, 1901-09-14
THOUGHTS FROM EMERSON.

The virtues are economists. but some
OF the vices are also. Thus, next to
humility. | have noticed that pride Is
a pretty good husband. Pride is hand
some. economical; pride eradicates SO
many vices, letting none su5sist but
itself. that it seems as If it were a
great gain to exchange vanity for
pride.-Wealth.
Our first mistake is the belief that
the circumstance gives the joy which
We give to the circumstance. Life is
an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous
oxide; and the fisherman dripping all
day at the cool pond, the switChman
at the railway intersection, the farm
er in the field, the negro in the rice
swamp. the flop in the street. the hunt
er in the woods. the barrister with the
jury, the belle at the ball, all ascribe
a certain pleasure to their employ
ment, which they themselves give it
Illusions.
Our knowledge is the amassed
thought and experience of innumer-
able minds; our language, Il science,
our religion. our opinions, our fancies
we inherited. Our country. customs,
laws. our ambitions, and our notions
of fit and fair, all these we never
made; We found them ready made; we
but quote them. In literature quota
ton is good only when the writer
whom I follow goes my way, and. be-
ing better mounted than l, gives me a
cast, as we say; but If | like the gay
eQuipage so well as to go out Of my
road | had better have gone afoot.-
Quotation of Originality.
It's a Dutch proverb that paint
costs nothing" such are its preserving
qualities in damp climates. Well, sun
shine costs less. yet is finer pigment.
And SO Of cheerfulness or a good tenn
per. the more it is spent, the more OF
1t remains. The latent heat of an
ounce of wood or stone is inexhausti-
BILE. You may rub the same chip of
pine to the point Of kindling a hun
dred times; and the power of happi-
ness of any soul is not to be computed
or drained. 1t is observed that a de-
preston of spirits develops the germs
Of a plague in individuals and ma
Observation-Disclosures by the way.
The basis of good manners is self
reliance. Necessity is the law of all
who are not self-possessed. Those who
are not self-possessed obtrude and
pain us. Some men appear to feel that
they belong to a Pariah caste. They
fear to offend, they bend and apollo
gize, and walk through life with a
timid step. AS we sometimes dream
that We are in a well-dressed COM
pany without a coat, so Godfrey acts
eve as If he suffered from some NOR
tifying circumstance. The hero should
find himself at home wherever he Is:
should impart comfort by his own Sc
curity and good nature to all behold
ers.-Behavior.
To be rich is to have a ticket Of ad-
mission to the master-works and chief
men of each race. 1t is to have the
sea by voyaging: to visit the noun
tcins, Niagara, the Nile. the desert,
Rome, Paris, Constantinople; to see
galleries, libraries. %arsenals, manufac-
tories. THE rich man." says Saadi,
lis everywhere expected and at home"
The rich take up something more of
the world into mans life. They in
clude the country as well as the town.
the ocean-side. the White Hills. the
Far West, and the old European home
steads of man, in their notions of
available material. The world Is his
who has money to go over it.-Wealth.