Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-04-04
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 Ben. Wade has set the 7th of May to take the Presidential chair.
 The theater at Little Rock is do- ing good business, e3.
 The spring elections all through Pennsylvania have resulted in the greatests Democratic triumphs. -el
 "A wife who loses her patience, must not expect to keep her husband's heart. rGla. s4
 "A mild-tempered woman is as . balsam that heals matrimonial sor-
 True goodness is like the glow. worm 1t shines most when no eyes sx- cept those of Heaven are upon 1t.
 --Industry Is an excellent guard for virtue; the more active your life, the less opportunity have the passions to corrupt you. areas beda tse
 The road ambition travels is too narrow for friendship, too crooked for love. too rugged for honesty, and too dark for science. a 3a4t -l.a -e
 "A hypocrite may spin 50 fair thread as to deceive his own eyes.-He may admire the cobweb, and not know himself to be the spider.
 When men fall, they love compa. ny, but when they rise, they love to stand alone, and see others prostrate below them.
 -Klopstock engraved on the grave of his wife two sheaves of wheat, thrown, as it were, carelessly together, with the words: "We shall ripen in heaven" ss .n5 "A German writer says young girl is fishing rod. The eyes are the hook, the smile the bait, the lover the gudgeon, and the marriage the butter in which he is fried. gsas1
 -But one falso step, one wrong habit, one corrupt companion, ono loose principle. may wreck all your prospects, and all the hopes of those who leFe you. asss ' ea-s
 -. is not until the flowers have fallea f that the fruit begins to ripen. So in fife it is when the romance is past ihat the practical usefulness begins.
 "A man noted for truth is bull wark in society. You can depend up- s on him. He is sort of power of ma. ture-of God. There is that about him which awes you. and, unless you arc like him, troubles you. ... e...ss
 A party of Parisians were made deathly sick by eating couple Of cats, which, were served up as rabbits. Their stomach had been probably rem dered delicate by eating horse. '' A--
 -Captain James P. Brownlow, the only respectable member of the family. has resigned his position in the Eighth cavalry, now fighting Indians in Arizona, and is expected home shortly.
 The woman who fails to reform the man of the habit of drinking while engaged to him, will have mighty c task to do 80 after marriage. Think of q this, young women. Better remain single then, marry man who loves q liquor or tobacco either. a u.
 -"You ought to acquire the faculty of being at home in the best society,"" said fashionable aunt to an homes, nephew. 'I manage that easy enough" responded the nephew, "by z saving at home with my wife and children" s-r5 et arp sv 9,
 Kind words are brightest Aowers of earth's existence they make para' Z disc of the humbles. home the world 4 can show. Use them, and especially around fireside circles. They, are jewels beyond price and more precious l to heal the wounded heart, and make the weighed down spirit gladder than all other blessings the world can have.
 -"She died,' said. Polly, "and never was seen again, for she was buried in the ground where the trees ]. grow" "The cold ground said the child, shuddcring. "No, the warm ground" returned Polly, "where the ugly seeds are turned into beautiful flowers. and where good people turn into angels and fly away to heaven.-- David Copperfield. 499 as siG
 Two men named respectively Matthews and Gibson, became involved in difficulty at Huntingdon. on the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad, last week, when Matthews struck his antagonist violent blow upon the head with the barrel of a large navy revolver, breaking the skull and infict. ing wound, of which Gibson subse- quently died. Both parties are said to have been intoxicated at the time, and Gibson e reported to have declared himself member of the Ku-Klax klan, during ne quarrel which preceded the tragic affair.
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