Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-31
PEARLS.


Fame i as difficult to preserve as 1t
was to procure.
The Jealous man poisous his own ban
quet and then partakes 81 il.
Happiness. like liberty. il often over
looked 10 the search for il
II is seldom that beautiful persons
are otherwise of much virtue.
The greatest minds. like tho deepest
waters. are ever serene and quiet.
There Is but one kind Of love, hui
there are a thousand different copies
OF it.
To be silent about an injury makes
the doer Of it mere uneasy than com-
plants.
Be humble when you are young. and
you will be honored and respected whcn
old.
The foundation Of all happiness, tenn
poral and eternal. Is reliance on the
goodness Of God.
Genius--the free and harmonius play
of all the faculties Of human being.
II is safer for man to think without
speaking, than to speak without think
ing.
The value Of that possession only
viii oh has been tciled for is duly appre
ciated.
Because others have been false to you,
It is no reason why you should Be false
to others.
He that would soothe sorrow must not
argue on the vanity Of tho most deceit
full hopes.
He who is true to himself will be
true to others, and he who is tane to
others, will be true to himself.
Love Of children is always the indica-
ton of genial nature. pure, unworn,
and nnsclfish heart.
Nothing is more ridiculous than to
be serious about trifles. aud to be trifling
about serious things.
He Is rich who receives more than he
pends---he. on the contrary, Is poor
who spends moro than he receives.
A home without girl ia it is only
half blessed; II is an orchard without
blossoms, and a spring without song.
A house full Of sons is like Lebanon with
it's cedars, but honse full OF daughters
ase like the rosas Of Sharon.
Truth sometime meets fiction face to
face. A long and we'll told story in one
ofour most popular magazines has for
rs plot just this little incident, which Is
spitomized by tho St. Louis Republis
acn
Two old farmers met in court year
after year, term after term they pa'a
their surplus earnings TO lawyers, and
their dispute wac never ended. II IN
volved strip of about ten feet Of ground
which had been used as lane between
their farms. II was now abandoned asa
road, and both claimed it. Surveys were
and the courts could not
decide which was the rightful owner Of
the land.
One day lately one of the farmers
missed his daughter Emma, and the
same day the other lost bis SOC Joh -
hey were gone, and the infcrencen'was
that they had gone together, and neithe
IN sorrow or anger.
In few days the father Of the giur
eewent to town to attend the eternal co
Robustness, and taking up newspaper
IS lawyers Office, he read Of his daugh-!
RS marriage to his enemy's son. Herl
dropped the paper and thought. Tellingt
The lawyer he would not do anything IN
regard to the suit that day, he went to
home, thinking as he went. When he
got home he acted. He went to the house
IF his enemy, who was i'll, and had not
rbeen out Of doors since the disappear
ance OF his son. At first the farmsrs
stood face to face in profound silence.
At length Emma's father said to the
other ! have come to settle the dispute.
Let the children have the lane, and
will build them house. "And | will
furnish it." said the other. and the old
mcu shook hands. The farmers have
dismissed their lawyers, the children
have returned home, and the house Is
now building near the long disputed
line fence. All will faithfully perform
lhs contract, and all will live in harmony
where two did nothing but quarrel.
John and Emma have told how they
got acquainted, and loved, and feared,
ind ran away to be at peace.