The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-27

afterward to regulate the governments,
and it has been somewhere pithily put,
1.-The mill-streams that turn the clappers OF
the world, arise In solitary Places How
important, then, that the controlling power,
the power behind the throne, should be
pure and clear. In the yerv tenderness OF
your natures lies the strength OF your in
tluence. Have you never noticed how the
gentle breeze fans into tlutter the leaves OF
the stoutest OAK Just so 1t is with your
voices. your manners, your faces; they can
sgitate into tremor the toughest man, or
soothe to silken softness the feelings OF his
rutiled moments. You can fling
showers OF sunshine about his stormy ma
ture and mll his roarings into
quiet by the gentle patting of your velvet
fingers and the arch inionations of your
musical methods. Like the mother of the
Gracchi, you can urge him into war, or like
the mother OF Coriolanus, you can make
him to Law down his weapons even al his
own sacrifice; or, more, you can equip and
encourage him with all that is needed to
sail through the voyage OF life after the
manner of Isabella toward Columbus. How
cautious and now careful, therefore, ought
you to be in the little first things of lie
nave been speaking of, in the discharge of
early duties and in the forming of charac-
ter.
And while | would not see withdrawn
from you, or abridged, one right, liberty,
privilege, or pleasure tending TO your ele-
va'ion, yet, desiring to deal frankly with
you, will say that there is one caution
would give, and that is, for more rigid OBJ
servance OF
THE PROPERTIES OF SOCIAL LIFE
than seems to obtain as u rule at this day,
Watch these prophecies from their incipi-
ency. and guard with resolute will against
the first insinuating approaches toward
their transgression. There is no other
course by which you may steer clear from
danger And for lack of this thousands
glide by degrees almost unconsciously,
drift into the eddies and the rapids
and at last by one fatal plunge 20
hopelessly into the boiling vortex
| warn you to beware OF the honey of the
fascinating stranger, and never to be en-
ticed by the promicing sweets, lest You find
at the bottom the poisonous bitter From
impure air we contract diseases before we
are aware of it. Let your friendships be as
strong as you please, but let all intimacies
be few lest the Trojan horse entrap you ere
you know it. Always remember that it is
the beginnings" that tell, and that noun
tains, whether they be of rocks or of ice, or
OF virtue, are disntegrated and destroyed
not by ole sudden effort, but by q deliber.
ate piecemeal operation under the cunning
hand Of the skilltul manipulation. Don't
guess at characters and launch upon the
uncertain sea of experimentation with a
seeming gallantry that supposedly lies in |
the curled hair, the flashing garments and
the iattering phrases, lest the sparkling
eye of unsnspectlng innocence, and the
coral lip and the roseleaf blush and the
gay, light-hearted songs of happy maiden
hood be turned all too quickly to the dreary
and the dark as dry sorrow drinks the
Jlood." There is
AN EASTERN LEGEND
that runneth about thus: The ice king
built for himself one night palace OF ice
which he intended for his bride. 1t was
the embodiment of chasteness with
itsl towers. and its spires, its para
appeared the paradise of purity.
The sun.god arose and became enamored Of
its enchanting loneliness. He wood it all
the day, and around and about it spread
his warm embraces, warming further AS the
hours progressed and the resistance grew
feebler. He smiled upon it with rainbow
rays until it seemed ablsze in glory and
glOwed in an hundred hues as il studded
with sapphires, and tvrquoises and jasper
and rubies, and scores OF sparkling stars.
Warmed by his melting inf uenCe, the fairy
palace feeling pleased by the close atten.
tons, yielded to the softenne nsnuations.
Then alas, one by one its beauties fell,
as the spoler sapped them. Its
spires, its towers, its parapets, its walls
its pillars, all melted away, and they
trickled off, as If ashamed and in disgrace,
into rivulets and pools, coming into con.
tact with all manner of dirt and rubbish.
And this was all that was lett at sunset OF
structure that was meant in the morning to
DO an unblemished bride. The legend sug-
gests its own lesson. | tell you, my iair
friends. that the draft that maidenly mod
esty draws upon esteem is one that is al.
ways hOnored. The Investment that it |
makes in the stock of genuine manhood |
brings to 1t the surest, best returns. And | |
care not where that modesty
may hold its residence, whether in the per.
,umed parlOrs of the wealthy or at the |
humble hearthstone of the poor man,
whether at the counting house desk or in |
the railroad car, whether In the ballroom
or III the seamstress' shop, on the street or |
at the opera-house, men respect it every
where, while they sneer at the Stiffness of |
the female that let's the bars o, due discre- |
ton down under the formers insincere ap |
peals and false reasonings. This is another |
of those little things" that beget such |
great results. Let us hope that these pu. |
pills OF this Longview seminary of learning |
fully comprehend the value of all these |
modest things that we daily come in con |
tact with In life's commoner duties and that |
they will not overlook them in their efforts |
to hitch the wagon TO the stars
CastOria.