Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1883 — LITTLE THINGS. [ARTICLE]

LITTLE THINGS.

The unconscious influences of home, those which come from little things, ( little speeches, little deeds, and little offices, that best portion of a good ■ man’s life, his little nameless, unremem"bered acts of kindness and of love, are Imore subtle and pervading and plastic .over the character than the teachings >■ which we set ourselves formally to I make. For it is not merely from what We do, but how we ray it and how we do jt, and in what spirit and temper, > that the life of our life comes out and shows its quality. B The yellow-cedar tree of Alaska has a fragrance like that of sandal wood. The wood is grainless, and the Russians build many ships of it