The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-21
I Would Not Weep.

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/ may not have my way,
But rather as 1 go,
And all the long years know,
That may run on;
Would treasure every ray of light,
Would rather that no gloomy night,
Should ever come.
1 cannot bear the thoughtof pain,
1t crushes 50;
What strength can come of broken reeds?
Or what good seeds,
Take root in ice and snow?
Then help me kindly days,
That may watch thy ways,
Not all in vain.
So if l may not slip the chain,
My life be not all loss, but gain
In some small way;
And thy sweet spirit help me still,
Through heat and dust,
To labor all the toilsome day,
Nor once gainsay,
But to fulfill my trust.
Then when my weary feet,
No longer need to beat,
Upon the sod;
The stony path no longer plod;
My spirit shall go home to God,
Glad to be free.
Still knowing have tried to do
What seemed the best,
Then no regrets shall follow me,
Where may be,
To break my perfect rest.
Maud Meredith, in April Demores;.
CITY NEIGHBoRs.- Alexander
Mason, q well-known man about
town, particularly frequent loung-
about the Morton House, was COM
ing out of his residence few even
ings ago, when he met half dozen
friends whe were about to enter in a
body. They started back on seeing
him. He asked for an expla-
nation, and they read to him the
death notice of Alexander Mason at
a house just two doors away. And
it was not fictitious notice either.
But the strange part of it was utter
ly unknown to Mr. Mason. He had
been his neighbor for years, yet he
had never seen nor heard of him.
This incident shows how true it is
that in large cities like New York
one-half the inhabitants do not
knows how the other half live, nor
even where.-New York Tribune.
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Those who are really awake to the
sights and sounds which the process
sions of the months offer them find
endless entertainment and instruc-
ton. Yet there are great multitude
who are present at as many as three
score and ten performances, without
ever really looking at the scenery,
or listening to the music, or observ-
ing the chief actors in the great
drama.-O. w. Holmes.
Some sciolists have discovered a
short path to celebrity. Having
heard that it is vastly silly to believe
everything, they take it for granted
that it must be vastly wise to believe
nothing they therefore set up for
free-thinkers, though their only
stock in trade is that they are free
from thinking. 1t is not safe to con-
TENN them, nor very easy to con-
vince them, since no persons make
SO large demand against the rea-
sons of others, as those who have
none of their own just as a high
wayman will take greater liberties
with our purse, than our banker
Cotton.
In some who have run up to men
without education, we may observe
many great qualities darkened and
eclipsed; their minds are crusted
over, like diamond in the rock
H. FELTON,.
Education is safeguard of liber-
ty than IL standing army. If we
retrench the wages of the school
master, we must raise those of the
recruiting sergeant.-E. Everett.
Faith is an entire dependence up
on the truth, the power, the justice,
and the mercy of God which dep
endence will certainly incline us to
obey Him in all things.-swift.
By doing good with his money, a
man as it We're, stamps the image of
God upon it, and makes both pass
current in the merchandise of hea5-.
en.-Rev. E. Rutledge.
What we lack in natural abilities
may usually be made up by indus
try; dwarf may keep pace with a
giant if he will only move his legs
fast enough.-G. D. Prentice. 5
THE girl who hangs on the gate
with her sweetheart says she hopes
gas will not get to be cheaper than
moonlight.
"Poets are born" saws n writer