The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-28
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

dancing? Because it is regular
| baWl-rOom.
We carry our neighbours crimes In
sight, but throw our own over our
shoulders.
II you would never have an evil
deed spoken of In connection with you
don't do one.
What is sweeter than sugar ousei
Why young Ladies'" semtnery, when
1t is full of lasses.
A man is great just in proportion to
his superiority to the condition of life
IN which he is placed.
TO know how bad man will act
when.in power, reverse all the doctrine
preaches when obscure.
When a policeman finds a man full
ne takes him Into the station house and
his friends bail him out.
A woman that wears false curIs
which have not been paid for, Is a hair
owing sort of an otj ,ot.
He will find him self In IA gre It ms.
take that either socks for friend In u
place Or tries him ut u feast.
One should not dispute with a man
VINO either through stupidity or shame
less less, donics plain truths.
The human mind is like a drunken
peasant on horseback-prop it on ono
slde and 1t falls OIL the other.
You will gain good reputation If
you aVold tho SO actions which you can
censure and blame in others.
Life Is not 80 short but that there ls
always time enough for courtesy.
Sell command Is the main elegance.
Blessed be he who gives to the poor,
albeit only penny; dOubly blessed be
he who aids kind W )rds to his gift.
The most sure method Of su5ieotlng
yourself to be deceived is to consider
yourself more cunning than others.
Wit stands IN the same relation to
common sense that paint doas to wool
1T gives the finish and preserves 1t.
lr you have talents, industry will
strengthen them; If moderate abilities,
industry Will supply the deficiency.
Men who have tho strongest intel
locts have tho weakest IN m3nr)rios; tbey
trust more to invention than mem
Ory.
man never attalls true greatness
by being perfectly satlst1 sd with
the result Of Zach days work as 1t " >,
done. ~
We suppose when woman has lil
the PIN money She wants, sue has IT.
tained tho pin nickel OF her hasBpi-
ness.
Flattcry 10 often traffic ofJmutual
meanncss, where although aEh part
les intend deception, neItD6r is de-
oelved.
If you would be miserable. look
within, If You would be distracted,
look around. If you would be happy.
look up.
There is in man higher aim than
love Of happiness; he can do without
happlness and instead thereof find
blcssodness.
b "Two Of a trads can never agree
said the old adago. What nonsense.
How could they make u trade unless
they agreenp
Friendship Is the cordial Of life, the
sehaCiVe OF our sorrows, and the null
tiplior of our joys; the source equally
OF animation and of repose.
Live with your friends as If thew
might sometimes become your enemies.
and with your enemies as if thew
might some time become your friends.
Human longings are preversely
obstinate, and to the man whose
mouth Is watering for q peach it is no
use to olfer tho largest vegetable mar
row.
Though reading and conversation
may furnish us with many ideas of
men and things, yet 1t Is our own
meditation must form our judge
ment.
y Experience and enthu4iasm are
much like the two buckets OF we'll;
as the one rises the other sinks,
and thoy arc found only for a momenC
together.
Love does not aim simply at tho
conscious good Of the beloved object;
1t Is not satisfied without perfect loyal
ty of heart. 1t aims at its own COM
pleteness.
so much are we the slaves of tho
world that we sometimes hesitate to
do an action which Is prompted by the
heart. fearful that 1t may be mistaken
by others for folly
How often Is our dissatisfaction
with the world but dissatisfa ,tion with
ourselves; and the han Is that we're
turned against us, being graspod,
provo our own TWO.
The law OF the harvest Is to reap
more than you SOW. Sow an act, and
you reap habit, SOW a habit and you
reap q character; SOW character. and
you reap destiny.
Say nothing respecting yourself.
either good, bad or Indifferent
nothing good, for it Is vanity nothing
bad, for that is affoctation; nothing
indifferent, for that is silly.
Irresolution is fata habit; it Is nes
vicious In itself, but 1t loads to vice,
creeping upon Its victims with fatal
lty the penalty Of which many fine
heart has paid at the sca1fold.
Polished steel will not shine In the
dark, no moro can reason. however
refined and cultivated, shine effioa,-
iously but as 1t reflects the light OF
divine truth shed from heaven.
Humanity IS the particular charac-
toristic Of Oraot minda. ljtt1c vicioua