The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-01-22
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


comes TO them rs u vocation.
The real chameleon ls a sensitive van
ity, prone TO change color with every
chance OF surrounding.
The faithful discharge OF duty disa-
| gr:eable TO others maxeth the heart OF
| the righteous to rejoice.
Does Il rejected lover ever think that
the woman has done quite so we'll for
| her own interests as she might?
1t is better to be doing the most in
significant thing In the world than to
reckon half an hour Insignificant.
The loss Of Il friend is like that OF a
limb, time may heal the anguish of the
| wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
| Pcrversc human nature makes 1t COM
mon to pull down a mans good name
while he lives and build it up after he
is dead.
There is nothing 80 blind as lovc,
there Is nothing SO given To seeing. 1t
| will get even from heaven TO the vision
| it seeks.
What young man Of twenty-five is
lnscnsibic to tho pleasure OF talking
with bright girl ofseventeen for Il lis
toner?
| Metaphors are often lamps which
light nothing, and SHOW only nakedness
vi the walls against which they are
hung.
| The body may rest through the sleep
Of the night; but the pour mind works
as hard in dreams rs it did through the
waketll day.
Memory can CLEAN but never renew.
IT. brings us joy faint as the perfume Of
the flowers, faded and dried, OF the
summer that IS gone,
Labor without ccasing to do all tho
good in your power while time is al
lowed you, for The night will come
when no man can work.
The man who possesses passionate
and revengeiul temper Is deprived Of
reason, and all that is great and noble
in his nature is suppressed
Beware Of prcjudiccs; they are like
rats, and mems minds are like traps.
Prejndlces creep IN easily, but Ii Is
doubtful If they ever get out.
Don't despise the small talents; they
arc needed as well US tho great ones.
~ candle Is sometimes rs useful rs tho
sun.
The greatest evils in life have had
their rise from something which was
thought TO be Of too little impo ortance
to be attended to.
when you are down henrted and tho
| world looks black to you, you ought to
b. hospitablo enough TO entertain n
hope OF better days.
1t Is. after all, the person who stakes
tho least, who loses most. In the atreo-
lions this Is wholly true. He who risks
nothing, loses every ching. ..
What an argument in favor Of social
connections Is the observation, thut bv
communicating ear gricis wc have less.
ana 0y communicating our pleasures
we have more.
| wit loses It's respect with the good
when seen In company with malice;
ana to smile at jest which plants u
thorn In another's breast, ts t. become
Il principal III the mischief.
The end Of satire Is tho amendment
OF vices by ruption; and he who
writes honestly Is no more an offender
than the physician to the patient when
he prescribcs harsh remedies,
If love and affec ion could be won
with gifts and jewels, then indeed love
would have Its price; but 1t ls not so.
Affection springs from the heart only;
no gifts can produce 1t. A child's love
ls won more truly bya parents tond
| cmbrhce and kiss than with glittering
toys.
llo who comes from the kitchen
smells OF its smoke; he who adherea
to Il sect has something OF its cant; tho
college air pursues the student, and
dry inhnmanity him who herds with
| literary pedants.
Let us i've ns men who are sometime
to grow old, and to whom it Will be the
most dreadful of all evils to count their
past years by former luxuriance Of
health onl by the maladies which riot
has produced.
Goodwords do more than hard speech-
es; as the snnbeums without any noise
Will make the traveller cnst of his clOnk.
which all the clustering wind could
not 10, but only make him bend it clos
or to HIM
The damps Of autumn sink into the
leaves anG prepare them for the ne ces-
sity Of their fall; and thus insensibly
are we, rs years close around us, de-
tached from our tenacty Of life by the
gentle pressure Of recorded sorrow.
If you would relish food, labor for It
before you take it; If enjoy clothing,
pny for 1t before you wear ft; If yoJ
would sleep soundly, take a clears con-
science to bed with you.
EVIL thoughts are worse enemies than
i'ouS anu CtRcrs, loF "e can keep out
Of their way; but bad thoughts win
their way every where; keep your head
and heart full Of good thoughts, that
bad ones may find no room to enter.
That policy that can strike only whilo
tho iron Is hot will be overcome by tha,
perseverance which, like Cromwell's
oan make the iron hot by striking; and
he that can only rdle tho storm must
yield to him who can both raise and ,
rule 1t.
There Is gold In tho rocks which
fringe the pass OF the splngen, gold
even In tho stones WHOM mends the
roads, but there is too lIttle of it to ,,uo
worth extracting. Alas how like too
many books and sermons. Not so the
scriptures. They are much finer gold
their very dust Is precious.
In the decline of life, shame and
grief are Of short duration; whether it
be that we bear easily what we have