Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-02
Jottings.
BY NOTHING ELSE To DO,

Could we look into the human heart and see
the motor springs of human corduct-could
we know the influences ard appliances which
have Undue, tive should sometimes approve,
and often excuse, where we now condemn and
condemn where we now approve
The chain OF causation has no missing link.
Every fact is a consequence of an infinity of
antecedent causes, and cause of an infinity
of consequences which are to follow.
Ego, I, myself-Egotism:-T most unen-
riable of ali jSDas Ii is impossible to admire,
and difficult even to respect, the man or The
woman who is always Haunting in your face
the pronoun T. spoken in italics. Even gerius
itself cannot charm if its possessor is cgotist.
Even SO great a man as Basccm denies the
dural revolution of the earth, and seriously
suggests as a subject worthy of inquiry, wheth
er, since the centre of the earth is the centre of
gravity, the concave of the sky is not the bound
of levity.
Honesty, everybody says, is ''the best pol
cy," and as it is surely best in morals, where
does the rogue find his reason? Man is said
to be rational being yet it would be hard to
find plausible pretext for crime. Suppose the
Grim inal is not overtaken by the law, he connot
escape the Furies who torture even in this life
sometimes into open confession, and always
into misery. Ignorant and short sighted policy,
indeed is crime. It's consequr noes, enc would
think, should frighten even villain to virtue.
AS sledging gives muscle to the bldcksmiihs
arm, so thinking increases the power to think
He who masters cne subject gains in mental
capacity and is, therefore, the more able to
grapple with another, ard more difficult one.
The mind as well as the body needs its gymna-
sa Each faculty should be developed to its
appropriate power, and the whole mind pre-
served in symmetry.
SOCIAL PosITIox-It is conscious want of
merit which creates this everlasting wiiygle
about social position, A really worthy pc son
has no fears of losing his place in the social
SCALE Why should we be afraid to associate
with our interiors? Possibly we may benefit
them possibly they may benefit US.
If we may not associate with our interiors,
our superioEs for rs good reason may refuse
our society. If there is really to be a social
caste, there is no grade in the scale to which
the reasons for it do not equally apply, and
every one in his efforts to poise himself proper
ly in the social scale, will be forever looking
down OF those below MIN and up to those a.
bove him-thus cutiyating superciliousness on
the one hand and cringing sycophancy on the
other-two of the meanest of human weaknesses.
But who are ourinferiors and who our supe
riurs? Pronounce not too hastily. The man
who blacks your boots may. in some respects
be your superior, while you are probably the
superior of the yaricst cOdocrat of society,"
Your bootbIack may know many things which
you know not, and feel strongly where you are
weak.
As there are no two objects in nature precise
ly alike so weighed in the scale of moral worth.
there are absolutely no equals. But small par
ticlcs of gold are as pure as great mass and
every whit as respectable.
If superciliousness were eyer justifable,
can think of but one class of persons over
whom we are excusable for assuming airs of su-
perioriiy, and that is the very class who aiiecl
this silly spirit of aristocracy. They are gen-
orally persons of little education and less nat
ural sense, sometimes possessing, but more ile-
ouently affecting wealth but like oad COINS
generally, the gold is all on the surface
Receipt FOR HArPIN; SIT is simple
When YOU rise in the morning. loim resoiu-
ton to make the day happy one 10 fellow
creature. II is easily done. Aleft off garment
,o a man who needs it a kind word to the sor-
rowtul; SD encouraging expression to the starv-
ing-triffes in themselves as light as air-wlii
do it, at least tEenty-four hours and if you
are young, depend upon it, it will tell when you
are old and if you are old, rest assured it will
send you down the stream Of Time to eternity.
Look at the result: You send one person-only
one, happy thought the. day that Is three
hundred and siIty-Gve in the course OF inc
year-supposing you live forty years only ai'er
you commence this course, you have mace
fourteen thousand six hundred human Delngs
hannv Mt all events for time. Now, worthy