West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-02-28
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The servant-girl that boweth down
the crystal chimney Is like unto an eel.
In that she Is lamp-prey.
lhe man who is waiting for some
thlng To turn up generally finds IL
when he steps on barrcl-hoop.
A good deed Is never lost; he who
sows courtesy reaps friendship, and IA.
who plants Kindness gathers love.
Experience has tanght us little, IL it
mas not instructed us TO pity the errors
OF others, and to amend our own.
Young swell; II should like 10 have
my mustache Dyed" Polite barber:
Certainly did you bring IL with you Y''
1t is better To wear a poor vest with a
royal heart behind it than to wear "A
royal vest with beggar's heart inside.
Our distinctions do not lie in the
places winch we occupy, but i'm the
grace aud dISuIty with which we fill
them.
bo not ALI that you can do; spend
not all that you have; believe not ali
that you hear; aud tell not all you
know.
The individual who called tight boots
comfortable defended his position by
sayiI X they made man forget all his
other ,niseries.
The man who goes to church simply
because he has nothing else To do, may
not be heathen, but he Is certainly an
idle worshiper.
"A Florida preacher closed an unsuc-
cessiul revival meeting recently with
the remark, 81 tell you, my hearers, It
II don't pay for the gas"
We all dread IA bodily paralysis, and
would make use OF every contrivance
To avoid II, but none of US are troubled
ABOUT paralysis OF the soul.
The two great pleasures In living are
In having something tQ love and to
hope for, and the last OF these Is ever
before US in the promise of tomorrow.
Good books are to the young mi,d
what the warming sun and the refresh
ing rain OF spring are To the seeds
which have lain dormant I'm the frosts
vi winter.
Hardship Is the native soil of man
hood ana self-reliance. He that can
not ABIDE the storm without finch ing
iles uoWn Dy the wayside, To be over
looked or forgotten.
If man would keep both integrity,
anu independence free from temptation.
let hin, keep out OF debt. FRANKLIN
said, "lt IL hard for an empty bag To
stand upright"
AS benevolence Ia the most social or
all virtues, so IL Is of the largest extent:
for there Is not any man either 80 great
or 80 little but he 10 yet capable of Civ
ing and receiving benefits.
Were we TO take as much pains To Ina
what we ought TO be as we do TO dis
suise what we really are, we mlg ght ap-
pear IKE ourselves, without being AT
the trouble OF any disguise ut all.
There are treasures laid up I'm the
heart-treasures OF charity, piety.
temperance and soberness. These
treasures man takes with him beyond
death, When he leaves this world.
There ID no fortune 80 good but that
1t may be reversed, and none so bad but
IL may be- bettered, The sun that rises
In clouds may set In splendor, and that
which rises in pleasure may set In
gloom.
Think nothing profitable which will
ever force tnee TO break thy word, to
lose thy self respect, TO hate, suspect.
curse or deceive any one, or to desire
anything that need be covered with
walls or wells.
BE true to yourself, and enemies
cannot harm you. They cannot, by ali
their Efforts, take away your knowledge
Of yourself, the purity Of your motives,
the Integrity of your character. ana
the generosity Of your nature.
One really kind office OF love to amel-
iorate the distresses of suffering
child Of humanity has more power TO
refine and exalt the soul than the study
Of whole tones Of theories on the per-
fectibility OF human virtue.
a Frenchman, eight days after mar
riagc, and while on his wedding trip,
received telegram announcing the
death Of his mOther-in-law, and, with
touching sincerity, writes her epitaph:
''To the best Of mothers-in-law."
No place, no company, no age, no
person IS temptation free. Let no mau
boast that he was never tempted; let
him not be high-minded, but fear. foi
he may be surprised In that very in
slant wherein he boasteih that he was
never tempted at all.
In Cicero and Plato and other such
writers, meet with many things acute
ly said and things that awaken some
feryor and desire but in none Of them
do find the words, "COme unto me
all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and ] Will give you rest"
10 should be pointed out with con
tinual earnestness that the essence OF
lying Is in deception, not In words: Il
lie may be told by silence, by equivoca-
tiOn, by the accent on Il syllable, by
glance Of the eye attaching a peculiar
significance TO n sentence.
We neeI tO change our standards.
Men must be honest in proportion to
their virtue, and considered rich by the
measure Of integrity. Life Is so much
wasted that 10 loses the divine idea,
which Is not the number Of a mans
days but the character Of his life.
Give US sincere friends, or none.
This hollow glitter of smiles and words
compliments that mean nothing
prOtestatiOns Of affection "a solid as the
froth from mpagne--invitations that
are but pretty sentences, uttered be-
cause such things are all worthless.
SO deeply inherent is IL i'm this life Of
ours that men have TO suffer for each
others sins, 40 inevitably dihusiye Is
human suffering, that even justics
makes It's victims and there Is no retri-
button that does not spread beyond It's
mark In pulsatiOns Of unmerited pain.
Infinite toll would not enable you TO
sweep away q mist; but by ascendinga
little you may look over 1t altogether.
SO lt Is with our moral Improvement.
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