Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-06-02
spareeon ON Human Perfection.

nature of John Ploughman, expresses
the following terss and rhomely views
on the subject OF human perfection.
"He who boasts of being perfect is
perfect in folly. / have been good
deal up and down in the world, aud
never did see either a perfect horse or
q perfect man, and / never shall until
two Sundays come together. You can
not get white -four out of q coal sack,
nor perfection out Of human nature; he
who looks tor it had better look for
sugar in the sea. The old saying is,
"Lifeless, faultless." OF dead men we
should say nothing but good, but as for
the living, they are all tarred, more or
less, with the black brush, and half an
eye can see it. Every head has soft
place in 1t, and every heart has its black
drop. Every rose has its prickles, and
every day its night. Even the sun
shows spots, and The skies are darken-
ed with clouds. Nobody is so wise but
he has folly enough 10 stock stall in q
Vanity Fair. Where l could not see
the fools cap l have, nevertheless,
heard the bells jingle. As there is no
sunshine without some shadow, SO is all
human good mixed up with more or
less evil; even poor law guardians have
their little failings, and parish beadles
are hot wholly OF heavenly nature. The
best wine has its lees. All mems faults
are not written on their forebeads, and
it's quite as well they are not, or hats
would need wide brims, yet as sure as
eggs are eggs faults of some sort nestle
it$every mans bosom. There is 10
telling when a mans sins may show
themselves, for hares pop out OF ditch
just when you are no. looking Tor them.
A horse that is weak in the legs
may not stumble for mile or
TWO, but it's in him, and the rider had
better hold him up well. The tabby
cat is not lappiug milk just now, but
leave the dairy door open, and We will
see if she is not as bad thief as the
kitten. There's fire in the flint, cool as
it looks; wait till the steel gets knock
at it, and you will see. Everybody can
read that riddle, but it is not everybody
that will remember to keep his gunpow-
der out of the way of the candle
READ THIS AND STAY AT IIoME.-La-
dies intending to make long journey
by rail without an escort would better
read this and stay at home. Mrs. Flor
ence Watson, an Ohio lady, took the
cars at Chicago, a few days ago for
Iowa City, where she intended to visit
her husbands relatives. A man took
the opposite seat aud looked at her in
tently. After awhile he left his seat
and another mau took his place, and
subsequently four men sat there in turn,
each watching her closely. 1t was now
dusk. The six men, after holding
consultation with the conductor, enter
ed the Car together and announced that
she was crazy woman, and the wife ct
one OF them; hence the passengers would
understand why she had been watched
by them. In vain did she protest that
it was lie. NoSody believed her. AT
Rock Island her csptors endeavUred TO
put ueI Ou IDc Tram, Say NY tudt ruC
must change cars for Iowa City, but
she clung desperately to the seat. The
passengers shrank nervously from her,
and she was completely in the power of
six desperadoes. As the train drew
near Durant she recognized her brother
in-law upon the platform. He was
waiting to meet her in accordance with
dispatch which she had sent from
Chicago. She shouted to him, but her
captors gagged her, and in moment
the train was in motion. At Wilton,
where she had to change cars, she at
tempted to escape, but was surrounded
by her prosecutors and forced to take
refuge in baggage car, after she had
sprained her ankle. At Iowa City she
made frantic appeal to the conductor
to take her to the leading hotel, where
the landlords wife would vouch for her
sanity. The conductor assented, aud
tide unfortunate woman was identified
and rescued. The strain had been too
great; she tainted When the conduct
or returned TO the train the six ruifiAns
had disappeared. The passengers, when
they heard the conductors account, adj
mitted that they had acted like fools in
allowing half dozen rascals to swear
away woman's sanity.-Times.