The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1898-01-01
SAYINGS
Wise and Otherwise.
from the Chicago LEDGER

DOUbIo dlC AOco. eliOL 10, Dcbt lIltuu6s
IF selfish for praise you are poor in
ability.
If foolish, nature made man; if wise,
mar himself had o hand in it.
By constantly looking back many
have been "~telescoped' in front.
LISTEN and grow wise; let another
talk, though the speaker be a fool.
He Isl fool who praises himself, and
he is the FOOLS second cousin who de-
preciates himself.
The individual who sets a good ex-
ample generally has more sense than
the dozens who eriticise it.
EVERYTHING can be oyerdone. Even
religion, if carried to excess, becomes
fanaticlsm, or even worse.
A LITTLE praise occasionally calls
out a mans best effort, but too much
of it will in the end defeat him.
Ii is possible to be friends with all
men and profit by it, but if YOU are
yonr own friend you take no chances.
APPARENTLY there is only one cross
to bear in this world, aud everybody
~ tliG IC u silG ID illILl Oh l..
CoNcEIT, labeled intelligence, finds
open recognition. Merit, iostled rude
~ aside, mourns it's fancied unworthi-
ness.
THE Bible has made the devil neces-
sary, but couldn't make him 1especta-
BILE. Knowing this, man has undertake
en- the job.
ENEMIES are as indispensable as
friends. 1t is as beneficial for YOU to
be shown your faults as it is pleasant
for others to discover them.
THE man who will sacrifice his would
be-hobby for greatness and rely on
honest work for a middle position in
life, is more liable to get there, Eh!o
I A tolerate a beggar, but not the
avaricions person whose chief object in
life is to get a ring n the nose of hu.
manity and occasionally give 1t a twist
A Farmers Hot BeG-Boxes.
IL. A. g." asks us evil a hot-bed
pay a farmer with a small gardcn?" Ii
he has had experience in the manage
ment of one, and will give the needed
time to the care of it, and can find a sale
Tor the plants he does not wish to use
himself, he can no doubt make the
source OF moderate profit. But if a it
care OF a hot-bed will take time that can
DC better employed otherwise, it is not
worth while for him to make one for the
soie purpose of supplying his own
garden with plants. It is better to buy
the few needed plants, or, better still.
raise them IN window-boxes. We have
often referred TO these, but Their utility
does not seem to be generally appre-
ciated. They allow one to provide all
the plants Of early cabbage, caul:-
flower, tomatoes. or whatever would
be sown In q hot-bed, which are
needed in an ordinary garden, at no ex-
pense III money and very little time or
care In labor. Boxes arc readily pro-
cured at any country store ; as the VIM
dow box need be only three inches deep.
an ordinary box may usually be sawed
IN two, using the top for the bottom of
the upper half. These are to be nearly
hlied with light, rich soil, in which the
seeds are to be sown, and kept in a un-
ny kitchen window. When the plants
show the rough leaves. i. e., the leaves
that follow the seed-leaves. they are to
be transpl9.ted to ether boxes and given
more room. Some manage BY the use
OF old top alto and oyster cans to raise a
supply Of plants. It is easy, if some
one in the family will give the
needed attention, to thus have an abun-
dance of plants for the family garden
american Agric,hturist.
Fresh Paint.
A young New York artist, having
finished a large historical painting Of
Llncoln signing the Emancipation
Proclamation, carried il to a Broadway
picture dealer to be placed on exhibit
ton.
1T is not quite dry" remarked the
coming Raphael of America; and @
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