Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-03-28
FOR EVERYBODY.

n The fire of vanity is fed by the
I fuel of f1attery.
Soft words, warm friends; bitter
3 words. lasting enemies.
; Those who live to benefit others
! are the happiest of mortals.
Learn in childhood, if you can,
! that happiness is not outside, but IN
side.
We usually learn to wait only
when We have no longer anything to
wait for.
, Prudence and religion are above
accident, and draw good out of
everything.
Often what man takes for the
dictate of conscience is nothing more
than whiff of rsImpulse-a caprice.
| Marriage ties should be- made in
beau-knots. This style is most steasily
untangled.
| When the poet says "Soft be Thy
slumber," he means that the young
lady shall not snore hard.
| A good heart and clear con-
science bring happiness, which no
riches and no circumstance alone
ever do.
We are otter selfish in our love,
desiring more to be loved in return
than to benefit the object of our af-
fections.
Innocent fun is as good as any.
The best medicine is not always Bit
ter, nor is thing wicked solely be-
cause it is agreeable.
To listen kindly is often an act of
the most delicate interior mortifica-
ton, and helps US very much to
speak kindly ourselves.
The person has the greatest honor
and purest morals who is ready to
pardon all mistakes in other people
as if he himself offended daily.
To all mankind death is but
question of time; with womankind
the leugth of her life is often merely
q question of veracity.
1.-The great beauty of wife is,"
said a henpecked husband, "that
even if she abuses you herself, she
won't allow others to do so. -
Cashmere shawls are embroidered
almost entirely by men, and some
times a single garment represents
the work of three generations.
To begin well, and go on well, is
best; but 1t is better to go on well
after repeated failures than to throw
our whole cargo of good intentions
overheard.
When dong what is right the
heart is easy, and becomes better
every day; but when practiclng de-
ceit the mind labors, and every day
seems TO get worse.
It is very nice and easy to be
amiabie when tide and wind are IN
our favor; but adverse winds and
currents test the tempers, whether
they are for show or use.
Economy is wealth, but the board
ing-house mistress who split the
feathers in half so that they would
90 further in making beds, carried
economy too far.
"Got on your husbands cravat,
haven't you?" asked neighbor OF
Mrs. Bilkins. eyes," replied Mrs.
Bilkins, sadly, lit is the only tie
there is between us now"
The human is supposed to be far
more intelligent than the brute crea-
ton, and yet ordinarily the street-car
horse answers the bell quicker than
the servant girl will.
Kate Shelly, the brave Iowa girl
who saved railway train from de-
struetion recently, is being made the
subject of poets song. She de.
serves better fate.
'sSteel your heart" said consld-
crate father to his son, 'sfor you are
going now among some fascinating
girls .sI would much rather steal
theirs" said thesunpromising young
man.
A St..Louis doctor says that bon
bons, sweetmeats, ice cream, &C.,
cause indigestion, Headache, eonges-
ton of the liver, and is a great
source of boils and pimples. Cut :
this out and show it to your girl.
.sBe you not unequaliy yokedss
exclaimed a western minister In q
sermon on ill-considered marriages.
This is good advice, but how are
young people to know before mar
riage which is the best fightera
Woman is built sc that she can but
seldom throw straight. Providence.
it is truly said, orders everything
for the best, and after ahusband has
seen a cup sail harmlessly over his