The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-07
CHAT BY THE WAY.


II man desires many things he IL exalted BY hope,
| but II ne fears many things he becomes slave
| Aristippus said he took money OF his friends mot
80 m ch 10 use it himself as teach them how 70
bessow IT. Most OF US willing TO teach our friends
| = wholesome lesson by borrowing AL they have
When you arc sick It to promise all sorts
OF rsiormattons, and whom you recover IL II just -
| easy TO forget them.
People generally regard religion IS very necessary
when one Is DYING and terribly intrusive and in tho
| way ~ all other times
man can profess more religion In my minutes
than can practise BY working hard Tor hty years.
| When We arc young waste great deal OF hme
| in imagining what we will do whom We grow ODER
| and when we arc old We waste an equal amount Of
! sime IN wondering why waited 50 long before We
began to do anything.
Sentences must properly constructed II they arc
10 be understood. A clergyman meant to say that.
vhi,e he was preachnR parishioner OF hts bad died
in state OF beastiy intoxicaon, and TO draw there
/ from moral iesson; but he made himself unhappy
| by saying ssAnd my frienas, that man died while
was preaching in state OF beastiy intoxication"
His congregation requested him 10 tho blue RIB
bon or else look carefully alter his commas.
The hortcuturs,s being attacked by that PERI.
odcai epidemic which always appears at this season
OF the year, and again becoming Buddhists.
QuarreIs, like thunder storms, would end 10 sun
shine II t were not Tor the determination have tho
last word II you scolded criticised just bite
your lips and keen still. and It will soon be over: but
II you you tor three years or the war"
Many who pours himself IN torrents OF rain for
i've then breaks out into the sunshine OF
good temper again will settle down into = three
days. dismal drzzie II he is weak enough 10 iasst
having that last word.
There Is large class In the community who think
II very wrong 10 pay church debts Sunday. Tue
K,r hall Let sSf uWStR essat al Rnu1
which rouses their anger They leavs the church In
high dudgeon wnen any financial enterprise Is men.
toned, aud arc visible until all tho money has
been raised. This extreme senstiveness may be OF
tho heart but uncharsabe people arc rash enough 10
say that 1t generally proceeds from the pocketeook.
They have learned every word In she gospel Of
stake" but deny tho authenticity OF the gospel OF
s'g,ve.n They remind Of tho poem which ssys:-
Old Farmer B. 10 4 stingy man,
Who keeps all he gets and gets all he can.
lie goes TO church and he rents pew,
But the dimes he gives 70 The Lord arc few
II he gets TO heaven with the good aud great,
He will DO let IN NJ the smallest gate
Tnere are certain times In each mans life whom
everything goes wrong BY Kind Of dspravisy,
which extends things material; whatever happens
seems to become q new wild animal In the menarcrie,
and one's lire, the time being, fearful snsri.
triond OF calls these seasons, not inappropri
ateiy s.devil days." For instance. you hunt all
seen within nvo minutes. and, having lost both pa.
heuce aud ,omper, mud II ut last behind your ear
You are In u hurry and want penknttc You always
keep t In one place, you know that time
you will got befogged, Just as you are now; but
When you put your hand out to take u not thcre
| Then you fret and scoid and that somebody
suvreptitiousiy entered tho and purloined II.
After you fumed yourself into fever you look
again, and lying its accustomed place. just
straigh, At II and didn't II Then tho whole house.
hold, which you have set hunting Il up and each
individual member Of which you have accused Of
having in his pocket rushss In and asks you where
you found IT, and makes you feel ike idiot when
you confcss that Just where thcy al told you Il
was These are the things which make one wish he
had been born.
Uniqueness OF expression 10 . great art To cay .
great deal in . few words 10 something not easily
learned. Hero 10 example, however, OF putting an
obituary notice into tho shortest possible spacs:-
Twas cough
That carried him on;
Twas CONN
They carried him on In.
when read the numerous clerical scandals which
grace the newspapers, and disgrace the community,
We are inclined 10 believe large number OF the
soldiers OF tho cross OF q furiough.
Ii was q very suggestive remark Of Jack Weeks
concerning great man who had just died, ana Who
though making great professions to religion, nvci
rathor wildly, "wsii, hope no Is In heaven. Every
man thinks no wishes. but, n no be In heaven,
,lwere pity 10 have II knowa."
scotchmen have gone to a. great az extreme ~ the
Catholics In their prosecutions OF those who differed
from them. Il IL mot 80 very long ago that 10 win
now grain was looked upon . crime worthy OF tho
severe punishment Of decentralization On what
groundf naturally sskA Az u would DO impossi-
BILE to guess the answer may we'll be given q
once In winnowing grain the fan forces wind
take gwen direction and this not according
tho Scriptures. which expressly declare that '.the
wind bloweth whore nsteth." To make It blow
where 10 did not LIST, whether n listed not was
TO league ones self with Satan, who the prince OF
the powers Of the air
Epitaphs, as . general thing. advertise virtues
which they do not possess for whom they were
written but hero which attempt 70
tell the truth
Here the body OF Peter Screw lies;
Nobody laughs; nobody cries;
Where his soul 10, and how u fares,
Nobody knows, nobody cares
When Lycurgus asked by some who came
10 consul, him about tho state whore true reform
should begin he replied, sssir, should begin your
own house."
II does no harm TO once II = while reproduce the
moral which Jonn q. saxo attaches his best
| posms:--
Because you flourish u worldly affairs,
| Don't Dc naughty ana put on airs
With incident pride OF station
Don't be proud and turn up your noso
Al poorer people In palmer ciothcs;
But learn, Tor tho sake Of your mind's repose,
| That weahhs n bubble tina, comss-and go.si
And that all proud nesb, wherever u grows.
Is subject to irritation.
| In some remote corner Of every msa's heart 10
hidden continual desire 10 have good laugh. He
may believe In tho Five Points Of Calvin, ana accept
every one OF tho Thirty.nips Articles; he may talk
abou, life a. vale OF tears and bswa the Increasing
iniquity Of mankind; ne may regard religion
. KIND Of spiritual ,emou jaice aud pale with
horror ., the mention OF the theatre or dance, SIN,
when the circus comes round, no viii take small
child In HIS arms aud with s.caishy step sidie up TO
the ticket onlcc and declare he only wants TO
show the BABY the lion and the tiger. He listens TO
ths clown however, with unwilling delight and