The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-05-11
NUMBER IS.
What BOOSTERS Say.

Probably it is as easy to hear differ
ent things the roosters sa Y as to trace
out different objects which the frost
pictures on the windows or the Goals
bnild in the FIRE. In her "Williani
Henry Letters" in Our Young Folks,
Mrs. Diaz thus reports the opinions Of
several boys on that topic:
First, Old Wonder Boy stood up, and
he said they crowed in the nosningto
tell people twas time to get up, and to
let everybody know they themselves
were up and stirring about. Said he'd
lain awake mornings, down in Jersey
and listened, and heard 'cm say, just
as plain as day, I'm mp and you ought
to, too! And you ought to, tool"
Then Bobby Short stood up, and
said he thought they were telling the
other ones to keep in their own yards,
and not to be flying over where they
did not belong. Said he'd lain awake
in the morning, and heard 'ein say, just
as ylain MS day, elf you do. I'll give it
to you-00- oO-OOw
But little chap, that shad come to
hear what was going on, said twas
more likely they were daring each 9th
err to come on and fight. For he'd lain
awake in the morning, and listened,
and heard 'em say, "Come on if you
dare, for can Whip you-oo- oo-oo!"
Then twas my turn; and I stood up
and said guessed the best Grower kept
a growing school, and was showing all
the young ones how to scale up and
down, same as the singing master did.
For 1 had lain awake in the morning,
and heard first the old crow, then the
little ones try to, and heard the old
ones say, just as plain as day, "Open
your mouth wide, and do as do! Do
as dol" And .hen the young ones
say, "Can't quite do sop Can't quite
do sol"
Derry said he was never wide awake
enough in the morning to hear what
any body snid, but he'd always under
stood they we've talking about, the
weather, and giving the hens their
orders for the day, telling which today
and which to set, and where the good
places were to steal nests, and where
there'd beed anything planted they
conld scratch up again, and how to
bring up their chickens, and to look
out and not hatch ducks eggs. OBJ
IDLE WORDs.-An idle Word: it has
passed from the lips of the speaker,
and is forgotten, but its influence still
lives. Little, did the thoughtless
speaker imagine that the careless word
SO lightly spoken would cause such
bitter sorrow; that months, nay years
afterward, in some moment when tho
heart is longing for human sympathy,
, it would be recalled, and cause many
silent tear to flow. The peddle sud-
denly thrown into the still waters, the
: placid lake, causes the ripples to widen
, and extend long after it has sunk from
sight. So with the idle word, it sinks
into our heart, but its influence may
! be felt in all our after lite. Kind and
e gentle words, they fall upon the heart
t like dew upon the earth, calling into
: life all the nobler impulses of our being
t Let us, then, strive to cultivate wha,
v Sterne calls the "sweet, small courte-
s sizes of life.n In the social circle, ani
: around the domestic hearth, let kind
K and gentle words be breathed,, Danish
e ing discord, and diffusing only light
a and love, and joy. Let the sorrowins
h and afflicted ones of earth be cheered
q and their pathway frightened. by pure
), words of sympathy and love. Wiz
); the thoughtless and the hayward from
]; the tangled paths of error, and poin
IS them to a higher and purer life
IS "Kind words can never die" Seattle
IS them invisibly on every hand, and Xix
d bread cast OH the water eye shall fint
l. it after many days." Let US be watch
!; ful that no careless words shall Civ
ID another pain, but let MS SO love tina
II when the golden links of friendship ar
r broken one by one, and our loved one
J. pass from sight, to the better shore, Q
e. the spirit land, we may not be sadden
t. ed by the memory of words unkindl.
re spoken.
!. WHAT DO WE LIVE FoR.-Life, a
: best, is Of short duration; and all th
- time held by a very slender tenure. !
: man to spend it simply to promot
~ his own selfish ends7 to make none
y to crafty his own senual appetites
% or to hoarc1 it up to be squandere
- after he is dead and in his grave b
. worthless 6iaeino rod sOus oud snns.iy