Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-10
Locke On Human Happiness.

1t is q mans proper business to seek hap,
piness and avoid misery. HappiL.ss con-
sists IN what delights and contents
composes or torments IL. i will therefore
make Ii my business to seek satisfaction and
delight, and avoid uneasiness and disqutet.
Let me then see wherein consists, the most
lasting pleasures of life: j, Health without
which no sensual pleasure can have any
relish. 2, Reputation,-for that L find eve
is a constant torment. 8, knowledge, for
the little knowledge have 1 nnd would
not sell at any rate, nor part with for any
well-cooked meat 1 eat TO- day does now no
more delight me and am diseased after q
full meal; the perfumes 1 smelt, yesterday,
the good turn did, yesterday, a year. seyen
years since, continues stin to please and
delight me as often as i reflect on It. 5,
hensible happiness in another world is trat
alsOl which carries 8 constant pleasure with
1t. If then, / will faithfully pursue that
happiness l propose to myself, whatever
pleasure offers itself to me, l must carefully
look that 1t cross not any of those five great
and constant pleasures above mentioned.
For example, the fruit see tempts me with
the taste of 1t that love. but IL 1t endanger
my health, part with q constant and last
ing for very short and transient pleasure,
and SO foolishly make myself unhappy, and
am not true to my own interest. Hunting,
plays and other innocent diversions delight
me: If make use of them to refresh myself
after study and business, they preserve my
heaith, restore the a vigor , 81 my mind, and
the greatest part OF my tin g in them, they
hinder my Improvement in knowledge and
useful arts, they blast my credit, and give
me up to the uneasy state of shame, igno-
renee and contempt, In which 1 cannot but
be very unhappy. Drinking, gaming and
vicious delights will do me this mischief,
not only by wasting my time, but by
positive efficacy endanger my health, i'm
pair my parts, imprint Ill habits, lessen my
esteem, and leave Q constant, lasting
vicious and unlawful pleasures will always
avoid, because such mastery Ofmy passion
will afford me constant pleasure greater
me from the certain evil of several kinds
that by INDUCING myself In q present temp
tatfon / shall certainly afterwards suffer.
All innocent diversions end delights, as far
as they will contribute to my health. and
consist with my improvement, condition,
and my other more solid pleasures of knowl-
edge and reputation. I will enjoy, but no
examine, that may not be deceived by the
hattery ola present pleasure to lose greater.
Mills FOR WORK-Yesterday aft ,rhoon,
when Trustee Blend came down from dinner,
he found in front OF bis c ffice, on tie curb
and eight Children, the latter ranging S'oT In
years from one to eighteen. The father told
Mr.. Blend that they had walked from one OF
the northern counties of Illinois, a distance
OF $50 miles, to ibis city. He could get no
employment there, and concluded to emil
crate to some section where he could earn
bread for himself and little ones. They first
money he had. he purchase 4 q hand cart, in
which two of the older boys had trundlcd the
babies to this place. They were all tired and
eat and to be ferried over the river where he
could I'D work in the fields. Mr.. Blend took
them to grocery store and purchased a
ham, some bread, cheese. and other substan-
tials, and the party made hearty meal.
After this they were given a pass over the
river, and the old man said 10 Mr.. Blend, in
the gratitude Of his heart: "No matter where
i am, II you want me to help you, I'll swim
the river to do it," He was about fifty years
old, and had a COED, hon IT. old IL Thioned
countenance-LE ransri1e lIndl Journal,
SINGULAR AFFAIR Forgery ant At
tempted D'acide.-On Thursday forenoon Dora
Krause, q Is year old girl, of Etna corough,
Savings bank for sl75, signcj by herself
The cashier told her she must have her IA
theirs signature to the check. She went back
return Cd to the bank. A clerk in the bank
took the check - Mr.. Krauce, who said he
knew nothing about 1t. In the meantime
the Girl left the bank and went home: Ar.
off cistern with the intent to drown her
self. Being unable to lift the cover, she pro-
cured q razor: and, going II the cellar, cut a
house, but being Eeen and her cond ttion oh.
Sci ycd BY q young man, who raised the
alal m, she was followed, and after an hours
search she was discovered ittinR ON q stump
quite distsuce from her home. Her wound
was properly dressed, and 1t is not believed
that the wound will prove fatal. The girl
says her idea In forging the check was to
procure money with which to visit brother
living in western state.-[ Pittsourg Lea
der, Sth.
FATHER HYACINTHK and his wife have
recently been the guests OF Dean Stanley in
London. OF the failure OF Pere Hyacinthe
TO meet the expectations which he excited,
Mr.. n. ID. Conway, in q letter to the Cinciu-
natl Commercial, says:-"In truth, the good
father has been q disappointment not only TO
those who invited him to Geneva, bat to
lookers-on, who anticipated a sort OF re.
ligious revolution from his going there. 1t
was believed that he meant to be the expo
nent Of some new religious idea, and 1t has
been serious disappointment to find that
his Idea of reformation extends no farther
than the claim that Catholic priest is en-
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