Year: 1878

~ LCCtOI/(.


Printing office proverb-A still tongue
makes full stick.


70 be truly useful in life is Of more i'm
pOrtance than all else.


People who are always prepared for the
wtrst generally get it.


! tdleness is the dead sea that swallows
up all virtues, and is the selfsame sepul-
chre of a living man.


..IIe was generous to FAULT That is
| Just what is the matter with most OF us.
| We treat our f;Iults too kindly.
People are never made SO ridiculous by
the qualities they possess as by those
which they affect to have.
There are two difficulties of lite-men
are disposed to spend more than they can
afford. and 10 indulge more than they can
endure.


If the heart does not 90 with the head.
the best thoughts give only the light. This
is Why sciehce is SO little persuasive, and
probity so eloquent.


ADiiSIicI Nch!StIi tuc VI tit
character of those who may be absent. as
you would wish others to guard youl csar-
acttr in your absence.
He who llbors for the elevation of
the masses has noble though ottcntimes
thaniioss task. The duties are arduous
the struggles great: yet the results sought
are worthy all sacrifice and effort.
Beecher preached lately on death. saying
that the horrors OF death are all of heath
en- origin and that civilized people should
die philosopllically, like gentlemen, self
possessed, and preserve their equipose to
the last.


Keep to your calling; let no man induce
YOU to abandon TINT which you have stud
led for years, in the vain attempt to learn
new trade in a month. Success springs
from industry and perseverance.


The world wants more sunshine in its
disposition, in its business, in its charities.
in its theology. For ten thousand of the
aches and pains and irritations of men and
! women we recommend Sunshine. 1t
sootLes better than morphine. 1t is the
best plaster for a wound.
''Habit' is hard to overcome. If you
take off the first letter it does not change
"a Bit" If you take off another you still
have ''bit" left. If you take off still an
other the whole of ''it'' remains. 1t you
take off another it is not ''t'' totally used
up. All of which goes to show that if
you wish to be rid of a ''habit'' you must
throw it off altogether.


"Read the Bible every day Of your life, -
SAID DIR. johnson. "Read aid revere the
sacred page; a page which not the whole
creation could produce, which not the
conhagration shall destroy; in Natures
ruin, hot one letter lost"
There are some exceptions to the gener-
al rule, that no man should run in debt.
1t may be better for one to owe something
on a house and lot than to move from
house to house every year or so and pay
high rent It ftIay do tor a farmer to- incur
a small debt on new piece OF land, or on
some improvement, but be cautious. A
small debt will sometimes stimulate to in
dustry and economy. but a large one will
often weary and finally come Oft victori-
Gus.


think great many professors of relig-
ion are just like backgammon boards.
They look like stately books; and on the
back of them is inscribed in large letters,
History of England" ''History of the
Crusades - but when you open them you
find nothing but emptiness, with the ex-
ception OF dice and counters. And many
men bear the name ''Christian" who are
inside all emptiness and rattling nothing.
--Bethunc.


The greatest ii all power is thought
power. That it fiiay multiply most rapid
ly and produce its greatest effects it is es-
sential that there should be no barrier
placed in the way of free speech. The
right of free speech rests on simple justice.
Free speech is the basis Of progress In
knowledge, the guaranty of liberty, the
antidote of revolution, and the corner
stone of religious freedom. The churches
ought to be the first to rally in 'lefepse OF
free speech, for they are its children.-Dr.
Foote.





Idleness is the mother of vice, and boy
who is allowed to grow up in idleness is
pretty sure to be a vicious man. The pa
rents of such boys have a fearful response
bility resting upon them when they let
their sons run about at late hours OF the
night instead OF keeping them at home
reading good newspapers and books, and
training then into moral habits, SO as to
become respectable men instead OF idlers,
r,lnl-drinkers. gamblers and loafers, which
is sure 10 be the ease with the night rum
ners and day idlers. Then the response
bilitv is increased. Give the boys plenty
to do, and you will preserve their NOR
ais. Better a tired body than vicious
mind.