The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-07-15
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which bear men from earth to heaven.
How few faults are there seen by us
which we have not ourselves committed.
Never scoff at religion; it is not only
proof ofa wicked heart, but of low breed
ing.
Never step On a.dog's tail unless the
other end of tue dog is mile away from
the tail.
Did you ever notice that party with
low shoes aud eolored socks always per-
sists in sitting ross legged2
Oh, but tsis fSifis peculiar Ian.
guage. We use busters to catch the dust,
and duster to brush the dust away.
Our sins, like our shadows, when our
days is in its glory scarce appear; to-
wards our evening how great and mon
; trous.
In sad truth, half OF our forebodngs
about our neighbors are but our own
wishes, which we dislike to utter in any
other form.
A beautiful custom prevails in many
pats of Europe Of planting tree upon
the birth of every child. 1t saws wear
and tear of slippers.
A Kansas man who offered bail for a
friend was asked if he had any incum-
brance on his farm. 20, yes," said be,
tiny old woman"
prisoner why did you follow this
man and beat and kick him so shame
fully2" 81 am sorry, your Honor /
thought it was my wife,"
Pine woods and the sea! The shelter
and the open! The work to rest in, and
the boundless to gaze upon! Could one
find in nature more beautiful symbol of
God.
"Sir," said lady to wouId-be wag,
''your jokes always put me in mind OF a
ball." "Of ball madam! Why so,
pray? ?" Because they never have any
point" M
Lady (to rheumatic old woman): am
sorry you should suffer SO; you should
try galvanism. Old woman: Thank
you kindly, mum be / to swaller it or
rub it in?
"If you don't stop your coughing"
said the judge, "I'll fine you hundred
dollars, ,"-''l'll give your honor two
hundred if you can stop it. was the
lawyers reply.
Oh. the trial of married man. Imag-
inc him of warm morning looking tor
his thin undershirt and discovering that
bis wife has been using it three weeks for
a smearkase bag.
One day last week man made a wa
ger that he could eat thirty eggs in thir-
ty minutes He lost the money. The
first egg did the business for him. 1t
was no young inexperienced egg.
God is love; and if people with very
little wisdom and love and power, can
help some crooked things to come
straight, what cannot God do? for He is
perfect wisdom and love and power!
! A man in kentucky has thirty seven
children, and a preacher in Georgia has
forty-two. II they lived in Rhode Is
land the rest of the people would have to
move out to give the children room to
play.
To can Pieplant Skin and cut as for
pie; gil glass can full as you can, and
then fill up with cold wafer; screw on the
cover; no cooking or hesting. This is a
reliable recipe. The fruit will be as nice
another year as that fresh from your gar
den.
A man went through the bankruptcy
court. He owned horse and gig they
both disappeared for time; but by and
by the horse and gig were doing service
for the same owner again. On being
asked what this meant, the mans reply
was: 81 went into bankruptcy court;
but the horse and gig went round"
Go to church to worship God, take
your mind quite empty, at least as empty
as you can make it, and hold it up for
whatever blessing God may see ct to
pour therein. BY meaning of the phrase,
blouse of God" is retreat where we
shut out the world as far as it can ever be
shut out while we are in the flesh. II we
take the world in with us, it is no House
of God.
"Man alive," exclaimed the judge, in
a heated discussion of tangled theolog-
ical point with bis friend, 81 tell you
you are free agent. You do not have
to obey any one" "Yes," said Mr.
Goodman, meekly, shut do, though" "
"Who2 ?" shouted the judge, "who2 2"
my wife, her two sisters, and the baby, :"
howled the good man, meekly triumph
ant. Red lights and slow curtain.
A rich widow, lacking only two years
of half century and dressing her hair
six times day, in Elijah, thtown, KY,
fell in love with youth of nineteen who
had been working on her farm. Her
two step-sons ordered him to lesve the
town, and threatened to use shotgun If
he should ever attempt to return. The
widow took the lad to town, purchased
for him new suit OF clothes and charged
him to get license. The young man
did as he was told, and when they were
married she carried him home and asked
her step-sons what they meant to do
about it.
81 have been member Of your church
for thirty years." said an elderly Chris
tain to his pastor, "and when l was laid
by with sickness for week or two, only
one or two came tolvisit me. l was shame
fully neglected" "My FRIEND" said the
pastor, sin all these thirty years, how
many sick have you visited" "Oh," be
replied, ''it never struck me in that light.
| thought only Of the relation Of others
to me, and not Of my relation to them" :"
A young American woman. aged nine
teen years, named Miss Leila A. Noble,
of Rome, Georgia, has just distinguished
herself by descending to the lowest depths
of the Dolcosth tin mine in Cornwall,
England, to the great admiration of the
miners. She reached depth of 2,340
feet, and in ascending she had to climb
up perpendicular ladders of 1,200 rounds,
reaching nearly twice as high as the top
of St. Paul's. The trip up and down
occupied four hours and half, and the
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