Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1882 — Hasty Judgment. [ARTICLE]

Hasty Judgment.

Nothing is more unjust than to judge of a man by too short an acquaintance, and too slight inspection ; for it often happens that in the loose and thoughtless and dissipated there is a secret radical worth, which may shoot out by proper cultivation. To imagine that every one who is not completely good is irrevocably abandoned, is to suppose that all are capable of the same degree of excellence. It is, indeed, to exact from all that perfection which one can ever attain. And, since the purest virtue is consistent with some vice, and the virtue of the greatest number with almost an equal proportion of contrary qualities, let none too hastily conclude that all goodness is lost, though it may for a time be clouded and overwhelmed ; for most minds are the slaves of external circumstances and conform to any hand that undertakes to mold them, roll down any torrent of custom in which they happen to be caught, or bend to any importunity that bears hard against them. Samuel Johnson. There is no ivory waste. Even the powder is sold for making jelly. It is said that one leading cutlery firm in Sheffield made a calculation that to supply themselves with the ivory needed for their business they needed 1,280 elephants every year and that, even with this number, the tusks were each estimated to weigh 23} pounds. The difference between our forefathers and some of their descendants, is, that thb former were called on to strike foi ■4beir rights, and the latter to write for I their Strikes. There is considerable of n 1 varfetifm/— -Steubenville Herald. Kite.?, all the arguments about cheapness and quality it appears that Dr. Brill’s Gough {Syrup is .the best remedy for the cure of Coughs and Colds ever offered to the public. The price is only 25 cents a bottle, and every druggist in the land mcHh and recommends it