AMERICANM CLEANINGS. MAXIMS OF GENERAL GARFIELD.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 30 December 1881, Page 2

AMERICANM CLEANINGS. MAXIMS OF GENERAL GARFIELD.

« The following are frken from a widely circulated pamphlet, printed at Philadelphia, and compiled by William Raistpn Balch and they show how close and a cute, as well as ho-r wide an observer and reader the late President was : — I would rather be beaten in rigbt than succeed in wrong. I feel a profounder reverence for a boy than for a man. I neversee a ragged boy in the street without feeling tha» I might owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under hia coat. Luck is an igm's.fatnus. You may follow it to ruin, but never to success. Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify, bat § times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard, and compelled to sink or6wim for himself. In all my acqnantance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the paving. Nothing is more uncertain than the result of any one throw; few things more certain, thnn the result of many throws. If the power to do hard work is not *alent. it is the best possible substitute for it. Occasion may be the bugle-fall that summons an army to battle, but the blast of a bugle can never make soldiers or w n victories. We cannot study nature prrfoundly without bringing oureel\re* into communion with the spirit of Art, which prevails and fills the uni--verse. If there he one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire more tban another, it is a brnvp man— itis a man who dur p« to look Hip devil in the face and tell him he is a devilt • It ia one of the precious mysteries of

sorrow that it fiuds solace in unselfish ! bought, Every character is the j >int product of nature and nur 4 u r e. It has been fortunate that most of cur greatest men have left no descent dants to shiue in the borrowed lustre of a great name. An uncertain currency that goes up nnd do .vn, hits the labourer, and hits him hard.