The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-25

schOol eOQcAtlOn. alpOle, VINO uoeplseu
literature. was one OF Engiand's ablest
prime ministers. and. in spite OF Boiling
broke. Ruttney and the prince OF Wales,
held power Tor twenty-one years.
What then? is ignorance better than
knowledge2 Not so; but there are various
kinds OF knowledge. The world is a book.
as the French say. In order to sue
coed in life, zen must have an
acquaintance with this booK-with men
and affairs. He who adds to this pro-
found scholarship. as Gladstone does. is
doubly strong. But there are too many
scholars nowadays who know everything
except how TO use it. The error lies In
our educational system rather than In the
individual.
Apropos what reader Of Cottle's life of
Coleridge. asks Mr.. Matthews, has forgot
ten the ludicrous story of the attempt
made by these men and Wordsworth to
remove the collar from a horse that they
were embarrassing? First Cote, and
then Colerlge tried his hand. and alter
twisting the poor horses neck almost to
strangulntion, gave up the task IN despair.
Then Wordsworth exerjed all OF bis inge-
nuity with ike result They declared
that the ANNA. 8 head must have swooien
since he was harneesed. At that moment
a servant girl came near and, turning the
collar upside down. slipped 1t off easily
enough to the wonderment and humilia-
ton OF the poetic uminaries.
Friend with all thy gettings get practi-
cal skill. Verse thvself in affairs, even
though thy feet shall never climb Par
nassus.
When the evangelist, Mr.. Fay Mills.
was in Omaha few weeks ago. the town
enjoyed a "mid.week Sabbath" The
stores were closed. and everybody kept as
meek as though it hal been sunday. In
front of one ga DON, whose doors were
tightly shut. hung a placard with these
words: This saloon is gone TO church"
Whv would it not be good idea to keep
it there?
a writer in the Interior regards il as
providential that the foreigners who re-
side among Us should cling to their native
tongue and resist the Bennett Law and the
Edwards law. If one lRnguaSe were spoken
in America and the immigrants did not
segregate they would unity. poli.ica iy and
socially, and rule the country. As 1t is
they remain comparatively isolated and
hence harmless. tie prefers Babel until
AmeFicanize these people-the only safe
wav-is to disciple them.
This view OF the advantages attendant
upon the segregating habit OF certain
classes OF foreigners is novel and suggest
i've. But We ought TO pray and work Tor
that Pentecost.
Good thoughts are blessed guests and
should be heartily welcomed. we'll fed and
much sought afier.-Spurgeoa.
When a man is going up he can stop
easily, but when he is going down stop
ping is difficult. Neral gravitation is as
real as physical Carlos Martyr.
lis swee year ny year we lose
Trends ont OF sigh, il iaith to muse
How grows in paradise our store.
The old legend of the youth who went
here and there, and uU AMI down. looking
for happiness and found it. after searching
for years. in the duty that confronted him
right there in the old no ne rs a type of all
our Ives. - Young Peoples Weekly.
"A lighted lamp is a very small thing, and
it burns ca miv and without noise. yet it
giyeth light to all that are within the
house. And 40 there is q quiet Impulse
which, like the fame of the lamp. fills
many home with Brightness NcChey1le
Ii thou intend and seek nothing else but
| the will OF God aud the good of thy neigh
| Dor, thou shalt thoroughly enjoy inward
f, liberty Thomas a. kenapiS.
He who is false TO present duty breaks
thread in The loom. and will find a flaw
when be may have forgotten its cause
! H. w. Becclsr.
Who yer loves an absent friend TO feed
Nay hence depart; there is room for him here.
Lines torten or 81 Augusffne orer has study door.
at a conference OF women the other
day paper was read on "Quiet Hours"
The author set forth the importance OF re-
Election as an element OF true activity, aud
urged an avoidance of the error OF looking
upon action as the only form OF work.
I'VE ali need ripening hours. We cannot
give out w at We have not taken in; we
cannot comfort il We have not ourselves
been cOmforted."
TIE sanitary value OF rest is often dwelt
upon-not too often, however in these
DAYS of hurry and WORRY. The intel ectual
and mora va.ue OF 0uietude are not half
/ appreciated. II We rushed less we might
! ia NIX more. Nor let anyone imagine that
/ quietude is synonymous with id,eness.
Deep thinkers are seldom idle, but often
quiet. Happily We can build a silence in
our mind ami heart even in a crowd, and
go in then out OF the noise for meditation
or self communion. It's habit that will
+ repay cultivation.
/ An esteemed contemporary prints this
/ poetic definition of woman's sphere:
/ They talk about a woman's sphere,
! As thoush it had a limit
There's not piece in earth or heaven.
There's not a task TO VA n nd gwen,
| There's blessing n woe,