Items of Interest.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 444, 20 October 1904, Page 7

Items of Interest.

WHEN we fail our pride supports us ;' when we succeed it frequently betrays us. Saying the wrong thing is misfortune; but trying to explain it is disaster. ; Our mightiest feelings are always those which remain unspoken.—Charles Kingsley, Some men are judged by their works, but the idler is judged by the work he doesn't do. A cunning man is always anxious to cheat someone else ; a wise man is satisfied if no one else cheats him. But no man is ever laid on a shelf by* fate. He climbs up there of his own free will, and lies down beneath the dust of forgetfulness, because he lacks the heart to arise and face the business of life.—Henry Seton Merriman. Art is the child of Nature—yes, Her darliDg child in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude. - —Longfellow Progress is the universal law of both worlds. Eesponsibility never ceases, hers or hereafter. Where progress ends, who will dare to say ; or guess, or speculate as to the many mansions ' into which there may be many removals.—Samuel Carter Hall. We shall never be sorry afterwards for thinking twice before we speak, for counting the cost before entering upon any new course, for sleeping over stings and injuries before saying or doing anything in answer, or for carefully considering any business scheme presented to us before putting money or name, into it. It will'save, us from much regret, loss, and sorrow, always to remember to do nothing rashly.

A sense of justice should be the foundation of all our social qualities. In our most.early' intercourse with the world, and even in our most youthful amusements, no unfairness should be found. That sacred rule of doing all things to others, according as we wish they would do unto us, should he. engraved on our minds. For this end we should impress ourselves with a deep sense of the original and natural quality of man,—Dr. Blair.

How to live ?—-that is the essential question for us. Not how. to live in the material sense only, but in the widest sense. ' The general problem which comprehends every special problem is, the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances. In what way to treat the body ; in what way to treat tho mind: in what way to manage our affairs! in what way to bring up a family ; in what way to behavo as a citizen; in what way to utilise thoso sources of happinoss which Nature supplios—how to use all our faculties to the groatost advantage of oursolvos and othors—how to livo completely? Aud this being tho groat thing noodful for us to loam, is, by consoquonco, tho groat thing whioh education has to toaoh. To propare us for complete living is the function which education haa lb disohargo; and fcho_ only rational modo of judging of an educational oourso is, to judgo in what dogroo it disohargos such function.—Sponoor.

A wonderful fact to rofloot upon is, that every human orouturo is constituted to be that profound soorot and mystery to ovory other! A Bolonm consideration, whon. I ontoc ti groab oily by uigbt, that everyone of fchoMo'durkly-olUHtiorod houses onclosos its own microti; that ovory boating'hoartin the huiKlt'odH of thousands of broasts thoro, is, in some ot its inspirings, a sooret to tho heart nearest it. In nono of tho burialplaces in this city through whioh I pass, is thoro a sloopor moro insorutable than its buisy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to mo, or I to thorn.—Charles PiokeriSi