The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-11-24
Az SORTS.

Agood question to ask letter,
carrier-Does your mother know your
route.
Many men claim to be firm in
their principles, when really they
are only obstinate in their prejudi.
ces.
To do right before children is the
best way Of teaching them to be
good,
We are surrounded by an unseen
realm. Of spiritual reality, which is
opened to US only as we grow into it.
The law can never make q man
honest; it can only make him very
uncomfortable when he.is dishonest.
1t was ever the fashion Of erom-
wells pikemen to rejoice greatly
when they beheId ,efetaS-
The science which is most neces-
sary for us to learn is, how to pre-
serve ourselves from the 66ntagion Of
: bad example,
II was a Windham wife, who,
whef her husband was brought home
intoxicated thanked God he was not
q blood relation.
The source Of craving vanity is
often restless modesty that longs to
hear something better of itself than
it.thiaks 9fftself.
l. All yohths are not fitted for a col.
lege education. 1T is net best to
ipalle aone.story brain try to carry a
three sfpfy education.
1.-The greatest thoughts seem degra.
dedinr passage through q little mind.
Gwen the winds of heaven make but
mean music when whistliagthrough
1a'key.hols.
The man who has money in the
bank and plenty in his pocket can
wear straw hat four weeks longer
than the one who is debt for his last
weeks board. Why is it2
To cultivate sympathy you must
be among living creatures, and think
about them; and to cultivate admira,
ton you must be among beautiful
things and looking at them.
Some predict that the time will
come when people can read each
others thoughts like book. 1t is
sad to think that many fy-leaves
will be discovered where least expec-
ted.
There is this special value in a life
like jacobs, that it shows how much
Gods grace can make of the very
poorest material. The mean Jacob
became the mighty Israel, p priu,e
with God: -
81 have three children Who are the
very image of myself" 81 pity the
youngest" replied his interlocutor.-
"WhyW because he is the one who
will have to resemble you the long.
est"
Let it not be forgotten that the
amount of vital energy which the
body at any moment possesses is lin.
tied; and that, being limited, it is
impossible to get from it more than
affixed quantity of results.
A Bostonian, who was Nominated
for political Office went to his wife
and said that before he accepted he
wanted to know whether any mem.
Der of her family had ever been en-.
gagged in any disreputable transact.
ions. She said, "Better decline"
The Chinese have a proverb to the
effect that if you keep a serpent in a
bamboo it remains straight, but di.
rectly you let it out resumes its
crooked nature. So it is-with many
men. They are placed in circum.
stances which act as a restraint.
Refined policy has ever been the
parent of confusion, and ever will be
as long as the world endures. Plain,
good intention, which is as easily
discovered at the first view as fraud
is surely detected at the last, is Of nc
mean force in the government Of
mankind.
A true education aims to implant
love of knowledge; an adherence Of
truth because it is truth, a reverence
for man because he is man, an en-.
thusiasm for liberty, spirit of can.
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