Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-08-27
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Do that which is assigned you, and yoC
cannot hope toomlIeh or dare too much.
Giving fourteen ounces TO the pound the
weigh that some have to get rich.
He needs no other rosary whose thread Of
life is strung with beads of loye and ligsr
-apd lucre. ysi
1t is of more Importance that you should
make your children loving than that yop
should make them wise.
People who fish for compliments do not
need long lines They will get their best
bites in shallow water.
Tu.h. tash. my lassie such thoughts resign,
Comparisons arc cruel;
Fine pictures suit to frames as fine;
Consstoncy's n jewell srt l.ti,
Jolly Robin Roughtoad- l7N
"What is the meaning OF a backbrtcr {
asked a gentleman at Il Sunday school ex-
animation. This WAS puzzlcr. 1t went
down the class until it came TO simple ur.
chin who said Perhaps ifs q iea". y
Correspondents who desire to fight tho
battle of shiloh in the columns of this pa
per are respectfully requested TO shoot low,
so as to strike us somewhere about the
wastc-baskct
If General Butler should realize his dream
of being Governor of Massachusetts, the
I Chicago Times says, the old ladies of Beacon
street would 90 out and beg the Bunker liill
Monument to fall upon them.
PHYSICAL exercise in some systematic
manner is a duty we owe not merely to our
| bodies, but To our whole nature IL will
vitaize the blood, quicken the energies, give
| frmness to the nerves, and lay foundation
Upon which We may build wholesome and
/ successful life
I Pile thick the amaran;h and the myrtle DER
/ them
For whom our laureled banners flash and
flow
/ Ro-cs that love and pausics that deplore them,
( And lilies weeping from their hearts Of snow"
The wear and tear Of life comes chiefly
! from straining after the impossible. Ner'
/ yous excitement, alternating hopes and dis
appointments. unayaiing struggles, feyerish
anxieties. bitter iai,urcs-thesc are the
worst enemies of health and happiness, the
mos. fatal dcstrOyers Of peace and prOsperi-
/ ty They come for the most part from ia
/ king up needless burdens.
! Speaking ef ai5 ech.catioh Of journalists
( The New York Scr says: After the Har-
yard Or Yale honor-mgn has been taken by
/ the back Of the neck and kicked out Of
/ doors by the iratc statesman into whose po-
( lticsl methods he has been sent TO inquire,
aite- b. ms f,Ilcnint0 : sewer rs he russ
on his nay 90 q iire, and after he has writ
ten two-coumn account Of a great ocean
disaster on a sand-split in New jersey at J.
O'Clock IN 0 December mQrning, then the
college graduate becomes q some value in
American journalism. .,.y- >
a. yOurg Chesterfield Bat getting ito ,
rail~a7 carriage the 0iher eyeDiDg he turn
cd round 10 bid friend farewell. In do
ing 20 he happened % press the foot Of q
Young lady who WAS sitting next 10 the
door The damsel, COMPRISING her pretty
brow into aa aWo-inspiring frowD, ejacula.
ted. You clumsy wretch y Many men
would have lookel foolish and apologized,
bat Chesterfield vas equal to the occasion.
" My dear Young lads, he exclaimed you
should have feet large enough 10 be seen
{ and then thcy wouldn't be trodden upon.
, Her brow relaxed, her eyes sparkled, her
lips smiled, and tie injury was forgotten
D 80
. A Det-oit lawyer vas locking out Of bi'
window, when he recognized familiar fig
Z ure and made hurried preparations To va
cate his room, leaving on the desk card
bearing the legend:
r Gone over 10 Circuit Cogrt--be back il
two hour
lie VA rcarecly OFT II sight snen the in
diyidual seen from the v-irdov entered the
a room, rad the card, ard at once plante'
himself ina chair with the look Of maj
who meant to sit right there Tor twice tw'
hours If necessary. But it r'asH't nccessa
/, r.. lie left the room in about half al
! hour, and the owner hurried back 10 find
note reading: f,f
DEAR SIR came up this morning b
borrow s5 OF you 10 help me out on m
. board. You were not in, but one Of you
D clients has called and lefi $40 have re
"a ceipted for the money in your name, an
viii consider Il as q loan until see yo
again T-ta" ~ ~ - ~
D The lawyer wasn't over ten seconds real
zing that he could have sayed g by stayin
ar there and lending as much, and he WASH
Of any GOOD the ret Of the day.