The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-04

MAsKs.-If we could read each others
hearts, we should be kinder to each other.
If we knew the woes and bitterness, and
physical annoyances of our neighbors, we
should make allowances for them which we
do not now. We go about masked, uttering
stereotyped sentiment, hiding our heart
pangs and our headaches as carefully as we
can and yet we wonder that Others do not
discover them by intuition. We so con-
ceal our best feelings from the light; we
do not SO conceal our resentments and our
dslikes, Of which we are prone to be proud.
Often two people sit close together with,
III love you" in either heart, and neither
knows it. Each thinks, II could be fond
but what use Of wasting fondness on one
who does not care for it 2" and SO they
part, and go their ways alone. Life is
masquerade, at which few unmask, even
to their very dearest friends. And though
there is need of much masking, would to
heaven we dared show plainly our real
faces, from birth to death, for then some
few at least, would truly leve each other.
On THE ROAD TO FoRTUNE.-We met
little fellow, the other day with lot of
bottles which he was busily engaged 10
cleaning with water and sand. Upon ask
ing what he was going to do with so many
bottles, the little one replied. 81 am GO
ing to sell them, sir, SO as to get money
enough to pay for schooling. 1t takes all
the money mother can earn to pay for the
house rent aud what me and Sis can eat,
and ] want to get an education somehow,
so that when grow up can buy house
for my mother" We asked him how
many bottles he expected to sell in order
to purchase such house as he would like,
when the little fellow philosophicaly re-
marked: eff fellow don't begin he never
can go anywhere; l know it's mighty
small business; but it's honest and the
best can do By-and-by, when l get
good place somewhere, I'll do something,
you see if don't. heard man say the
other day. that the smartest men in this
country were poor boys once, and what
other people have done can do, reckon.
Anyhow, mean to try il. "--Macon Gay
Messenger.
SUCCESS IN LIFE-The great secret of sue
cess in life consists in bending all your
efforts to whatever you happen to engage
in. Don't let your fickleness lead you to
slight your present occupation, and think
turn up by-and-by. The way to get along
in the world is to make every step one that
is ahead, and each to follow its predecessor.
For full fifty per cent. of the world is
absolutely wasted in indirect, dffuse,
labors. Young men start out in
life without purpose or point, casting
thought neither on their fitness nor un-
fitness for a particular vocation now
doing this thing, then that, and after that
nothing one day going on, another on the
right, (which is wrong) or left, the next
backward, and then not going on at all,
which is perhaps as bad as the whole COM
bined The right line in life to pursue is
.he one which leads straight ahead. This
almost always secures success. II you are
do it energetically until you can
get on your feet to walk but never try to
10 both at once. And when once on your
feet, never get on your hands and knees
.gain, but strain all your efforts to your
lew life.
General Thomas Ewing, who is a
,itizsn of Kansas and resides in WASH
Dgton, announces that under no circum-
tances whatever will he accept the nomi-
lation of Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.
The project was 10 run Pendleton for
Governor on the Democratic ticket, with
Ewing for the second place, to take
hances of the succession on the election
t gentleman George" to the Presidency,
he United States Senate, the throne of :
rance, or some other more elevated posi- !
ion. We presume General Ewing con- 7
iders the prospect rather poor.
Speaking of Kellogg reminds us of a
urious little rnmor about Miss Nilsson 1
,at, instead of having been little Swed-
h peasant, picked up in the streets of CO.
enhagen by some benevolent and sharp
red musician, she is anative-born Amer
an girl, daughter of an American mother T,
I'd Swedish father. This is rumor, TO- L
led, but it comes to US by only one re- b
owe of repetition from an estimabe cler- al
7man, who asserts that be knew the Al Al
mily for years. Church Union. m
The single eye-glass has entirely disap- es
AIRED from good society. h
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