The national leader., 1889-01-05

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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Who keeps his tongue doth keep his
soul.
Bran is the best grain food, and
ground oats the next, for growing stock
and cows.
Tenderness makes woman grateful
noble manhood compels all her dee
instincts OF love.
Love doth seldom suffer itself to be
confined by other matches than those
OF its own making.
The great law of all culture Is: Let
each become all that he was created
capable Of being.
High health and happy disposition
infuse cheerfulness and pleasure by
their simple presence.
Simplicity is virtue universally adj
mired, but it is nowhere more In place
than in religious worship.
Tie best form of responsive service
is that which consists In putting good
sermon into good practice.
success don't consist in never max
Ing blunders, but in never making the
same one the second time.
This restless world is full of chances.
which, with habits power, to learn to
bear is easier than to shun.
Great men begin enterprises because
thy think them great, and fools be-
Cause they think them easy.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
capable Of doing, while Others Judge US
by what we have already done.
A just economy Is not niggardliness;
one need not be miser in avoiding the
extravaganza of spendthrift.
There is no fit search after truth
which does not, first OF all, begin to
live the truth which 1t knows
While we are poor, the necessaries of
life are the luxuries; after we get rich,
the luxurles are the necessaries.
The last census of India indicates a
population Of 60, $3.50 There ars
5000. 600 more males than females.
There are many more shining quail
ties in the mind of man, but there Is
none more useful than discretion.
Women often make light of ruin.
Give them but the beloved objects, and
poverty Is trifling sorrow to bear.
Advertisers will find it to their ad-
vantage to advertise in this paper.
Terms-cash and cheap.
Great is the number of those who
might attain to true wisdom Ii they did
not already think themselves wise.
You need not tell all tue truth, un-
ess to those who have right to know
all. But let all you tell be the truth.
The more honesty man has, the less
he affects the air of saint; the afecta-
ton Of sanctity Is blotch on the face
of plety.
Be noble, and the nobleness that lies
sleeping, but not dead. in other men
will rise to meet thine own and all will
be increased.
Temptation brings ruin to one and
strength to another; not by an innate
power, but by simply evolving the char
acter that is tried.
Before you scold, be sure that you
are right yourself. He that attempts
| to cleanse blot with blotted fingers
makes greater blur.
| Don't overfeed one day and restrict
the supply the next. Regularity in
lime and quantity when feeding save
labor and expense
1t is impossible that anything so nat
ural, so necessary, ard so universal as
death should ever have been designed
by Providence as an evil to mankind.
A more glorious victory cannot be
gained over another man than this:
that, when the injury began on his
part, the kindness should begin on
ours.
If you are dIsquieted with anything,
you should consider with yourself, Is
the thing of that worth, that for it 1
should 80 disturb myself, and lose my
peace and tranquility
I cannot call riches better than the
baggage of virtue. 1t cannot be spread
nor left behind, but it hlndereth the
march; yea, and the care of it some
times loseth or disturbeth the victory.
at all times presence of mind Is val
liable. In time of repoSe 1t will enable
| us to say and to do whatever Is most
befitting the occasion that presents IT.
self, while in time Of trial 1t may pro-
tect, and In danger preserve.
If we would have powerful minds,
we must think; if we would have faith
full hearts, we must love; If we would
have vigorous muscles, we must labor:
and these three-tbought, love. labor
include all that is valuable in life.
Exert your talents and distinguish
yourself, says DIR. johnson, and do not
think of retiring from the world until
the world will be sorry that you retire.
1 hate fellow whom pride, or coward
ice, or lazlness drives into a corner, and
who does nothing while he is there but
sit and growl. Let him come out as [
do and bark.
Economy is the parent OF integrity,
of liberty, and of ease; ard the sister
of temperance, ,cheerfulness and health.
Profuseness, on the contrary, Is a cruel
and crafty demon, that gradually in.
Olives her followers in dependence and
ebts-that is, letters them with iron
at enters into theirsouls.