National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-06-03

topics which agltdtc thc OOSOnls Oh
a portion of her sex, and she talks
in this way:
81 just don't believe in these new
women notions. | have raised six
boys ys-four of them vote now. and
the others will soon be old enough.
Then | will have six votes. Now,
these good for nothing women who
have fooled their time away, and
never raised a single boy, come
around and want every woman to
vote for herself. | don't believe iii
snch nonsense. | have raised my
six boys, and | ain going to have
every one vote for me. Those wo-
men who go lecturing around the
country instead of raising boys, have
no business to vote anyway. And
when they say that they are just as
good as am, and have a right to
vote for themselves, if they have no
boys to do so t0l them, why didn't
they raise some boys to vote for
them tell you, | do not intend
to be cheated 0 of my SIX votes
by any such good for-nothing folks.
| guess that the world would come
to a pretty pass, in mighty short
time, if the women all took to goin'
around lecturlng on wlmmin's rights
/ instead of raising boys"
AS a minister and lawyer We're
riding together, said the minister to
the lawyer,
Sir, do you ever make mistakes
in pleading 2
Il do said the lawyer.
'And what do YOU do with the
mistakes 2 inquired the minister.
why, sir, if large ones, | mend
them; if small ones, let them go,
said the lawyer. And pray, sir,
continued he, do ever make mis-
takes in preachingE
Yes, sir, | have
'And what do YOU do with the
mistakes ?
Why, sir, ! dispose of them il
the same manner you do rcctit,
the large ones, and pass the small
ones. Not long since, as | wa
preaching, | meant to observe tina
! the devil was the father of liars; bu
made mistake. and said the 1athe
, of idlrycrS. ibis mistake was $
| small that | let it GO
; The other day we were riding i
a crowded railway carriage. At on
a of the stations an old gentleman cr
q tered and was looking around hil
/. for a seat, when a lad OF ten {
i twelve years Of age rose up an
. said
y Take my seat sir
The offer was gladly accepted
and the iniirm old man sat down.
why did you give me your seat
!. he inquired of the boy.
= Because You are old. sir, and
@ am a boy was the quick reply,
= The passengers were very muc
n pleased and gratliied. For my pal
!, (SayS the relat0r Of the incident, =,
# wanted 70 seize hold of the lit
O follow and press him to my hear
+ 1t was IA respect for age which
IS always praiseworthy.
- - A doting mother of waggiS
= boy having bottled a lot OF hi
preserves labeled them, Put up |
- Mrs. - johnny. having disco
~ cred them, soon ate the contents
II the bottle. and wrote on the botto
" Of the label, put down by john
- D.
t, Glow old are YOU ? asked a ra
re- road conductor of little girl who
re- her mother was trying to pass on
., half ticket. j am nine at home,
VI but in the cars | am only six and
as half
he Little four year old MaSic h
"A long been vainly cndeavorlng
"A puckcr his mouth into shape for t
pn whiStliug of national tune he h
Al. heard upon the street. At last,
il. despair, he went To his mother, ,
of claiming Ma, Is SO little; ca
,c. make Il hole big enough Tor lank
,S Doolum to dit out y
Nv When an Irish priest rebukcd
.. parlShioncr for drunkenness, he Il
~ him that whenever he entered
~ alchousc to drink, his guardiun
~, gel stood at the door.
-. And if lie had sixpence he'd
'm'' m in HIMSELF was Pats reply.
nd Every good act is a flower VIII
~ will bcautily our final home.
,at One instrument should always
.lc. with you-Thc golden rule.
W., uS' God will accept your first attcn
Wv to serve Him, not as a perfect W
~, w. but as "a beginning.
to Kindness, justice, and torbcaral
Dut towards others, beget love tow'
ist ourselves.
,cd Sclfdrnial is the most eXal
hv pleasure and the conquest ol
~ habits the most glorious triumph
~ True goodness Is like the gl'
10" worm. II shines most when no G
vas ' except those of heaven are upoi
ide No one ever did II designed inj
,cd to another without ut the sG
TX ti,ne intlicting much greater
go. upon himself.