Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-08
Sunday Thoughts.

Calumny and detraction are but
sparks, which if you do not belowIthem.
will go out of Observation-Disclosures
Believe, and if thy faith be right, that
insight which gradually transmutes
faith into knowledge will be the reward
of thy belief.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity
as well as under adversity. A strong
mind has two highest tides-when the
moon is at the full and when there is no
moon.
Nothing does so fool a man as extreme
passion. This doth make them fools
which otherwise are not and show them
to be fools that are not.-Bishop Hall.
It requires great deal of boldness and
a great deal of caution to make great
fortune, and when you have got it, it
requires ten times as much to keep it.
|--Rothschitd
The mind is nourished at cheap rate.
Neither cold, nor heat, nor age itself can
interrupt this exercise. Give, therefore,
all you can to possession which amelio-
rates even in its old age.-Senecd.
Whatever come out of despair cannot
lifted up to such height that holding
all things under itself, it should be able
to maintain its greatness even in the
midst of miseries.-T' p Sidney.
Have you known how to compose
your manners? You have done great
deal more than he who has composed
books. Have you known how to take
repose? You have done more than he
who has taken cities and empires
Montdigne. 80
Some are born for friendship, to whom
the cultivation of it is necessity, as the
making of honey is to the bees. Do not
let them suffer as for the sweets they
would gather; but do not think to live
upon those sweets. Our corrupted state
requires robuster food, or it must grow
more and more unsound.- Walter s..
L0ndor.
WAR IN THE EAsT.-There no long
er appears to be any doubt that Eng
land intends to have war with the
Ameer of Cabul, and to invade Afghan
istan. This will give her Indian army
enough to do for some time to come, as
| it is not probable the campaign now
contemplated can be fully opened before
spring. The question then will be
whether Russia is ready to unmask her
intention in the direction of India; or
requires still further time to perfect her
plans of operations and make her East
ern front impregnable. She has been
steadily advancing in that direction
during the last quarter of a century,
taking no step backward, but going to
stay at every move she made, and ready
and willing to fight all com rs to main
tain each inch of territory she gains. II
in a condition to strike, England will
find herself compelled, willing or un-
willing, ready or all unprepared, to ac-
cept the challenge and fight it out on
that line for her supremacy in the East
And while this storm is gradually gath.
eripg in unknown force in that quarter
the peace patched up by the Berlin Con.
ference has proved itself to be merely an
armistice or truce tnat may be broken al
any moment by any or all of the parties
and which events now in progress in
Bosnia and Roumelia must sooner ol
later bring to crisis. Nothing is set
tied: everything looks dark froIn W hat.
/ ever standpoint we view tie question
of European politics; and though tn,
winter which is now rapidly approach
/ ing may pass without any very impor
tant changes occurring, when the sprin,
opens we are much mistaken if matter
do not put on a more threatening ant
warlike aspect all saround the Eastern
horizon. Rich. State, = siha a9fiW