Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-10-30
on APT FSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, W. VA, SATURDAY.

, Jealous men are ever displaying to you
the strength of their belief, while judiclous
men are showing you the grounds Of 1t.
Whether zeal or moderation be the point
we aim at, let Us keep fire out OF the one
and frost ont of The ether.
The word that once escapes the tongue
cannot be recalled the arrow cannot be
detained which has once sped from the bow.
We should be as careful of our words as
of cur actions, and as far from speaking Ill
as from doing i'll.
He that does base thing in zeal for his
friend, burns the golden thread that ties
their hearts together.
Some things will not bear much zeal and
the more earnest we are about them, the less
we recommend ourselves to the appreciation
of sober and considerate men.
Il is as easy to draw back stone thrown
with force from the hand as to recall word
once spoken.
There is a relation to be observed between
the words and the mouth that pronounce
them
There are heads sometimes SO little that
there is no room for wit, sometimes so long
that there is no wit for SO much room.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than
ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit
gives an edge to sense, and recommends 1t
extremely.
If YOU do not wish man TO do a thing,
YOU had better get him 10 talk about 1t; Tor,
the more men talk, the more likely are they
to DO nothing else.
\ blemish may be taken out Of a diamond
by careful polishing; but if your words
have the least blemish there Is no way to
eAace it.
Wit is brushwood. Judgment timber; the
one gives the greatest flame, the other
Yields the durablcst heat-and both meeting
makes the best fire.
Nothing. except what flows from the
hearts, can render even external manners
truly pleasing.
Truth, Justice and reason lose all their
force and all their lustrc whcn they are not
accompanied by agreeable manners.
"Young man." said a studious parent to
his garrulous son, you have a mission 10
perform" "What is itpa, what Is itY'-
at is TO keep your mouth shut.
When a sawmill is run by water, isn't it a
boarding house on the Tanner principle?-
Rome Sentinel. Certainly not. You can
always obtain plane board there.
Alta London bazaar recently a lady han
dod round her baby 10 be kissed atsiXpence
each. If it were a girl baby we would have
paid the price and taken due bill due in
sixteen years.
"There are only one hundred and fifty
diiferen; ways OF putting up peaches, said
a voting lady 10 our funny contributor;
(which way do YOU prefer" 81 prefer
putting them down" was the reply.
Mistress Chorrifed Good gracious
Bridget, have you been using one of my
stockings to strain the coffee throughY-
Bridget lapologctcally)-" Nis, mum; but
shure didn't take claDe one'
Dear Young poets, the managers Of Cleo
patras needle want all sorts OF documents
representative of the spirit of the age, to
deposit under the northwest corner of the
monolith. Send your verses to them.
There is this difference between happiness
and wisdom; he that thinks himself the
happicst man i really so; but he that thinks
himself the wiscst is generally the greatest
fool.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in
precept as in liie-n iirmness OF mind
and mastery of appetite. IL teaches Us to
do. as well as to talk; and to make our ac-
tons and words all Of color
Wit. bright, rapid and blasting IS the
lightning, flashes, strike and yanishes IN
an instant; humor, warm and all-embracing
As the sunshine, bathe- its obiectin genial
and abiding light p WhiRph
Cast forth thy act, Thy word, into the ever
living. cyer-working universe. 1t is a seed
crain that cannot die; unnotccd to-day it
will be found flourishng ~ a banyen grove
perhaps, ALAS as hemlock forest, after
thousand years.
Wisdom is the olive that springeth from
the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and
beareths fruit in the actions. The virtue
of a man ought 10 be measured not by his
extraordinary exertions, but by his every
day conduct.
4 Minnesota exchange saws tllat "Peter
Butler. Of Cannon Falls, aged 80 years,
shocked eleven acres Of grain one day last
week" Some of these old farmers use pret-
ty hard language, when they once get start
ed.
They we're in a wood. Said he, looking
things unutterablc: " wish | were fern,
Gussie." "Why" she asked. " Why
praps-you would press me, too" She
evidently hated 10 do it, but it is best tOnip
such things in the bud, 80 sherepied Pm
afraid you're too green, Charlie Thepoor
boy almost blubbered.
The Turkish salam is better fitted for pan
falcons that are cut bias, or gored in the
seat.-.Neic OrleGRs PicGy'Die. Yes, we re-
member one man whose pantaloons were
cored in the scat The bull caught up with
him before he reached the fence.
One Of the maddest girls in town Is the
one " no has lust found out that it used 10
be fashionable among the ancients to stain
I their toe nall red. She had been working
I regularly twice a week TO get OF the cardi-
nal red, which came from her fancy stock
ings.
4 mouse-eating spider has been added TO
the London Geological sOciety's collection.
II can stretch itself ont to several inches, Is
as black a. q bear and as hairy, and as ugly
as nightmare. All Of which leads the
London Telegraph to ask: What conceiya-
bic system Of defences could avail humani-
ty against creation Of spiders as big as
sheep? They would float across the sea in