The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1870-02-11
ONE-HALF INTEREST
PHILOSOPHY IN A BUGGY.


road that leads from Raines' Tavern to
Cumberland Courthouse, and beyond.
People are still alive who have Travelled
that road. The day was hot, the horse
was slow, The buggy creaked, and its
wheels wabbled. One of the fellows
Was Billy E. lie was laboring under
an infarcted hepar; in plain English, he
was bilious, and Saw the world not as it
really was but as it always looks when
viewed through the hepatic ducts. 1t
presented greenish- yellowisb appear
ance, and was to him altogether bad
old world from top to bottom.
The popularity of the hillary lorg-
nette is that it gives rather the hind
sight, than the foresight of things; and
so Billy kept on raking up, one after
another, all the mean, low, contempti-
Bile, rascally things that had been done
in the counties of Cumberland, Buck
fngham and Prince Edward for twenty
years back, and made himself very mis-
cradle thereby His companion natu-
rally sympathetic, also got miserable
The day grew hotter, tho horse slower.
the road dustier. AS for the buggy, it
no longer creaked-it groaned outright.
A more unhappy couple never drove
down sto Cumberland or any other
Courthouse.
AT last came that genuine sunbeam
from the cucumber-a ray OF humor,
which ever shines brighte stlwhen things
are darkest.
"Billy," said his friend. "when was
six years old and lived at aunt Betsy's,
negro boy named Travis sneaked Into
the patch and plugged about dozen of
the BEST watermeions, and went and
told aunt Betsy that did it, and she
whipped me like blazcs for il. 1t was
mean, low vile, unjust and outrageous
thiag, aad have made it a rule ever
unce to get furiously mad with Travis
at least once day about it. He is
dead. these ten years or more, and SO is
aunt Betsy; but that makes no differ
ence-it is good thing to get mad a.
bout, and never neglect 1t. 1t is a
solemn duty owe to myself and to So
.oiety."
"And 1t is duty owe myself said
Billy, as the satire dawnsd upon him
and he broke into laugh, ''to say that
you are the dad blamedest fool that ev-
or drawed the breath of life."
"No, I'm not; I'm philosopher, and
whenever want to get mad good,
think about that apple eating six thou
sand years ago. That covers all the
crimes that have ever happened or ever
will happen, and if you'll just set your
mind to it, you can get madden and
make other people madden and more
miserable about that one thing than all
other things put together"
This view of she matter, gave sud-
den bright turn to the talk of the
friends. The air got cooler, a sweet
breeze sprang up, the road became |
smoother, the old horse moved faster. |
the creaking Of the buggy was heard no
longer, and drink at old Peter Fos-
tsr's enabled the party to drive up to
DR.. zack Talley's gate in high state of
merriment.
The application is scarcely needed
Many bad, very bad things were done
during the war. Many things just as
bad have been done since the wal. The
State might have been admitted on cas-
Ter conditions. The conditions are
harsh, and to us seem foolish. Con-
gress is suspicious; and upon the whole,
matters are not exactly what they ought
80 be. But why look backward instead
ofahead? You can't undo the past.---
What is the use Of making yourself and
others miserable by recalIingt9 What
good does it do? There are living men
and living interests, plenty OF them, to
engage your thoughts; why play the
ghoul and dig up dead mems bones.and
delight in earrion! In our lifetime.
things will never be exactly as we
would have them; but the worst is past,
and things are going 10 be better, a
good deal better, we verify believe.
b6@ The Medical Gazette gives a ve-
ry complete history of relApsir.g fever,
the appearance OF which IN New York
has been noticed. The disease has
been known and recognized in Europe
since the year 1879. In 1867 it was ep-
Idsmic In Scotland and made its first
appearance in London, where it was
studied and described by DR.. Jennsr;
lbont the same time it broke out in
Germany, where Dr. Virchow was the !
1rst to recognize it as distinct from ty- :
ahus and typhoid fever. In 1865 it ex- =
sted among the British troops at the '
jrimea- In most counties of continent n
al Europe and in all tropical climates +
10 unknown. The disease first ap- A
feared in America in 1874, and in IS4s q
nd ls6O-5l it was again noticed !,
rom articles on the subject quoted X
rom the Lancet by the Medical Ca a:
cite, 1t appears that the disorder is q,
presiding much more rapidly In New .:
'ork than in England. II
Ef Twelve thousand pupilt attend eli
'iVale schools In New York city. "a