Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1876 — Bulbs. [ARTICLE]

Bulbs.

There is a great deal of bogus humility floating around; the most humble critter you ever see is a hornet who has lost his stinger. We should always remember this, that while there is but few in the world disposed to help us, there is not one but what--is able to hint us. The great art of conversation is to know what to say, where to begin and when to stop. I contend that pity is of more consequence to the one who gives it than to the one who receives it. I never have met a man yet who didn’t have a more comprehensive knowledge of his neighbors’ character than he didoi his own. The man who has got nothing but the truth to tell always uses the first words he can lay his hands on. Give every man you meet, my boy, half the road and the timeof day, and you will be surprised to see how easy all things will slip along. There is no greater fraud than artificial happiness, and I believe there is much more of it than of the real kind. I admire patience, but I know lots of people who are patient just because they are too lazy to. be anything else. There is so much ingratitude among mankind that I wonder there is any charity at all in the world. A traitor is a common enemy, and those who profit by treason despise him as much as those who suffer by it hate him.

The lower down a man keeps the safer he is, and when he gels six fpet under ground he is perfectly safe. The more laws a "people have, the less likely they are to execute them. There is but very little power to sarcasm unless it has truth for its sting; without truth it sinks into mere malice. I don’t believe there is one single man livingonthe face of the earth from whom all the restraints of the law cuuld be removed, with safety to himself and to others. You will find plenty ofjneif who are red-hot to hunt tigers (and wildcats, only just muzzle the varmints nd place them ten or fifteen miles off. It won’t pay any man to fret about the past, and the future will be sufficiently provided for if we look well to the present. If a man c n’t find happiness in himself there isn’t any use to hunt for it anywhere else. There are lots of able-bodied people lying around loose who might have preserved their importance if they had remained fourth corporals, but making them captains has ruined them for life. The most odious compound I know of is wealth and snobltery; it is rather worse than pride and poverty. The dog that barks at everything is the poorest kind of a watch dog. There is a kind of economy that don’t pay, it is the kind that people resort to after they have squandered all their money. The torments of the world make but little impression on the man who is at peace with himself. A gentleman can’t hide his true character any more than a loafer can. The man who can control his wants is the only one who can control his happiness* Death is one of those kind of warriors whom it is safer to face than to fly from. ♦- The man who talks and acts different from anybody else is generally a conceited fool. ’ Epitaphs are like circus bills; there is

• great deal tn the bills that to nercr performed. ■lt don’t pay to be mean; no man ever did a mean thing yet without being dis,satisfied with it. I suppose we ought to conceal our joys, but I uiink half the fun in being happy consists in telling of It. The hardest thing I know of is to argue against a success; it is like kicking against the bricks. He who disputes with a fool Is sure to always come off second best. I hare seen people who were neither good, had, nor indiflurent. The best way to overcome danger that has been discovered yet is to face it. How strange it is tlist we shoqld bate those whom we have injured full as much ns we ao those who have Injured us. It is a great deal cheaper to work than it is to beg; any man can earn two dollars while he is bogging one. The most painful recollection of my life was the time spent, when I was a boy, waiting to be whipped. If a num slips trom the top round of fame’s ladder he has got to fall to the bottom: there is no half-way house. In moet arguments the truth is lost sight of; the parties roll up their sleeves and g< in simply to win.— Jonh Billinqs, i r N. P Weekly.