The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-17
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WHO is OLD.-A wise man will never
rust out As long as he can move or
breathe, he will be doing for himself, for
his neighbor, or for posterity. Almost to
the last hour of his life, Washington was at
work. So were Franklin and Young, and
Howard and Newton. The yigor of their
lives never decayed. No rust married their
spirits. 1t is foolish idea to suppose that
we must lie down and die because we are
old. Who is old ? Not the man Of encr-
gy, not the day laborer in science, art or
benevolence but he only who suffers his
energies to waste away and the springs Of
life to become motionless on whose hands
the hours drag heavily, and to whom all
things wear the garb Of gloom. Is he old?
should not be put but is he active? can
he breathe freely, and move with agility ?
There are scores of gray-headed men we
should prefer, in any important enterprise,
to those young men who fear and tremble
at approaching shadows, and turn pale at
lion in their path, at a harsh word or
frown. M tiAT f84e8 $50 r+al h1.
INFLUENCE OF A CHILD.--A gentle
man lecturing in the neighborhood of Lon
don said: -. t45.g ts
Everybody has influence, even that
child" pointing to q little girl in her fathers
arms. -..-,.
"That's true" cried the man. ls
At the close he said to the lecturer: -
beg your pardon, sir, but i could not help
speaking. was drunkard; but as l. did
not like to go to the public house alone,
used to carry this child. ASH approached
the public house one night, hearing great
noise inside, she said Don't go, father!
Hold your tongue, child! please, father,
don't co. Hold your tongue, | said. Pre-
sently big tear fell on my cheek. could
not go step further, sir. | turned around
and went home, and have never been ina
public house since-thank God for it !! "a i
am now a happy man, sir, and this little
girl has done it all; and whenyou said that
even she had Influence, / could not help
saving: That's true, sir! All have infu-
ence." 8is.a .asdq sits ssa ai a.
EMPLOYMENT OF GIRLS in
one of our exchanges says: When girls
are taught at their mothers knee, at the
home fireside, in school, and in society,
that it is as disgraceful for them to be loaf
ers as it is for their brothers, we shall have
girls demanding and getting that thorough
ness of mental and technical training which
is needed in the legitimate and successful
pursuit of any employment, and not before.
We shall have standard then for scholar
ship, and women will look upon education
as something better than mental RULES and
furbelows, or as mere means OF enabling
them to support themselves in genteel in
dependence until they can marry, and we
shall hear no more of lack of employment
for women. fN&agiN F.fXf54e
KATE FIELD tells of an Eastern man
who was commencing the services of O
Phiadclphian to, a Chicago merchant. "He
comes Of q very good family. His grand.
father was a very distinguished man, sale
the Fastener. "Was he? replied Chi
cago. "That's of no account with us
There is less daddyism here than in any
part of the United States. What's he him.
self 2" Miss F. thinks "daddyism" is ar
inspiration, and ought to go into the coming
dictionary of Americanisms. ,.st,fss
THE best investment a farmer can maxi
is to eXpend one-twentieth of his income
yearly in good books. ltioften yields /;
thousand per cent. in a single season. A
house without books is ike the heavens
without the sun. Darkness, superstition
and cowardice usurp the place of light, in
telligence and courage. In this age,
library is not a luxury it is necessity.
PEOPLE who are always on tendcr-hook
straining after admiration or effect, ha'
they the beauty of seraphs and the tongue
of archangels, must inevitably becom
nuisances. swaNEkT 4
TEMPERANCE FABLE.-The rats ono
assembled in large cellar to devise som
method of safely. getting the bait from !
steel tran which Law near having seen mum