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For if, on the whole, we ‘throw away substantial things to pursue shadows, we must confess jthasweare indeed guilty of the wildest folly. We may Hatter ourselves and each other, and cooker ourselves up with the vain idea that our errors are right, hut all t liisps a peculiar and distinctive feature of fools. The word is de rived from the Latin follis, a windbag or a pair of bellows. Hence the fool is not necessarily ignorant, but is unwise; is puffed with false notions and blown out with self-conceit. He sees things I not as they are, but as he would wish them to be. He shuts his eyes to verities and adores false hoods. He ignores the lessons of the past or misapplies them. And it is easier to cast a mountain into the sea than to remove the small est of liis prejudices. “Take care,” said Wolsey of Henry VIII., “what you put into the King’s head; for von can never put it out again.” Carlyle, after enumerating the people of these islands, added “mostly fools.” Hut it may be objected. He was dyspeptic. Ra belais, however, one of the most genial of men, classified to less than three hundred species of the genus, from the solemn to the fan tastical fool, among his own coun trymen. Kind David said, “All men are liars,” which is equiva lent to saying lliat they are all fools; and Avicenna, after the widest experience as a physician, assorted that all men are mad on some point or another. “All our action,” said I*l iny to Trajan, “upbraid us of folly.” Horace asks, “Who is not brain-sick?” And an old paradox of the Stoics was omnes stultos insanire —all fools are mad; “though,” as old bur ton observes, “some madder than others.” Democritus held that there was little or no difference between mankind and boasts, except that the former could speak. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time, affirmed to bo so by an oracle of Apollo, and indeed, such as none before or after can approach—not taught hut born wise:— ‘‘Whose wit excelled the wit of men as far As the sun rising doth obscure a star.” Yet has lie been considered by many great men as an illiterate I though inspired idiot, and we are i told that besides his other follies, he was “a sodomite and a sturdy drinker: and that of all others he was most sottish, a very madman in his actions and opinions.” So that the private conduct of the best and wisest lias never squared with their public opinions. “Their lives being opposite to their words they commended poverty to others and were most covetous them selves; extolled love and peace, and yet persecuted one another with violent hate and malice— They could give precepts for verse and prose, but not a man of them could moderate his affections.” Thus Socrates, after taking great pains to find out a wise man con eluded all were fools. And another philosopher is supposed to have “travelled all over Europe to con fer with a wise man—and could find none.” On the other hand, it has been said: "And they can call you fool, with equal claim May plead an anisic title to the name.” Lucian, in Ins dialogues, made Mercury conduct Charon to a spot where In* could view the world at once, and asked him what he saw. He replied that “he could discern cities like so many hives of hoes, wherein every bee had a sting, and they did nought else but st ing one another, some domi neering like hornets bigger than the rest, some like filching wasps, others as drones.” Hope, fear, anger, ignorance, hovered in a confused cloud over their heads. perturbing each by turns. “Some wore brawling, some lighting, rill ing. running, earnestly petition : ing, craftily litigating, for toys and trilles, and such momentary things. Their towns and provinces were factions, rich against poor, and poor against rich; nobles against artificers, they against! nobles, and so the rest.” “O j fools! O madmen!” he exclaimed, j insana studio, Insani labores. Montaigne says: “Folly and. absurdity are not to be cured by bare admonition—Obstinacy of THE BARNESVILLE NEWS-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1902. opinion, and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so assured, resolute, dis dainful, contemplative, serious, and grave as an ass?” We are warned, —“answer not a fool ac cording to his folly lest thou be like unto him.” Nevertheless, we may note and check the follies of others, even though we be blind to our own. They can do the same for us, and thus mutual ad vantage may arise. For few are so foolish us not to be able to per ceive palpable folly in others, although subtle examples may go unnoticed. Even the blind may see. Demoritus put out his eyes, it is said, that he might observe the better, and thus saw more than all Greece together. To enumerate the follies of mankind would exceed the labours of Hercules; to cure them seems well nigh impossible. Ignorance, j error, superstition, lust, avarice, i vanity, and vain desires are ever actively at work to oppose what ever is noble and wise. Insensate 1 Ignorance stands as a wall of adamant barring the path of human progress. Error, profess ing to guide, leads by crooked and devious ways to destruction. Su perstition feeds the hungry soul with ashes, misleads with fruitless hopes, and nourishes intolerance and cruelty. Lust drives its vic tims whither it will, obscuring reason and urging the madness. Avarice withers heart and brain and soul leaving nothing but the empty husk and shell of a man. Vanity transforms good to evil, varnishes sin, and puffs with self conceit. And