The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-05-06
Home Circle


Philosopher and poet are alike in the
verdict that the safety and perpetuity
Of any nation lies In the homes OF it's
people.
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He who improves an opportunity
sows a seed which will yield fruit in
opportunity for himself and others.
| Every one who has labored honestly
in the past has aided to place knowl-
edge and comfort within the reach OF
a constantly increasing number.
~
Open eyes will discover opportuni-
ties everywhere; opens ears Will
never fail to detect the cries of those
who are periShing for assistance; open
hearts will never want for worthy OBJ
jects upon which to bestow their gifts;
open hands will never lack for noble
work to do.
Nv
Read the story of any successful
man and mark it's moral, told thousands
of years ago by Solomon: 'Seest
thou q man diligent in his business?
| He shall stand before kings" This
proverb is we'll illustrated by the ca
reer Of the industrious Franklin, for
he stood before five kings and dined
with two.
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The nation that is shortSighted
enough to ignore the homes Of the
people builds on a foundation Of sand;
and the homes which divorce them
selves from all interests Of social and
national import are inviting an inevi-
table thralldom for themselves and
their posterity. To the ideal state,
the home, pure, Safeguarded, happy,
is it's glory and its crown.
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The sculptor who brings out the
breathing statue from cold marble,
the painter who warns the canvas in
to a deathleSS glow of beauty, the
architect who builds cathedralS and
hangs the world-like dome of st.
Peters in mid-air, is not to be COM
pared, in sanctity and w~orthineSs, to
the humble artist who, out of the poor
material afforded by the shifting,
changing, selfish world, creates the
secure Eden OF a home.
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Education commences at the moth
er'S knee, and every word that is
spoken within the hearsay Of the little
children tends towards formation OF
character. A child is the better un-
born than untaught. The true pur-
pose of education is to cherish and un-
fold the seed of Immortality already
sown within us: to develop to their
fullest extent the capacities of every
kind with which God who made us
has endowed us.
Nv
Henry Clay, the mill boy of the
| SlasheS." was one of seven children OF
a widow too poor to send him to any
but a country school, where he was
drilled i'm the three Rs" But he
used every spare moment to study
without a teacher, and in after years
he was king among Self-made men.
The boy who had learned to speak III
a barn with only a COW and a horse fol
an audience, became one of the great
est American orators and statesmen
**x
Half the world seems to have found
uncongenial occupation, as il the hu'
man race had been shaken up together
and exchanged places in the operation
A servant girl is trying to teach and
natural teacher is tending store. Good
farmers are numbering the law while
Choates and WebSterS are running
down farms, each tortured by the con-
seriousness of unfulflled destiny. Boys
are pining away in factories who
should be wrestling with Greek ano
Latin, and hundreds are chating be-
meath unnatural loads in college who
should be on the farm or before the
mast. Artists are spreading "daubs'
ON canvas who should be whitewaSh'
ing board fences. Behind counters
stand clerks who hate the yard STICK
and neglect their work to dream OF
other occupations. A good shoemaker
writes a few verses for the village pa,
per. his friends call him a poet, ano
the last, with which he is familiar, Is
abandoned for the pen which he uses
awkwardly. Other shOemakers are
cobbling in congress, while statesmen
are pounding shoe lasts. Laymen are
numbering sermons while Beecher'
and Whitefelds are failing as mer
chants, and people are wondering
what can be the cause Of empty pews
A bow who is always making some
thing with tools is railrOaded through
the university and started on the roat
to in~feriority in one Of the three hon
orable professions. Real surgeons are
handling the meat saw and cleaver,
while butchers are amputating human
limbs. How fortunate that
There is a divinity t hat shapes our ends,
Rough bew them how we Will.
Cleared for Action.
When the body is cleared for action
by DIR. Kings New Life Pills, you cal