Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-11-29

o;t- And the queen c'aspsd on the girls
wriss a mourning bracelet with l0;k OF her
mothers hair. All you young women tne
world around who mourn like sorrow, ana
sometimes in vourlonoliness and sorrow ana
loss burst out crying. "Mother. Mother.'
nut ON vour wrist this golden clasp OF divine
sympathy "As one whom his mother COM
forteth so will comfort you
Advice the fourth: Allow no time to pass
without Frightening some ones life Withn
aya minutes walk OF you there IS some one
In n tragedy ccmpared with which SnaK
sneara'g "KinQ Lear" or Victor Hugos
"Jean Vatican" has no power. 10 our gnu
hriohten somebody's life with cheering
word or smile or flower. Take good
book and read chapter to that bind man.
e. mn that DARK alley and make that In
valid woman laugh with some good story.
a. TO that house from which that child mas
been taken by death AMI tell the father and
mother what an escape the child has mao
from the winter Of earth into the sprlngttme OF
heaven. For Gcd's sake make some one happy
for ten minutes if for no longer time.
young woman bound on such MISSION
what might she not accomplish. Oh. there
are thousands OF these manufacturers OF
sunshine. They are "Klngs Daughters
whether inside or outside that delightful
organization. They do more goot before
they are twenty years OF age than selfish
women who live ninety. and they are so
happy lust because they make others happy.
Compare sucn a young women who feels sne
has such mission with one who lives a
round of vanities cardca9e In hand. calling
on people for whom she does not care eX-
cept for some social advantage. aud In
sufreraby bored when the call is re-
turned, and trying to look young after
she is old. and living life of insincerity
and hollowness and dramatizatiOn andsnam
Young woman, live to make others hHppy'
and you will be happy. Live for yourseit.
and you will be miserable. There never mas
been an exception to the rule; there never
will be an exception.
have noticed on many Of the railroads
that the porter will 90 around and light the
lamps while it is broad day light, AMI am
at first surprised, but / afterward find that
we are about to enter a tunnel, and its dark
ness is thus illuminate !. On. kindle light
for those who are plunging into financial or
domestic or spiritual midnight.
Advice the fifth: Plan out your lie on
big scale, whether you are farmers daugh-
ter, or a shepherdess among the hills, or tne
natterei pet of drawing room filled with
statuary aud pictures and bric-a-brac. Stop
where you are and make plan for your lie.
time. You cannot bs satisfied with lie Oh
friyoity and giggle and in1irectiOn Trust
the world. and it will cheat you if it does
not destroy you. The R9douOtable was the
name OF an enemy's ship that Lord Nelson
spared twice from demolition, but that same
ship afterwards sent the ball that killed him,
and the world on which You smile may aim
at you the dealliest weapon. Be Got's
woman. This moment make as mighty
change as did a college student of England.
He had neglected his studies. rioting at
night with dissipated companions and
sleeping in the classroom when he ought
to have been listening. A fellow student
came into his room one morning before the
young man am speaking Of had arisen from
mis- pillow and said to him: "PAley, you are
q foOI You are wasting your opportunities.
DO not throw away your life." Paley said:
II was so struck with what he said that Hay
iu bed until had formed my plaa for life.
ordered my ire to be always laid over night.
arose at five and read steai1ly all day. al
loted to each portion Of the day its proper
branch of study and became the senior
wrangler." What An hour that was when
resolution definitely placed changed a young
man from reckless and time wasting stud
ent to a consecrated man who stopped not
until all time and all eternity shall be debtor
to his pen and influenced
you will be and do. God helping. Write it
out in a plain hand, not like the letters
which Josephine received from Napoleon in
Italy. the writing so scrawling aud scattered
that it was sometimes taken aS a map Of the
seat of war. Put the plan on the wall OF
your room, or write it in the opening OF a
blank book, or put it where you will be
often to see it. A thousand
questions of your coming life you cannot
settle now, but there is one question you
can settle independent OF man, woman,
angel and devil, and that is that you will be
Gods woman now, henceforth and forever.
Clasp hands with the Almighty. Pythagoras
represented life by the letter Y, because 1t
early divides into TWO ways. Look out for
opportunities Of cheering, inspiring, rescu-
ing and saving all the people you can. Make
u league with the eternities. l seek your
present and everlasting safety. David
Brewster said that comet belonging TO our
system called LexeIIs comet is lost, as it
ought to have appeared thirteen times
and has not appeared at all. Alas. it is
not only the lost comes. but the lost
stars, aud what were considered fixed
stars Some OF the most brilliant and
steady souls have disappeared. The world
wonders at the charge Of the Light Brigade.
immortalized by TennysOu. Only few or
the 900 got Sack from the charge, under
Lord Cardigan. of the MuscOvlte guns, and
all the havoc was done in twenty-five min
ute., the charge beginning at ten minutes
past II O'Clock, and closing at thirty.tlye
minutes past II, and yet nothing left on tine
field bat dying and deal men, dying AMI
dead horses. But smaller proportion OF
the men aud women who q into the battle
of life come out unWounded. The slaughter
has been and will be terrific, aud we all need
God aud we neel Him now antwe need Him
all the time. Aud let me say there Is new
woman, as there is new man, and that ~
the regenerated woman made such by the
ransacking. Transforming, upbuil1ing, trl-
umphant power Of the spirit who is 50 su-
perior to all other spirits that He has been
called for ages the Holy Spirit Quicker
than wheel ever turned on its axis; quicker
than feetest hoof ever struck the pavement;
quicker than zgzag lightning ever dropped
down the sky, the ransoming power / speak
of will revolutionizs your entire nature.
Then you can start out on voyage OF life,
deiying both calm and cyclone, saying with
Dean Afford,
Oae who has known in storms to sail
| have Oh board;
Above the roaring of the gale
hear my Lord.
He holds me when the pillows smile;
I shall not fall;
If short It's sharp, if long It's light;
He tempers all.
A TOUCHING SCENE.
Cuban Insurgents Pay Tribute to Their
Prisoners ValOr.
Details have been received from Cienfue
gos, Cuba, regarding the release Of the six
teen Spanish soldiers who we're captured by
the insurgents in the engagement fought at
Tardio Ojo de Aqua. In that encounter
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