The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-01-12
SENSE AND NONSENSE,
BY HUDOR GENONE.

swimming, the perhaps you have rea-
son as we'll as cause to praise it.
Nothing is more charming than
cheerful old age. Time holds a mort
sac upon life. The best way to avoid
foreclosure is to keep up the interest.
1t is worth while to have been fool
ish with pounds, if we learn thereby
to become wise with pennies.
misunderstanding and misfortune
are the rails that keep the train of
truth on the track of success.
There is no s"c,l thing as absolute
evil-no place in all the universe where
through some chink, be it ever so
small, the light of right does not twin
kle in.
| had all of it; l gave it to my
friend !; he took it all and kept it yet
| lost none. H. had it, and 1 had it.,
and yet there were not two, but one,
which, though doubled, was not in
creased. Mathematically this is i'm
possible; but logically it is inevitable,
for the Thing is knowledge.
| gave it,; she returned it; there
was one only :; yet each had all and
the whole, though divided, was not di-
minished. 1t was love.
There was only one, yet to me seven,
and in reality three. There was only
one, yet every one had it, and for each
it Was q different one. 1t had no exis-
tence, yet it was; wholly unsubstan-
tial, yet certain; wholly beautiful, yet
only mathematical an illusion, yet no
delusion. 1t was the rainbow.
Learn this lesson, ye practical peo-
ple,-that there is region of Truth
beyond the frontiers of gross facts,
across the boundaries Of the physical
and the sensuous. Call it spiritual,
p>ychical, or the fourth dimension of
space; it is a region Of reality, without
knowledge of which the physical is
inexpIlcable
If were not philosopher, it would
make me angry that some writer's
could sell my nonsense for twenty
times what it is worth,-I mean what
| get fo- it. Roses with other names.
No one can make old mutton spring
lamb by serving it with mint sauce !;
but plenty try.
Wit is the lively youth of humor,
but pun is the idiocy of it.
1t takes blind fool for luck; the
timid are often the bravcst; the sus-
picious are the foolable. What a top
sy-turvy world, where the images are
inverted on the retina, and stay so in
the mind Who knows how to take
things, when even blackberries are red
when they're green!
In nature God turns his back upon
mortal Is; but, as the civil citizen said
to another "Excuse my back" he is
agreeable all the way through
They who consider system, order,
regularity, and discipline as tyranical
might as well grumble at the constancy
of the attraction of gravitation
Gods gospel is like the attraction of
eravitation. No one knows what it is;
only that it keeps them upright.
Where it is easier to have the real
than the imitation, it is the worthless
that is valuable, the spurious curious.
People with good understanding and
poor application, with little learning,
are Ike fl lie mi with no grist.
The truth may be beyond our under
standing, but it cannot be contrary to
it.
The eiyion Of creed and custom
may be beautiful, and even satisfying,
but there is always doubt as to the
sure title to its possession. 1t is "like
4 fair house built upon another mans
ground"
For man to act like a woman fire.
quently requires a vast amount of man.
liness.
Truth is the body Of all things; mo
tive the soul of everything.
In a country house at which visit,
the old, tall clock, which is supposed
t. regulate time for the establishment,
is always some ten minutes slow. !
MAKE no attempt to correct it, for
thelc cby | get that much extra sleep in
the morning, and the family are punct-
ual and early risers. 1t is not only in
country houses, nor with time-pieces,
that we fail to correct infirmities that
profit us.
| am not 4 believer in Mrs. Eddy's
'Chr;stian Sciencr,' because | have
read her book but know there is
great deal in mind cure. For in
stance, before he failed in business
friend Of mine used to pay his doctor,
on the average, five hundred dollars a
year. Now that he can no longer at-
ford it, his wife and daughters never
call in a physician. and are the health
lest women | know.
1t is by means of discredited beliefs
in the incredible that faith grows sure
Of the infallible.
The pleasure which the contempla-
tion of one flower gives child would
food hell with joy.