The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-01-30
PlTH AND POINT.

BE fit for more than the thing you
are now doing. james A. Garfield.
When our hatred is violent, l,
sinks even beneath those we hate.
1t is easier to vanquish a man in
an argument than it is to convince
him.
The largest expenses of married
life are frequently caused by the little
ones.
1t is believed that the luckiest
stone mentioned in the Bible is the one
that David used in his encounter with
Goliath. -Jeweler's Weekly.
The man who spends most OF his
days in giving advice to his friends has
no need at all to lie awake nights Won
dering why he isn't popular.-Somer-
vile Journal.
Compared with eternity our career
extends over time easily expressed
by the word "scat!" uttered in an or
binary tone of voice.-Bill Nye.
We are almost all of us little sell
fish naturally, you know, excepting
when we hear q piece of unpleasant
gossip about the man we never liked.
Then we generally want to share our
knowledge with every one we meet
Journal of Education.
My son, if poor, see wine in the
running spring; think a threadbare
coat the 'only wear;" and acknowl-
edge white-washed garnet the fittest
housing place for gentleman; do
this, and fee debt So shall thy heart
| be at peace, and the sheriff be con.
| founded.-Era.
There is no real conflict between
truth and politeness; what is imagined
to be such is only the crude mistake OF
those who fail to discover their har-
mony. Politeness, taken in its best
sense, is the graceful expression OF
respect, kind feeling and goodwill.
Don't judge a man by the clothes
he wears. God made one and the
tailor made the other. Don't judge
man by his family, for Cain belonged
to a good family. Don't Judge a man
by his failure in life, for many u man
fails because he is too honest to sue
coed. North Wales Pa. Record.
The true lady and gentleman are
polite and courteous to all when those
admirable qualities can be exhibited,
and when those attributes are not ex-
hibited on all proper occasions, it is
always safe to assume that vulgarity is
masquerading in the thin guise OF the
gentleness that ever marks the lady
and gentleman.
"A long life may be passed without
finding a friend in whose understand
ing and virtue we can equally confide.
and whose opinion we can value at
once for its business and sincerity. A
weak man, however honest, is not
qualified to judge. A man OF the
world, however penetrating, is not fit
to counsel. Friends are often chosen
for similitude OF manners, and there
fore each palliates the others failings
because they are his own. Friends
are tender, and unwilling to give pain;
or they are Interested, and fearful to
offend.-D S. johnson.
In every political canvass we are
prone to forget that the commonwealth
is composed of men. We are, there
fore, prone to forget also that to i'm.
prove Or reform the commonwealth.
we are to reform and improve those
who compose it--men. To try to do
otherwise is to try to make the rose
bloom before the bush is rooted, or te
cause the tower to soar before the cor
ner-stone is laid. The center of al
organization and social existence is the
individual man. All deterioration OF
improvement begins with single
human beings.