Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1887 — Beecher’s Wislom. [ARTICLE]

Beecher’s Wislom.

Every farm should own a good farmer. A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. The masses against the classes, the world over. A man who does not love praise is not a full man. A man must ask leave of his stomach to be a happy man. It takes longer for a man to find out man than any other creature that is made. A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy is a public benefactor. The greatest event in a hen’s life is imade up of an egg and a cackle. But eagles Dever cackle. That cannot be a healthy condition in which few prosper and the great mass are drudges. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves. Communities are blest in the proportion in which money is diffused thro ugh the whole range of population. Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing—it is getting money without giving an equivatant for ik

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people. That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory. One of the original tendencies of the human mind, fundamental and universal, is the love of other people’s private affairs. This is a good world to sin in, but so far as men are concerned it is a very hard world to repent in. It is a bitter world; it is a cruel world.