a host of vain de sires, like a legion of devils, enters into the springs of our being and tempts us to every eonceivale ab surdity. If wisdom wont with antiquity the world would be wise, but old age seems only capable of develop ing new follies. The rich have discovered thousands of fresh ways of making money, but have not yet learnt the best mode of enjoy ing it. Those who make most enjoy it least. The poor have multiplied their avocations a hun dred-fold and yet complain that they are worse off than ever. Men of all conditions are fed with soph istries as though they were divine, truths, and prefer the artificial to the natural. Discontent rages from the cottage to the palace. Greed besots nations and individ uals alike. How then can they be wise when to be miserable is to be foolish? Happiness and wisdom are con vertible terms. He who is wise is happy; he who is happy is wise. A stout heart is dismayed by no dangers. A contented man is a perpetual feast. As Cato told his weary soldiers in the Lybian des erts : “Thirst, heat, sand, serpents, are pleasant to a viliant man.” Chrysostom said : “To want noth ing is godlike.” Happiness is found not by increasing our pos sesions but by moderating our desires. When Darius fled from Alexander he drank from a way side puddle and swore that it was pleasanter than any royal wine or mead. “Hunger,” we are told, I “is the best sauce,” and it is cer tain labour gives a zest which in dolence never yields. Thus one may be as happy on little as on much, so that it is sufficient, and he who can be this on least is the wisest of all. For he who rules himself is greater and happier than a king. To keep within the bounds of nature is the surest and shortest road to content. To search out and venerate her laws is divinest wisdom. The Great Mother is bountiful to her obedient children and showers her blessings with a loving and liberal hand. In her we live and move and have our being, and should therefore do her worship. But led astray by our follies, we seek to supersede her. We despise her admonitions and despose her from our hearts. We neglect Jier chastenigs, and follow foolish devices, and the result is misery, crime, want, disease, and the debasement of humanity. Must the cycles of the future ever run as those of the past? Will wrongs never be righted, worth never be esteemed, and force always triumph over justice? Surely not, unless there is some predestined and irremoveable flaw in human nature which no power and no experience can alleviate To believe this would be treason to the eternal wisdom. It may be, however, that the reign of folly has not yet culminated: that men must first pass through fur ther stress and the nations be bathed in blood before they can be purified. Whatever the process and however painful, let us hold on to unwavering belief in the “good time coming,” and hasten it, so far as we can, by exposing the follies of fools and correcting our own. Kodol Dyspepsia Care Digests what you eat* HIE POLITICAL campaign. Judge Allen Discusses The Gub* ernatorial and Legislative Races. Williamson, Ga., Feb. 10, 1902. Editor News-Gazette: The political pot will soon begin to boil, Terrell, Estill and Guerry candidates for Governor. Col. A. A. Murphey has announced for the next representative in the legisla ture from Pike county. Terell and Estill have planted themselves squarely on local op tion as their platform, which will he their Trojan hobby-horse to ride through their campaign and on into the gubernatorial chair of Georgia. Terrell, no doubt, from his being attorney general of the state so long, has put him in the lead in Middle and North Georgia. But I think, Estill can overcome said advantages by the indelible scars on his person, while battling for the last but glorious cause of the Confederacy. I have ever made it apart of my religion where there are two contending candidates for the same office one a Confederate soldier and the other not, yet both possessing equal capacity, I inva ribly give my franchise in favor of the Confederate soldier, who like our Saviour, offered up his life, on the alter of his country, as a sac rifice, for our redemption. I am in hopes this sentiment will be perpetuated to the one hundred and ninety ninth unborn genera tion . Col. A. A. Murphey has an nounced himself a candidate for the next representative in the Leg islature. I have known him since he was quite a youth. He descend ed from one of the best and noblest families of Georgia. He has the advantage over many, of being a graduate in a literary and law schhool. He is a fine lawyer, a gifted speecher, has a large well cultivated brain. Moreover, lie is ambitious and fearless, coupled with an indominitable push, will and backbone to carry into effect any measure he engages. I think the people of Pike county would be proud of Such an able talent in next legislature of Georgia. Yours truly, Judge R. H. Allen SOMETHING THAT WILL DO YOU GOOD. We know of no way in which we can be of more service to our readers than to tell them of something that will be of real good to them. For this reason we want to acquaint them with what we consider one of the very best reme dies on the market for coughs, colds, and that alarming complaint, croup. We refer to Chamberlain’s Cough Kenn edy. We have used it with such good results in our family so long that it has become a household necessity. By its prompt use we haven’t any doubt but that it lias time and again prevented | croup. 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