Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — In the Dark. [ARTICLE]

In the Dark.

There are some people who talk without thinking. Mrs. Beasely is that sort of a woman. Her husband while bringing in a pitcher of beer one night, dropped a quarter. “I can’t find that piece of money I’ve lost,” he said, groping around on the hall floor, when Mrs. Beasely opened the door. “Of course, you can’t, if you look for it out there in the dark. Yon are the stupidest man in Texas. Why don’t you hunt for it here in the light where you can see. Nobody can find anything out there in the dark.”--Terras Siftings. The detractor may, and often does, pull down others, but ho never, as he seems to suppose, elevates himself to their position. The most he can do is maliciously to tear from them the blessings which he cannot enjoy himself.— Collier. To quarrel with a superior is injurious with an equal is doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.— J. Hall. A. Louisiana editor in writing up the circus describes “ the man from ilUno. •