Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1858-12-02
NO. 90.
Throw away your Crutc h -.

Throw away your Crutchss.
Throw away your crutches !" said
doctor to gouty patient.
T can't, doctor; / shall fall if I do ~
was the reply.
"Try it, and see" reiterated the docto1
~ cannot! l dare mott" said the patient,
trembling and looking irresolute. Just
then he met the doctors eye, and it plead.
ed for the experiment more e;oquently
than the tongue. He hestated but mo.
ment longer, and then, though the effort
made him pale, away went his crutches
full length upon the carpet' There he
was, bolt ufrigh. against the wall, without
his old friends, the crutches, thing he
had not done for years.
"Now walk" said the doctor.
81 can't" rose on the patients lips, but
went no farther, for he resolved to try it,
even if he failed in the attempt. He took
one trembling step. but did not fall. Joy.
fu| moment! Another step. and then an.
other! Was he really walking, or was it
a dream 1t was because he mad thrown
away his "rutches. and made a trial of his
own strength, tina. he had succeeded 50 far
beyond his hopes.
The gouty patient is not the only one to
whom it may be said. "throw away your
crutches.' He who is forever fearing to
try his own strength will never become
strong. 1t requires brave hear. and a
firm step to think and act for ourselves;
to speak as we think, freed from the bend.
age Of those often asked questions, Whe.
will be thorght by others? Wha, will be
saido
or all classe, in the community, authors
are in the greatest danger of leaning up
on crutches! Think and reason. and then
speak out, Yes, speak boldly too, if truth
is on your side; and it wcuid not be str,nge
if you should find that instead Of needing
crutches yourself, you should be able to
lend wsngs t. others.
. . . -
ANSWERED ONE QuESTIoN-A voun.
man in these parts who had spent y
good deal OF his own time aud good deal
OF his fathers money in fitting for the bar
was asked after his examination how he
got along.
40, wel,' said he, az answered ono
question right
"Ah, indeed = said the old gentleman,
with looks of satisfaction at mis- sons pef
cular smartness "What was that?" s'
They asked me what qu tam action
was"
That va, hard one! anl you an
swered it correctly did your
"ies. told them | did not know"
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AN ANCIENT GoosE.-A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing from
H"nterdon county, n. j., says:
There is goose in my neighborhood
that has seen the fross of So winters,
owned by one Mr.. Schomp. This goose,
famous for its great age, has been kept in
the schomp family ever since the revolu-
ton. Two years ego she laid four eggs,
which she hatchel. The young family
are living and doing well. was inform.
ed by Mr.. Schomp, who has owned the
goose for the last fifty years, of these facts.
~>>S
A BARK AND A CurrER-A voung fell
low named Charles Collet,, was brought
up the other day before the Lord Mavor,
charged with cutting his, Charles, Initials
on the bark of one Of the trees in Ken.
sington Gardens. He pleaded that he had
got situation abroad, AID was going to
emig-ate. lie was advised to transmit his
name in some other way to posteritv,
| slightly fined and discharged. Mr.. Punch,
ever ready to help the unlucky, thus does
he transmission for him:
"Cole., take This advice from ma
Neve hack timber in the park;
For though your bark is on tho sea,
Your c must no. he N the bark"