The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-12-16
TRUTHS AND TRIPLES.

"PLEAsE, sir" said q little girl, who
was sweeping crossing for a living,
" YOU have given me a bad penny"
=" Never mind, little girl, you may keep
it for your honesty" '~a 1tf i-fty
"A GOOD conscience is better than two
witnesses-it will consume your grief as
the sun dissolves ice. 1t is spring
when you are thirsty-a staff when you
are weary-a screen when the sun burns
"a pillow in death. ~
IT is very gratifying TO come to a con-
clusiOn logically las, for instance, that OF
an old writer: /" B says all BritOns are
liars. Now, he was himself Briton,
therefore he was q liar, therefore the Brit
ons are not liars, therefore B has not lied
therefore the BritOns are liars
"THE SUNSHINE OF THINE EYES"
The sunshine Of thine eyes,
t0h still, celestial BEAM
Whatever IL touches IL fills
With the life OF Its lambent gleam.
The sunshine of thine eyes,
Oh let IL fall on mel
Though be but q mote oil the air,
~ o. g. p Ldthrop.
A TOMBSTONE lately erected in the
Nashville cemetery says of the deceased
"His accounts were found square to a
cent" There are lots of people who
scoh at the idea that any one is. buried
under that stone.
The only thing that can match
singing canary's noise, weight for inches,
is baby with the collie. And the only
thing that can match flea's jumping, in
the same proportion, is a nervous papa
who sits down on his hopefuPs bent pin.
WHY should the gloom deepen as we
near the sun? And why should the un-
thinking speak of the downward slope of
life? Why walk backward all our days,
with our faces down hill, and gloomily
speak of the downward slope to the
grave? But yet how true it is that most
Of us do so
NIGHT is the time for rest, and both
body and brain, especially as to students,
requires all the sleep the system will
take they ought never to be walked up;
Nature will infalhbly do that when she
has had her fill, and to shorten sleep is
to shorten life; half the time of daylight
is as long as any man ought to spend in
hard study.
AUTUMN.
Who has not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on granary hoor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the wiDnowing windi
Or on a half-reaped furrow, sound asleep,
Drowned with the fume oil poppies, whhe my
Spares the the next swath and all its twined flowers;
And sometimes like cleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across brook,
Or by a cder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
ff -h."''
WE are panied to have our confidence
in the tramp shaken. He is in many in
stances an abused portion OF the popula-
tion. But when a canal. boat captain,
who is short'a hand, goes to the county
Jail and tries to hire any one out OF
group Of stalled tramps Offering dollar
a day and board, a free ride on the boat
and free passage home when the season
is over--when this happens and no one OF
the able-bodied steps to the front with
"I'm your hucklebeiry,p' we confess to
misgiving as to the moral heroism OF the
tramp.
"MY son." said bland old gentleman
TO little boy, "wOuld you not like to
come to the Sabbath school to sing, and
pray, and hear all about Moses, and
Aaron, and the whale, and the fiery
furnace. and Joseph's coat of many col,
ors, and put your pennies in the box r
"Be you going to have a Christmas
tree ?" asked the child. "No," answered
the old man; "but we are goingto spend
the money that would be spent for candies
and oranges, in sending tractsto the little
heather children in -" "Thatll
do" answered the rude young boy, as he
took sight at the old man. ~ don't
train with no such Sunday-school as that,
Gully" and he departed to stone lost
dog. '.'r'.