The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-27
The sheen Of Wonder sun
Is less intensely bright,
Rat SHOWS rs 1t has ever dome
- L., hoaUnn there ia No niRht.,

I think scientist In the Smithsonian nc
Dorts has said, "The sun is great fountain
OF magnetic and electric force" Under the
influence of it's light my contracted tendons
seem TO relax little, and that sensuous de-
light have felt laboring in the fields under
a forenoon SUN returns in some degree TO
bless me.
II is doubtless true that health requires
exposure to sunlight, and it may be even
the saturation of the body with it at pro-
per times. cannot think it at all neces-
sary to pass the light through blue-glass
medium. The only effect Of this device is
probably to put money into the pocket OF
the manufacturer OF blue glass.
Allowable seems the thought that light is
the epiphany OF 'sthe seven spirits OF God
sent forth into all the earth "-their visible
manifestation moving to do his behests.
Light and darkness are the natural en-
blems Of hope and dispair. Beautifully has
Goldsmith compared hope to light, grow
ing brighter the denser the darkness:
Hope, like the cleaning taper's light,
Adorns the wretch's way;
And Still as darker grows the night
Emits brighter ray.
These cmblems are interviewer in scrip
; ture with descriptions of heaven and hell.
<.The inheritance of the saints in light" is
a stroke of the inspired pen describing the
goal Of hope. ''Outer darkness" is an
other stroke describing the goal of destiny
Of those "without God and without hope
in the world.''
Old Caspar sat in the evening sun to rest
after the days labor. Alas alas what a
rest it would be to me TO get up from my
chair and walk! But arthraIs horrida has
dried up the fluids and agglutinated the
bones OF my once pliabie Joints. An in
durable, my fate as regards many earthly
homes is described in the words Dante saw
over the entrance Of Ii Inferno: ssW Who en-
tiers here must leave hope behind" Sad is
my lot; yet it is not hepeiess-not that Of
the inmates OF the dread abode where 'shope
never comes that comes to ALL" Thou re-
lentless disease can'St not utterly destroy
hopes Thou can'st torture the body and
make powerless the limbs. In youth thou
can'st prematurely bring on the evil days
of old age, and force one to eXclaim, Il
have no pleasure in them" But indestruet-
ible hope defeS thy power.
! The poets make hope the constant attend
ant OF man. Schiller says:
At birth IT is hope is attendant sprite;
Round The Joyous hoy she Is flying;
The young man Is cbeered by her magic light,
She remains with the aged when dying;
At The grave, though man ends his weary race,
Yet he sets up hope at his restng-place.
'Tis true that disappointment is on one
hand while hope is on the other, and often
is an unwelcome intruder. Like oil oppo-
sites OF our duplex state, they seem to ne
cessitate one another. Hope dies under the
whitening influence Of disappointment, bat
from its ashes, PhGniX-like. new hope
arises. THUS one hope after another is
realized OF disappointed, until the vanity
of earthly hopes brings us to embrace that
which enters into the eternal beyond.
Forhnpe must disappointment be,
That man in CHANGING lot
May look unto eternity
For that which here is not.
The Scriptures give a new meaning to.
hope, as they do to love. In 9Th Romans is,
vision Of the one; in 1St Corinthians, 18th,
is a portrait of the other. Earthly disap-
pointmepts tend to produce Christian hope.
The breaking Of human ties precedes the
weaving OF the suDerhuman bond Of Chris i
tian charity. 4
The spring term OF the Circuit Court
began on the I'd instant, and ended the 18th.
The next term will not be until September.
wrote you year ago OF iunatic in our
Jail. She is still there, and another unfor-
tunate recently imprisoned. Their frantic
cries day and night annoy passers-by and ]
the families residing near the Jail. They can
get no better in prison. Is there no asylum !
for them? Have been told thattwenty have ]
been admitted into the West Virginia asy-il
y
forwarded. But can't think Pendleton7s 4
unfortunates are deferred to those of other
counties. st.4
Grass.is now as long as it usually Is the
1st-of Bay, and reports from Rich noun |
tain; just beyond The Allegheny, are. that
range for cattle in the woods is already good.
The ubjeet OF a theroughfare across our
county to connect with the Harrisonburg
and RaWley turnpike is engaging more at
tentlon. The leayen works slowly, but Will,
j think, soon leayen the whole lump.
hope ere long to announce to you active |
movements initiating this work-the most
important OF public interest to the people OF
Pendleton. .sa -
Alden, Messrs. Editors. AS look at the |
eastern sky the clouds are floating gently |
from the South. They may be from the
Gulf OF Mexico, and have traYersed the
land that is
The home OF the heart .ts:!!s /
And the chine OF the sun.
These soft airs from the Gulf are q bless
Ing to West Augusta. Creeping round the
end OF the Appalachian chain I'm far-oR Ge0r-
gia. they glide aleng its western slopes, until i
they reach W iths tfieig warmth and aoistuke I
these Virginia Ynles. They are ono OF our
prevailing winds, as that from the north. /
Besk 70 the other. Tbe alternate play Of