Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-05-30
Fools as Rulers.

And we call it, now, Old Times
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b Fools as Rulers.
Fools may be useful as ballast, but very
inconvenfent when their weight is placed
in more exalted positions In fact there
is good deal of reason for holding that
brains are more important than virtue in
high positions. In private life it is proba-
bly, true, according to sundry respectable
aphorisms. that virtue on the whole is a
good thing even in this life but virtue,
when it takes the common form of wrong
headed consciousness, is highly OBJ
jectionable popularity in rulers A man
of frst-rate ability generally does more
good than harm as ruler, because it is
obviously his interest to make things work
well, and to get rid of his obsolete ma
chinery. Even when his personal motives
are bad, as Caesar or Napoleon has sin
cere respect for facts, and tendency to
demolisE fctions /; whereas ruler with a
strong conscience and an inferior brain is
the most likely of all men to iustifya rev.
olution. Hence the use of fools has very
defined limits, and we need never be afraid
that the supply will not be quite equal to
the demand.
The Louisville Courier contains the fol-
lowing item:
General Stonewall Jackson's colored
nurse died III Jackson, Madison county,
Tennessee, on the 30th day of April, 1867.
atithe advanced age Of one hundred and
thirteen years, nine months and twelve
days. She was a slave in the jackson
family from early life until about twenty
five years ago, when the General set her
free. Shortly after being liberated. she
moved to Madison county, Tennessee, to
live with some relatives, and remained I'M
til the time Of her death.
LEvIrY.-Punch illustrates .sunbecom-
ing levity" by presenting wood cut of
the scene in a church wherein a crowd of
spectators are awaiting the arrival Of a
wedding party. To the scene is appended
this dialogue by way of a glossary Flair
Young Lady-.tI see some one in the
crowd outside waving hankerchief.
suppose the bride is approaching Light
Young Man-''Hankerchief? White one I?
By Jove. perhaps its a reprieve p
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The credit system has been carried to a
pretty fine point in some Of the rural dis
tricts, if we may judge from the following
dialogue, said to have recently occurred
between customer and the proprietor
e"Haow's trade. square!"
"Wall, cash trades kinder dull naow.
major"
dun anything terday p
"Wal, only a leetle-on credit. Aunt
Betsy Pushard has bort an eggs worth of
tea, and got trusted for it 'siIl her speckicd
pullet lays"
An old lady and her son five years old,
were gathering scraps of iron wherewi5h
to procure their daily bread. Ola lazy
sat down on rock to rest. PREDICTIONS
boy exclaims: '.Mamnns go to work =
| can't support the whole family"
The following advertisement appeared
in the columns of Western paper:
Lost, by poor lad tied up in br, WI
paper, with white string, a Gerlnan flute
in an oyercoat, and several other articles
ofwearing apparel"
A drunken fellow, sitting on the steps
Of a church in Boston, the cold wind blow
ing chillingly round the corner: IF Heav-
en- (hic) tempers the wind to the CHEZ
shorn lamb, I wish the land (hic) was on
this corner"
An aunty-gnated Ethiopian dame once
sapiently remarked, Use hearn a heap Oh
talk bout gibbin all we darkeys Bureau,
but bless your soul, honey, l amt seed
chen washstan' yit.'
The man that forgets good deal that
has happened had better memory than he
who remembers great deal that never
happened.
A countryman said tina. Eve must have
been lame. "Why do you think she was
lame 2" I asked. Because she carried a
cain"
The recent marriage of Mr.. Day with
Miss Field presents this singular anomaly,
that although he gained the field, she won
the day.
bob. how is your sweetheart getting
along ?" pretty well, reckon. She says
! needn't call any more"
Punch says that woman first reserted to
tight lacing to prove to men how well they
could bear tight squeezing.
To have tarts for tea. let your.wife see
you kiss the waiting maid.
In great prosperity. as well as in great
calamity, we should look into our hearte.