The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-10-09

duties Of our calling. let as think o
such sayings as the following:
One day a visitor at Michel An
gelo's studio remarked to that great
artist, who had been describing Ger
tain little finishing touches lately
given to a statue, "Ba. those are on
ly tribes"
cit may be Sc" replied the
sculptor ; ''but recollect that irifes
make perfection, aad perfection is nc
tride.n
In the same spiri, the great paint.
er Poussiu accounted for his reputa-
ton in these words:
Because | have neglected moth
ing"
Ii is related of q Manchester man
ufacturer that, on retiring from bus
mess, be purchased an estate from a
certain noolemsn. The arrange
ment was that he should have the
house with all its furniture just as it
stood. Ga taking possession, how
ever, be found that a cabinet which
vas in the inventory had been re-
moved; and on applying to the for
Ier owner about it, the latter re-
marked:
well, | certainly did order it to
be removed but 1 hardly thought
you would have cared for so trifing
a matter in SO large a purchase"
my lord" vas the reply, 'if |
had not all my life attended to tri-
ies, | should not have bsen able to
purchase this estate and, excuse me
for saying 30, perhaps if your lord
ship had cared more about %triles,
you might not have had occasion to
sell it."
Galileo's discovery Of the pendu.
lam was suggested to his observant
eye by a lamp swinging from the
ceiling Of Pisa cathedral. A spiders
net suspended across the path OF Sir
Samuel Brown, as be walked one
dewy morning in his garden, was the
prompter that gave to him the idea
of his suspension bridge across the
Tweed. So triaing a matter as the
sight Of seaweed floating past his
ship, enabled Columbus to quell The
mutiny which arose among the sail
ors al not discovering land, and to
assure them that The eagerly sought
New World was not fsr IF Gal
Fsui observed that a frogs leg
twiched when placed in contac: win
different metals, and it Wa This an
parenlly insignificant fact that led to
the invention If the electric tele-
graph Wnlie a had observer may
go through o forest and see no fire.
wood, u true seer learns from tie
SMALLEST things abd apparently The
G Insignificant people.
Sir" said DR.. Johnson to a fine
gentleman just from Italy, some
men will learn more in the Hamp-
stead stage than others in the t0ur
Of Europe.n
Wellington's achievements were
mainly owing to the fact that he
personally attended to such minutie
as soldiers shoes, camp-kettles, bis.
cults, horse fodder and it was be-
cause Nelson attended to detail 10
respect to time that be was so vic.
~torious.
Il owe" he said, "all my success
in life to having been always a quar-
ter of al hour before my time"
every moment lost" said Napo-
leon, gives au opportunity for uis-
fortune"
Well would il have beeL for him
self-as his bitter end proved-had
this European ruler known another
fact-that every moment sel6shiy
employd is worse than lost, and
gives an opportunity for misfor-
tune." However, he attributed the
defeat of the Austrians to his own
great appreciation OF the value of
time. While they dawdled be over
threw them.
BY little foxes, tender grapes are
destroyed, according to Solomon.
Little foxes are very cunning, aud
most difficult to catch and so are
those little temptations by which
our moral natures are gradually eat
en- away. The tender grapes Of
many u Christian branch are destroy
ed by such little foxes as temper,
discomfort, avarice, vanity. Many
who could resist much greater sins
yield to these. There is an excite
ment 10 the very greatness OF a trial
of temptation which enables us to re-
sist it while the chase after little
toZes is dull end embarrassing. No
wonder that when we analyze the
lives of those who have ruined them
selves morally, We generally discoy-
er that
1t was the little rift within the lutte
That. ever widening, slowly sileneed all;
Or little pit,ed speek in sarnered fruit,
That, rotting inward, slowly mouldered all.
How many people are almost sue.
cessful, missing their aim by COB,
such q little ! Minutie ia these cas-
make or mar us. "If | am build.
ing a mountain" said Confucius,
"and stop before the last basketful
Of earth is placed on tho summit, /
have failed"
The examination is lost by half a
mark. One neck nearer and the race
would have been won. The slight.
est additional effort would have
turned the tide Of war. Thou art
not far from the kingdom Of God"
were solemn words, making the ter
rible difference between almost aud