Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-07-09
From the New York Herald
Chat by the Way.

BILE" when he finds fault with every
body and expects nobody to find fault
with him.
It is quaint old proverb and applica-
bic at all times, that "a great many pairs
OF shoes are worn out before man does
all he says"
To try to cure the headache of another
is apt to cure your own headache. It
may be paradoxical, but it is neverthe-
less true that the best givers are the Iarg-
est receivers.
How sadly true it is that YOU never
forgive the man to whom you have done
an injury. tits absolutely necessary to
find guilt in him in order to find an ex-
cuse for yourself.
The boy who, when he was saved
from drowning said, dispose God did
save me, but then held on to the gwass,
too" had good idea of the proper uni
on of faith and works.
Some one says, and truly. that there
is great deal of religion in the world
which may not be inaptly styled eight
ming bug religion" It is bright while
it lasts, but cold, and soon out.
The theology of certain narrow mind
ed and narrow hearted people reminds
US of the child who tod her little friend
of French extraction that it was useless
for her to say her prayers, because she
couldn't talk English.
This is an opinion worth having :-"I
have become Christian" said gentle
man to his friend. "Good," was the re-
ply: land now hope you will pay that
little bill you owe me-" NO" he an
swered, religion is religion and bust
ness is business" If that mans bust
ness should have the smallpox his reli-
gion wouldn't catch it.
The mind of childhood takes hold of
problems in very queer way some
times, and its outlook on the world is
very curious and interesting. After the
three-day rain of a week or two since a
promising four year-old, who had been
deprived of her accustomed romps on the
sidewalk, grew impatient, and said -
Mother, / think the Lord must have
got telegram, and left the weather to
take care of itself. [ wish he'd come
back, for Pm getting awful tired of this
sort of thing"
Language is very clumsy vehicle of
thought, and the mistakes which are in
nocently made are sometimes laughable
enough. HE struck you with impun-
ity, did hep" asked a lawyer of his client,
who was seeking divorce She looked
at him with the mild, large eye off lamb,
and replied, mo, sir he hit me wild his
fist" A newspaper which is not often
caught mapping, said concerning man
who had been passing through an un-
pleasantness. that he was "shot twice in
the region Of the lungs and once in the
barber shop"
1t is said to be physiological pecu-
larity that brilliant and impuIsive peo-
pie have black eyes. We may add an
amendment to this by saying that they
are very apt to get them even if nature
has not bestowed them. A brilliant and
impulsive man can scarcely exercise his
characteristics for any length of time
without attaining this contamination
The cool blood of the blonde complexion
avoids those remarks which act on the
automatic nerves of the right arm of the
listener, while the impulsive creature
says what he pleases and sustains results.
People go to church from all sorts of
motives, but are seldom willing to con-
TESS what they are. That the natural
desire to see and be seen occupies 4 promi.
nent position in the mind of the ordi-
nary North American churchgoer may
be fact, but one to be whispered only
under the rose. Few have the maivete
of the good woman who told her minis
ter that she didn't miss his beautiful SER
mons halfas much as one might suppose,
because her servant sat at the window
every Sunday morning and told her Just
who were going to church, and whether
they had anything new on or not.
This is doggerel, but the sentiment
and the words are both good. Accord
ing to our observation life is pretty near
ly what you make it, and eyes are apt
to see, not things as they really are, but
whatever of grumble or JOY exists in |
the mind behind them. Ifone is fretful |
everything frets him, but ifone is happy |
in disposition things 60 more smooth
ly:-
There may be burning deserts
Through which our feet must 60,
But there are green cases
Where pleasant palm trees grow,
And If we may not follow
The paths our hearts would pan,
Let us make all around us
AS happy as we can.
Darwin's ape is not received into the hui
man family as an honored ancestor, but
under protest, and as stern necessity. |
when he knocks at the door for admis-
sion he is received with no warmer well
come than that which attends the advent
OF the poor relations generally. DR..
Burgon has been lecturing to Oxford,
and expresses perfect willingness to al
low scientific men to find their forefath-
ers in the geological gardens if they will
permit him to find his in the old fashion
ed paradise. Until the matter is more
definitely settled it would be better to
let every man climb his own genoa
logical tree. Charity demands that if a
man has found his father his rights in
the family estate shall not be disputed.