The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-05
rROTwOOD's MISCELLANY.

rROTWOOD'S MISCELLANY.
There is often time in the deep still
ness of night when ono wakes with
start and n sense of impending danger
The world is hushed; the very air is
asleep, and the moon beams play, like
nGIseless ghosts, upon the chamber
floor. The world is still, your heart
beats low and quiet, not sound IL
heard, not beiEg is awake but your
soul and yourself; and you find your
conscience sitting IN solemn judgment
on your actsl How strange it is that
this small voice should never sleep!
Even i'm your dreams it tells YOU which
are right and which are wrong. And
now il appears to have walked you, that
it may sit in solemn judgment on your
acts, while all is still, and no Sne to
listen or Interfere or change the sol
emn proceedings of it's tribunal. All,
how little then becomes your Widest
schemes of wealth or glory or honor or
famel How less than little becomes
your flashes of passion, or frets OF daily
annoyance, or vain clamorings for
imaginary rights, or chickering's Tor
self; how pigmy-like become even the
low good deeds or unseltish acts you
have done compared with the solid
mountains of those across whose rugged
sidos you might write: "My mountains
of good intentions." You shut your
eyes and turn over OH your side, only
to face again the clear, painful silence,
the calm, still inexOrable judge, the
deep reality of life and the deeper re-
ality of death! And as this thought
comes, like an executiOner, you wonder
how such common things as selfish
ness and power and money and glory
and fashion and folly ever entered your
life!
Thon it is that you see life as IL is,
shOrn OF every folly and fslso idea, but
a plaything which you have toyed with
Hs a child its doll. Then 1t ~ that you
SIC your soul as it is-nO longer do you
doubt it, no longer do you wonder 1t
you have it-fOr it cuts you as . keen
razor in the hands of q child. Then,
ali! then, you see death AZ it is-its GER
tainty: its eternal cAlmness and still
ness, its hushing OF all earthly vanities
and sllencing of all earthly cOneeits-
and it shows you yourself as you area
of foam On the crest of the billOw; y
speck of clay among planets and suns
and again you, u,exclAim "Wh hat am that
1 should laugh at EnOthers weaknesST'
An, "conscienco doth make towards Oi
us ALL"
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s'There IL no death; an angel form
Walks DER the earth With silent tread
He benrs our beloved away
And then we call them dead"
The sun rises In the East Rnd sets in
glowing splendOr in West; he thus
drops sand grain from the Infinite
glass of Time and marks a socnn.i an the
dial of the Present. But not M with us
If we do not good, nor think not noble
thoughts, nor make not tho world bettol
by some act during that time from suI
to sun, we might we'll have never OK
listed 80 far as Time is concerned.
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"Sleep soldIersl stIIl in honor rest
Your truth and ValOr wearing:
The bravest are the tende rest
The loving are the daring"
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God, IN giving every man life, gave
every man something to do; and h'
who wastes that life in illness or passe
IL away in wrong doing has merely re
fused to accept Gods greatest gift t
man.
'Bravo thy men and true thy women:
Better this than corn aud wine
Keep us worthy, God In Heaven,
Ofthis gOOdly land of Thinel
Hearts as open as our door ways,
Liberal hands AMI spirits free;
Alabamal Alabama!
We will aye be true to thee"
4**
Looking at it with mortal eyes hoV
unfortunate was the death of Percy
= Bysshe Shelley! The man who cOulC
write "The Skylark" before he wa
thirty could have written for the god
themselves at fifty
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"a thief broke INTO Mr.. Stearns hOus
last night" says the n. Y. Recorder, "bu
while attempting to reach the silve
fell over the hired girl who was sleePin
on pallet i'm the dinning room am
she alarmed the household"
This was bad on the thief, but strik
ing illustration of owen Meredith's ia
NOUS lines-"We but grasp AT tn
shadow of the thing We would be and faI
back in the lap of false destiny"
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Ir.. Logan is said to be the histori
"a WSnlan who drank out of a finger bow
10 save the feelings of an embaTrasse
guest from POdunk, and tho statemen
iftrue, proves tie claim of her friend
that she is the most courteous woma
in Washington. No such sacrifice
poIiteness has been made since LoT
chesterfield drank without wincin
and with words of praise on his lip
the glass of vinegar that n thievish bu
Ter had substituted for the prime Ol
vintage tho host intended to set befol
his expectant guests.-DetrOit Fr'
Press.
@Some Chinese razOrs are made
horseshoes," says the Philadelph
Record. Well, that explains why v
never heard of Chinaman shaving.
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We trust that the newspapers will n
use it as an argument that a wOms
cannot keep a secret, because she i
sists on wearing her suspenders on Il
outside.
It looks like things work paradoxie
So this toe-stamplng world of oaFSi {
while We nOY Aavs thS best weath