Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-07-06
GRAINS OF GOLD.

aims.
Spare moments arc the gold dust of
time.--Cole.
He who is devoted to every body is
devoted to nobody.
If you note RlI the details you havo
not seen the whole.
Deliberation, too far prolonged,
defeats its own ends. s.-Nelson.
Sands mako tho mountains-mo-
monts make the years. Young.
Habit renders wrong-doing of any
kind q sort of second nature.
Nothing is degrading which q high
and graceful purpose ennoblcs.
Truth has never yet proved fatal TO
any one; there arc too many antidotes.
10 owe gratitude Expresses u coarso
nature; to receive it oppresses q tino
one.
Socialism is tho fantastical younger
brother of u nearly spent dcspotism,
whose inheritance he claims.
The gardens of modern poetry too
often betray q noarness to tho drains
of the cities. ~.
There is not enough religion in tho
world to admit of tho annihilation of
religions.
duty of cleanliness to change opinions
| as to change clothes.
Not when it is dangerous to tell tho
truth will she lack u prophet, but only
! when it is tiresomc.
Those things which engage us merely
by their novelty can not attract us for
any length of time
Man should command his flesh as II
slave his master. The dominion of
the enfranchised is tho most imperi-
| Gus.
He that boasteth himself to know
every thing is most ignorant; and ho
! that presumeth to know nothing is
most wise. Plato, B. G. 427.
O!d ago is tho night of lito as night
is the old age of day. Still, night is
full of magniticcnce, and for many it
is moro brilliant than the day.
If you havo built castles in tho air
l>your work need not be lost; that is
whero they should be. Now put tho
foundations under them.-Thoreau.
The Crazo for CiIy Life.
One hundred years ago our leading
men, our men OF wealth and culture.
were nearly all country gentlemen.
Now tho members of tho governing
classes 1.-Two in towns and cities, except
in the South, which still continues to
send farmers to the Legislature and to
Congress. But for tho South tho
farmers of the country would be al
Wo must change the drift of things If
wo would SEQ our people enjoy the
fullest measure of prosperity and hap
piness. This craze for town life is all
wrong lfha!f of our ambitious young
men who are living in shabby gen.
teel way in tho professions and in dry
goods stores would put their brains
and energy into farming our country
districts would soon become thiclly
settled, and, with wcll titled farms,
comfortable modern cottages, and
good roads, life outside of tho towna
would be in every way superior to the
mode OF existence found within the
walls Of our crowded cities. Tho towns
do not need an influx OF population
from the country, but tho country
needs lot OF town pooplo to take hold
OF the ia ms and produce something.
Wo can get along without more law
yers and dry-goods clorks, but wo need
moro farners-wo need their prod
ucts, their healthy influence, and their
aid IN running tho Government. - At-
lantn Constitution.
-Eastorn lady lin Colorado)--"I
makes mo sick to hear somo Of you
Western names. The idea OF calling
pretty town like this 'Wagonwheol -
Resident--"lt isn't nice name, an,
II we ever change 1t promise to le
you know at once" II wish yot
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