The Folly of Pride.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6691, 5 June 1893, Page 4

The Folly of Pride.

Lit any man but look back upon his own life and see what use he has made of his reason, hovr little he has consulted it, and how less he h*» followed it. What foolish passions, what vain thoughts, what needless labors, what extravagant projects, have taken up the greatest part of his life. How foolish he has been in his words and conversation ; how seldom he has done well with judgment, and how often he has been kept from doing ill by accident ; how seldom he has been able to please himself; how ofteu he has displeased others ; how often ha has changed his counsels, hated what h« loved, and loved what he hated ; how often he has been enraged aud transported at trifles, pleased and displeased with the very same things, and constantly changing from one vanity to another. Let a man take this view of his own life, and he will see reason enough to confess that prkl« was not made for man. Let him consider that, if the world knew all that of him which he knows of himself, if they saw what vanity and passions govern his iuside, and what secret tempers sully and corrupt his besfc actions, he would have no more pretence to be honored and admired for his goodn«a» and wisdom than a rotten and distempered body to be loved and admired for its beauty and comeliness. — Exchange.

•tick. With a terrific blow the niau smashed his skull in, killing him on the spot. The little girl was so frightened that she ran back to the inn and t»ld the innkeeper's wife. This woman, after advising her to leave the money in her keeping, shut the poor child up in a room and locked *he door. Looking through the keyhole, the child saw the innkeeper return with a blood-stained Btick in his hand. She then heard him tell how he had committed the murder. On his learning where sho waa, she heard him discussing the best means of getting rid of her. In a, dreadful state of apprehension she jumped from the window to the ground, fortunately without hurting herself, and fled to her home. The innkeeper aud his wife were arrested. A Spanish Government (says the Daily News) can bring to bear upon the electors an enormous pressure, because in Spain the spoils of »mcc are for the victors, and the party that takes office does not make a general election until it has swept out all tho officials and the employees of its predecessor— from civil governors, mayors and collectors of revenue and Customs, downwards to the humblest village authorities, and to the clerks in every state, provincial, and municipal administration. With such a system, and with their frequent changes of Government, Spaniards themselves confess that it is difficult to get much morality or respectability in their public administrations, but their Governments thus Beeure ready tools for their electoral aims ; witness tho capital of Spain, whioh has more than 22,000 State, provincial, and municipal officials j of all grades on the electoral register, out of 118,000 registered electors. The aamo state of things exists more or less everywhere in tho provinces, and will allow Sagasta to get about 300 Liberal deputies out of 437 members of Congress, and 140 out of 180 Senators. Unfortunately, the Liibarala are net in Spain a very disciplined or homogeneous party, but a coalition of Democrats and Constitutionalists, Centralists, and Radicals, Free Traders and Protectionists. Th« Canadian Government has sold to Mr T. J. Lipton, tho well-known tea and provision dealer, the mammoth cheese which was manufactured as Canada's special exhibit to the World's Fair. The cheese is the largest the world has over seen, and weighs close on 12 tons, or about 26,8801 b. This marvel of the dairy was made from the milk of 20,150 cows, milked by 2,777 dairymaids, the milk weighing about 250,8551 - the equivalent to over 112 tons— or fully 29,554 gallons. The Canadians are justly proud of it as being typical of the wonderful production of the Dominion.