Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-02

| waves. 1t has crises and intermlsslons.
During the intermissions it is probably
not more trying than some pleasures are.
and except for the inactivity it enforces
believe / should rather likeit
Another phenomenon worth noting is
that have never felt in such extraortli-
narily good spirits as do now. | re-
member several weeks ago lamenting
my depressed and torpid state and pining
for some torch to kindle me into blaze.
The torch seems to have been applied.
This very night is my apogee. 1t was
no delnsion. can be great, as the future
will show All is well with me. And.
standing where do now. can under
stand all the obscurities and mistakes
and disappointments of the past can
see the path should have taken and the
points where strayed from it. How
strange and Imaginable is the human race,
voluntarily binding, gagging and fetter-
ing itself in the name of liberty and
civilization! The air breathe is not the
sluggish vapor of the earth. but the free
and mighty atmosphere of space.
We call men fools and liars. but it is
their cowardice that has most harmed
them Who has been free from coward
ice Of one kind or another? To be fear
! less at all points, yet without rashness. is
the beginning of wisdom and of power
Dare to know what you are and to be it;
! to know what you want and to do it.
4 Surely this is not much, and yet what
more is there?
4 Women have been at the bottom Of
I most Of the mischief In that way they
| have taken full revenge for tho out
ward tyranny of men. They have stolen
I courage and fortitude from the hearts Of
1 their masters Without them we could
not exist, yet by them we lose the noblest
spirit of life. But if woman be placed
where she belongs she will strengthen US
where now she makes us weak And Sim
j fire shall be placed where she belongs!
The security shall find in her will be the
keystone in my arch of strength
have lighted my lamp and closed the
shutters. 1t is dark night, but fair and
dry, and for summer night unusually
still. The crickets and tree toads are al
most silent Ever and anon hear theory
of whippoorwill 1t is 0 O'Clock The
burglar hunters are probably back by
this time, and perhaps the game is not
far off. Deuce take this foot of minel
would give more than can tell to be I'M
der the trees at this moment, or at least
| for IL few hours clairvoyance to see
through distance and darkness and know
all that is going on. Well, unless all signs
fail the storm will have come and gone
before long. Word is to be brought to
me as soon as anything happens.
What is Sinfre thinking of now? And
what is she doing? She does not seem far
Off The sympathy between us is no
fancy. We live one life. In time perhaps
we shall be aware of each others thoughts
and movements even at distance.
What a gulf night is between one day
and another. Sometimes it may mark
transition as great as between this life
and the next. The night that separates
the maiden from the woman, the wife
from the mother, innocence from guilt
is the distance between the body and the
spirit wi'.cr than these?
What will the morning bring forth?
Will it find me as | am now? Hardly.
Nothing will be as it is now-not even
the Creator of all. The veil of the future
is not SO impenetrable as has been main
tanned. Again and again has it become
transparent to certain eyes at certain
seasons Sickness and health, calamity
and joy, life and death, have been fore
seen and foretold, but one thing has
never been foretold, and that is the effect
Of new experience upon human
soul
Have | been asleep? fancy so. and
have had a strange dream. But it was
only dream Everything around me
is unchanged-my paper, my books, my
chair. my stool with my foot upon it.
But it is near morning Was it dream?
Has anything happened outside while
slept?
Some one is knocking at the door.
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