The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-12-01
for The 1Eyis and mtelligencer.
PATIENCE AND CHEERFULNESS
UNDER DISAPPOINTMENT"

UGDEh lShPPUlNIME EMF"
1t is trite but true saying that one
half of the woni are ignorant Of how the
pther half lives Man is so constituted By
nature, as to possess keen and sometimes
markedly acute senSibility of the world $
opinion, and carries ever in his heart an
inherent desire to appear in the best pos.
s'hle height in the eyes of his fellow man.
This feeling is sometimes productive of
great Inconvenience, and hence it is that
IN the higher and middle classes of socie
ty this keeping up ofappearances," as it
is popularity called, often covers back
ground Of real want, AMI the world never
suesses the priyatious 1t inficts, aud the
sacrifices mace to its requirements.
The mass If human destinies that laby-
riGth the world, are as numerous as their
representatives, crossing sometimes 10
their wudings, and then recrossing
sometimes barely touching as they ap.
proach, then flying off, in centrifugal
force, wider aud wider still. Each inui
vidual has his own peculiar destiny mark
ed out at birth, untrammelled and upccn
trolIed by amy earthly agency. The natal
star tor some stands over palaces, and for
some, over the hoyei and the hut. Thus
it has been from the beginning, and thus
it will he while the world shall last. Not
every foot must dance to happy music in
einth flnwery places; some must plod
on in silence to the tImb, fulfilling thus
the destiny to which they were born. II,
is we'll The frog is doubtless just as hap
Ply in his native mire as the lark soaring
over his head, and in all probability, im.
AGNES his cracking song a, enchanting
as the nigh ingale's lay. He enjoys to the
full extent all the pleasure OF which his
nature is capable, and knows not there are
higher aud more exalted JOYS, such as he
cannot reach. D's,inies like these are not
drplorable, bu, only ih'se which some
sudden shock Of fate has overturned aud
cruelty div, rted from their familiar aud
original course.
The prond bird OF the air overtaken by
the arch4r's shnf', is worthy OF noble
compassion, which is not expressed by the
word pity" when he fails from his ma.
tive height to the dust of earth, pressing
closer the arrow into his wounds, to hide
them fiom the gaze of tho,e around. But
do he suffer less, or is he less impatient
Of his fall, for all that? We k ow better;
and it would doubtless ruffie his kiugly
feathers were some brother eagle to come
sailing along upon uniujured pininns, aud
recommend to him the utility of patient
rc>ignatinn. AS little does il become the
child of luxury, whose sole occupation
consists in lying in dreamy idleuess from
morning till might upon couch of dow.
ny sof'neSs, novel in hand, OF perhaps now
aud then interspersei with the greater Id
Dor of scanning specifically the pages Of
history, or lives of or at men, in order to
CLEAN therefrnm few deeds of goodness
aud hcroism, for future use, that is to aston
i>h an admiring puolc with their wealth
of learniay-- it i'll becomes such, we say,
to preach patience under "disappoint.
m"nts' to others, when they themselves
have never felt the shadow of an uusats-
fed want. How can such know aught of
the hardships of a life of poverty, whose
greatest perplexity consists in the make Of
dress. or the shade and style of bon.
net. They know not what it is to outli0e
hope, haunted by the ghosts of by gone
joys. which fit before us day and night,
to m ,ck the present misery; they hove
never expeiic iced the passing away Of
competence, home and happiness; never
watched their friends one by one depart,
some by death, some by n,iseres less mer
cful than death. They never while be-
holding at the same time the mons,rous
wrong dnings of the rich nan prosper at
every turn, witnessed their opn rndeavors
to earn an h0ncst INSTRUMENTATION plans,
their enterprises, all fail from beginning
to end, from the greatest to the least
They never saw the Scanty board and fam.
ished look within their own dwelling, and
felt the untold wretchedness attending
such conduit n, till in very desperation
you almost shrink from the depths of an
overchareed heart, the oldcn intcyrogato
ny doubling Of satisfactory answer
Where is the Lord God of Eijah.'
All ! it is in moments such as these
when iufidcity almost beclouds the mind
when skrpticism clamors for empire,
and reason runs riot, else it would not say,
if God be just these things could not be.
Those who have tasted the cup can testify
20 it's bitte,nc ss--hose who have sounded
the length and depth and breadth of an adj
verse fortune are best qualified to give in
structinn upon the Who'll, someone's Of "pa-
tieuce' utdrr common mi fortunes, and
the amount, also, such contingency re-
qnires. ltls very easy to talk Of heroic
endurance and tortiudr, and all that, it
'uuds very well upon pap,r, particularly
f gotten up in the highfalurn style; bur
talking and doing are two things. Fic,i-
tious sorrows aHd fictitious tra. cdies are
rell enough in povels, but miserabln
things IN rea life; Tor there they are not
ictit GUS. bat essentially real ; and let
those who admire sentimental sorrow, be
brought in contact with the real thing
let teen re ,llze to the letter the fruits