The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-04-10
VARIETY.

DAYS are lost in lamenato ons the loss OF days
One rose upon q bush, though but little one,
and though not yet blown, proves that which bears
if to tie n true rose-tree
All men Who do anything must endure Q deprecia-
ton Of their efforts II is the dirt which their chariot
wheels throw up
Inere is q Ga.lie proverb .-' II the best mans
faults written his forehead, it would make
hira pull his hat over his eyes,
To give moral subjects their true relief you require,
- in the sterroscope. look through tro glasses
that Of the intellect and that Of the heart.
reserved man Is in continual conflict With the
social part Of his nature, and grudges himself
the laugh into which he is sometimes betrayed.
One is much less sensible Of cold . bright day
than n cloudy one; thus the sunshine OF cheerful
ness and hope will tighten every trouble
Our customs and habits like the ruts in roads.
The wheels Of lite settle into them; aud Jog along
through the mirs. because il is too much trouble to
Get out OF them
good In execution For in counsel il is good TO
dlngers in execution, not to them, except they
Be very great
Religion is not q thing which spends itself Il is
like n river which udens continually, and Is never
81 broad deep at its mouth, where it rolls
into the OF eternity
Neiicine will remedy bad habits 1udul-
sence of the appetite. indiscriminate dosing and
dragging, have ruined the health and destroyed the
lives of persons than famine or pestence- IL
Jou will take advice, you will becnme regular in
your habits, eat an drink only wholesome things,
retire and rise very regularly. Make free use Of
water purify the skin and when SICK take coun-
sci Of the best prsciical man you know, and follow
nature
Where there is much desire to learn, there Of
necessity will be much arguing. much writing. many
Opinions. for opinion in good men is but knoWiedge
ia the making. A little generous prudence, little
forbesrance Of another and grains of char
ity might win all dilgences join and unite
into one general search after Truth.
The Loss or A wIrE-No man but who has
been called upon to mourn the loss of beloved
panion can appreciate the beauty and truhfuness Of
the following srticle which We copy from an ex-
change
.. In comparison with the loss Of . wife al other
barea yements trhing. The uife-she who nils 70
large a space in the domestic heaven; she Who has
busted herself so unwearily for the precious ones
around her bitter. bitter is the that falls upon
the cold clay You stand beside her coffin, and
think of the past. IL seems an amber coored path
wsy when the sun ehone on beautiful flowers. and
the hung glitrering over head Fam would the
a,ul linger there; fhorns are remembered. save
those your hands may unwillingly have planted her
roLle tender heart lies open to your inmost sight
You think OF her nov rs all Rentlenees All beauty.
.l purity. But she is dead The dear nead tnat
has lain upon your bosom rests 10 tue SUI
moon a pillow of clay. The hands that have minis
tered 80 untiripRly are folded beneath the gloomy
portals, the heart whose every beat measured an
eternity Of love lies under your feet The flowers she
bent over IN smiles, bend now above her IN tears,
shaking the dew from their petals that the verdure
around her may be green and beautiful.
CHARAcrER Is PowER.-I, IL vften said that kno"l-
edge is power and this is Skill or faculty OF
any kind carries With it superiority So to certain
exten,. wealth is power, and rank Is power, ana
genius has n transcendant gift Of mastery oveE men
But higher purer and better than all, more conss-
ten, in its influence and lasting in its sway IS
the power Of character; that power which emsna'es
from Q pure and lofty mind
Take any cnru nIunify. who IL the OF mos, infn
ence, To whom. do all look NJ with reverences Not
the snarfest man. nor the cIeverest politician nor
the most brilliant ,aike but he Who in long course
ef years tried by the extremes Of prosperity and
adversify, has approved himself 10 the judgment OF
his ueiehbors and all Who have his life, vor-
thy TO be called wise and good.