Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-11-21
TERMS---S2. 90 PER YEAR
WORDS OF WISDOM.

The more YOU say, the less people
remember.
Simpliciiy of character is the natural
result Of profound thoughts.
The plant of happiness cannot thrive
without the air OF cheerfuIness.
The innocence of The intention abates
nothing OF the mischief of the example.
Make friends with your creditors, If
you can, but never make creditor OF
YOUR FRIEND.
The harvest gathered in the fields Of
the past is to he brought home for the
use of the present.
Promises made in the time of affiictioa
require better memory than people
commonly possess.
The misery of illness is nearly as mani
fest in high life as in the rags and hlth
Of extreme poverty.
Deprive the poor of the means of pro-
per subsistence, and you enslave and
destroy the nation.
Cheerfulness is an eX ,ellent wearing
quality. 1t has been called the bright
weather oil the heart.
We should be as cheerful of our words
as Of our actions, and as far from speak
| ing ill az from doing Ill.
For gold currency the people are
being encouraged TO sacrifice their goods,
their liberties, their children and them
selves.
| Gold and silver would he better as
mere medals of CONNIE rec, than as tiuct-
uating legal tenders in tie hands of
speculatpr'.
Give no quarter to those vices which
are of thine inward family, and having
q root in temper plead a right ald pro-
priety in thee.
To avepge ones self is to confess that
one has been wounded; but it is net the
mart Of a noble mind to be wounded by
an irjary.
/ Who is wise? He that learns from every
lone. Who is powerful He that governs
mis- passions. Who is ricL? He that Is
content.
Those who would be safe have need to
be suspicious of the tempter. The garri'
son that sounds parley is not far from
being surrendered.
He who expresses in his conduct just
ice AMI charity, accomplishes the most
beautiful works; the good man is in his
way, the greatest of all artists.
Public opinion is weak tyrant com
! pared with our own private opinion;
what man thinks of himself, that It Is
which determines, or rather Indicates.
, his fate.
, II does us good to admire what is good
I and beautiful; but it does us infinitely
more good 10 love it. We grow like what
we admire, but we become enc with what
|, we love.
The foundation of good labor in any
7 sphere is good man, and all that is doEe
. to give breadth, depth and fullness to
him will react in ultimate Improvement
upon his work.
Knowledg, must be made vital In the
, heart before it can blossom into corduc.
!. and the continual passing OF right feeling
y into right action alone can form worthy
character.
Men who complain most loudly about
the INEQUALITIES of the human lot are
leenerally a little blind to those great
n stores of wealth and blessings that nc
r. class can monopolize, and no wealth car
,s buy.
The man who will pot execute hi
il resolutions when they are fresh upor
5 Him can have no hone from them alter
II wards; they will be dissipated, lost, ant
n perish in the hurry OF the world. or II
the slough of Incidence.
d Tho oat tree plapted by Lord Byron a
,e Newstead Abbey Is large aud fiourishing
a a,thongh the alder on which he cut tn
a names "Byron and Augusta" long sine
died.