Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1860-04-12
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hoLo ON!--Hold on to your songue when
you are just ready to swear, lie, or speak
harahly or ire any improper word.
Hold on to your had when you are about
ready TO strike, pinch, scratch, seal. or do
any improper act.
Hold ola to your foot when you are on the
point Of kicking, running away from study.
or pursuing the path Of error, shame or
crime.
Hold on TO your tember when you are an
cry, excited, or IMPOSED upon, or others are
angry about you
Hold Oh 10 your heart wien evil associates
sesk your company, aud invite you 10 joiu
i'll their games, inirth and reyelry.
Hold ON 10 your good name at all times
for it is more valuable To- you than gold,
high places. or fashionable attire.
Hold on to :he truth, for it will serve well.
and do you good throughout eternity
Hold ON to your virtue, it is above all price
TO you, in all times and places.
Hold on to your good character. for it is
and ever will be, yoaE best wealth.
SULLY, the great statesman Of France. al
ways kept up at table the irugalitv to which
he had been accustomed IN early life in the
army. His meals consisted Of lew dishes,
dressed in the painest and most simple man
ner. The courtlers often reproacbed hin,
with the simplicity Of his table, and he would
reply in the words of an ancient
''lf the guests are men Of sense, there ID
sufficient for them ii not | can very well
dispense with their company"
RsJ"A Methodist and a Quaker having
stopped ut u public house, agreed to sleep
in the same bed: The Methodist knelt down
and prayed iervently, and confessed long
catalogue of sins. After lie rose, the Quaker
observed, ''Really, friend, if thou art as bad
as thou sayest thou art, ! think l dare not
sleep with thee"
BEL remember asking an ir.everent bro-
ther o! mine some years since To investigate
certain soiled spo; on my vest. After rub
bins!t, and examining it in all lights, be had
the i!npudence to conclude with
well, l declare, Buck, ! believe its q
cleai, spot
B:5" An Irishman who had jumped into
the water to save man from drowning, on
receiving sixpeEce from person as a re-
ward for his service, looked first at the six
pence and then at bin, and ut last exclaim-
cd
ell III U Z! palu lor tne )oD.
Pc Put no dependence on geniug Ifyou
have great talents, industry will improve
them il you have but moderate abilities, in
dustry will supply the deficiency. Nothing
is denied to well directed labor nothing
worth having is to be obtained without it.
pey-A man, No. thousand miles off, once
asked another vino he liked to hear preach
"Why," said he. II like TO hear Mr. B.
best because, don't like any preaching
and his comes the i;oareSt TO no preaching of
any | ever heard
eey-A benpecked husband writes: "Be-
all sunshine; but afterwards | found out
that 1t was all lnoonshne.
RlG- a tar, who had been boasting OF the
numerous foreign places he had seen, was
asked if he had oven seen Louisiana. "No,"
says jack, what country does she live IN ~
Re3-A rhan recently got married in Ken
tncky onc day, aud hung himself the next.
No doabt he wanted 10 try all the varieties
.! nuoocS, to sec which DC liked best.
B.I3"A a man IN battle is not allowed 10
whistle 70 Keep his courage up, and the whis-
ting of the bullets doesn't have that tenden-
cy.
Bs5- Some men are Ike pyramids which
are very broad where they .oucn the ground,
but grow narrower as they reach the sky.
Bs5- When you have occasion to utter q
rebuke, lot yotEt words bg soft and your ar
suments hard.
REMEDY FOR FtTs.-Buy your clothes at
a Slop-shop, aud you vii! never have lit
afterwards.
BkaJt~ There is just os much intemperancs
in drinking pLysic as in drinking anything
else
gsJ" Why 10 anything ro.considered. ac-
counted profitable?
Becol.so it is considered again.
Be3-Wo should 90 well to take counsel OF
the wise, and warning from the foolish
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