Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-10-30

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A happy fireside is better than a
big bank account.
No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burdens of it for
another.
Don't let all the sunshine in
nature become cloudy since you
are growing older.
Times are not near so hard with
some men when they want plug
of tobacco as when their wives
ask for a pair of shoes.
Life will always be to larger
extent what we ourselves make it.
Each mind makes its own little
world. The cheerful mind makes
it pleasant and the Disseminated
mind makes it miserable. my
mind to me a kingdom is" applies
alike to peasant and monarch. Life
is for the most part but mirrior
of our own individual selves. TO
the good, the world is good; to the
bad it is bad.
Old age, like time, wears off the
gilt, and like the gilded furniture
of ancient date, peopl also. become
furnished. At first the whole flu
ture is overlaid with gold. How
brilliant it 1is! AS. the boys and
girls grow up the gilt and glitter
grow dim, until at last with the
journey done. we stand, he present
laid bare before us-no gold here
the trappings of the hoped-t o-bc,
musty and forgotten, the brllllancy
of attainment dimmed and cor
roded. And only this is lie It to US.
that far away in the past, the gol-
den glow still hangs over tn. days
OF long ago, and for some of us
far in the future, a golden mist
hangs just beyond the sunset, where
piling clouds form gates of pearl.
Mark the young man who is
coarse and disrespectful to his
mother. No roseate. pathway can
be hers who shall:.sustain to INN
the relation of wife. Not the hap
piest will be the lot of those who
shall come to be his children. Not
to be envied is the neghbOrhood,
even which he umst be reckoned as
a citizen. 1t does not matter what
the mental status of that mother
is, how old, how bent, how decrep-
it, the man to whom she is mother
owes to her gentleness, kindness,
tenderness and consideration. Did
she fall back and did the children
with superior advantages pass her
in the race? But think of her toll
and trials, her devotion and de-
NAL, her mind and her years that
she gave, that her children might
derive the benefit. Think of her
sacrifice-nO wonder if she fell
behind. with her heart in her
home in the buds that were hers.
There is no rank. no station, no
condition that may exempt a manly
man from kind regard for. a
mother.
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In this country, the grandest on
earth in most respects, we are not
sufficiently instructed in the art of
manners. We are rather gruff, ,
and sometimes unapproachable.
Manners do not make the man, as
the proverb says but manners make
the man much more agreeable. A
man may be noble in his heart,
true in his dealings, virtuous in
his conduct, and yet unmannerly.
A gentleness of manners gives the
finish to the true gentleman: By
good manners we do not mean ct
iquette. This is only a conven-
tional set of rules adopted by what
is called" good society" and many
rules of etiquette are the essence
of rudeness. Etiquette does not
permit genteel people to recognize
in the street man with a shabby
coat, though he be their, brother.
Etiquette is liar in its not at
home" ordered to be told by sers
wants to callers at inconvenient
seasons. Good manners includes
many requisites, but chiefly con-
sist in politenesss, courtesy and
kindnes. They cannot be taught
by rule, but they NAV be taught
by example.