The Hartford herald., 1879-06-18
Thoughts ~ They Occur ON the
Corners.
BY DIOGENE.
No. VI.

No. vi.
Pity but We could learn to appreclat
and enjoy the virtues and good qualitie
Of our neighbOrs, and leave their vicest
themselves. To pluck the rose, there |
no use In wounding ourselves with it
thOrns.
PRUNE and train them az you will
some trees will always send up mali
stem above its surroundings. So som,
men, persecute and traduce them as yO,
may, will still rise head and shoulder
above the masses.
CRITICS are but the mules Of litera
ture; always munching and browsing OIL
the buds and flowers of genius, but en-
tirely unprodSctive themselves.
How little we would know Of som,
mems good deeds and great actions
were they not always reminding us o
them-and even then some Of us re-
main sinful unbelievers.
AMAN neverspeaks cOntemptiously o
himself without the hope of being con.
tradicted by his hearers; and somehow
the world Is disposed to apply the same
rule Of contrariness, when a man i.
boasting Of himself.
~ TAKEN-YOU KNOw-SAYs IL
Three scamps that crate on the refined
ear as much as three bells on three old
cows In fly time.
SPEAKING Of grammar-It is feared
that IL We should have one or two more
learned fools to write few more gram
mars for the benefit Of publishers, and
curse Of common schools, with 1000
rules, 1900 exceptions to those rules, and
5000 notes Of explanation to the whole,
and foist them on to our public schools
by the you tickle me and RI tickle yO,i
process, we may then keep our children
all their school day life, studying Mr..
- English grammar, and they
will come out Of school as much bewil-
dered as ifthey had all that time been
lost In the Everglades Of Florida.
POLITICIANS may pirate as they will
about the policy and finances of the
country, but the American people have
to take choice of one or the other of two
inevitable dilemmas-the one univer-
sal bankruptcy. the other retrench-
ment and reform-in fees, salaries Of
all offices, In dressing, mode of living,
and every other way, until our public
and private balance sheets show prof
1t, instead Of loss, at each reckoning
AN old fogy had rs well sit still, and
keep quiet, while the fashionable world
are dancing to their favorite tune of
"The Devil take the hindmost." They
are going 1t with such vim, that one
can't count them as fast az they break
down In the dance. Merciful God !!
have pity on the crowd of women and
children, thrown on the charities of the
world, too enervated to work-tOO proud
to beg!
THERE seems to be periOdity i'm all
nature-a period Of wet and dry, cold
and hot seasons, hard and prospero Gus
times. Naturalists are straining their
intellects to learn how to fOretell these
periods. have never been able to GER
tainly predict but one-that Is the
period Of a wOman's increased devotion
ality, which renders her strict attend
ant at church-and that follows imme-
diately after the acquisition of pretty
bonnet, dress, mantle or shawl.
No class in society are doing as much
towards fostering and disseminating the
principles ofCommunism and Agrarian-
ism as the very class who would prove
their victim-the wealthy, by their ex-
travagant luxury and uesless show and
parade, are continually tanning the flame
Of discomfort in the poorer class, who
very naturally conclude that the money
wasted ON $4,000 horses, $1,000 shawls
and dresses and 5000 banquets had
better be spent in feeding the hungry
and clothing the naked.
1T is very doubtful problem whether
our government can long retain its liber-
ty tits purity has already gomez when
large estates and fortunesare obtained by
the few, and poverty is the condition of
the many. Wealth Is power and power
Is always aggressive, and cumulative;
and it will be natural for the few to pro-
tect themselves by Monarchy or Aris-
tocrasy; or like the Mexican leaders fall
out and I'LL the land with civil wars and
our liberties end i'm series of pronun-
ciamentO's.