Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-10-30
Rrevitics.

IN our adVerSlty II rs night with us,
and in the night many beasts of prey
range abroad that keep their dcns through
the day,
/ ACCEPT what il good, no matter from
what source. Elias would have been n
tool to refuse his food because raven
brought it to him.
/ DIsnoNEsrY requires skill to conduc, il.
and as great art to coGceal--what It's ey.
cry ones interest to detect.
/ y BREATH goes from :he preacher, and
sound comes to the hearer, and that's
generally the end of the matter.
The flowers that breathe the sweetest
perfume into our hearts, bloom upon the
:od with which Providence chastises MS.
Ir is by troubles Heaven drags us to it.
self II you wouldn't have trouble don't
wait to be dragged.
KEEP your body sound as wine savors
Of the c",k it is kept in, the soul receives
a ;incture from the frame through which
it works.
MEN OF some vocations are usually un-
dersize1. The most strapping fellows in
community are the schoolmasters.
y young lady who was perfectly thun.
der-struCk at hearing of ber fiiend's en-
SaGement, has since been provided with
a Lightning rod.
USsocTAL old Snall says that love is a
combination Of di,eases-an affection of
the heart and an inflammation of the brain.
Ir i, said that if you stop up rat t.holes
with old search warrants, every knowing
rat will leave the prcmisis.
Why cannot the Emperor Napoleon
insure his life ? Recausc no one can be
found who can make out his policy,
IF you can't get the fish to bite, try
your persuasive powers upon a cross dog,
and you will be sure 70 succeed
II those oil giants, who essay to cap
ture heaven by hcaring hills on hills. had
gone to work by heaping prayers upon
prayers, they would have succeeded.
BY Christian calmness we can protect
ourselves from the heats that wither and
the storms that chill; thus being our own
umbrellas and our own suns.
You may wish to get wife without
failing; uut what if the lady, after you
find her, happens to be in want Of hus.
band Of the same character
Girls sometimes put their lips ont
pouting!y because they are angry, and
sometimes because their lips are disposed
to meet yours half way.
Be what you are. This is the first step
towards becoming better than you are.
lr we live according to nature we can
never be poor ii according to opinion,
we can never be rich.
AIN to be in all things acceptable to
God, and you need trouble yourself but
little about the opinion Of man.
HEAyEN is on the side of virtue for
whoever breads punishment suf. it, and
whoever deserves it breads it.
NHEN men, by age, fail in sight and
hearing, they had better console them
selves with the thought that they have
seen AMI hearl quite enough.
Con said. "let Us make man in our i'm
age" This Is beautiful; bat it is sad work
when man says, "let US make God in our
image"
WISDOM is an ocean that has no shore,
its prospect is not terminated by an hori-
zon its center is everywhere, and its
circumference nowhere.
81 don't care so much about the bugs"
said Mr.. Wormly to his laudlady, "but
the fact is, marin, Aain't got the blood
to spare; you can see that yourself
To do to others as we would have them
do to u, is simply justice, tho we fancy
it vast beneyolence. Hence Confusius'
great maxim; Humanity is the equity
OF the heart"
CONE might have heard a pin fall is
rroverbial expression of silence; but it
has been eclipsel by the French phrase,
You might have heard the unfolding of
a lady's pocket handkerchief.
a Pennsylvania editor says, some
body brought a bottle of sour water into
our office, with a request 20 notice it as
lemon beer, Ii Esau was green enough
to sell his birth right for mess Of pot
tagc it does not prove that we will tell a
four shilling lie for five cents