The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-03-06
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Iuat Wmcn Ii DltCer to be endured
may be sweet to be remembered.
Who is lavish with promises Is ant to
be pernurtous III performances.
i Don't belieYe half you hear, but make
sure that you believe all you say.
| Imputations, however unjust, sully.
II they do not stain, a character.
The cheapest advice Is that which
costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
A Christian should show his religion
over counter as we'll as at All altar.
olLove mooks all sorrows but its own,
aud damps each Joy he does not yield.
| There are no oaths that make so
many pefjarcrs as the vows OF love. SSEs u !.
! Why are women like churches? Be.
cause there's no living without them.
What piece of carpentry becomes
gem as soon as it is finished? Agate.
An apt quotation is like map which
hings it's light over the whole sentence.
All men are liberal, some to those
WHO are in need, and others to them
selves. '.'O.
With patience. sour grapes become
sweetmeats, and mulberry leaves turn
to satin.
What we oharitably forgive will be
recompensed as we'll as what we char
itably give. 49,.
Many man has no genuine faith
who never in his life denied or doubted
the gospel.
"Kaindrops on the roof" Of course
1t drops on the roof. That's what the
roof is for,
lnquirer:-What is the extreme pen-
aity for blgalnyP Two mothers law.
Why is pig with twisted tail like
tile ghost in Hamlet2 Because it could
tail unfold.
Latin is dead language, aud that ia
why doctors use it for writing out their
prescriptions. ...
10 educate the mind and let manners
and heart run wild, curses humanity
with mildew.
1.-The parting gives mo pain" as the
man said when he had q troublesome
tooth extracted.
| The Spartan mother when she gave
her son his shield said, "With it my
son or upon it."
Gut the most agreeable acquaintance
you possess when he convlncas YOU that
he looks principle.
In pocket-picking, as i'll almost every
thing else, man never succeeds until
lie gets his hand in.
A wit being asked, on the failure OF
a bank, "Were you not upsetp" replied.
mo; only lost my balance"
law student once defined libel AZ
"somothing o man says and afterwards
wishes to goodness he hadn't"
| nN Ill
lady of Uoieridge." ''No, madam" he
replied, II have seen too many"
Language is the amber in which q
thousand precious thoughts have been
safely imbedded and preserved.
There are lying looks rs we'll as lying
words, assembling smiles, deceiving
signs, and even lying silence.
Exaggerated language. noisy protes.
lotions, violent censure, all betray an
element OF weakness somewhere.
A word of kindness is seldom apol,en
il vain. It ,s seed which. even when
dropped by chance, springs up q flower
There is no singular to the word
aims, to show single act OF money
giving does not merit the name OF
charity.
| The man who enslaves himself to his
money, IL proclaimed in our very LAM
guage to be miser, or a miserable
| man.
The more an idea Is developed the
more concise becomes it's expression:
the more tree Is pruned, the better
tho fruit.
by holding very little misery quite
close to our eyes, we entirely lose sieht
OF great deal Of comfort beyond which
might be taken.
Midas lohged for gold. He eot gold
80 Tint whatever he touched became
gold, and he with his long ears was
little the better for it.
There are still few persons at largo
who Will invest their money in mining
stock in preference to investing in dog
and shooting the dog.
1t is said ninety million of postage
stamps are annually sold in this country,
and hll OF them have to be licked before
they will do their duty.
Five Of. the sweetest words in the
English language begin with h--whioh
is only breath; heart, hope, homo,
happiness and heaven.
live could get together all the tomb.
stones we have set up over broken
resolutions we should have material
enough to set up marble palace.
The man who worships the fortune
he has made, is no more intelligent
than the heathen who prays to the little
wooden god he mas whitfield into shape.
The devil tempts mon through, their
ambition, their oupidity, or their appe-
tite, until no comes to the prOfane
swearer whom he catches without any
1eward.
So it Is that great silent moving
misery puts o new stamp on us in an
hour or a moment, as sharp an impress
sion as IL it had taken half lifetime to I
engrave it. .tj 8
t'adladeen's political conduct and
opinion, were founded upon that line OF
Sadi's, "Should the Prince ut n6oM-day
say, 1T is right, declare that you be.
hold the moon and stars"
Ybe painter Of iUbede, who, beng
asked what he was painting, answered,
'.As 1t may happen, and who when he
had painted q cook, to prevent imperti- &
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