The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-03-18
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
70 live no more of our time than we


bearers the strife ccaseth.
The servant girl that boweth down
the crystal chimney Is like unto an eel,
In that she Is a lamp-prey.
Inc man who is waiting for some-
thing to turn up generally finds 1t
when he steps OH barrel-hoop.
a good deed Is never lost; he who
sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he
VINO plants Kindness gathers love.
Experience has tanght us little, If it
has not instructed us TO pity the errors
| OF others, and to amend our own.
Young swell: IL should like to have
my mustache dyed.' Polite barber:
'Certainiy did you bring it with your"
1t is bQttcr to wear poor vest with
royal heart behind it than to wear u
royal vest with beggar's heart inside.
Our distinctions do not lie in the
places winch we occupy, but in the
grace and dignity with which we fill
them.
Bo not all that you can do; spend
not all that you have; believe not all
that you hear; and tell not all you
know.
Inc individual who called tight boots
comfortable defended his position by
saying they made II man forget all his
other miscrcs.
The man who goes to church simply
because he has nothing else to do, may
not be heathen, but he Is certainly an
idle wOrshiper.
A Florida preacher closed an unsuc-
cessful revival meeting recently with
the remark, 81 tell you, my hearers, it
1t don't pay for the gas"
We all dread Il bodily paralysis. and
would make use OF every contrivance
| to avoid IL, but none of us are troubled
about paralysis Of the soul.
The two great pleasures in living are
IN having something to love and to
hope for, and the last of these is ever
before us in the promise Of Tomorrow.
Good books arc to tho young mi,d
what the warming sun and the refresh
ing rain OF spring are to tho seeds
Which have lain dormant In the frosts
0f winter.
Hardship Is tho native soil of mall
hood and self-reliance. He that call
not abide the storm without tlinching
lies down by the wayside, to be over
looked or forgotten.
If Il man would keep both integrity,
and independence free from temptation,
let him keep out of dobt. Franklin
said, "lt Is hard for an empty bag to
stand upright"
AS bcnevolence is the most social Of
all virtues, 80 it is Of the largest extent;
Tor there Is not any man either 80 great
or 80 little but he Is yet capable OF Civ
ing and receiving benefits.
Wero wo to take as much pains to be
| what we ought to be rs we TO to dis.
gllise what we really are, we mig ap-
pear like ourselves, without being ut
The trouble OF any disguise at all.
There arc treasures laid up III the
hcnrt-trcasures Of charity, plety,
tempcr"nce and soberness. These
treasures 1t man takes with him beyond
death, when he leaves this world.
There is no fortune so good but that
1t may be reversed, and none so bad but
it may be bettorcd, Tho sun that rises
in clouds may set in splenIor, and that
which rises In pleasure may set In
gloom.
Think nothing profitable which will
ever force tnce to break thy word, to
lose thy self respect, to hate, suspect,
curse or deceive any one, or to desire
anything that need be covered with
walls. or vcils.
80 true to yourself, and enemies
cannot harm you. They canuot, by oil
of yourself, tho purity Of your motives,
tho integrity of your character. and
the generosity Of your nature.
One really Kind office of love to amel.
iorate tho dstresses of suffering
child Of humanity has moro power to
refine and exalt the soul than the study
OF whole tones Of theories on the per-
fectibility of'human virtue.
a Frcnchman, eight days after mar
riage, and while on his wedding trip,
received telegram announcing the
death of his mother-in-law, and, with
touching sincerity, writes her epltaph:
"TO the best Of mothers-,n-law."
No place, no company, no age, no
person Is temptation free. Let no man
boast that he was never tempted; let
him not be hlgh-minded, but fear, fol
he may be surprised III that very in-
slant wherein he boasteth that he was
never tempted at all.
In Cicero and Plato and other such
writer's, Inject with many things acute
ly said anu things chat awaken some
fervor aud desire; but In none Of them
do l find tho words, "Come unto me
all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and will give you rest"
1t should be pointed out with con-
tinual earnestness that the essence of
lying Is In deception, not in words; "a
lie may be told by silence, byequlvoca-
ton, by the accent on a syllable, by q
glance Of the eye attaching a peculiar
Significance to a sentence.
We neel to change our standards.
Men must be honest In proportion to
their virtue, and considered rich by the
measure Of integrity. Life Is so much
wasted that 1t loses the divine idea,
which Is not the number Of a mans
days but the character, of his life.
Give us sincere friends, or none.
This hollow glitter of smiles and words /
compliments that nean nothing
protestations Of affection az solid as the
frorh from mpagne--invitation that
are but pretty sentences, uttered be-
cause such things arc all worthless.
SO deeply inherent is 1t In this life of
ours that men have to suffer for each;
others sins, so Inevitably diffusive is
human suffering, that even justloa