The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-04-22
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learn, is To soS a field without blowing
II.
There lisa blessing attending the min.
~istration OF mercy. The luxury Of do
ing good surpasses every other personal
enioyment.-Gay.
Affections are the medicine OF the
mind. II they are not toothsome, let
1t suffice that they are wholesome. II
is not required in physie that it should
please. but heaL-Bishop Henshaw.
DIR. Payson, when interrupted by calls
In busy moments, or when he would
not have desired them, found relief in
the thought which he often expressed:
"The man who wants me, is the man
l WANT
We look back 10 former times and the
struggles that then were. and wish we
had been helpers in the fight; but there
is honorable warfare now, and II we
see not what must he done now, or have
not the courage to do 1t IL we can see,
neither should we have had vision or
courage then.-T. T. Lynch.
Whoever is open, loyal and true, who
ever is OF human and affable demeanor,
whoever Is honorable In himself and in
judgment Of others. and requires no
law but his word 10 make him fulfill an
engagement-such a man is n gentle
man. and cuch n man uoav L. fo..l
among the tillers Of the ground.
1t is a touching and mighty thought
that now, before their educator, the
great spirits and teachers OF our imme-
date posterity creep, as the sucklings
Of his milk-store, that he guides future
suns, like wandering stars in his lead
ing-strings. And it Is all the more i'm
p~ortant because lie can neither know
whether he has before him, TO unfold
to good or evil, n demon to humanity,
or a protecting and light-giving angel,
nor can he forsee at what dangerous mo-
ment Of futurity the magician, who,
transformed into a little child, now
plays before him, will rise up a giant
Richter.
To learn TO work skiilfully with the
hands must become u part OF common
education. Rich and poor alike should
be taught how to work, for 1t is quite
rs likely that the rich win become poor,
as that scme OF the poor will become
rich; and that is, and always must be,
a poor education which fails TO prepare
a man TO take care Of himself and his
dependents In life. We understand
what TODD with criminals. We conline
them and set them to learning a trade,
especially the young criminals. The re-
form schools never leave out the ele-
ments Of manual industry. Why is 1t
not just as legitimate to teach the vir-
tuous now TO take ARE OF themselves
without crime rs it is the vicious?J.
g. Holland
He is both the curse and blessing Of
American life that we are never quite
content. We all expect to go some
where before We die, and have a better
time when we get there than we can
have at home. The bane Of our life is
discomfort. We say we will work so
long, and then we will enjoy ourselves.
But we find itjust rs Thackeray has ex-
pressed it. "When / was a boy" he
said, II wanted some tafy-it was a
shilling-I hadn't one. When l was a
man l had shilling, but 1 didn't want
any taffy.n But l can say not one word
against that splendid discomfort that
all the time makes n man strike for
something better. l like this idea that
every boy born in America dreams Of
being President. No man has n
right TO be content not TO do his best,
and not to do better tomorrow than he
is doing to-day. But all that will come
by keeping close to a manly and dutiful
life. While weare going steadily along
to whatever future awaits US, the
grandest thing we can do Is t. feel sure
that what we are doing for a days work,
with all that we do besides, is just the
most blessed thing, so far rs we can do,
and that we are very likely having the
best time that car ever come to our life;
that this work, and wife and home and
children, all they are and all they mean,
beats the world. The saddest thing in
our life Is our discomfort when we ought
to be more %contented. 1t Is our birth
right to get the good Of life as we go
along, in these simple and pure things
that to all true man and womanhood
are like rain and sunshine to an apple
tree. But when we will not believe
this, and dream that the best Of our life
is to ZONE when we have made our for
tune, then We sell our birthright for a
mess OF pottage; but, worse than Esau,
the pottage gives US the dyspepsia. and
and then we loose the good Of birth
right and pottage together.-Robert
Collyer.