Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — THOUGHT AND OPINION. [ARTICLE]

THOUGHT AND OPINION.

Thb ▼oman suffers most from cirtnmstanoes, because she is not free to strive few their alteration. — London Spectator. One of the most marked and least noticed changes in our modem world is the ability to read and hear detested opinions with patience and equanimity. —London Spectator. Steadfastness in friendship is only for the free, and women are less free of the two sexes. However that may be, women are certainly a benefit by their friendships more than men. — London Spectator. The only chivalry that women can afford to receive from men, in work, wages, and general conduct, is fair play, equal advantages, and equal wages. No woman will ever ask of men other than to treat her always as they treat each other. —lnter Ocean. Wb leave the poor out of our calculations until all others have been provided for, and the result is too often, as your case, that they must go emptyhanded. What a mockery it is to say, “God pity the poor,” as I have heard it said, when my spirit burned within me to retaliate, “God, pity them yourself.” —The Advance. The simple truth is that Judge Lynch is not, after all a reformer. He is not even a revolutionist, any more than he is house-breaker or highwayrobber. He is a lawless murderer, pure and simple; and he confesses the fact by usually seeking the night season for his crime, and concealing his identity under a disguise. —New York Independent

A certain class of men who engage in business see only the main chances. They do not consider it necessary in good times to prepare for poorer ones. They make no preparations for bridging over from one prosperous period to another. The consequence is that they get mired. Instead of laying a good road over which to travel, they trust to a footing that lets them in.—Northwestern Lumberman. - Any one in America may have knowledge free. The Public Schools not only give the elementary instruction, but music, drawing, language, and penmanship are thrown in, as condiments of a good, square mental meal. And to this feast guest s are brought in from hedge and byways. The servants of the Commonwealth go out and eomoel the poor to come into the banquet. There is no excuse for dunces in this country. Nevertheless they are thick. —Commercial Gazette. The hardest fight awaiting any man is, as the Russians call it, to “go back of his jaw,” to conquer the legacy of evil tendencies left him by his fathers. rSvery boy ought to be Lavater enough to read his own face as a title-page to "hese tendencies. Every mother ought :o be able to define tc her boy this work, which lies before him, and to show him where to begin. The harder jhe struggle, the more charitable he will be to other boys whose task is leavler.— Youth's Companion.