The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-06-17
IHe 9freside.
Fragments.
Never think that Gods delays are

Never think that Gods delays are
Gods denials.
Young folks grow most when they
are in love. 1t increases their sighs
wonderfully.
There are little links all the way
along our life that mark the touches
of the Divine finger.
Every man throws on his surroun-
dings the shadow or sunshine that
exists in his own soul. .-... q
A quack doctor advertises to this
effect: Cough whi,e you can; Tor.
after YOU have taken one bottle OF
my mixture you can't
Man must be disappointed with
the lesser things of life before he can
comprehend the full value of the
greater.
The man who is the architect of
his own fortunes has got to get some
poor nobody to do the carpenter
work.. g.t. l.
Dependence is a perpetual call
upon humanity, and a greater incite-
ment to tenderness and pity than
anv other motive whatsoever.
The vanity of loving fine clothes
and new fashions, and vauling our
selves by them, is one of the most
childish pieces of folly that can be.
The Sunday is the core of our civ
ilization, dedicated to thought and
reverence; it invites the noblest sol
itude and the noblest society.
| Said the Arkansas man: Il re
spect religion, but can you fairly ex-
pect me to attend church when there
| is q circus in town demanding sup
port|'
He is the happiest who confines
his wants to natural necessities.
He that goes further III his desires
increases his wants in proportion to
his acquisitions.
1t is one thing to possess the for
tress in time of peace; it is another
to hold it in time of battle amid
boom of cannon and burst of shell
and clash Of bayOnets.
All useless misery is certainly fol-
| ", and he that feels evils before they
come NAV be deservedly censured,
vet surely to dread the future is
more reasonable than to lament the
past.
If we daily seek those things
which are true, lovely and of good
report, the life beyond will be the
fulfllment Of our highest ambitions,
the completion of all we desired and
lived for here.
Physicians in India raise blisters
with red-hot irons, and dress them
with cayenne pepper. If such treat
ment does not make people "smart,"
we don't know anything that would.
There is no place in the wide
world, like home. 1t is the dwell
/ ling place of our hearts treasure,
and the first duty of our lives we
owe to it and its inmates. To make
it pleasant and attractive should be
the aim of every man.
When a man without cash or cred
it attempts to leave hotel, and
!, flowers his valise out of the back
Iwindow by means of a rope, it makes
Icharity seem cold to hear the voice
! of the landlord below, yelling up:
"All right; I've got the yalise; let go
f the rope"
j Christian patience! What a no
, BILE, uplifting, all-conquering quality
of soul! When possessed in high
degree, it carries one above the
q mists and storms, petty annoyances
and discomforts Of a busy worldli-
, ness, into the serene atmosphere of
reposeful trust in God.
An old gentleman once said, in
speaking of the bad consequences of
, disparity of fortune-especially on
the wife's side in marriage-that
when lie married be had twenty
cents and his wife twenty-five, and
that she was throwing out that ex-
ira five cents to him ever afterwards.
"How came those holes in your
elbows?" said the Widow Smith to
the irrepressible small boy. "Oh,
mother, [ hid behind the sofa when
little Jack Horner was sayin TO our
f julie that he'd take her, even if you
i: had to be thrown in; and he didn't
, know | was there, and so held in
e and laughed in my sleeves till l
hurst 'em :"