The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-08-26
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


: as an heroic courage.
= A soul-stirring MISUNDERSTANDING
on the point Of a. tack.
a Old sledge is still favorite game
With most blacksmiths. fNf
Love Is like honesty-much talked
, about but little understood.
t In English politics, man stands for
/ seat; here he runs for one.
g The man who grumbles with dice
7 Will learn the folly ere he dice.
, 1t costs us more to be miserable than
would make us perfectly happy.
nave seen many women drown
3 their honor In river of diamonds.
tie who makes an idol of his interest.
: Will make martyr of his integrity.
Power UNSOLICITED to the control of
, vlrue is poor guardian Of civil liberty,
The more we help others to bea =
their burdens the lighter our own will
be. '
In confesstng your faults and pluck
ing goose always make a clean breast
of it. ..I..I ~, ,o>' O"''
Ihe way to gain good reputation Is
10 ehdeavor to be what You desire to
appear.
The young man who bets on his
watch as a time keeper is stalking notes
Oh time.
Hopel fortunes cheating lottery:
when tor one prize an hundred blanks
there bel
If you would not have aflliction to
visit you twice, listen at once to what
1t teaches.
She looks down into the churn and
softly sings, "This is the whey | lona
have sought.
Jones calls his wife Nihilist because
she Is always 80 anxious and willing to
blow him up. '"
when young men idolize young Ia
ules they are very apt to tell great
many idle lies.
Shame on those breasts of stone,
that cannot melt in soft adoDtion az
another's sorrow.
1t Is one Of the worst of errors 70 sun.
pose there is any other path of safely
except that Of duty.
The gout IS a break which n w,se
providence puts on MANS legs when
he Is living too fast.
Envy Is passion so full of conf
dence and shame that nobody ever hal
the confidence to own it.
ls a cornet player likely to become
Intoxicated with the spirit Of music
when he goes off on toot.
The wise man stands firm in all ex-
tremlties, and bears the lot of his hu-
manity with divine temper.
| He who has but little wealth, and at
the same time would be satisfied with
less, Is rich enough to be happy.
There Is no fish in the world that
SaSRR sBdneW }RtSr Ills 1aaesst. 1tsaest
If you let trouble sit upon your soul
iike a hon upon her nest, you may ex-
pect tho Matching Of large brood.
What were the worst results Of the
civil WARP DRIED an orator. "Widowsin
shouted Jones, who had married one.
You may shrink from the far-reach-
| Ing solititudes Of your heart, but no
other foot than yours can tread them.
Nature makes us poor when we want
| neccssarics, but custom gives the name
| Of poverty to tho want of superhulties.
He that resolves upon any great and
ut the same time good end, by that
very resolution has scaled the chief
barrier to It.
We knew we should discover It.. The
| midnight cat tries to scale the fence
and "run the scale" at the same time.
Hence tho discord.
Truth and purity, like 90 many gems
H.,
| cannot but shame and condemn error
and vice in others.
1t is easy enough to make sacrifices
| for those we love, but for our enemy
we have to struggle and overcome self.
Such victory is noble.
a cheerful temper is like grain Of
musk; 1t lmparts Its fragrance to every
| thing that comes In contact with It, vet
1t always remains the same.
Those who, without knowing, us
| think or speak evil Of us, do us no harm;
it IS not us they attack, but the phan-
tom of their own Imagination.
Politcncss may prevent the want of
wit and talents from being observed;
but wit and talent cannot prevent the
discovery of the want of politeness.
At forty years Of age a man look 8
back over his life, and wonders what
he did 1t for, and then turns wistfully
towards the future, and keeps on doing
the same thing.
We talk of acquiring o. habit; we
Habit Is the january power In man:
passion and principle the antagonist
revolutionary powers, tor evil and for
food.
He who looks On beauty with pure
affection f0rgets the loveliness OF the
body in that Of tho soul, and rises by
means OF that earthly beauty to the
great artist, to the very essence of love-
Illness.
Life has many ills, but tho mind
that views every object in the most
cheering aspect and every doubtful dis
pensation as replete with latent good,
bears within itself powerful and per-
petual antidote.
There Is one phrase without which
half the pleasure Of life would be taken
away. 1t Is phrase Of irritation to
one party, and extreme satisfaction to
the other, whenever anything goes
wrong. 1t is, 81 told you so.
Love, like light must always be trav
cling. A man must spend 1t, givel5
away. He may be miser Of his
wealth, tie his talent in \ napkin, and
hug himself up In his reputation, but
he Ia ALWAYS generous in his love.