Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1898 — GRAINS OF GOLD. [ARTICLE]

GRAINS OF GOLD.

Envy is the dividend of success. Nothing is so trustworthy as love. The smile that helps others lias to be gin in the heart. The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life. Patience is the support oil weakness, impatience is the ruin of strength. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress that one can wear in society. Be something that will warm aching hearts. Something that will cheer hope* les3 lives. , While opportunity awn its every maa, It does not devote its lei-.: ire. to blowing a horn. Tho man who make . a loocialtv looking for flies in the ointment finds plenty to do. The man who thinks it right to steal >3 a thief, no matter whether he robs anybody or not Let your light shine in the home Don’t be turning it down all the time, as you do the gas. The hypocrite holds up his head a little higher every time he sees a good man make a stumbling- step. t A man of grumbling spirit may eal a very poor dinner from silver plate, while one with a grateful heart may feast upon a crust. A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, answered: “By not being prevented by shame from asking questions when I w r as ignorant.” Don’t try to see how much you cm jet, and how little ycu uu do, buv consider the day lost on which you have not done something to make somebody glad that you have lived.