt to our women and children.
In our anxiety that our mortality should not
take cold we sometimes wrap it upin great
blanket-surtout Of precaution againstthe breeze
and the sunshine
The solitude of childhood is not so much the
mother of thought as it is the feeder Of love
and silence and admiration. ,r. l.r
True steel has its temper and the best blade
will bend with most case. The metal that Is
stiff is also brittle. Raying gusts soon die a
way. ai. - m .t.r fs#
True courage always counts the peril--as an
agile leap is always measured first with cool,
clear eye. y. is ID - hg
Genuine bravery has an acute sensibility, a
keen perception--it takes deliberate aim. 1t
wastes no ptowess, it utters no defiant rhapso-
dies. Is x tpkA tn Nrara t.ee
II should be between husband and wife as
between two harp-strings-the one trembling
when the other is struck.
What is most useful is generally least exhil-
arating. Light has no color, water no taste,
air no odor. -,
Pleasure may be at the helm, even if youth
is no longer at the PROV.
Many persons write articles and send them
10 an editor to be corrected--as il an editors
Office was house of correction.
Unmarried people often kill themselves;
married ones each other.
deaths door" is an uncomfortable one to be
at Debts good deal more so.
Many persons have got badly cornedby step
ping into sick mems shoes.
A lady with beautiful feet is call WELL for
she sends well"
Some congregations are in need Of preach
ers; more preachers in need Of congregations.
When s an undertaken like one Of his own
Jobs? When he's coughin'.
\ Why is it vulgar tosenda telegram? Because
it is making use of flash language.
Love in men is like the distemper in dogs
i Neither puppies nor men are worth anything
until they have hadit.
When you offer oats to a horse, he may say
neigh, but he doesn't mean it.
! A hungry man may digest advice, but it
makes poor dinner.
Some hypocritical prayers in church are in
tended to cheat the congregation, others the
Lord
/ It's very strange that stage actors are so very
popular when they are all the time making
faces at US.
j Men in battle almost always shoot too high.
They should avoid such oversight.