The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-05-21
NUMBER 1887


huNicc to oiu ihuics VINO take YEA
Take t'easy.
He who masters his passion subdues
fearful enemy.
To believe a business impossible is
the way TO make il so.
Under our greatest troubles often lie
our greatest treasures.
He that knows not when to be silent
knows not when to speak.
The tears Of affection are dewdrops
from the blue sky Of the soul
He that can composes himself is
wiser than he that composes books.
There is hardly any circumstance
that might not have been worse.
When a man really knows that he is
right, he has gained the victory.
Young man, you can go up hill as
fast as you please, but go down slow.
Never deceive, for the heart once
misled can never trust wholly again.
No trait Of character is more yalua-
ble than the possession OF good temper.
The devil never yet tempted a man
whom he found iudiciously employed.
Nobody takes a reprcof so kindly as
he that deserves most TO be condemned.
Only those who amount to something
beyond the common are much talked
about.
He who comes TO you talking about
others is the one TO go to others talking
about you.
Weary person on evening visit-"Aw,
N Just out OF sick bed" Terrible
boy--"Say, Mr.. Johnson, what ails yer
bed?"
We Judge that Mark Twain has been
initiating Mr.. Jonah TO some extent.
"Latterly," he says / have been down
in the mouth.
Heaven sends us ten thousand truths
but because our windows and doors are
shut to them, they sit and sing awhile
on the roof, aud then fly away.
A negro teamster in Nashville de-
clares that he must either give up driv-
ing mules or withdraw from the church,
the two positions being Incompatible.
Associate with men Of good judg-
ment, for Judgment is found in conver-
sation. And we make other mans
judgment ours by frequenting his COM
pany.
Follow the laws Of nature and Won
will never be poor-your wants will be
few. Follow the laws of the world and
YOU will never be rich-your wants will
never be satisfied.
1t staggers an Englishman when he
gets over here aud hears fellow called
Colonel" who doesn't look as though
he knew enough to cock a cannon
[ Breakfast Table.
The Egyptian mummies who settled
themselves in their little beds 5000
years ago, with packages OF wheat in
their hands must have had wonderful
faith in 'this wheat by-and-by."
"Come, don't be timid, said couple
Of foolish snobs to two mechanics: "sit
down aud make yourselves our equals"
"Wed have TO blow our brains out to
10 that, was the reply.
A granger stood curiously watching
the peanut man as he stood methodi-
cally turning the crank of his roaster.
After expectantly waiting until patience
ceased TO be a virtue, and the unso-
phisticated tiller Of the soil blurted out:
'Hullo? you feller, why don't you play
A doctor returned a coat to a tailor
because il did not fit him. The tailor,
seeing the doctor at funeral of one of
his patients said, "Ah, doctor, you are
a happy man. "Why, so?" asked the
doctor. Because" replied the tailor,
you never have any of your bad work
on your hands.
A teacher in Boston school was de-
lighted 10 see every child's hand go up
in answer TO the question of how many
had ever heard Of Mr.. Emerson, but
her soul sank within her when she dis
covered IL was Billy Emerson, the min
strel, whose show bills had placarded
the walls OF the Hub for several days.
"Do you know" remarked rather
fast Newark youth the other day to O
suffering friend towhom he was slight
ly indebted, "do you know that in
tend to marry and settle DOWN" 'I
don't know anything about it," was
the reply, "bu-but / think you had
b-b-better stay single and set-settle up."
One by one all the comforts OF this
life are taken away from the toiling
millions. 1t used to be a great conso-
lation for US TO think in our poverty
that none Of Our rich neighbors could
ever get TO heaven. Now, alas! we are
assured that there is no place else for
them TO gol Oh, woetul timesl Oh,
wretched, harsh and inconsiderate
world!-[ Burlington Hawkeye.