Items of Interest.

Lake County Press, Issue 2393, 14 September 1911, Page 2

Items of Interest.

We should red, not for dreams, but for fre.-h power to be and to do. —M. L. Dickenson. L.o'x is the force bv which, and home the place in which, God chiefly fashions souls, to their line issues.— Rev. W. C. Gannett.

If the old lamps grow dim and pale, The stars are shining still; If shadows gather in the vale. The sun is on the hill. Who is the happiest of men." He who values the merits of others, and, in their pleasure takes joy even as though (were his own.-—Goethe. Imagination is central; fancy, ■wineifinal. Fancy amuses, imagination expands and exalts us. fancy paints; imagination sculptures.— Emerson. Presentiment s are strange things, ; ,nd so are sympathies : and so arc ..ivi-ns ; and the three combined make one mvstery to which humanity has not vet found the key.—Charlotte Bronte.

If the secret history of books could he written. :nul the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of hi-, story. Ivw manv insipid, volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! Thai kerav You have a disagreeable dutv to do at twofVe o'clock. Do not blacken nine and ton and all hours between with the colour of twelve. Do the work of each, and reap vour reward in peace- So when the dreaded moment in the future becomes the present von shall meet it waking in the light, and that light shall lovercome its darkness. G. Macdonald.