Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-12
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AALih II CdSISl Iudu INln0.
I, He who gives a trife meanly is
far meaner than the trihe.
If we seize too hastily, we may
have to drop as hastily.
Experience is torch lighted in
the ashes Of our delusions
Prosperity is blessing to the
good, but curse to the evil.
Better be upright with poverty
than be wicked with plenty.
Love is a thing of four letters.
yet sometimes in a breach of promise
case hundreds are produced
Many false things have more ap-
pearance of truth than things that be
most true. .-Lattmer.
Those who think, said Lord Der
by recently, that they have not time
for bodily exercise, will sooner or lat
er have to find time for illness.
William Wirt's letter to his daugh-
ter, on the ''small, sweet courtesies of
life. y contains a passage fran which
a great deal of happiness might be
learned IL want to tell you secret.
The way to make yourself pleasant to
others is to show them attention. The
whole world is like the miller at Mans
field, who cared for nobody-nu, not
he-because nobody cared for him.
And the whole world would serve you
so if you gave them the cause. Let
people see that you do care for them by
showing them what Sterne so happily
called the small courtesies, in which
there is no parade, whose voice is too
still to tease, and which manifest them
selves by tender and afectionate looks
and little acts of attention, giving 9th
ers the preference in every little en-
| ployment, at the table, in the field,
walking, sitting, and standing"
THE AUNT.-An aunt Is not to
be found on every bush. The igno-
rant may, perhaps, suppose shat the
quality of auntiness inheres in every
sister of a parent In form, possibly;
but in substance, not necessarily by
any means. An aunt is being who
can only exist for children. Grown
persons cannot (unless they are child
like) have real aunts. For those who
can, the aunt is a delightful parsonage,
who has all the merits of mother,
but in more exalted degree, and
none Of those defects Of harshness, dis
cipline, infiction, peremptoriness, and
the like, that so often and sadly mar
the natural sweetness of the flio-paren-
tai relation. The aunt, you see, can
permit, but not forbid. She is beati-
fed mother. And any person claim
ing to be an aunt, and falling short of
these attainments, is an impostor
old and Neao.
EXERCISE; AN ILLUSTRATION.
Two friends are in canoe in the
Mozambique Channel. A sudden flaw
of wind upset the boat. Before they
can right her, she fills with water, and
sinks; and the two men are swimming
for their lives. "Ah, we'll 10 says
one of them to the other, sit is a long
pull to the shnre; but the water is
warm, and we are strong. We will
hold by each other, and all will 90
well. :" "No," says his friend. Il
have lost my breath already: each
wave that strikes US knocks it from my
body. IF your reach the shore-and
God grant that you may tell my
wife I remembered her as I died.
Good by God bless you ~ and he is
gone. There is nothing his compan-
ion can do for him. For himself, all
he can do is to swim, and then float,
and rest himself, and breathe to
swim again, and then float, and rest
again-hour after hour, to swim and
float, swim and float, with that steady,
calm determination that he will 90
home that no binding spray shall
stife him, and no despair weaken him.
hour after hour, till at last the
palm-trees show distinct upon the
shore, and then the tall reeds, and
then the figures of animals VIII one
never feel bottom? Yes, at last his
foot touches the coral, and with that
touch he is safe.
That story that man told ME,
Now, what is the difference between
those two mon? Why does one give
up the contest at once, and resign him
self 10 what we cali bis fate, while the
other fights the circumstances for
hours, and wins the battle? On shin
board one was as strong as the other,
He was as brave. He was as prudent
as the other ssWhat if he was %
you say. Strength and bravery and
prudence are all needed in the crisis.
but something else was needed also,
The man never trained himself to
swim. He knew how to swim if
knowing a method were Of much use
where one has not trained himself to
the habit But that training he had
never given.
Take that as precise illustration,