Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-07-25
RVEVITIES.

Sunshine and the cloud that make the
rainbow.
lr is not known at what season OF tho
year our first parents were placeu iu
Idon but they went out in "the Fall
HARSH words are like hailstones in sum-
r,er. which, if meltel, would fertilize
the tender plants they batter down.
The superAuous blossoms on fruit
free are meant to symbolic the large way
Ia which c. loves to do pleasant things.
Oxn of the uses Of friends is that they
can say of us with prcpiiety what we con-
not with dolicacy say of ourselves.
WHArve take to be our recognition of
another's merit is often only recogni-
ton of what appears to be his recognition
Of ours.
\ vine bears grapes, the first Of pleas
irc, the second of intoXication, the third
Of repentance.
THERE may be such a blight on the
face Of the earth as fatal depravity; but
never total inability to do good.
Is the heat Of excitement we are apt to
say and do many things which in our
cooler moments, we as readily regret.
4 being, no matter how low fallen in
the scale of mortality, may often be re-
'eemed by a single word of kindness.
LITTLE men sometimes make the most
noiso in the world but, like little dogs,
they rarely ever do any harm.
How IS it possible for man to get
Deastly drunk, as the saying is, when the
beast having more sense than men, gets
drunk not at all =:
MEN who seek to beautfy their own
characters by spotting the characters of
others, generally come ont the worst
spotted themselves.
Lucy Stone says: "The cradle is
woman's ballot box" Then we've
known some unlawful voting, where two
ballots were deposited at a time.
A dog is counted mad when he won't
take something to drink" and man
sane.
\ fnancier remains respectable with
u fortune that don't belong to him, while
n beggar becomes q criminal for purloin-
ing piece Of meat.
To live peaceful and happy life be
honest and true to yourself and to your
God.
SOME men grow virtueous only as they
grow old, offering up the less of life to
their creator.
YoUTH creeps into manhood, and furi-
ously leaps into old age.
A man who is affected with to much
industry, is like clock that always runs
itself down.
BEWARE ofjudging hastily; it is better
to suspend an opinion than to retract an
assertion.
WHcn will you do--smile and make
your household happy? or frown ard
make them wretched
AFFECTIONS are the same to the soul
as the plough to the falow ground, the
pruning knife to the vino, and the fur
mace to the gold.
THERE are many things that are thorns
to our hopes until We have attended them,
and envenomed arrows to our hearts
when we have.
PIoTuRE Of despair--a poor pig with
its nose through the garden fence, almost
touching cabbage stalk.
a physician of Cincinnati, who had
lost his mornings milk from the front
area. recently put an emetic into the
pitcher, and the next morning discovered
a policeman IA little distance from his
house making his "returns."
A Western Editor, in answer to
complaint of a patron that he hid not
give news enough, advised him, when
news were scarce. to read the Bible,
Which he had no doubt, wonld be "new"
20 him.
"I'ms is what they call fellow feeling
for man." said a lofer, as watchman
was groping for him in the dark
a county editor, speaking of spirit
ualism, says: 1--WE don't believe in
in any medium except the Circulating
medium" and that has become so scarce
th"t our pelle' III that Is AMAZING
IN 1850 the Free States raised 2I3, Off,
S33 bushels Of corn. and tho Slave States
lS,992,27O bushels. IL will be hard for
Lincoln to "starve out" the South at this
rate.
Henry WARD BEEoHER says, "if the
North now turns it's back on the cause of
the slave, for ono shall turn my back
on the North" We hope no won't do
that, for we have an idea that like kick.
ing old horse. or foul gun, he may be
more dangerous at the breach than at
the muzzle
Perry Davis, of Pain Killer" notorie
ty' was seriously injured by being thrown
from his carriage, near Bristol Ferry, r.
l., recently,
Two applications Of his pain killer re-
lievcd the carriage at once bet Perry had
TO go to bed
TUE Cleveland Plaindealer, comparing
the staple products of the South and
West, says: Cotton is u convenience,
but corn is necessity. a man can live
without shirt, but what can he do with
out whiskey ?"