Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — THOUGHT AND OPINION. [ARTICLE]

THOUGHT AND OPINION.

Tint woman suffers most from ci)r oumstanoes, because she is not free tostrive for their alteration. — London Spectator. One of the most marked and least noticed changes in our modern 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. We 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 cektain class of men who engage 1 in business see only the main chances, w They do not consider it necessary in ■ good times to prepare for poorer ones. 1 They make no preparations for bridg- .1 ing over from one prosperous period to 1 another. The consequence is that they 1 get mired. Instead of laying a good J road over which to travel, they trust to 1 a footing that lets them in.— North - fl western Lumberman. 1 Any one in America may have knowl- 1 edge free. The Public Schools not® only give the elementary instruction,® but music, drawing, language, and® penmanship are thrown in, as condi- J ments of a good, square mental meat® And to thiß feast guests are brought idfl from hedge and byways. The servant™ of the Commonwealth go out and com-l pel the poor to come into the banquet® There is no excuse for dunces in this! country. Nevertheless they are thick® —Commercial Gazette. fl The hardest fight awaiting any maifl is, as the Russians call it, to "go back® of his jaw,” to conquer the legacy ofl evil tendencies loft him by his fathers.® Every boy ought to be Lavater enough® to read his own face as a title-page U® these tendencies. Every mother oughfl to be able to define to her boy thie® work, which lies before him, and toy show him where to begin. The harderi the struggle, the more oharitable he 1 will be to other boys whose task i* heavier.— Youth’s Companion.