The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18
PITH AND POINT.


We frequently confess our little
faults in order to have it thought that
we have no great ones.
We find it hard to get and keep
any private property in thought. Other
people are all the time saying the same
things we are boarding to say when
we get ready.-Dr. Holmes
Solomon might have spoken a lit
tie emphatically had he said: ''Go~to
the oyster, thou sluggard." An able
bodied female oyster thinks producing
5000 600 eggs is fair seasons work
when she is feeling we'll.
1T a man received three dollars
per day, and s,ved every cent of it,
one thousand years would elapse be-
fore he could he master of a million.
His hair by that time would be slight.
tinged with gray. Unit;d Labor Age.
1t contributes greatly toward
mans moral and intellectual health.
to be brought into habits of compan.
ionship with individuals unlike HIM
sell, who care little for his pursuits
and whose sphere and abilities he
must 90 out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
We do not know what is to happen
tomorrow, therefore let us make the
best use We can of to-day. Olly one
day is given us at tjme-one mo-
ment, indeed-that imperative now
that quickly passes. and will never
come back again. United Presbyte-
rian.
1t is very difficult to retain a
friend after you have got him. You
may be sure of losing him if you ask
him to befriend you-at his expense OF
risk. There is love of friends which
causes men to go on bonds and in
dorse notes. which they subsequently
have to make good. while they wall
and gnash their teeth. -7eras Sifsings.
Congressional demagogue Cat
mass-meeting) - Yes, gentlemen.
labor is the cornerstone Of our pros.
perity. Voice Qrom the audience)-
"True fer you. The cornerstone of
buildin' is highly honored, isn't it
sorP'' "Honored! 1t is tho stone Sc
lected for the reception of the most
valued records and most precious ties.
timonials of its era of civilization"
'*Thrue agin, sor An it's dorm near
the bottom it is too, sor. Omaha
World.
III Milton will only cross my thresh.
old to sing to INC of Paradise, and
Shakespeare to open to me the world
of Imagination and tho workings OF
the human heart, and Franklin to en-.
rich mo with his practical wisdom. ]
shall not pine for want of intellectual
companionship, and I may become
cultivated man. though excluded from
what is called the best society in the
place where I live. - William E1lerv
Claiming.
-Consciences are accommodating
things. They seldom trouble a man
who has gobbled millions of other
peoples money; but when they get
hold of fellow who has pocketed
twenty-five cents that belongs to some.
body else. they make 1t warm for him
until he disgorges or joins the great
majority and augments his populations
TO point beyond which no self-re-
speeding conscience cares to go.
Inequality in taxation. my son, is
asystem Of assessment which hits you
quite as hard rs neighbor Jones. over
the way. just and impartial taxation,
on the contrary, is system which lets
you off without paying q dollar and
makes Jones pay enough for both.
There, my son. you have bit of infor-
nation that you would never learn in
an organic newspaper or political
convention. Boston transcript.