Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-22
CAN YOU AFFORD 1T;

Your vitality. eAnausung your nervous
system and bringing on premature dis
ease, decay and old age ?
Can you afford to read fine print with
a poor light in q rail car, where the mo-
ton disturbs the proper focus OF, vision,
thus weakening Your eyes so as to near
ly deprive You of the power to use Their,
either in reading or in the daily duties
of life? Even though you do not have
an oculist to pay, you may be obliged
20 wear glasses ten or fifteen years soon
er than you otherwise would: can You
thus afford to spoil your eyes to save
little time ?
Can you afford to eat hastily, and
then rush to study or business, without
drawing the nervous energy from the
digestive system to the brain and mus
cles, thus inducing dyspepsia. in a few
years at most, to scourge and haunt and
make you miserable for years, or for
your life
Can You afford to live on rich and
highly seasoned food; eat champagne
suppers, because an artificial appetite is
thus gratifed, rendering gout, dyspep-
sia, or appopleXy, in the middle of life,
almost a certainty ?
Can you afford to commit suicide
through the Indulgence of appetite and
passion, adopting the fools motto a
short life and a happy one
Can you afford SO keep your brain
boiling hot in reading sensational nov
els,thus unbalaucing aud rendering NOR
bid Your mental and physical constitu-
tons
Can YOU afford to indulge in fast liv
ing-dressing beyond your means, dnr-
inc livery horses or keeping 4 horse
yourself, when your income is not adc
quate to such expenses
Can YOU afford TO smoke and chew to-
bacco, thus spending from five to fifty
dollars month and iniuriug your ner-
vous system and pervcrtiug your whole
constitution, and thereby transmitting
10 your children Il weakened constitn-
ton. thus making them puny lnvalidS
for life
Can you afford to barn your nervous
system and demoralizc your whole char
acter by the use of alcoholic liquors
Can YOU afford to indulge in habits
Of speculation, gambling and other tricky
and mean modes OF making money
Can you afford to make money al the
expense Of your manhood, your morals,
your just respectability and your integ-
rity
Can YOU afford to gain even the whole
world and thereby make Of yourself Il
moral wreck
Can you afford, for the sake of mo.
mentary amusement, 10 waste your
youthful preparatory years, when, 10y
study, YOU can become scholar, or y
industry tradeSman or useful artisan
Can you afford to rob your mind to
clothe your back with silks and satin
and crafty mere love for display
Can you afford to be tricky, and
thereby deflaud your employer Of the
Just services YOU owe him, even though
yon do get your pay, thus making your
self a moral bankrupt?
Can YOU afford to be otherwise thar
upright, truthful, faithful, tcmparate,
courteous and in all respects correct ?
Pupils in schools sometimes fancy
they are doing smart thing by dccciy
ing the teacher, that they may play in
stead of study. Apprentices often ne
glect their duty for fun and amusement,
and fail to learn their trade, which is
lifelong injury to them. Many people
do wrong knowingly, and thus mar their
moral nature and make themselves feel
mean, unworthy and deSpcable +; and
because the world don't know it they
think they have done themselves no
harm-but thev carry the moral scar Of
wrong doing through life. Can one af-
ford to have a motto adverse to the old
adage, that "Honesty is the best policy?'
Reader, stop and consider whether
what you are doing, or what YOU pro
pose to do, will pay; whether you can
afford to DO it. Time is moneys" do
not throw it away, but make every day
and every hour tell, either for your
growth, health or profit
4 PooR GIRL FALLS HEIR TO 4 For
TUSE-The Omaha Bee of recent date
saws And now comes an Omaha Girl
to be added to the long list upon whom
the Goddess of Fortune has deigned to
cast her golden smiles. The name of
the heiress is Maggie O'Brien, dining
room girl at the Donovan House, where
she has been employed for several
months past always doing her duty well
and cheerfully, and owing 20 her fasci-
mating manners and pretty face, she has
made favorable impression upon more
than one OF the gentlemen boarders du-
ring that time. Last evening she re-
ceived letter from the postoffice, and
upon opening and reading it, what was
her surprise to learn that her aunt in
city died aud lett her a
fJrtune. The news was too good TO
keep, and it leaked out this morning,
and while she waited upon the table she
became the centre Of attraction. and the
observed OF all observers. Her for
tune va. soon the general topic Of con-
and the amount was variously
stated to'be from S25,OOO to $4,000;
and We are reliably informed that it is
not cent more than $4,000 But
that amount is not to be sneezed at and
Miss Maggie continues to receive the
congratulations Of her many friends
BULwER As An ASONYHoUs.-lt is
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