Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-09-19
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The less men think the more they talk.
A man who has no mind will not change
it.
Uphold truth when thou canst, and for
her sake he hated; bat know thy individ-
ual cause is not the cause OF truth, and be-
ware that they are not confounded. .-Goe.
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Our principles are the springs of our ac-
tions; our actions are the springs to our
happiness or misery. Too much care,
therefore, cannot be taken in forming our
principles. es.-Skelton.
Who says angels must be all young and
splendid? Will there not be some comfort-
ing ones, shabby and tender: whose radi-
ance does not dazzle nor bewilder; whose
faces are worn, perhaps, while their stars
shine with gentle, tremulous light, more
soothing to our aching, earth bound hearts
than the glorious radiance of brighter
spirits ?-M,ss Thackery.
Let the mistress Of the house take two
pounds of the very best self-control, a
pound and half of justice, pound of con-
sideration, and pound of discipline. Let
this be sweetened with charity, let it simmer
well, and let it be taken in daily or Qn ex-
treme cases) in hourly doses-and be kept
always on hand. Then the domestic
wheels will run quite smoothly Woman's
Journal.
Keep the hands employed in some use-
full avocation. the feet dry and warm, the
head cool, body clean. and the stomach
supplied with plain, healthfuI food, taken
at suitable intervals. Keep good hours,
and remember that night is the time to
sleep and rest. Store the mind with
proper mental food, carefully avoiding
every kind of trashy literature, that would
act upon and stimulate the animal pas
sions. Keep the thoughts pure. and do
precisely unto others as you would have
them do to you; then you will make pro-
gress towards healthy soul and body.
Enthusiasm is to the character what
blood is to the physical life-without it
lassitude, and finally death. would ensue.
Upon its quality, moreover, depends the
beauty or deformity ofthe life it nourishes.
Ideality is at the bottom of the true enthu-
siasm. The idealist soon discovers how
easy is to appear civil, courteous, respec-
table, virtuous; how difficult to be truly
benevolent. tolsran1 and charitable; but
is never satisfied unless earnestly engag-
ed in acquiring the best he sees.
People see that their bodies want exer-
else, but they do not perceive that all
their faculties want it, one just as much
as another. The faculties of the mind are
generally treated much in this fashion:
those that the individual finds the more
useful in the way of money getting, he
develops assiduously by exercise: and the
other faculties, whose exercise would en-
barrass and impede the increase of his
wealth, he leaves to die out in disuse.
Thus it is that we find so many fragments
of men and so few men.-Homerton.
In front of window where l worked
last summer was a butternut tree. A
humming bird built her nest on a limb
that grew near the window, and we had
an opportunity to watch her closely, as
we could look right into the nest from the
window. One day there was a shower
coming up, and we thought we would see
if she covered her young during the
storm, but when the first drops fell she
came and took In her bill one of two or
three large leaves growing close to the
nest, and laid this leaf over so it complete
ly covered the nest; then flew away. On
looking at the leaf we found hole in it.
and in the side of the nest was 9 small
stick that the leaf was fastened to or hook
ed on. After the storm was over the old
bird came back and unlocked the leaf,
and the nest was perfectly dry.-America
Sportsman.