Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-10-14

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decided to put up in the library Instead
of in the bedroom up stairs. partly be-
cause it is more cheerful and partly be
cause can have access to Saprani i'll the
laboratory adjoining. The gout. like ev'
erything else in the universe. comes in
waves. 1t has crises and intermissions.
During the intermissions 1t is probably
not more trying than some pleasures are.
and except for the inactivity it enforces
| believe | should rather like it
Another phenomenon worth noting is
that have never felt in such extraOrdi-
narily good spirits as |. do now. | re-
member several weeks ago lamenting
my depressed and torpid state ana pining
for some torch to hindle me into Il blaze
The torch seems to have been applied
This very night is my aposee. II was
no delusion. 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 laughable 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 anotherY 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 belt.
to know what you want and to do it.
Surely this is not much. and yet what
more is there?
Women have been at the bottom Of
most of the mischief In that way they
have taken full revenge for the out
ward tyranny Of men. They have stolen
courage and fortitude from the hearts of
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 - strengthen US
where now she makes us weak. And Sin
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 the ecry
of whippoorwill. 1t is 8 o'clock. The
burglar hunters are probably back by
this time, and perhaps the game is not
far of. Deuce take this foot of mine! |
would give more than can tell to be I'M
der the trees at this moment. or at least
for a 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 Sinfire thinking of nowS 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 ut distance.
What gulf night Is between one day
and another. Sometimes it may mark
transition as great as between this life
and the next. The hight that separates
the maiden from the woman, the wife
from the mother, innocence from guilt
is the distance between the body and the
spirit wider than these?.
What will the morning bring forth
Will it find me as | am nowl Hardly
Nothing will be a. II 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