Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-03-08

IL every human countenance ia either
history or prophecy.
The vigorous idea keeps warm though
wrapped in few words.
al hope l see you well" as the buck
ct said when it touched the water.
THE pancake is ike the orbof day, be.
cause it rises in the yeast and sets in the
vest.
THE greatest difficulties are always
found where we are not looking for them.
-LGoethe.
MAMMA" said little girl on her
fifth birthday, what time to day shall
be born ?'
THERE is real love Just as there are
ghosts every person speaks Of it, few
persons have seen it.
AN ingenious web Of probabilities is
the surest screen a man can place be-
tween himself and the truth.
l DESIRE no other glory than that Of
having completely performed the task
imposed upon me- Napoleon.
DENIS EEARHEY To THE PRECEDENT.
II it's thrue ye are afraid
To tOgn the bill indtds
Ge'N be dom as the dlyil may have bid We;
But the cause shant be betrayed
III immsjely secade
Ard take the state of CafOrnay wid me.
They that can give up essential liber-
ty to obtain little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
4 POUND of energy with an ounce OF
talent viii achieve greater results than
a pound Of talent will with an ounce Of
energy.
LET a young man be petted by his
mother, and furnished all the spending
money he wants by his father, and it's
only a question OF which pOOr-house he
will die in.
TRUST him little who praises all him
less who ceIsures all and him least of all
who is Indifferent about all in short
don't trust anybody at all.
PHYSICAL culture has been greatly
overrated. Athletes are mostly fool:
few dozen Of invalids regularly do the
worlds most important work.
KINGSLEY ssys the love of man for
woman, when sanctifed by religious
feelings, is the greatest of all fo~ces that
work Tor social or individual goed.
No matter how pious men are, the
moment they place policy before princi-
pie they become incar able OF doing right,
and are transformed into the most odious
tools OF despotism.
THAT the soul is & harmony is doc
trine which has always had a wonderful
attraction for me, and, when mentioned,
came back to me at once as my own
original Conviction Plato.
THERE are very few sermons preached
which better sum up the whole matter
than the little speech of the little boy
who said 81 want to grow good and
gooder every day OF my lite Amen"
4 wIpowER Of sixty. 1--WE, with countenance serene,
Unto thu ma riaga sltar leads miss Of sweet six
tesn;
Ths priest step, down, in stole and gown, with
grRye anu solemn ai-
And 10 the font" without word he leads the
blushing pair.
" Why brtng Us here p the groom inquiries. The
Uober priest replies
thought that the had bought 10 me this infant
to bapize."
AN eastern schooner had among its
crew two daughters Of its captain, and
it is said that they do their work on deck
SIS handy as able bodied men. Nothing
il said by he chronicler 0. their efficien~
cy alott.
A SC0TCH parson said, somewhat sar-
castically, of a topper, that he put an en-.
emy in his mouth to steal away his
brains, but the enemy, after thorough
and protrscted search returned without
anything.
A DAUGHTER Of the late Brigham
Young was asked recently in Washing
ton how she had been treated at the cap~
ital. Her reply was: "By members of
congress and the press very well, but by
christians badly"
THE janitor's instructions to his son:
" When you meet the first floor, bow
and take off your hat for the second un-
cover; for the third, carry your hand to
your head for the iouIth, nod for the
attic floor, let the lodger nod first"
He who is passionate and hssty is
generally honest. 1t is your old dissem.
bling hypocrite of whom you should be
aware. There is no deception in bull.
dog; it is ouly the cur that sneaks up
and bites you when your back is turned.
Is it SO bad, then, to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Soc
rates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copper
nicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and
every pure and wise spirit that took
flesh, TO be great is to be misunder-
stood.
WHEN young man arrivesst the con-
clusion that his employer cannot get
along without him, he has arrived at the
most fatal step on his journey through
liie-fatal, because the places on earth
have always beeniflled by those coming
after them.
A BoIsTERoUs, ill-bred fellow in dis
pute, called his adversary "no gentle
man" ~ suppose you think yourself
one% was the reply. Certainly do"
answered the bully. "Then," said the
other, 81 am not offended that you don't
think me one."
mo, thank you; l never waltz; ma
says if any of the young men want TO
hug me they must do it ON the sly; she
won't have them mussing my dress
up, and leaving finger marks on my
white waist, 80 long as she does the wash
ing and has TO support me-"