The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-09-13
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keep step. He who can not. falls to
the rear, and is gradually left behind
as the army moves I'LL. B. Stowe
With every JOY connects the possibil-
ity of proportional pain. Surely love
if nothing else inclines the soul to feel
its helplessness and be prayerful, to
place it's treasures in Fathers hand.
p 1t is no disgrac not to be able to do
everything; but to undertake, or pre-
tend to do what you are not made for,
is not only shameful, but extremely
Troublesome and vexations. r Plut-
arch.
How often we feel and act as if our
mood were the atmosphere ofthe world.
It may be a cold frost within us while
our friend is in the glow of a summer sun.
set; and we call him unsympa,hetic
and, unfecling. George Macdonald.
Ignorance is not so bad as error; the
former is blank sheet on which We
may write; but the latter is scrubbed
one from which we must first erase
Ignorance is content to stand still; but
although error moves, it goes in the
wrong direction.
If we had keen vision and feeling Of
all ordinary human life, it would be
like hearing the grass grow and the
squirrels heart beat, and we should
die of that roar which lies on the 9th e,
side of silence. As it is, the quickest
of us walk about well wadded with
stupidity.-[George Eliot.
I think that to have known one good
old man-one man who, through the
chances and mischances of long life
has carried his heart in his hand, like
palm branch waving all discords into
peace-helps our faith in God, il
ourselves and each other more thar
many sermons.-[G. w. Curtis
1t is the grandeur of all truth which
can occupy a very high place in human
interest that it is never absolutel y move
to the meanest of minds; it exists ex
ternally 10y way of germ or laten'
principle in the lowest as well as tht
highe st, needing to be developed, bu'
never to be planted.-[De Quincy
1t is not great battles alone that built
the worlds history, nor great poem
alone that make the generations grow
There is a still small rain from beaver
that has IN orc to do with the blessed
ness of nature, and of human nature
than the mighticst earthquake or thu
loveliest rainbow.-[Geo. Macdonald
remember watching, last summer
spiders that burrowed in the crevice
of trellis, where the wind had borne
much dust. / noticed that the hole
where they lay lurking looked dark an.
I ugly I also noticed, as I sat one da.
watching vagrant spider take mornin,
glory in full blossom and spin his webove
the mouth of it. And there never wa
pretticr nest in the world-a mes
more richly gemmed with beauty-thar
his was. But after all it was the SAM
spider, whether he lay i'll the dark
hole at the corner of the trellis, or il
the BOSOM Of that exquisite flower.
Now, selishness may weave its web il
the dusky place, or in the hideous
looking recesses Of mans disposition,
or about the mouths Of gracess an,
sweet affections; but it is Tie sam
selfshness after all. The place is
changed, and the appearance of the
surroundings is chang ed, but the spider
is not changed.-[H. W. Beecher.
Senator Wilson says that he has II ever
known Grant to be under the infuenc,
of liquor. That is knownothing lie
Jim Wood, the ''reform'' senator, win
sold his vote to BOSS" Tweed, and wa
kicked out of the legislature for it, i
stamping in New York for Grant.
Henry Wilson's idea upon which he wa
elected to the United States Senate, i
to deprive all forcign-born citizens Of
the right to vote or hold Office.
No Democratic or liberal republican
newspaper in the United States, of an.
influence or character, supported thu
Louisville convention. The Grant ia
pers all supported it.
We sincerely hope that England vii
not pay us, before election, the amour
awarded by the Geneva arbitrators
Grant and his supporters would be SUR
to make away with every cent of it il
buying votes to help perpetuate tn
party.
1t is reported that when the pilgrim
fathers landed a, Plymouth Rock the,
held a council and appointed John A
Dix postmaster of the settlement, h,
having threatend to join the Indians i
he was not taken care Of. The repol,
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