The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-22


NAV be true; but when one woman at
church begins to study anothers uress
and other personal adornments, it is
then that she uses the logical laculIies
of all the dead mathematic Clans IL is
truly thus.
How wonderful is death,
Death and his brother sleep!
One pale as yonder waning moon
With lips OF lurid blue;
The other, rosy as the nom
When, throned on oceans W'l"e'
1t bushes DER the world;
Yet both so passing wonderful!
Shelley.
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uUho shoots at the midday sun,
though he be sure he shall never hit his
mark vet as sure he is that he shall
shoot higher than he who aims at
bush,n says Sir Phillip Sidney. That Is
pretty, Sir Phillip, but not strictly true;
for we have seen men aim at bush anu
come nearer hitting the midday sun
We have!
"Ifa man has got any religion worth
having he will do his duty and not make
n mss aboutit," says DIR. Johnson, and he
never made a truer remark. therefore,
we have noticed that those who DO the
most "syutin'" about their reilSioii
haven't really got enough to save IL
when they step on banana-peel'
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The man whose soul does not go out
in genuine love for faithful old horse
or dog. ought to be careful how he Is
buried. For when the last dreaue"
dav comes and the heavens "rolI TO
gether as a SCROLL" if he isn't buried
very shallow, there is a strong posslplh-
tv that his soul will never be big enough
to sprout.
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A cheerful temper, joined with mo
cence, will make beauty attractive
knowledge delightful and wit good-na-
tured. 1t will tighten sickness, poverty
and afiictiOn, convert ignorance into
amiable simplicity and render deformi-
| ty itself greeable.-Addison.
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| The essence of all christianity is UNI
seIfishness. st. Paul's charity is but
another name for it. And yet, while the
world recognizes this to be true, it never
| fails to applaud the man, who, under one
guise or another, seltishly gathers up a
large fortune.
We may be wrong, but our observa-
ton has been that the more christian
learning a preacher has the less OF hell
and the burning lake he has in his
sermons. Just like the more a ply
stefan knows the less blue-mass and
calomel he may be expected to give.
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The Massachusetts papers having
exhausted the subject, ais marriage a
failure?" are now asking "May cousins
marry?" Of course they may; why
not ask, "May brothers marry?"
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1t is the highest form of originality to
say what everybody knows and yet
something which nobody has ever said
before. 1t gives voice to universal
thought that had been wordless till
touched blythe pen of genius.-Dr. Otis
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| Mans mind differs from all other ami
mails in that it contains thought,-rea
son. Nevertheless there are many peo-
ple who do not think, but rather are gov
erned by passion and prejudice, or often
! only by instinct itself.
So
Thought was planted in the mind OF
man when he was created. Like
flower seed in the ground it gradually
burst from out its dark environments
till language, the flower, came forth.
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"What is right for one may be wrong
for another. 1t is right for a lame man
to walk with a crutch. 1t would be
wrong for you to walk with crutches II
you have two sound legs. 1t may be
right for your neighbor to drink wine
and wrong for you to taste it," says
DIR. Otis.
How much unconscious error the
learned doctor has put into that para
graph. What is right or wrong for one
man is right or wrong for all. There are
no royal roads in either. tbs not wrong
for any man to walk with crutches, but
it would be silly for a sound man to do
so. There is no condition wherein II
would be right advisable we should
saw for your neighbOr to drink wine
when it v ould not be equally so for you
to drink it.
The latest fish story comes from Pitts
hnro The fish is about eighteen inches