Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-11
more than men in steel with bloody pur.

poses.
The Sabbath is the link between the
paradise which has passed away and the |
paradise which has yet to come.
Society is crucible in which all gold |
melts. Out of it are drawn only two
prizes, vanity or disgust.-Ouida. Il
The best way to keep the Sabbath
day is to use it as day of rest, recreation
and amusement.-Mrs. Lucretid Mott.
Hove that tranquility of soul, in which
We feel the blessing of existence, and
, which is in itself prayer and thanks.
giving.
Have q purpose. A worthy purpose
will speedily free the mind and spirits of
the mumps and measles, dyspepsia and
languor.
Idleness is tho most corrupting fly
that can grow on the human mind. Men
learn to do i'll by doing what is next to
|it-nothing.
The best of lessons for good many
people, would he to listen at key. hole.
It is pity for such that the practice is
dishonorable.
It is wonderful how silent man can
be when he knows his cause is just, and
how boisterous he becomes when he
knows he 10 in the wrong.
These times are the ancient times,
when the world is ancient, and not those
which We account ancient by compu.
tation backwards from ourselves.
Il The foundation of every good govern.
ment is the family. The best and most
prosperous country is that which has the
greatest number of happy iresides.
The child taught to believe any occur
cence good or evil omen, or any day of
the week lucky, hath wide inroad
made upon the soundness of his under
standing,
1t is not wisdom, nor knowledge, nor
learning which fits man for Gods SER
vice, but contrite heart, a pure mind, q
humble spirit, lively faith and de-.
vout charity.
Il When you have something to accom-.
plish, take all the time for reflection the
circumstances permit; but when the time
of action has come, stop thinking
, -4ndre,c Jackson.
"God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb" is line of Sterne. The nearest
approach to it in scripture is Isaiah,
xvii, 8, "He stayeth his rough wind in
I. the day of his east wind"
The knowledge which We have &C.
+, quired ought not to resemble great
, shop without order. and without an in.
ventory; We ought to know what we
possess, and be able to make it serve in
!, need.
In those vernal seasons of the year
when the air is calm and pleasant, il
q were an injury and surliness against
nature not to 60 out and see her riches
and partake of her rejoicing with heaven
J and earth.
. Whoever looks for friend without
!, imperfections will never find what he
seeks. We love ourselves with all oul
faults, be they few or many, small OF
great, and we ought to love our friends
: in like manner.
The conclusion at which have ar.
1 rived is that without temperance there
/. is no health; without virtue, no order;
!, without religion, no happiness, and that
. the sum of our being is to live wisely, so.
l berly and righteously.
All successful men have agreed in one
thing-they were causationists. They
;. believed that things went not by luck
but by law. Belief in compensation, OF
that nothing is got for nothing, charac.
terizes all valuable minds.
Good fortune and bad are equally
3 necessary to man to fit him to meet the
0 contingencies of life. Few men who have
\ not experienced the vicissitudes OF
= fortune know how to bear them with
9 irmness or are fit to meet them.
J. Take, rather than give, the tone of the
company you are in. If you have parts
k you will show them, more or less, upon
every subject; and if you have not, you
= had better talk Silly upon subject oi
e other peoples than one of your own
8 choosing.
:, Truth is one of the falrest attributes
: of the Deity. 1t is the boundary which
separates vice from virtue-the line
: which divides heaven from hell. It is
9 the claim which binds the man of integ.
+ rity to the throne of God; and, like the
). God to whose throne it binds him, till
this claim is dissolved his word may be
relied on. Suspended on this, your
Q property, your reputation, your life, are
safe.
"What am thinking of is-what mus
it be for wife when she ls never SURE
of her husband, when he hasn't got
, principle in him to make him NOR.
: afrald of doing the wrong thing b,
e others than of getting his own toe
plnched. That's the long and the short
f of it. Young folks may get fond o
each other before they may know wha
. life is, and they think 1t all holiday i
they can only get together; but it soor
turns into working-day, my dear"