The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-14
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

| . IFIi tAOukuCb are worse enemies
than lions or tigers !; for we can keep
bad thoughts win their way every
whore.
Anger may be foolish and absurd ::
one may be irritated whom in the
wrong, but man never fools out
ragcd unless In some respect he is at
the bottom right.
a man who thinks 1t foolish to re-.
ward his wife's devotion with kind
Words ana caresses Ia the Same one
VINO wonders why it is that women
sometimes 60 wrong.
1t is strange how oftsn It occurs
| that tho person who thinks he knows
most about business is one who b az
never been engaged in it.
| Inc surest way to attain success In
| il1e, according to the elder Pitt, Is to
Dc as regular and careful to the books
you read, as OF your dinner.
How many can adopt the dyinp
words Of Payson as their own living
WORDS, 81 long to hand a full Gun Of
happiness to every human being ;"
Much misconstrustion and bitter
ness are spared to him who thinks
naturally upon what he owes to others,
rather than what he ought to expecs
from them.
10 protect one', self against the
storms Of life, marriage with a p0od
woman Is a harbor In the TEMPEST
but with bad wo nan it proves a tenn
pest In the harbor.
Z Neglect no woman merely baoause
she Is plain looking; for beauty Ia to
woman but what saltpetre Is to beef
IL glVes it an e1pearance, but imparts
to 1t no rt..sh.
AS the shadow In early morning. Al
Is friendship with tho wicked; il
v,nfo., by Hon~. But irien lship wi b
Inc good increases like the evening
shadows, till the sun of life sets.
Nothing but frank Intercourse with
lndependent minds, nothing but DIS
cussion On equal terms, will keep a
thinker intellectually humble and
conscious Of fallibillty.
One of the bost rules for getting on
.easil In tho world Is TO Let the mind
dwell upon the beautiful and good
things OF life, and to think az little az
possible Of falsehood and wicked
.ness.
What man believes that he will do,
and If he has no faith to guide hls
practice and impel him to action. he
Will only drift-and no man drifted
into good and useful life, certainly
not into salvation.
II you want knowledae YOU muaR
toll for 1t if food, you must toll Or
It; and II pleasure you must toilfor
it. Toll Is tho law. Pleasure ,.6mes
through toll and not by selffndul-
genee and Incidence. When ole gets
one.
since bR RJplness ~ necessarily the
supreme object Of our desires and
duty the supreme rule OF our actions.
there can be no harmony in our be-
Ing except our happiness coinoides
with our duty.
One Pampelus, being asked his opin-
lon OF tho Boeotians, who were glut-
tons, replitp :-''Their conversation il
Just what that OF pots would be If thvy
had yoico-nanely, how much each
holds"
We arc always moro disposed to
laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit.
because the nonsense Is moro a9re
able to US, being more conform a bic to
our natures; fools love folly and wise
men love wisdom.
Oftentimes could we wish that we
''~ ''oAu ~! Po4oo Wu0n we nave
spoken, and that we lad not been In
company. Why do we talk so wilt
lngly, when Notwithstanding we sell
dom return to silence without hurt of
conscience
dood but he Is more sentimental than
tntellcctual-thst is, he Is more q
creature Of feelings than Of thought.
HaYing found some dominant feelings
that are noble, his success is assured.
When you see an old man aMiable,
mild, equal, content and good humor-
cd, bo sure that In his youth he has
bcen just, generous and forbearing.
past nor dread the future. He Is
like the evening OF a fine day.
In marrying, men should seek han.
and tho l0velie5t wive. are those who
possess the magic secret OF being hap
py under any and every circumstance.
ALLOW no aspersion Oh your oharac-
ter to remain disproved, no matter
how low It's origin may be; foul wa
ter has the same effect, Wheth ,r' It ia
thrown upon you by the mistress or tho
maid.
Had not men reasonable degree OF
confidence In one another. lid they
really believe that call are liars" as
some crOakers affirm, no society or
organization could hold together
for day.
A woman from her sex and charae-
ter, has a claim to many things be-
sidos shelter, food, and clothing. She
Is not less woman for being welded;
and the man who is At to be trusted
with good wife rsoollects all which
this implies, and shows himself per.
petuaily chivalrous, ,sweet-spoken, con-
Sid. rate, and deferentiaI.
No man who has reached tho age Of
throo. score years and ten would, upon
reflection, be willing to rub out from
his experience In life the sorrows
which have softened his character, the
mistakes which have taught him wis
dom, or tue wrOng-dolnRs which he
has ever regretted, and VIII oh, by
their influences, have made the golden