The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-11-02
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PEN SCRATCHES.

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PEN SCRATCHES.
{ I know plenty ef promising
young men--but fewer paying
ones.
The sun shiies TO- all--but falls
short of pleasing Or one.
To be good, it is not necessary
to be sober and eternslly solemn.
The purest and best hearts on earth
are continually smiling and laugh
ing-some people would call them
SO very wicked. Pity the mort ls
who think cheerfulness, goodness
and sincerity cannot go together.
tis better to bear the cross than
to cross the bsar, anyhow.
What . pity it is that Of tho
names on the saloon account books
the majority are Of young men.
Here are dannabis charges sgainst
the next generation. e9
I often see rich ground that un-
der cultivation 7ould give birth to
glorious crops; 90 do I often OBJ
servo good heads, good faces and
good limbs that need only cultiyst-
ing to render them useful. -.
What are you waiting fort2a To-
morrow Well, tomorrow never
comes. Yesterday. the day before,
and the day before that, and for
many days, you stood on that cor
ner and did nothing but stare.
What are you expecting to jump
out OF that wall over on that house ?
What are you expecting to come
up street2 What are you expect
ing to come from any placer In
, deed, my fine young man, over
there on the corner, you have ex-
traordinary patience. When the
sun shines you are in its beams.
4 when 1t rains you merely step in
the store door at your back-rain
) or shine you visit
a You lazy incumber ance, @ait no
more! Go to work and you need
, wait for nothing. @
! Ignorance is bliss; what . bliss
full lot OF youth we have then.
= One Of the nuisances in bust
= ness is person who always wants
to buy what you have not, and ever
: speaks Of purchasing largely OF
what you will never have.
A masquerade ball! Midnigh,
. supper, and off come masks. Wha,
: stir, and how surprised everyone
d isl But when that day comes
d when oil dancing small forever
ls cease, and hilarity shall be forever
,e ended, and all men shall stand un
= masked, what . stir there will be
ID I tell you that masquerade assem-
bleges are of everyday occurrance
N A cold morning. Chilly ant
ae cheerless streets, with chilly cheer
y less and sleepy people passing u
and down, and lazy shop door
opening with seeming human
lr. yawns. Such nice time to sleep
as Everything so still this morning
- and 90 dead, and life in besutiou
= activity so remote.
:. Look at that man over ther.
,er See him cape and rub hiA eyes, an
,er blow his hands, and shiver q
ais over. Perceive that dog, with to
sat carefully curled under his fran,
am What sheepish eyes. Has he CON
lnitted the crime Of Tightening o
M the warm dog days7
IN Ah! Here is the early bird, tbs
for gets up early because his faths
he did, because Ben. Franklin e
uy whose life be has little idea sal
0 twas healthy, wea sshs and wis
.u' and for the reason that it is not b
style exactly to be idle; but the,
If is not the least necessity of b
rhe arising early, or at all, for q q d,
Of nothing he is famous man, and ,
re- An eternal prattler upon life's be
rules and morals hs 10 an unmit
gated bore. -
OF "Good morning. says hd, an
es' holds me in utter contempt beoaul
ID / choose to stand in the sun, ju
ns' whore his health rules says he mu
es' not BY any means stand.
:, =, -Cold." Ireply. s'and you are o.
early"
1 1Nothing unusual for me, N
Julep. Nothing unusual. VIII
nm upon my sacred word and honor,
raj have gotten mp before sunrise m
for th0dieally ever since vas able
The understand that my father befo
me me did, and that his father befol
tial him did, and his grandmother -
"And. you claim . great deal
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