Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1876 — Gravel Stones. [ARTICLE]

Gravel Stones.

W’e can trace most of the joy and sorrow in this world right back to woman. An enemy that fears you is not a very dangerous one. The very height of human intelligence is to know just what things are actually worth. The worst man to convince is the one who says “ yes” to every thing you say. There is nothing on earth so empty as ahead without any brains in it; it is worse than a pail with the bottom knocked out. ? It ain’t every man that Providence considers worthy of being tried by adversity. The man who gamblesoi drinks whisky can’t choose his associates. I have always noticed that those who have the most of gravity, kave the least ot anything else. The man who can’t learn anything from his failures is past all hope. Men of the greatest genius have the most simplicity and reverence. The road to ruin is down hill, and always macadamized at that. ~ There is no room in a small head for anything else but cunning. - I have seen men so lazy that they would tire the tools all out that they worked with. _ Passion neutralizes both strength and reason.

True liberty Is the result of Judicious restraint. Envy and avarice can’t be satisfied; after they have eat up everything else they will commence feeding on themselves. Truth don’t alter or grow old; two and two made, four when Adam was a boy, and it amounts to the same to-day. I never have seen an angel yet, and don’t think I wan’t to; I shouldn’t know how to behave in the presence of one. The man who can’t amuse himself can’t amuse others. Eveiybody praises a competency, but everybody in digging in for some more. Itls a fearful condition to get into to be dependent upon others for our pleasures. Great sensitiveness is not a relative evidence of merit; it is often the mere result of ennui or pride. Anticipations of the future form the pleasures of youth, reflections of the past those of old age. An long'’as the molasses holds out you will find flies plenty—thus it iswithmoft of the friendships of life. The hardest sinner in the whole lot to convert is the one who spends one-half his time in sinning end the other half in repentance. jT A golden key will pick almost anvfock. —doth. Billing s, in N. T. Laboring men should hie warning from clocks —the more they strike the faster the business runs down.