Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-05-12
SPRAYS.

| The wise do not wish to be younger,
but kids fOolishly sigh for more years.
In chance "the cards beat all the
players" and in evil the players beat
themselves and lose all.
Charity is often opposed. prosecuted
and tried, yet it never resents an injury
or INDUCES in bad temper.
People who prefer good clothes to
good deeds will be poorly clad when they
render their final account.
When a man confines his talk to him
self and yourself, stop him at once I'M
less you are as shallow as he.
To-day we have consequences genera
ted in actions of the past and will in
future reap what we now SOW.
Dwight says, "God delights in true,
earnest thinkers" No wonder He has
such small company on earth.
Persons who strive to be hogs are the
most dangerous kind of pork, and their
importatiOns should be forbidden.
Edgeworth says: "In difficult cases do
nothing The world has great herds of
people who must have difficult cases.
Charity is frequently misunderstood
but always understands its mission of
doing good, communicating and saving.
A man who Is mastered by fOrmu-
lated system has little need Of thought,
as all matters for him have been decided
by others.
Men whose vision reaches not to the
mountain summit can't see it, and low
down minds condemn everything above
their short range.
Keats Epitaph reads: "Here lies one
whose name was writ in water A
great many have writ their name and
history in whisky.
Young earthquakes, cyclones, floods,
fires, panics, pestilence and wars, repre-
sent much evil, but a vile slanderer is
a meaner thing than they all.
Language is the close-fitting dress
of thought" Some thought must be
poverty-stricken, judging from the in
feriOr, ragged, unwashed clothes worn.
If some men could concentrate
thought as rapidly as they multiply and
repeat meaningless phrases, they would
benefit the world as much as they now
abuse it.
Eloquence of language, purity of die
ton and gracefulness of expression do
not come to those who never get beyond
the slang, vulgarity and profanity of
low ribald utterances.
The man who is so great and generous
as to not know how to hate his enemies,
has attained an altitude not far from
Calvary and has an ignorance that is
fraught with true bliss.
Charity is so choice in company as to
be ambitious to associate with the weak
est, poorest and saddest, that these prod
igals may be saved through kindly Off
ces and friendly messages.
The world has prepared court in
which the slanderer can try his case,
but God will not hear SANDER against
any man or woman. He knOws,a and that
is enough for every faithful worker.
Hypocrisy will not stand, because its
foundation is treachery, its every act I'M
soundness, and its very life putrefactiOn,
the greater Its altitude of success, the
greater and more disastrous its defeat.
Principles voted down will arise again
and become popular through the might
of right and human progress, and a man
who can't defend principle for its own
sake is not true friend when principle
is in the ascendency.
1t is an exiomatic truth that mo man
can serve two masters; for either he will
hate the one and love the other, or else he
will hold to the one and despise the
other" A thing cannot be both an in
sect and an elephant, brook trout and
a shark, lamb and wolf, a deceiver
and true, real man.
In Swiss museum there Is watch
that ia ONLY 3-16 of an inch i'm diamotar