Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-09-19

with what marvellous rapidity it seemed to have
flown when over land | hal never visited the
opera once.
And as that opera season was to me, so is the
season Of no end of human lives. Who amongst
us is not conscious Of this same p opcnsity for put
ting Of until next week things that could be lit
may be- that can only be) done now ? Who
amongst us can look back upon his past expert
ence without feeling how much more useful he
might have been, both to himself ana others, bad
he never reckoned on next weekP
| have had money owing " me which l might
have received on application, bat not being in nb-
solute and immediate want Of it, | have delayed
applying for it. Next week would be quite time
enough for me. Months Afterwards | was in want
of it, and did apply. My debtor had two days
before been made a bankrupt.
nm q married man and father Of a family
Lucky it is for me L say it advisedly, the sneers
and sarcasms of misogamist bachelors to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, lucky it is for me that
lovely woman has the privilege of fixing tho hap.
ply day. Had it been left to me, | fear | should
have put our wedding off until next week, and
lived and died a bachelor.
The chances of literary employment uron valt
Gus newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals
| will not here enumerate. The reader would mt
doubt attribute it to vanity were l to do s0.--
Enough that almost every chance has been neglect
ed. Not wiliully, by any means Ike the
work. and like the proceeds of it too. In iaet,
DaNd DetH nOW U u RIeut icHSti ~ tH"S NY -
termined to contribute regularly to several puOh
cations. But asas my determination always ha,
been to m next week, until too often
have found the opportunity had passed and others
filled The place | might have held. How it is tina
the present article came to be written now, instead
Of being put off to that terrible next week. o
mine, | cannot say. However. here it is, One
begun, | have but little difficulty in proceeding
the struggle is to begin
Enough Of these confessions of my past short
comings for the future ] must really make a
effort to turn over O new leaf. First there is m
fve.act comedy, l have already mentioned. SUI
pose | were to set to work upon it now-this yer
: day
: No not to day. But, next week, | really d
| mean, as | have said, to begin in earnest at it,
n Next week, too. ] commence to get up early in tn
4 morning,-to keep a diary,--tO make a point {
a walking fonr miles daily before breakfast-to pu
g five shillings weekly in the Savings Bank (whics
f | have Just read in the statistics column Of a per
e ny paper will amount to something fabulous in tn
S course of years.. Next week, too, | intend t
f begin a regular course of study in n few thing
y no matter what, in which | am deficient. Bu
| will say no more about my good Intentions, les
The reader should imagine by their number tina
f | shall never carry them into effect. | will,thougf
| am determined.
y True it is, | have been quite as positively deter
t mined ever since | can remember. True it is, too
/ my positive determinations as yet have come t
nothing. No matter. This time | am resolve
n l will begin Next Week.