National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-05-01
Miscellaneous.
See that your charity never fails

D ing good is the only certainly
happy action Of a mans life.
Let us substitute friendship for
hatred and benevolencc for selfish
ness.
He that clothes the poor clothes
his o, a soul.
He that sweetens the cup of afi1ic.
ion sweetens his own heart.
The wise and virtuous are great
puzzles to the cunning.
He that buys what he does not
want, may want what he cannot
buy.
Inc grace which makes every 9th.
er grace amiable, is humility.
Not to forget our misfortunes is in
n manner to merit them.
Life may be elk. d out with pleas.
ure, but it must mainly be filed by
business.
Some one has beautifully said It
is better to SOW good heart with
kindness than field with corn, for
the hearts harvest is perpetual. =
If a man has q right to be proud
of anything, it is a good action with.
out any cold suggestions of interest
at the bottom Ot it.
Men are in proportion wicked, as
they are ignorant OF enviOus; and
the Only way of eluding their mis-.
chievous intentions, is to keep out
Of their way.
misunderstanding and inattention
create more uneasiness in the world
than deception and artifice, or at
leas: their consequences are more
universal.
We always fancy there is some
thing ridiculous about those senti.
ments which he ourselves have new
er felt-still more those which we
have ceased to feel.
Open your mouth but seldom, and
never but to the oint anu purpose;
shut it close when misjutlging friend.
ship holds the glass to your lips.
Henry Ward Beecher says :.--
"Life would be perpetual flea. hunt
if a man were obliged to run down
: all the inucndoes, inveracities, in.
situations and suspicious which are
uttered against him."
Five things are useless when they
are not acc Ompanied each by one
thing else: Words without deeds,
wealth without economy, learning
without geod manners, aims. giving
without charity, and life without
health.
| FoRGoT TO LOOK UP.-I have
somewhere seen the story of man
! who went ont one evening to steal
, corn from his neighbours field. He
took his little boy with him to sit on
. the fence to keep lookout, so as to
give warning in case any one should
! come along. The man jumped over
: the fence with bag on his back,
+ and before commencing to take the
: corn he looked all around, first one
| way and then the other, and then
: seeing no one, he was just about to
!. fll his bag. Then the little fellow,
his sOn-and good little fellow be
= was tOO-cried out
! "Father, there is one way you
+ haven't looked yet!'
G The father was startled and sup.
posed that some one was coming
He asked his son which way he
: meant.
! "Why," said the boy" you forgot
:. to look up"
e Tie father was conscience strick.
y en-; he came back over the fence,
IS took his little boy by the hand, and
a hurried keme without the corn which
% he had designed to take. The little
l. boy hail reminded him that the eyes
+. Of God were ap0n him.
r. "The eyes oR the ECrd are in cv'
cry place, beholdinc the evil and the
good"
+
If ASHES FOR FRUIT TREEs.-W
:. find the following In the last number
e. of the Wdtchmdm and Reflector ::
ID In your paper OF Jan. 3Oth saw
II an article from the Maine Farmer
of from subscriber, asking how he ma,
s remedy the bitter rot Ia his apples
m and what course he should pursue
rc to get good sound fruit.
pt Some ten years ago came into
g. possession ofa large farm on which
~ stood a large apple tree which was
Vi at that time about 60 years old, &C
n cording to the tradition OF the
t. fathers which bore a few bushels
10 of small, scurvy, bitter rot apples
r. every other year. Having read that
q. ashes was good for fruit trees, ]
) spread some FIVE or six bushels Oi
ii strong house ashes under tho tire,
., in the spring. That season tn,
r. fruit was nearly double that ee TN
n previous year; and the secs nd Sea
4. | gathered fifteen bushels Of smooth
sound apples from said tree. l
bears less fruit every other year -
/. hut have gathered not less thai
's fifteen bushels every alternate yea
Is since spread the ashes under tn
lc tree. l have used ashes rs o tor
lressing for iruit trees every yea
ainco. with vcrv n0aflv tho saulO e