The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-05-15
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ebhoaA lhoSr VI luul lOf Il mai
to be always ready to meet trouble hall
way. IL he would put all the journey
on trouble hemight never meet 1t at all
Faith makes a Christian, life proves
hmm, trials confirm him and death
crowns him. There are many who
want the crown Mt the beginning, rath-
er than at the end Of their journey.
You may praise a man 10 the skies
and you cannot make all the people like
him; so you may exhaust the whole list
OF o~pprobrious epithets in abusing him
and you cannot make all the people hate
him.
Everything in nature INDUCES in
amusement. Tho lightning plays, the
wind whistles, the thunder rolls, the
snow flies, the waves leap and the fields
smile. Even the buds shoot and the
rivers and streams run.
How often the whole current OF a
life Is changed by some apparently triy-
ial act or incident. The error Of a
moment may become the sorrow OF a
lifetime, or the fortuitous circumstances
or the word fifty spoken lead from pow
erty to wealthy, from d!shonor to glory.
Prof. Swing, OF Chicago. says san
ideal woman infinitely sweet and sweet
ly infinite is gradually coming m"
Chicago mast be a city Of decidedly
pure morals II such an angelic creature
has made her appearance there. Can't
the professor send her along this way
on n trial trip?
The devil. says one OF our religious
exchanges, was in the ancient Baal,
AMI we are ready to believe he has sim
ply changed his photography a tribe,
and now makes 1t Ball. Baseball, char
ity ball, masked ball. ball, ball, BAH
It Is very evident that the editor has
been sighted at a ball.
Mamma seeks to console her crying
child, and asks Johnnie what has hurt
him. jennie bawls more Justify than
ever, and tells mamma that yesterday
he fell down and hurt himself. YES
terdayl" says the fond parent. ''Tben
why do you cry today "Oh! because
you were not at home yesterday"
Col. Ingersoll's last lecture is entitled
"What Shall l Do to be Saved?" We
give IL up, rs TO Bob; but at n venture
we should say that charging the people
n dollar a head for telling them that
they have nothing about them that Is
worth saving, is not the best way cal
culated 10 obtain the end in view, or TO
answer the query.
Qnietness is often strength; silence
wisdom. The swift stream is not
always powerful, nor tho noisy one the
deepest. Thus it Is in life; the man OF
moral strength can afford TO be patient.
job could wait for his vindication and
come out OF his ordeal purified like
fine gold, an example for the world, OF
patience under suffering and bcreave-
ment. Can you?
Some ones poetic fancy has likened
courtship to the egg froth and marriage
to the custard of the floating island Of
life. But too often in life, as in con
fectionery, egg froth is the unsubstan-
tial all Of 1t. Courtship must be rather
a grave affair with those lovers who, in
tho starlight Of these nights, talk over
their future prospects within sight and
sound Of Cypress Hills cemetery.
II this earthly iifa were NIL.
Then our spirits were In thrall:
Hut there Is another home.
Aud VIC nearer IL emu,
Where Is 10 much sacred leisure,
We shall not know passing pleasure;
Everything viii grow and last,
Only grief and sin be past;
Walt awhile.
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