The Irish standard., 1889-01-26
GRAINS OF TRUTH.

GRAINS OF TRUTH.
A fine coat may cover fool but neve
conceals one.
Nothing is so indicative of deepest cul
ture as tender consideration of the
ignorant.-Emerson.
Learn the art of silence. The wise
man, while he holds his tongue, says
more than the fool while he speaks.
True politeness is perfect ease and
freedom. 1t simply consists IN treating
others just as you love to be treated
yourself.
Pride, i'll nature and the want of sense
are the three great sources of i'll man
ners. Without some of these defects no
man will behave himself i'll for the want
of experience.
Everybody sits in judgment on dirty
sin; but cleanse it, dress and polish it,
and there are ten thousand people VINO
think 1T not SO sinful after all. 1t is rag
ged iniquity that rs considered sinful
FURNISHED iniquity is not near SO wicked
in some peoples eyes.
The growing good of the world is par
tally dependent on unhistoric acts; and
that things are not so i'll with you and
ms as they might have been is half
owing to the number who lived faithful
~ hidden lite and rest IN unvisited
tombs. Eliot.
Those who resort to hypocracy to
cover their delinquences, impose more
intolerable burden upon Themselves
than that which would come from a just
sense OF their criminality. They think
to ease their tortured conscience. but
only succeed in aggravating its woe.
DO yonr hest, and await calmly The
result. Ii is anxiety, not work, which
kills; it liz work, not anxiety, which COM
nantls success. There is a Hindoo
saying that the fortune of ,olan who sits,
sits, sits always; it sleeps when he
sleeps, moves when he moves, and rises
when he rises.
If there is anything in the world that
q young man should be more grateful
for than another, it is the property
which necessitates starting in life under
very great disadvantages. Poverty is
one Of the best tests of human quality in
existence. A triumph over it is like
3 aduating from West Point. It demon
strates stuff and stamina. It is a certiti'
cate Of worthy labor, faithfully per-
formed. A young man who cannot stand
this test Is not good for anything. He
can never rise above a drudge or pau
per. A young man who cannot feel his
will harden as the yoke of poverty press
es upon him, and his pluck rise with
every difficulty that poverty throws in
his way, May as we'll retire into some
corner and hide himself.
What we do, we had better do right
away. The clock ticks now and we hear
Il. fter while the clock will tick ana
we will not hear it. Seated by country
6reslde I saw the fire kindle, blaze and
go out. gathered up from the hearth
enough for profitable reflections. Our
life is just like the fire on that hearth.
We put on fresh fagots. and the fire
bursts through and up and out, gay of
fash, gay Of crackle-enablem of boy
hood, Then the fire reddens into GOALS;
the heat is fercer; and the more it is
stirred the more 1t reddens. With sweep
Of fame it cleaves it's way until all the
hearth glows with it's intenslty-emblem
of full manhood. Then comes white
ness to the Goals. The heat lessons. The
shadows have died along the
wall. The fagots drop apart. The house
hold hover over the expiring embers.
The last breath of smoke has been lost
in the chimney. The fire is out. Shovel
up the white remains. Ashes.
Bob Ingersol recently was talking
with an old colored woman in Washing
ton upon religious matters. ''Do you
really believe, Aunty," said he, "that
people are made of dust?" Yes sab; de
Bible says they is. an 30 / b'lieves ii"