Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-08-22
Dumas Golden Rules.

seven hours every nlght; SO 10 oeu
always aloue, if you need to sleep;
get up as soon as YOU wake; work as
soon as you get up; eat only when You
are hungry, and drink only when You
are thirsty ami eat and drink always
slowly.
Never speak except when it is noces-
sarv, and never say more than half of
what YOU think. Never write any
thing that YOU cannot sign, and never
do anything that you cannot avow.
Never forget that others will count
upon you, and that You must never
count upon them. Value money at
its real worth, neither more nor less.
1t is good servant, but bad mas
ter.
keep away from women until you
are 20. and avoid them when YOU are
40. Never attempt to produce any
thing without a thorough understand.
ing of that which YOU undertake and
destroy as little as possible. Pardon
everybody beforehand, TO be on the
safe side. Do not despise men do
not hate them, and do not laugh at
them beyond measure Pity them.
Think Of death every morning
when YOU see the light, and every eve
ming on the approach Of darkness.
When your sufIerings are great look
your grief in the face 1t will console
YOU itself and teach you something.
Try to be simple, TO become useful, to
remain free, and before denying God
wait until somebody proves to yon
that He does not exist
For a man and for woman there
is succession of duties to be fulfilled
which enables them to look always
ahead and to become accustomed TO
the absence of the objects of their
most dear affections. The world would
finish too quickly if the first child was
not able to survive the death Of the
first mother.
"Misfortunes and trials attack noble
souls without hurting them. They
are like the rocks Of granite that the
sea covers in times Of tempest with its
furious waves, fancying that il il
drowning them, while it is merely
washing them, so that they reappcar
again in the sunlight more polished
and more shining than ever. Adver-
sity embellishes those that it cannot
cast down. BY the law Of nature
man should have many children. He
should raise them well, 40 that they
NAV be useful and he should love
them, so that they may be happy
To get married when man is young
is healthy TO choose, in no matter
what class, a good, honest girl to
love her with all his heart and soul,
and to make her a reliable companion
and prolific mother; to work TO raise
his children, and 10 leave them when
dying the example Of his life-tbat is
the true meaning and object Of life;
the rest is only error, crime or folly.
an truth, the average man il only
above ambient humanity on one single
plane, virtue; and, as there can be no
virtue without humility, those alone
have the right 10 consider themselves
the superiors Of others to whom the
knowledge that they are superior is
denied. Talent, and especially its
higher form called genius, is inyolun-
tary. It's not the result Of the efforts
Of man; it is, like beauty, the gift Of
God. That is why it is Of secondary
order; aud posterity will only remem.
Der it for its virtue, its sincerity. and
its communion in universal progress.
Glory for glory's sake is shameful
speculation.
"The men who rejoice in their celeb
rity are slmpletons; the men who are
proud Of their genius are fools.
There is one thing that is especially
beautiful in great and pure affections,
and that is that, after the pleasure
which they afford has passed away,
there remains the happiness Of their
recollection.
VERY often an unexpected grief or
an unmerited misfortune gives TO
man an energy and perseverance
which he could never find in happi-
neEs. And after such trials a man
often becomes superior who would
have remained simple and vulgar if he
had always been happy. He who il
without energy when young will never
have it. Grit is not winter fruit;
it never grows in the snow.
Zone may expect everything from
a man Of energy 10 whom misfortune