The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-16

"Its a stumpy world" said Luclarlen
Grapp; "but some folks step right over theil
stumps athout scarcely kn0win' when Pr
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
| Nothing Is easier than fault finding. No
talent, no self-denial, no character Is required
to set up the grumbling business.
| By examining the tongue of the patient,
physicians find out the disease of the body,
| and philosophers the disease of the mind.
To love our friends we must serve them ;
love promotes knowledge; knowledge pro.
notes sympathy, and appreciatiye sympathy
wins love In return.
Every grain of sand is a mystery; so IS
every daisy In summer, and so Is every snow
flake In winter. Both upward and down.
ward and all around US, science and specua.
ton pass into mystery at last.
Directly one enters room there Is sense
either Of cheer or the reverse. After leaving
the apartment one may not be able to tell
how It was furnished, but every one knows
the effect produced.
The more enlarged IL our own mind, the
nality. Your commonplace people see no
difference between one man and another
Pascal.
The faults and weaknesses of others, In.
stead of being woven into gossip, scandal and
useless criticism, should be used as danger.
signals to warn US away from the paths
which have led to them.
Dyspepsia In its worst forms will Yield to
the use of Carter's Little Nerve Pills, aided
by Carriers Little Liver Pills They not only
relieve present distress but strengthen the
stomach and digestive apparatus.-adv.
Without the friendly exchange of kindly
words and deeds, without the sunshine OF
loving looks and smiles Of welcome and en-.
couragement, house may be habitatiOn put
never truly home.
There Il nothing of 90 great importance to
US as the good qualities OF one to whom we
Join ourselves for life. They not only make
our present state agreeable, but often deter
mine our happiness for all eternity.
There Is the old story-which have been
fond of repeating--of the young French
prince, which illustrates exactly what 1
mean. Louis XVI. and his beautiful and un.
fortunate queen had died on the scaffold In
the Palace lie la Revolution. The boy who
ought to have inherited the throne of France,
and who, In fact, though he never reigned,
has been numbered ass Louis XVII. In the
roll Of monarchs, was left prisoner. Evil
had brought forth evil, as ever. An op-
pressed people had been reused to spirit of |
devilish revenge. The child, 1t Is said, was |
not only to be kept prisoner and deprived |
possess to the throne OF his father, but all that
was good in his nature was to be, II possible,
destroyed. Evil men placed around him were
to train his mind to evil thoughts, his heart to
evil feelings, bis lips to unlovely words. Nat.
urally he suffered. But now and again, 1t is
said, as his tormentors seemed to go be yond
the limits of his endurance, or when Gods
voice prevailed In his young soul against,
hem, the unhappy boy would waken up to
higher things, and eXclaim IN anguish, 81
,cn't say 1t, can't do II, for was born to be
klng!' Noblesse obige is q noble princi.
Die for US all. In times of temptation, on the
,ery edge Of precipce of evil,w too, II we
ire trained by grace to remember with some.
hing like habiIual recollection the dignity of
,eing belonging to an immortal may be
leped to turn with scorn and strength upon
he temper, and exclaip. 10 q higher, nobler
ense, 81 cannot, will not; was born to be
king ."-[Canon knox-Little.