Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-06-30

AhpoiSHNC oho ohS uAot SOuo
, ins.
In bringing up child think of its ola
, age.
A courtier's dependent is beggar's
dog
To live long it is necessary ~sss!ixe
slowly.
; While we are reasoning concerning life,
life is gone.
The wisdom of one generation will be
folly in the next.
All governments are. to certain extent,
a treaty with the devil.
Courage without discipline, is nearer
beastliness than manhood.
He shall be immortal who liveth till he
be stoned by one without fault.
l think 1t best not to dispute where
there is no probability of convincing.
Faith in immortality is the highest trib-
ute that the world has paid to the worth
of life.
Credulity is, perhaps,::a weakness al
most inseparable from eminently truthful
characters.
They who are most weary of life, and
yet are most unwilling to die, are such as
have lived to no purpose.
There is nothing more frightful than
for teacher to know only what his schol-
ars are intended to know
The most lovable heart is that which
loves the most readily; but that which
easily loves, also easily forgets.
Animals are more easily taught than
vegetables. 1t ought to be more difficult
to make a corn crib than fish hook.
BY gentleness, overcome anger; bv
good, evil; by liberality, greed; by open
ness and truth, assembling and falsehood.
Our souls must become expanded by the
contemplation of natures grandeur be
fore we can fully comprehend the features
of man.
Speak the truth; yield not to anger;
give, when asked, of the little thou hast;
by these three stems thou shalt go nearer
the gods.
A man slothful, saying many good
things but not doing them, is like herds
man counting the kline of others, but own
ing none.
A Vermont girl, when Tilted by her
lover, poisoned his fathers well, so that
funeral would prevent him marrying any
other girl.
Death is as near to the young as the old;
here Is all the difference, Death stands be-
hind the young mans back, before the old
mans face.
The New Jersey courts have decided
that bets on election are void, and that the
takeholder is bound to return the loser
his money.
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost-that is where
they should be. Now put foundations
under them
1t is the mind that makes US rich and
happy in what condition soever we are;
and money signifies no more to it than it
does to the Gods.
The man who hasn't commenced to
make garden yet can't have theory on
how those old peach cans worked their
way foot below the surface.
The virtuous man reioices in this world,
and he shall rejoice in the next; in both
worlds has he joy. He rejoices, he ex-
ults, seeing the purity of his deed
Character is the eternal temple that each
one begins to rear, yet death only can
complete. The finer the architecture, the
more fit for the indwelling of angels.
That was good boy who told his fa-
ther that if he would buy him pony he
would let him have the use of it, when it
was too rainy for good boys to be out.
Pittsfeld, Mass, boasts of girl who
poisoned her two aunts in neat and ex-
peditious manner, and she was a young
colored girl without style or education.
The evil-doer mourns in this world.
and he shall mourn in the next; in both
worlds he shall sorrow. He grieves, he
is tormented, seeing the evil of his deed
Morality without religion is only kind
of dead reckoning endeavoring to find
our place on a cloudy sea by measuring
the distance we have run, but without
any observation of the bodies
| Kansas, unable to compete with her
sister States in the matter of girls with
small feet comes proudly forward with
Cloud county lass whose foot measures
eleven and three quarter inches
The faith that does not throw a warmth
as of summer around the sympathies and
charities of the heart, and drop invigora
ton like showers upon the conscience
and the will, is as false as it is unsatlsfy-
ing.
By forgiveness of injuries, the learn
ed are purified; by liberality, those who
have neglected their duties; by pious
meditations, those who have secret faults:
by devout austerity, those who least know
the Veda.
My idea is that there are duties toward
our native land common to every citizen,
and even public institutions and education
must have such direction as to enable
every citizen to fulfill his. duty toward his
fatherland
The editor of the Charlestown Is. C.)
Ne,cs has caught and locked up in his
wood house, for exhibition at the Centen-
nial, colored woman one hundred and
fifty years old, and who has living
daughter aged one hundred and ten years
Physical courage which despises all
danger will make man brave in one
way; and moral courage which despises
all opinion will make man brave in an
other. The former would seem most
necessary for the camp, the latter the
council; but to constitute great man
both are necessary.
A policeman in Troy, n Y, a few days
ago threw his wife's old shoe into the
street, and soon after missed his pocket
book. Having searched the house thor
oughly, but without avail, he at last re-
membered the shoe, and after finding it
discovered i'll the toe the pocketbook,
which contained more than 5000
In matters of great concern, and which
must be done, there Is no surcr argument
of weak mind than irresolution; to be
undetermined where the case is so plain,
the necessity so urgent. To be always in
tending to lead new life. but never to
find time to set about it.; this is as if
man should put off eating and drinking,
and sleeping from one day and night to
another, till he is starved and destroyed.
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