The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-11-30


Its doings counted DER,
III we can say, I" did my best"
Our God will ask no more.
TRUTHS AND TRIFLES.
HERE is conundrum in rhyme, and
quite original withal:
A country merchant bought H EE,
What did he purchase If you please?
To have religion upon authority is
like finger-watch, to be set forward or
backward, as he pleases that has it in
keeping.
WHETHER religion be true or false, it
must be necessarily granted to be the
only wise principle and safe hypothesis
for man to live and die by.
Mr.. TUPPER Gays he is "struck by
American good manners, as observable
in railway travel" 1t is disagreeable to
think what kind of manners he must
have been used to in England, to make
such comparison.
Dare to be honest, good ard sincere,
Dare to please God, and you never need lear.
Dare to be brave in the cause of the right,
Dare with the enemy ever to fight.
Dare to be loving and patient each day,
Dare speak the truth whatever you say.
Dare to be gentle and orderly too,
Dare shun the evil whatever you do.
Dare TO speak kindly, and ever be true,
Dare to do right, and you'll find your way through.
In Half Moon Bay, California, there
is Spanish lady, Eusebia by name, who
is one hundred and ten years of age.
When she was in San Francisco the other
day she was accompanied by her little
son, aged eighty.
I ABoMINATE war as unchristian. l
hold it as the greatest of human crimes.
/ deem it to involve all others-viOlence,
blood, rapine, fraud; everything that
can deform the character, alter the ma
ture, and debase the name OF man.
Lord Brottgham.
ONE great reason why men practice
generosity so little in the world is their
finding SO little there. Generosity is
catching; and if so many escape it, it is
in small degree for the same reason that
countrymen escape the small-pox-be-
cause they meet with no one to give 1t
to them.
DIR. ALLEN THOMPSON, at the recent
meeting of the British Association, ex-
hibited and described two skulls from
the Andaman Isles, and referred to the
custom the natives had of preserving
portions of their friends skeletons and
wearing them as ornaments The skulls
of their husbands were actually worn
upon the shoulders of widows.
BE EARNEST.
Be earnest in thy calling
| Whatever IL may be
Times sands are ever falling,
| And will not wait for thee.
With zeal and vigor labor,
And thou wilt surely rise;
Oh, suffer net thy neighbor
To bear away the prize
Be earnest in devotion,
| Old age is drawing near;
| bubble in life's OCEAN
Thou soon wilt disappear
COUNTRY patience is long suffering,
but at times sarcastic, as the following
shows: At FIRST there meanders through
this section book agent, then tin cart,
then tree man, then patent medicine
individual, then two tramps, then a thief
or two, then salve man, then half
dozen duplicates of each, and finally the
J cidsfsbarrei buyer, the white wire clothes
, line fellow, and the lightniDg-rod demon
incarnate.
AT the dedication of the Girls Nor
a NAL School on Monday evening, Gays the
t Philadelphia Times, Judge Peirce told
: how once the wife of man who hac
a been convicted of larceny as bailee, and
e whom the Judge had determined to sen
s tence to eighteen months imprisonment
!, had, by her eloquence in a private in
q terview, induced him to make the tern
a only four months and a half. The judge
: was so impressed with her lady-like bear
ing and the force of her appeal that h.
o asked her where she had been educated
g She replied: "In the Girls Higl
:; School," "Thus," said Judge Peirce
"you see the grand results of educa
ton" A ripple which swelled to a roa
d of merriment swept over the audience
q "I understand, said the Judge, in som
n confusion, "that the laugh is that youn
d women should be educated that the.
d may be able to get their husbands out
1t iail."