The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-01-19

The SsceeteSt word IN our language IS
Love. The greatest word in our language
is God. The word expressing the short
est time. Now. The three making the
greatest and saceetest duty man can per-
form!
UNsELFIsH LOVE THE SOURCE OF
-Whene, er unselfsh love is
the handspring of mems actions; when
ever happiness is placed not on what We
gain for OURSELVES, but on what we eau
impart to others; whenever We place our
satisfaction in gratifying our fathers aud
mothers, our our brothers and sisters, our
wives and children. our neighbours aud
friends-Ye are sure to attain all the
happiness which the world can bestoY.
INDEPENDENT ACTIoN.-IIOW useless
it is to rely for happiness on 'the world !"
If you would pass through life in the
easiest possible way and manner, shrink
from nothing IN itself virtuous aud ra-
tional. Veuerate only that which is in
herently and changeIessly right. Re-
lease your minds from the trammcls Uf
cOnventionalism, and suffer no other re-
straint upon your acts than that Imposed
by consclence aud the Bible so will you
insure a sweet immunity from count
less petty cares aud annoyapces, acquire
an ever-increasing strength Of character,
and build on firm and durable basis that
inward respect for yourself which is in
calculably more to be valued than the
changeful approval of artificial people.
PARENTS AND CHILDREN-The joys
of parents are secret, and SO are their
griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one
and they will rot utter the other. Chill
dren sweeten !abors, but they make mis-
fortunes more bitter; they increase the
cares of life. but they mitigate the re-
memberance of death. The perpetnity by
generation is common to beasts; but MEM
ory, merit, and noble york are peculiar to
men. The difference in affection of par
ents towards their several children is
many times unequal. and sometimes un-
worthy, especially in the mother. Where
there is house full of children, man
shalH see some respected, aud some that
are almost forgotten, who may neverthe-
less prove the best The illiberality of
parents to their children ma kes them base
and frequently induces them to ASSOCIATE
with mean company. Let parents choose
betimeg the courses they mean their chill
dren should take, for then they are the
the most flexible. If the aptness Of chill
dren be extraordinary, thep'it is we'll not
to cross it.
A WoMAN's FRIENDsHTP.-It isa won
drous advantage to man, in every pur-
suit or vocation, to secure an adviser in
sensible woman. In woman there is at
once q subtle delicacy of fact, and plain
soupdness of Judgment, which arc rarely
combined to an equal degree in man. A
woman if she be really your friend, viii
have sensitive regard for your charac-
ter, honor, repute. She will seldom
counsel you to do a shabby thing, for
woman friend always desifes to be proud
Of you. At the same time her constitu-
Lional timidity makes her more cautious
than your male friend. She, therefore,
seldom counsels you to do an imprudeut
thing. A mans best female friend is q
wife Of good sense and heart, whom he
loves, and who loves him. But, snp,pooas,-
ing the man to be without such a help
mate, female friendship he must still
have, Of bis intellect win be without d
garden, and there will be many pp iun-
needed gap, even IN its strongest fence.
Better and safer, Of course, are such
friendships where disparity of years or
puts the idea of love out of
the question. Middle life has rarely this
advantage; youth and old age have. Wei
may have female friendships with those
much older, and those much Younger
than ourselves. Female friendship is to
! man the bulWark, sweetness, ornament
If his existence. -