The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-05-26
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
BY HUDOR GENONE.

1t is better to own 4 little ass, and
be able to drive him than a four-horse
team that you can't control.
These calm people get plenty of I'M
deserved discrc'lt for Indifference;
they are not engaged in perpetually
kissing, and are accused of not loving;
they ignore Sights, and it is said of
them "How mean-spiritcd they do
not cheer and hurrah over politics, and
groan and '.take on at funerals, so
their neigLbors think they have Meth.
er delights nor despairs.
What would you think of man
who ordered glass of soda water
''done up and sent homc?'' Life is
sort Of effervescing draught, "to be
drunk on the premises"
There are comparatively few, | i'm
agine, who have not, at some time in
their lives, taken a seidlitz powder.
Y ou never took the two powders
white and blue-without mixing first,
did you? No, of course not,-the re-
suit is better, am told, imagined than
experienced. The kingdom of heaven
would not have been within you, l feel
confident My candid advice to all
you thinkers is to treat the great NOR
al matters as you do those powders
always mix before taking, g,-science for
white powder, religion for blue. No
wonder such an awful commotion goes
on in the world of thought. No Won
DIR you call the two irreconcilable.
Y You feel that horrible cffervescence in
the wrong place.
| Forgetfulness is sometimes misfor-
tune, at others blunder, and not in
frequently crime. The needless al
ways forget, the dull often, the vindic-
tive never What than may be a crime
for one is forgivable and even com
| iuenuaOle Ill auOGlleT.
Foresight is sorrow in front of the
act, remorse before the crime.
Our surgeons little boy, being ask
ed how he was getting on in arithme-
tic, replied that this term he was go
ing to begin dismal fractures.
A friend of mine, recently returned
from Paris, calls the Boulevard des
Italian the Promenade Gazouse.
"It's an ill wife," says Mrs. Soc
rates. "that doesn't blow her husband
good.'
For life-prescrvcrs dogmatism prom
ises wings, mysticism offers bladders,
infdelity suggests lead or iron weights,
but true religion teaches us how to
swim.
One thing l hate-pretence; one
thing | despise-hyprocrisy; one
thing | pity-error
The coal has within it the potency OF
the electric light. What an ignorant,
unwlse lump that would want his
blackncss perpetuated! Yet the real
coal is immortal.
When you say 'yes," say it cheer
fully; when you say 'no," say it de-
cidedly. If ever you find it necessary
to kill anybody, do it gently. Man.
ners, they say, make the man; but
manner makes all men do the will Of
one.
A great deal Of i'll temper and near
ly all impudence are nothing but en-
barrassment.
If every one knew when he was no
longer wanted, all would be welcome.
Philosophy does well enough as
signpost, but makes very poor inn.
Keep your wisdom to yourself, Q
wise man, and give the populace
paste substitute they cannot tell from
the real.
Better yet, do not give even paste
ideas. Let the rabble filch them as
the Pompioan guides leave imitation
relics in some judiciousl ychosen spot,
and then turn their backs.
Distrust anything-tkought or per-
on,-which claims to have Cor be-
truth and declines proof-anything
which does not say: "Come and see
One mans wl;. continually calls
him "Darlin";" he losses his property,
or his temper, and she goes home to her
parents, or to foreign parts with a
| handler mn. Anothcrs wife rs con-
tinuaIv jaws" says she never was
| happier than when girl; but, when
he fails in business and goes "all to
pieces" she takes in Washing Or board
ers to support him, and-is happier
than ever.
: Woman differs from the rest of the
world in her way of discovering things.
! Like Columbus, when all say, "Go
: east for the Indies" she starts west
ward, and moreover always finds her
, new continent.
Creation is an act OF Justice, not of
power.