Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-24

voice or eldnce in your life. If you
have got a y, my boy, you had better
correct it ifh ever intend being any
thing.
| / receiveSbm him one day, very,
very plain eAtion Of one of my many
faults. Neverld what it is. He pointed
it out to me you would point out a
rattlesnake inhicket to any companion
you chanced Ne walking with. | saw
it--this vile q hofmine-and have been
hunting it, aas sriking savagely at il
whenever l DEF it stealing through my
conduct with nccursed insidiousness
ever since. Al! it is "only skotched
not killed" yeSut that is another mat
ter. / only rtion it to say that his
very plain re9 Ks gave an edge to my
remarks, as served--
"You are Et, Charley, perfectly Sc
and / war Ainst that accursed fault
forever. But reminds me of one oi
yoars."
"Eh 2"
Charley,lu have vile, offensive,
disgusting hi of chewing tobacco. L
is loathsomerf you would only keeF
the weed in tr mouth, why it would
only poison burself-but you will be
everlastinglyitting out its juice-and
it poisons mSpoisons me through sight,
smell, heariband feeling. Don't use il
any more"
True to b own true nature he never
took anotheluid. Whether this is one
cause of hblooming health and firm
nerve | willot say. | aciN say that i
is one causf his astonishing popularity
with the lats-whether they know thai
it is or notnd thus one cause of this
election offs as Senator.
These 9ts of ours said they are
like snake So they are. Sometimes
a man catS sight of one of them lying
full-lengtk its loathsomeness in his own
conduct conversation. Suppose the
fault is sfconceit-a disease of men.
tioning offs self at all times, which you
have co Acted. Well, you see the same
fault sqhe fool or other, or some Char.
fuy ~ tsll- .a., Of !. Tha lpe .rled.,e
falls le flash of daylight on the vice
-yoEe it If it would only perish
crawlm OF you, it would be well. Blu
the t thing crawls into you--like 8
snakanto its hole. 1t does not show lis
head ME you are watching for it. A
day ortp passes. You forget about il
and is out-drawing its filthy trail
throughll your conduct again.
Thi5s not a depression. Because
wanted say that Charley was man OF
too strSg desire after personal excel.
lence 4 to wage eternal war after sucl
vermin A shrewd observer would have
known The existence of his besettin2
faults dy by the unusual prominence O
just thp opposite virtues, just as you re-
cognizthe former drunkard in the mar
who hSa special horror now of all tha
can MITIGATE.
Ther were several minor defects ir
Charles character, which pointed ou
to hin1but which he has so completely
conqJed that l have forgotten wha
they tre.
| rslly must say something about tha
Dora inson affair.
Dod was the brunette daughter of M
lawyer in our inland village
4 see pr as distinctly before me while ]
writehs if she cas before me. She was
somefyteen years of age-had the us
uai aIount of education and mind-was
unaflfted--warm hearted-black haired
and sed--rosy-lip y-lipped--woman-rounded
forms Charley fell in love--astonishly
in lov with her. l was amazed. He was
u
Of arf fntellectual, though impulsive ma
ture ;and she had no conversational pow
in the world but lively
natutl, voluptuous sort of beauty, tc
recohmend her TO him.
Afonishly in love. He made love tc
her h flowers, and was accepted in the
before he went to college. He
vas sbsent year. The very night of his
'etlIh he went to party at her fathers,
shilh happened that night. He got a
eatnear her toward the close of the eve-
linf lin low voice made passionate
.ppal to her, although surrounded by
home--wrote her still
noe passionate letter. He was too i'm
uIive-frightened her--had his letter
eQrned, and came to me, and as we
aton log in the moolight, told me the
Tble. He was about twenty years old
ben, and the affection had quickened,