Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-03-15
MISCELLANY.
From the Geauga Republican.
THOUGHTS ON TIME.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, says the clock.
constantly reminding us that time is fleet
irg, Each vibration of the pendulum,
counts another briet portion of our lives
added to the irretrievable past. How
rapidly those atoms of time, multiply
themselves into minutes, hours days and
years; SO rapidly, indeed, that when we
feel that even time, thus spent, is lost,
aud an impulse seizes us TO rush on after
it, in the attempt to redeem IL again.
But that was a mistaken impulse. What
is gone is gone forever. The pas, is be-
hind us and we cannot turn back, nor,
should we wish to, even though the re-
membrance of many wasted moments,
or, what is worse, OF grave mistakes, may
haunt us sorely. II is not pleasant, to
be thus haunted, but it will help, after
all, toavoi1 similar omissions and COM
missions in the future. The future looks
| big to us, even bigger :han the past,
but the present which alone is ours, to
be either for good or i'll, looks s. mall in
deed. just gateway through the fu-
ture is constantly hurrying into the
past rand at this gateway we stand writ
ing our records. Time will go on forev-
er, but, by and by, the sands of our own
individual lives will be numbered; our
records finished. They ywill be read just
as they have been written nothing can
be erased-nothing added. Therefore
it is all important that We write them
WELL 49,. ..se Fl ,5 t5a,csi b. ~
We have each a duty we owe to our
selves, and, through ourselves, to oui
God and Geaior.o He has placed in
our care both a physical and intellectual
being,' aud are We to- be accounted
blaneless if, while we feed and clothe The
| body to repletion, we neglect that far
more important part, the intellect Z
/ How bountifully has the Creator sup.
piled us with food and adonrnent for the
mind ! The universe is full of it. We
need not starve unless we choose to-
1t is POSSIBLE for some TO climb to great
g. heights, and discover sublimer truths
ill., this intellectual paslurage than. 9th
ers I; but they throw down ous, witt
lavish hands; and thus we may read
from TO ks what those more gifted Will
genius have read from Nature herself
Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks of books
as great helps TO genius, which he thinks
RECEIVES more impulse from them thar
from living minds. We take the boob
uader great advantages. We read II
when we are alone. We read il with al
attention not distracted" But tn,
amount of benefit derived from reading
will depend on The selection we make
IL seems as though one could hardly 6nl
time to read much fiction when books o
history, OF travels, of poetry, Of .biogra
} ply, religion and science, are TO be ha'
IN such profession, aud from which W
' may reap such. rich rewards of menta
improvement, Tor the time devoted T.
theiB study. Sensational stories posses
. att raetions, especially tor the young ;bu
: if they would read for profit, they will
. road sparinglv of this kind of liters
ture, allowing some Older friend 10 max
selections TOR them. II We may hope I
go on learning while we live, but tn
loejecta OF exisleDe. would hardly be N
al'1edwepe we recipients merely. Ther
ARE innumerable avenues OF usefulnes
open to us. Intelligent workers ar
what are needed. Let each, choose, -bi
labor wisely J, eohsulting his natural, tast
or bent OF loharaeter which almost
ways displays Itself, and then Wit
! steady appleatioH, he may be- sure :
) accomplish much And Woman. 10.
! may write splendid records for hersel
lii she ~ilA ssFhe past has fsssais,isd 30
,sftAany examples sof,tnoble womeo'ts :
'sflow us TO believe that creative wlsdes
designed her for mere gilded, batters!