Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-11-29


/. reach the goal on foot
= How many Of us, even in "maturo"
life, need to learn that our gifts are not
our accom- llishmonts.
! The FREELY only shires when on
the wing So il is with the mind when
we rest we darken.
There is an innate delicacy which
respects the feelings of child, and
! without which no man is fit to wear
the name Of gentleman.
We should impart our courage and
not our despair our health and case
and not our disease, and take care that
this does not spread by cJntagion.
The word "busybody" Il Peter
v:l5) is very remarkable expression.
The Greek word means literally, "a
bishop in another mans diocese"
-" You try in vain" says a pitby-
writer, "to sweep the mist from your
door with broom but when the sun
shines upon it, how soon it disperses Z"
The spire of Strasbourg Cathedral,
hitherto the highest in the world, is
now surpassed by the lately completed
spire OF the Rouen Cathedral, which is
400 feet high.
-Habitual liars invent falsehoods
not to gain an end or even to amuse
themselves. 1t is partly practice and
partly habit. 1t requires an effort in
them 20 speak the truth.
Mrs. Bloggs asked her husband il
he did not think her new dress was as
sweet as a spring rose. He said il was,
even TO the minor attraction Of having
little due on it.
Never let your honest convictions
be laughed down. Be true to yourself,
and in the end you will not only be
respected by the world, but have the
approval Of your own conscience.
"A woman who was told that some
tables in the Russian department at
the Centennial were made of malachite,
exclaimed "My goodness | thought
Malachite was one of the prophets !"
Garments that have one rent in
them are subject to be torn on every
nail, and glasses that are once cracked
are soon broken /; such is mans good
meme once tainted with just reproach.
Sixteen is the epoch OF gratitude;
the time when you feel inclined to make
over your whole property TO anybody
who happens to lend you an umbrella
in rain-storm but it only lasts a lit
tie time.
"A fair reputation is plant deli
cate in its nature and by no means
rapid in its growth. 1t will shoot up
in night like the gourd of the prophet;
but, like that gourd, it may perish in
a night
With years we gain worldly wis
dom but for that we must barter many
trustfnl feeling, many chivalric re-
solve, and be content to see many
splendid vision "die away, and fade
into the light of common day"
Poverty overtakes him who says,
"'Tis too cold, It's too hot, It's too late,'
and neglects his daily work but he
who, performing his manly duties, recks
not straw for heat or cold, his happi-
ness shall not decay.
Rich indeed must be the portion
tfat includes death in its treasures
not as bar to keep us out, but as
bridge by which we pass over and pos
sess our inheritance. Thus the Ger.
tainty of heaven. Both worlds are
provided for
"A young clergyman seems to have
compressed the whole body of his SER
mon on "deceit" IN the following: "Oh,
my brethren, the snowiest shirt-front
may conceal an aching bosom, and the
stiifest Of all FOUNDERS encircle throat
that has many bitter pill to swallow"
Faith without repentance is not
faith, but presumption like ship all
sail and no ballast, that tippeth over
with every blast. And repentance
without faith is not repentance, but
despair like ship all ballast and no
sail, which sinketh of her own weight.
There is no sort of wrong deed of
which man can bear the punishment
alone you can't isolate yourself and
say that the evil which is in you shall
not spread Mems lives are as thor
oughly blended with each other as tho
air they breathe evil spreads as nec-
essarily as disease.
One great reason why men prac-
ticc generosity so little in the world is
their finding so little there. Generosity
is catching and if so many escape it,
it is in small degree Tor the same
reason that countrymen escape the
small-pox--because they meet with no
ono to give it to them.
The everyday cares and duties
which men call drudgery are theweights
and counterpoises of the clock Of time,
giving its hands a regular motion, and
when they cease to hang upon the
wheels, the pendulum no longer swings,
the hands no longer move, the clock
stands still
--"My son." said an aflectionate
mother TO her son, who resided at o
short distance, and expected soon to to
be married, "you are getting very thin"
+" Yes, mother" he replied, al am, and
when como next time, | think you
will see my rib"
"A sailor was recently brought be.
fore magistrate for beating his wife,
when the magistrate attempted to
reach his heart by asking him if he did
not know that his wife was the "weak-
er vessel "lf she is" replied Jack,
she ought not to carry so much sail"
Complimentary A maiden lady
said to her nephew, "Now, Johnny, you
go to bed early, and always do so, and
you'll be rosy-cheeked and handsome
when you grow up" Johnny thought
over this few minutes and then OBJ.
served, "Well, aunty, you must have
yet up good deal when you were
young"
"A moral character is attached to
,utumnal scenes the leaves falling like
our years, has flowers fading like our
hours, the clouds nesting like our illu.
'ions, the light diminishing like our in.
Iclligence, the sun growing colder like
our affections, the rivers becoming fro
zen like our lives--all bear secret rcla.
lions to our destinies.