Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-08
Selections.

To whom you betrsy your secret you
betray your liberty.
Sorrows are like tempest clouds
when afar off they look black, but when
above us, scarcely gray.
Great talent renders a man famous
great merit, respect; great learning, es-
TEEN but good breeding alone insures
love and affection.
The best cosmetics are temperance
exercise and good temper. There is no
true beauty without these graces. The
hest purifier is coarse towel and soap
and water.
Never Lrife with sacred subjects
Always speak of God with eeriousness and
reverence. Never ridicule the devotions
Of simple mind.
The fact that men have misinterpret-
ed the Bible is no more argument against
it than the fact that men have misiuter-
preted Nature is an argument against q
true science.
Cards have bankrupted many for
eune and ruined many sOul. You will
find them in the drunkard's and the gam
Dleg's den-ever in the pockets of the
lowest and most degraded of our race.
If we would have powerful minds. we
must think; if we would have faithful
hearts, we must love; if we would have
strong mueciea, we must labor. These in
clude ali that is valuable in life.
He who has struck his colors TO the
p0wer of IN evil habit, has surrendered
himself to the power of an enemy, bound
by no articles of faith, and from whom be
can expect only the vilest treatment.
AS 3 chip .held by anchor looks as
though it were going out with the tide
! vet never Coca, SO some souls that seem
constantly TO be getting nearer TO Christ
| never come, because they are anchored
md held by some secret sin.
Fine peaches at sixty cents bushel al
Columbus, Ga.
Every man, woman and child has the
power to give, however poor they may be
| Kind words and pleasant smiles will often
make glad the sorrOwing heart the want
IF them has often driven many boy and
girl to utter despair. Sympathy or kind.
cess costa only an effort OF the will, and
1t prevents evil deeds.
"A man who is young in years may bt
I'D in hours, if be has lost no time; but
that hsppeneth rarely. Generally, youth
il like the first cogitatstions, not so wist
s the second; for there is youth in mind
as well Is in age; and yet the invention
IT young men is more lively than that Of
| I'D, and imaginations stream into THEN
minds better, and, as it were, more di
vinely.
There is nothing that clings so per
rinaciou-ly to an individual rs habits &C
CURED in early youth. The boy who
lounges away his evenings on the corner
IN the lager beer saloon, or in idle or IN
profitable conversation, is laying up for
himself score of misery which will
plague him for the rest of his life, and
| the youth who at eighteen makes the hu.
Initiating confession that he is already SC
completely the slave of tobacco or ardent
spirits that he cannot give them up, is tc
be regarded with pity. Good habits &C.
quired in early life are just as lasting as
bad ones. The young man who spends
his evenings at home in pleasant and
profitable study, or in the company OF
those from whose associations he will
learn only that which is good and emo.
.oling, must have depraved heart and
taste if be does not become good and
useful man. Such thoughts as these
should be popdered well by the young
men of the present generation, so many
of whom are wasting precious moments
and hours IN more than proftless pursuits.