The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-01
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


Drawing is the masculine side of art,
color the feminine.
He is q good man indeed who does
all the good he talks of.
We are all apt to believe what tho
world believes about us.
Tue only real bitter tears are those
Which are shed In solitude.
During the autumn gales the volume
Of nature Is full of lly-leavcs.
1t takes longer to get a little out OF
wise man than to empty fool.
Swectening ones coffee Is generally
the first stirring event Of the day.
The rays Of happiness, like those Of
light. are colorless when unbroken.
1t Is possible for a man to know his
own mind and yet know very little.
The man WHO does not help us at the
right moment does not help us at all.
Soap-boilers and hide workers have
proved to be exempt from yellow fever.
We must not look around on the uni.
verse with awe, and on man with scorn.
AS live trees bring forth new fruit
SO 10 live men bring forth now ideas.
The bachelor has to look out for num-
Der one-the married man for numbur
two.
Thy friend has friend, and thy
friends friend has friend: be dis
Greet.
a practical joke Is poor fun, because
the laugh DOESN'T reach all the way
around.
Boys under sixteen years OF age are
not permitted to smoke in certain cities
in Germany.
The right thing in the wrong place is
u lcVe-letter written OH mourning
sheet Of paper.
1t Is drawer to keep your griefs to
yourselfs than to make others miser-
able with them.
Men regret more what they say than
what they do. M0ral--Keep your Sc
crcts to yourself.
In the march Of life, don't hold the
order OF fright about' when you know
you are about right.
Some persons have such natures that
they cannot be bad, as some are. so that
they cannot be good.
1t does not follow that a blacksmith
has no virtues because he Is always to
be found at his vice.
by taking revenge, a man Is but
even with his enemy; but In passing
over 1t, he Is superior.
1t Is easier to neglect the debts YOU
owe to others than to forget those
which others owe to you.
He that runs must read-a good manv
things concerning his character, es-.
peclally If he runs for office.
The wise man stands firm In all ex-
tremtttes, and bears the lot of his hu-
manity with q divine temper.
One Of the most important rules of
the science Of manners Ia an absolute
silence In regard to yourself.
In Shakospeare's time there was Ga
tide In the affiirs Of men 4" nowstta
tide Is In the affairs OF women a. a
. Love and enmity, avertion and. N
are notable whetters and quicl1eners of
the spirit Of life In all animals.
Slander soaks into the mind as water
into low and marshy places, where t.
becomes stagnant and offensive.
No man Is called on to lose his own
balance for the advancement Of the
world In any particular direction.
The best foundation on which TO
build your hopes Of preferment ts the
consciousness that you deserve it.
There is a hell; believe 1t 80 that vou
may avoid IT. There Is heaven; be-
lieve 1t so that you may obtain it.
True liberty consists In the privilege
OF enjoying our owp rights-not In the
destruction Of the rights OF others.
The worst thing about 4 mosquito ls
Its long soliloquy rs to when and where
1t had better settle down and bite.
1t would tire tile hands of an angel to
write down all the Dardons that God be-
slows upon the true penttent believers.
Slander Is voice that strikes dou-
bic blow, woundlng both him that COM
mlts and against whom 1t Is committed.
Love, like fire, cannot exist Without
continual movements; as soon as It.
ceases to hope and fear 1t ceases to
exist.
The law of food Is that man should
eat what Is good for him, at such times
ana IN such quantities us nature re.
quires.
There arc some persons on whom
their faults sit well, and others who
are made ungraceful by their good
qualities.
There is a great deal of unmapped
country which would have to be taken
into account In an explanation of gusts
and storms.
The diamond fallen into the dirt Is
not the least precious, and the dust
raised by high winds to heaven is not
the less vile.
Have patience awhile; slanders are
not long lived. Truth is the child of
Time; ere long she shall appear to VIM
dicate thee.
HuGging sorrow is not the way to
lessen 1t, though like the nettle, trou-
Bile stings less when 1t is firmly grasped
and not feared.
When bad men combine, the good
must associate, else they will fall, one
by one, an unpitied sacrifice in q con-
temptible struggle.
Have nothing to do with any man In
a passion, for men are not like Iron to
be wrought out when hot, or moulded
Into any given form. 4
The worthIest people are the mostin-
jured by slander, as we usual y find that
to be the finest fruit which the birtls
have been pccklng at.