Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-10-25
WHOLE NUMBER 1912.
"P " Your own sake. !"

The ZriJu"e gives the following con.
densed report of il:
Miss Dickinson said: \ thing very
/ few people know, is how to liye-not TO
exist merely, but TO be alive. Charac-
/ ter is destiny. Few people recognize
I this fact in their children--io their
homes. 1t il generally ignored. SQUARE
children are put into round holes. and
round children into square holes, and if
they do not fit they are Clipped off or
driven in. The parents ignore indiyid.
uality of their children. Each has his
peruliai1tieS. which are given for wise
( purposes. One daughter may have
voice which If cultivated would take
her into the opera. Another has talents
which should lead her to the stage;
son who has deft fingers which shodld
make him mechanic, yet each is dis.
eouraged from pursuing the bent Of nat
ural genius, because such course would
shock the proprietics, or would be cun.
trary to what is believed To he opinion.
God is @io!iied bv the use of the TALENT
he gives. 20 little good is done In the
world because so few people know what
they 1--we Tor. EAi.ting is not living.
We say that we love the world. but we
dont even take pans to learn about the
world. Many people think that The OBJ.
lect Of life Is tD take care of the bodv,
but they don't even get acquainted with
IT; they bur len. overload, and torment
1t. Every body loves life. Even the
mser holds it a. his dearest Treasures:
yet how many are there who have not
said, what shall do with myself?
have too much time; I'm bored with
it?'-the very thing they love best
There j. no time to be thrown awnv.
there IS 50 much to be seen, so much to
learn and the school hours are so short.
1t is not that We should do some great
thing, but tia; each should live his own
lie. 1t is not the amount of the thing
done; it is tht amount of life, of deter
mination put INTO it. Some say there is
too much tax about work; they want to
have a good IN ; but very few people
are in earnest even in having a good
time. They say they would like to do
certain things, but for what people
would say. They make slaves of them
selves for strangers, and fOrego the
pleasure and profit of doing as they
please, in order to please other people
who don't care straw for them. One
constantly sees this yielding to whims
of Others among women. They should
live for the sake of living. Miss Dicki-
son drew vivid picture of the life of "A
fashionable lady, devoted to dress, novel
reading, and flirting, and who finally
marries because she is expected to mar
ry. Men were treated with no greater
leniency. There are few, she said, who
live even in their money-getting. They
toll like slaves, to their graves and drop
into them, never having lived an hour.
The world cares little for the individu.
al, living or dead; it matters not who
wrote such a book or did such deed,
provided the book or the deed be we'll
done. But to the individual the differ
encc is that between heaven and hell
Miss Dickinson closed with a brilliant
picture OF sunrise on the Rocky Noun
talns, which she had seen from lofty
p ak. ''The sur" she sad, would
have risen on such scene though l had
not been there. The question is not of
suns rising or on what it rises, but
whether you or shall be there to see
it; and remember friends, that to him
who climbs the mountain tops the glory
of the Lord is revealed"
ASEcDoTE OF LORD PAM.-The late
Lord Palmerston, like most men who
have become famous in literature or pol
tiles, was a capital rdcOnteur, and enjoy
ed keenly the telling of good anecdote.
Lord Shastnbury, one of The most philan-
thropic men of England, married Lady
Palmerston's eldest daughter by Earl
Cowper. her first husband Lord Pal
merston was never weary of telling sto-
ries about his son-in-law, whose religious
zeal he did not much believe in, or care
for; and Lord Salisbury always took
them in good part Many wears ago,
Lord =. called across the table to Lord
John Russell, who sat reading a news
paper at the ''Garrick:n
"Russell, have vou read Tonv's ithe
nickname by which he always designat-
ed the Earl of SALISBURY, whose name
is Anthony Ashley Cowper) speech last
night before the parsons and paupers at
Exeter Hall?"
II have not, my lord replied Lord
John, whose priggishness never permits
him to treat OF address any person fa-
mlarly.
"Well, read it. It's devilish good,
and the examination of the children at
the close, | am told, was better STILL"
GLOW soI" .....,
"Tony was asking the children vari-
ETY. of questions OF Scr!pturrl nature,
to which he had received very satisfac-
tory answers. Just as he was conclud-
ing, he addre>sc a Girl somewhat older
than the rest, aud among other things
inquired, 'Who made your vile body?'
please, my lord responded the unso=
phisticated girl, 'Betsey Jones made my
body, but | made the skirt myselfp"
Harper's Magazine
WASTE NO TtME.-After allowing
yourself proper time for rest, don't live
a single hour of your life without do.
ing exactly what is to be done in it, and
going straight through it from begin
ming to end. Work, play, study
whatever it is, take hold at once and fin
ish it up squarsl ly and clearly then to the
next thing, without letting any moment
drop, out between. 1t is wonderful to
see how many hours these prompt peo-
pie contrive to make ina day. 1t is as if
tbay ,,;.Ea1 mn I he Tnolnanta that tha