The avant courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-29

WeddMg couple should always stud
E each others dispositions and mutually max
/ all the allowance possible for the weak point
in their respective characters. 81 s.
= A Quaker's advice to his son OIL his wed
: ding day: ''When thee went a co,rting
j told thee to keep thy eyes wide open; nov
that thou art married, Itell thee to keep the,,
! halt shut. 4f3 M 4 s4ss35;lE YsG 4a
4 The Fruits Of Adyersity.
Man will not exert his mental powers tt
any great ;xtent without some powerful in
Ecentive to call them into action. And to de
velop tse later powers Of the mind it is MS
Icessary that it should be frequently callee
into action and strengthened by repetition the
same as the bone, muscles and sinews. A
child raised in luxury, surrounded with al
i the comforts Of life, who has no particular
occasion for calling into action his menta
faculties, rarely, if ever, raises himself to EN-
inence. or gains distinction for his powers ol
mind. 'FEff24 ''es 'z''f'.
The monarch of the forest is one that has
withstood the fiercest storms that have swept
over the mountains, breasted the mighties;
hurfica and as fruit of adversely. looms
4 snblimely above the surrounding forest.
The same may be said Of the intellect, that
/ mind which meets and overcomes the torms
and trials of life, breasts the waves of ne
giect, aed learns to rely on its own strength,
/ though weak at first, will eventually become
endowed with the power OF giant; and
through the various scenes Of lite stand
the blasts of contempt, face the frowns OF
pride and arrogance and silently submit to
| their sneer because Of poverty. and breast all
| the waves of fortune, battling on in his
might with nnceasing energy will. when age
gilds his brow with silver locks. have been
crowned by an appreciating world, with the
brisht laurels o. admiration. 1t is then that
Ethey begin to reap the golden fruits that
spring from stern, unrelenting adversely. 1t
+ has been said. with more truth than fiction
that all the great men whose names adorn the
pages Of history were splf-nlade. That the
majestic minds which shine with unceasing
lustre upon the mental horizon are those that
drank deepest from the fountains OF adver
sitv. ae5a ita 8saR 5Hs y @asss@' 6
Ne estE
A DIscouRAGED PATRIoT.-Ethan Allen
once passed up through the Hoosac valley,
and spent the Sabbath with a friend in Will-
amston, attending church. with him and his
family. The FIRST and second presidents of
Williams college were ,square-toed in their
orthodoxy, having far more faith in Divine
wrath and justice than in His love and mercy
land their sermons gave evidence. OF their
obedience to belief. On this Sabbath, the
text of the worthy President Fitch was.
'sAnd if the righteous scarcely be saved.
where shall the ungodly and the sinner ap
pearl ~ Firstly--he laid 1t down as fact
beyond question that not one in 1000 would |
be saved. secondly, thirdly to the twelfthly-- I
he said that not one in $4,000 could be saved |
Ethan Allen took his hat anil cane and pre-
pared to leave. His friend said, Don't leave
now.' Seventeenthly dropped from the
lips, who said he had come to the
that of the countless millions of I
men not'naore than onetin 100000 would be /
saved. The old soldier had been growing un-
easy under this rapidly sliding scale. in t
which the blanks SO multiplied and the prizes
faded from view. He grasped his hat and
cane. when his friend said to him. 8 Don't T
20 out. He viii be through shortly. Hes
lowup to seventeenthly.'' Oh. no mat
err said Ethan Alien, s''any Of you are vel
,onis to my chance, il It's As slim as he tells
# ~ aud left the church. Pitts,seld Sun.
SAYS tile Sacramento Union Forty years
go DIR. Claiming, of Boston, wrote these
words Of his conntfymen:
ssOnr present eirilization is characterized
nd tainted by 4 devouiing greediness 81
wealth; and a cause which asserts right
gainst wealth must stir ap better opposition
The passion for gain is everywhere sappine
ure and generets feeling, and every where; F
ise up bitter foes against any reform viii Ii
nay turn aside a stream of wealth. some
ines feel ais IT a great social revnluti0a were
ecessary to preak up our present mer rceiiars
'tlffe ast y safss5sss ~ sss
What would this writer have had to say
ad he lived to this hour of almost universal
ficial servilityito money and the n1oneyed
overs OF atiie5 country when even TIE Amer
.an Senate faa1ls and shrihRs from All iinves-
cation into the eoliductOf public pIander-
rsy II there was reason forty years ago u
'ar chat corruption might destroy III, WHAT '
ope Il there now THAT We shall escape de- Is
.fdction, save in popular revolution which
lall cleanse and purify the land By cxternlI /,
ating the official thieves? =
"a SMART e;IRL. - have in this ofie |
.ys tho Nana Rsyistsn az the l2th Inst. il 4
oung lady conpasltnr I6 years Of ses. " Wy
ss been at tlln sasa only about six weeks i
nd now sets onelxnd y half columns III bfe-E
b. per daY, frln either reprint or n1aa.,-sIa
'ript copy. y.besides assisting largely Ia house
making endless yards OF tattifsI II,
esIaing ur her 2iano practice, etc, II fans s
rainless sponney blafs about the superiority HI
big sex, give him lhis tact - ali sntis Ii
+ pic 6ily ooDssih In