Year: 1879

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A STRONG shield is the safety of COM
manders.


WHOLE homespun is better than rag
ged velvet.


NOTHING is difficult to the brave and
faithful.


PEOPLES intentions can only be decid-
| ed from their conduct.


IT'S human nature to love to make ex-
/ periments at the expense of others.


IT is more honorable to acknowledge
our faults than boast of our merits.
You should consider your adversary
ss absent when his senses are departed.


THOSE gifts are ever the most accept
able which the giver made precious.


THE first step to acknowledge is
self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any
knowledge except by a like process.
TEARS are to be looked at not as proof
of very deep sorrow, but as a gracious
relief to the killing intensity of such
grief.


ONE had better sail boldly in almost
any direction than drift without any di-
rection at all. One had better sail in
the maddest storm that ever troubled
the sea of life, than lie on the sea and
drift with any chance wind that chooses
to blow.


HAPPINESS is frail plant which sell
dom lives long on earth. 1t springs up
when it will often in quiet, shady hooks
and corners, but seldom in cultivated
gardens. It often blooms where one
would least expect it and then suddenly
and unexpectedly dies.


LET face be backed by blood and
Of no ha1s l,rro
perience and made mellow as plOwed
field by burrows that have torn it up; let
it be made charitable by the sins of
others, by a sense of its own sins and
you have a face that will wear as many
changes of expression as the wind and
weather.


THAT which disheartens me in all nv
work, is that l can not foresee what
pOsterity viii think of them. I have an
anterior persuasion that I have written
nothing good. What l write with spirit
l find fault with half an hour afterwards;
els1lui returns upon me at all moments;
solitude pleases me no longer. l want
some one, no matter who, on whom to
discharge the superfuity of my thoughts.
-Chatea1t6ria9d.


MANY good thoughts and resolutions
pass through the mind in the course of
the day, but are lost for want of COM
mitting them to paper. To use home
ly expression just rising in my fancy,
shall the good housewife take such pains
in picking and preserving her worthless
fruits, her apTicOts and ounces, and is
there not much spiritual houSe1ctfery in
treasuring up our minds best fruits, our
hearts meditations in its most favored
moments ?---Lanl6.


WHEN the nerves are irritable, and
the skin is irritable, and the stomach is
irritable-nOt to be irritable altogether
is a moral miracle. For example, after
SCOT in your cruel and snuff over your
light pudding, to check at such n mo-
ment the explosive speech is at least
equal to spiking 4 cannon in the heat of
battle. A certain invalid of our ac-
quaintance, doubly afflicted with pain
ful complaint and an Unmanageable tenn
per, retains as nurse a stone-deaf old
woman, whom he can abuse without vi-
olence to his feelings.-H0Od.


WE mortals should chiefly like to talk
to each other out of goodwill and fell
Owship, not for the sake of hearing rev.
elatiOns, or being stimulated by witt
cisms; and have usually found that it
is the rather dull person who appears to
be disgusted with his contemporaries be-
cause they are not always strikingly orig
inal, and to satisfy whom the party at
country house should have included the
prophet Isaiah, Plato, Francis Bacon
and VOltaire. 1t is always your heavI-
est bore who is astOnished at the tame
ness of modern celebrities; naturally;
for little of his company has reduced
them to a state of fiaccid fatigue. 1t is
right and meet that there should be an
abundant utterance of good sound COM
places. Part of an agreeable takers
charm is that he lets them fall cOntinC-
ally with no more than their due empha-
sis. Giving a pleasant voice to what we
are well assured of, makes a sort of
wholesome air for the more special and
dubious remark to move in.-GeOrge
Eliot.


ALL men are not philosophers like
Socrates, to bear with q wife as he did
with Xantippe-the synonym of all that
is disagreeable in woman-if merely as
a stepping to higher things. BY far the
larger number long for wifely faith in,
and encouragement for their possibili-
ties-a faith which had the effect Of cul-
dvating greatness in Mohammed and
Lord Beaconsfeld-and these lose con-
tidence in themselves and every body
else when love ceases to whisper hope
full words to their hearts. If a woman
keeps her mind in continual fret, how
can she expect to maintain the influence
over husband and sons which is her
highest glory? Men look to see them
selves, their ambition, their disappoint-
ments even, reflected on the calm sur
face of a wOman's soul as in a quiet
lake, and if the water moves with a per-
petual ripple-if continuously repeated
undulatiOns betray agitation from fer
menting causes beneath-where shall
the harried money-maker of the home,
perplexed and often baffled in the strug-
gle for bread, or that more fortunate
one who no less yearns for sympathy in
his success, find the domestic repOse
which Is the surest safeguard against
the temptations of the world, the flesh,
and his satanic majesty, who is always
represented as smiling with a seductive
cheerfulness. Yet is fretfulness hateful,
not only in the heads of the household,
but in any member, young or old, whose
claim is undisputed to the protection of
its roof tree.-AHon.


A POcketfuI of TarantuIas.