The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-26
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

| IrOuu hearts and lofty mountain
are always barren.
Duties fulfilled are always pleasures
to the memory.
The reward of one duty is the DOW
er to fulfil another.
Better be upright with poverty than
wicked with plenty.
Virtue does not give talents. but #
supplies their place.
The trees that are most in the sun
pear the sweetest fruit.
Every man who has decision of char
acter will have enemies.
Be indus trious. Incidence, debt
and disease are brothers.
Justice Is like glass which cannot be-
bent, but easily broken.
Carlyle says that false modesty IS the
most decent of falsehoods.
1T Is In infancy that we lay the
foundation OF good old age.
The sanderer is the DEVILS bellows
to blow up contentious.
III you converse by the way rcmem-
Der there may be men in the grass.
The smallest perfect achievement is
nobler than the grandest failure.
Let your word be your bond. Good
credit is fortune to begi" with.
a wise man can fill thousand
mouths, fool cannot protect himself.
There are enough fine notices in the
world. What we need Is men to wear
them pinned on the lappcls of their
conscience.
In adyersity be spirited and firm, and
with equal prudence lessen your sail
| Wisdom is Il pedestal from which
envy nor malice cannot hurl the occu-
pant.
BE temperate. Liquor has made
more paupers than all other Vices COM
! bincd.
What Is 1t to be resigned2 1t Is to
put God between ourselves and our
| sorrows.
The lion opens his mouth the cle-
plant the emblom Of wisdom] shuts
his: shut yours.
Great things are not ACCOMPLISHED
ny idle dreams, but by years of pa
tient study.
You may be chaste as ice and pure
as snow, but you shall not escape cal
umny.
1t isas difficult for n young woman
to know she Is ugly, AS to be ignorant
of her beauty.
In most discussions we love our
selves better than our cause; and seek
loss TO have 1t valued than ourselves.
a pound Of energy with an ounce Of
talent Will achieve greater results
than pound Of talent with an ounce
of energy.
There Is nothing more universally
commended than fine day; the reason
Is, that people can commend It without
envy.
One day there came man to tho
| great Themistocles, and proposed to
hlm All art OF memory. He answered
bitterly, "Teaoh mo tho art Of forget.
fulness.
Love is tho shadow Of the morning,
which decreases as the day advances.
Friendship Is the shadow of the even-
Ing, which strengthens with the set
ting sun Of life.
The mind Is but a barren soil; soil
which Is soon exhausted, anu will pro-
duce no crop, or only one, unless 1t bo
continually fertilized and enriched
with foreign matter.
Whoever sincerely cndoavors to do
all the good he can will probably do
much more than he imaglnes, or will
ever know till the dny when the Sc
creLs Of all hearts shall be manifest.
When the cup Of sensual pleasure Is
drained to the bottom, there Is always
poison In the dregs. Anacrcon him
self, declares that "the flowers swim
ut the top Of the bowl.
All useless misery is certain folly,
and he that feels evils before they
come, may be deservedly censnred, vet
surely to dread the future is more
reasonable than to lament tho past.
Sy1, ~,
the mere ceremonies OF religion are
fallen into thick darkness; but they
arc in still thicker gloom, who arc
solely attached to fruitless spccula-
tions.
knowledge cannot be acquired with
oat pain and application. 1t is
troublesome, and like digging for pure
water; but, when once you come to
the spring, 1t rises up to meet you.
The beginning Of hardships is like
the first taste OF bitter food-it seems
for Il moment unbcarablc; yet, If there
Is nothing else to satisfy your hunger,
you take another bite and find it posi-
bic to 60 on.
Whatever facilitates our work Is
NOR, than al omen: tits cause OF
SUCCESS. This Is one Of those pleasing
surprises which often happen to active
resolutions. Many things difficult to
design prove easy to perform.
The Sup"eme Court Of Iowa has de-
cided that school boards have no right
to put lightning rods on school build
ings, except to replace old ones, and
now 1t is to be called upon to decide
whether thay have a right to insure
the school buildings against de-
struction by fire.
True cleanliness, says foreign wrl-
ter, Is a matter Of minutiw, and admits
of no subterfuge. II dirt can find a
crack, q ledge, or an absorbent sur
face which cannot be reached by the
ordinary method Of cleansing, there
dirt will accumulate; and whore dirt
is there Will disease be also. - l|3
The durability Of oak may be known
from the fact that the throne Of ed
ward the Confessor Is $40 years Old
one OF the oaken coronation chairs has
been In the present situation In West
minister Abbey about $40 years and