Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29
PITH AND POINT.

PlTH AND POINT.
"A woman seldom preserves her
temper when she is canning fruit
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-Self-possession in a young woman
is we'll enough for awhile, if she don't
keep it too long.
Who always gives without know
ing how much will come at last to a
beggar's staff without knowing how
Ardbic.
The man who says he will welcome
death as a release from life made up
of sorrow, generally sends for four
doctors when he has the colic.-Ne-
braska State Journal.
"A wicked man has to be forced to
pay his honest debts. His dishonest
debts are called debts of honor, and
are. paid voluntarily according to a
code of honor among thieves.-N. O.
Ptcayutse. ..' ..., -.
One man escapes all the diseases
that flesh is heir to and is killed on
the railroad; another man goes through
half a dozen wars without a scratch
and then dies of whooping cough.
1t is important to be strong, like
the rock that nothing moves, but also
to be gentle, humbly and lowly, like
the vine that grows out of its crevice
and trails about it's surfaces. Nature
is full of tapestries.
Glad summer is here
With its usual romanceS,
Its conventions and beer,
It's socials and dances;
The roses smell sweet
And the groceries cheesy,
The ladies look neat
| And the butter spreads easy.
OIL city Blizzard.
Between the economy practiced
from choice or sense of duty, and
that which poverty or the force of
circumstances renders imperative,
| there is wide difference. The form
er possesses for some dispositions a
certain fascination amounting almost
to pleasure; and even the latter, as
long as there is any thing at all to do
| with, has a sort of compensation in the
feeling that the best possible has been
done with the means at hand.
We talk of human life as a
journey, but how variously. is that
journey performed! There are those
| who come forth grit and shOd and
| mantled, to walk on velvet lawns and
smooth terraces, where every gale is
arrested and every beam is tempered.
There are others who walk on the
Alpine paths of life, against driving
misery and through stormy sorrows
over sharp Affections; walk with bare
feet and naked breast, jaded, mangled
and chilled.-Rev. Sydney Smith.
The beginning of hardship is like
the first taste of bitter food; it seems
for moment unbearable, yet if there
is nothing else to satisfy our hunger,
we take another bite, and find it possi-
bic to go on. There is no despair 50
absolute as that which comes with the
first moments of our first great sorrow,
when we have not yet known what it is
to have suffered and be healed, to have
despaired and to have recovered hope.
George Eliot
A great many of Natures laws are
written so plainly in consequences, that
it seems very odd that so many of us
pass our lives without paying the least
regard to them; too often it is only
when they are written in our very life's
blood that we heed them at all, and
then it is too late. The anxious man
of bcsiness, the fretting, over-solicit-
Gus mother, the worrying housekeep-
er, each in his or her way: is laying up
debt against vitality, and becoming
involved in very serious contest with
nervous force, in which they are sure to
come off worsted; and for what? Often
for the most ridiculous causes.-Dens-
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