Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-01-24
ourselves that we quit our vices.

KNOW tnelr own lOlly,
There must be something wrong
about a condition which involves one
in fresh troubles every day.
If we had no faults ou,selvcs, we
should not have so much pleasure in
discovering the faults Of others.
That which often prevents us from
abandoning ourselves TO a single vice,
is the fact that we have several.
People are never made so ridicu.
lous by the qualities they possess as by
those which they affect TO have.
Philosophy triumpbs easily over
past evils, and evils TO come but pres.
ent evils triumph over philosophy.
Death is the only monastery the
tomb is the only cell, and the grave
that adjoins the convent is the bitterest
mark Of its futility.
Truth is a torch, but is of enor-
nous size so that we try TO stink past
ii in rather blinking fashion for fear
| IL SHOULD Ourn w.
Hate is an active, and envy pass.
i've dspleasure; il need not surprise us,
therefore, 10 see how quickly envy
passes into hate.
Industry is noble ii is monarch
of whole kingdom in itself, and he
that is King shall never know want, or
suffer from disease that emanates from
idleness.
1t often occurs in life, that in the
course of few minutes some thought
is conceived, or some deed committed,
which tinges the whole remainder Of
an existence.
= Man Is of so obstinately contradic-
tory a nature that be will not allow
himself to be forced to his own advan.
age, yet suffers constraints of all kinds
which tend to his harm.
Shakespeare says we are creatures
that look before and after. The more
surprising that we do not look around
a little, and see what is passing under
Jul NSiy Sgeo'
"A particular want OF good sense
in many sensible people consists in
their not knowing how to interpret
what another says when he has not
said it exactly as he ought.
-" Dear me how fuidly he taksl"
said Mrs. Partington recently at a
temerance meeting am always re.
joiced when be mounts the nostril, for
hls eloquence warns every cartridge
in my body"
Faith is domestic and private
capital, as there are Savings Banks
and Relief Funds, out of which indi-
viduals receive assistance in times Of
scarcity but here the believer himself
silently draws his interest
-"You see,' said Uncle Job, amy
wife is curious woman. She scrimped
and saved, and almost starved all of US,
to get the parlor furnished nice and
now she won't let one Of us go into it,
and hain't even had the window.blinds
oft open for a month. She is curious
woman"
:" Didn't you tell me, sir, that you
could hold the plow ?" said farmer
20 green Irishman, whom he had
taken on trial. "Arrahl" said Pat,
How can | hold it, wild two horses
drawing il away from mep But give
il to me in the barn, and be ;abers I'll
hould it wild any boy"
1T is very easy to pick holes in
other peoples work, but it IS far more
profitable to do better yourself. Is
there a fool in all the world that can
not criticise ? Those who can them
selves do good service are but as one
to thousand compared with those
who can see faults in the laborof others.
i cannot call riches better than
the baggage Of virtue the Roman
word is bctter--impedmentd. For as
the baggage is to an army, so is riches
TO virtue it cannot be spared or left
cannot be spared nor left behind, but
il hindereth the mareh-yea, and the
care of il sometimes loseth and disturb.
eth the victory.
--Bassompiere, the French embassa.
dor to Spain, was telling Henry IV.
how he entered Madrid. al was
mounted on tho very smallest mule in
the world, said the ambassador. "Ahw
said the King, What an amusing
sight, to see the biggest ass mounted
on the smallest mule f" " was your
Maiesty's representative was the re-
joinder.
No human desire is more impera-
tive and intense, none more bespeaks
mans relationship to the Divine, than
the longing to know which impels
truth-seeking soul. And surely, II
there is any emergency in which n
man has a right to 20 straight TO God
himself, it is when he longs for light
on the great moral and spiritual prob
lens that beset every thoughtiul ma
ture.
1t would not be worth while TO
live if we were to die entirely. That
which alcviates labor and sanctifies
toll is to have before us the vision OF
better world through the darkness of
this life. That world is to be more
real than the chimera which we devour,
and which we call life. II is the All.
preme certainty of my reason as II is
the supreme consolation of my soul.
-" have friend saysa writer in
the Whitehall Repieic, "who is unable
to leave London himself this autumn,
but whose wife and children are enjoy
ing the breczes of their native Scotland
for few weeks. Wishing to say some.
thing civil to him, and knowing that
be and his betterbalf got on pretty
well together, remarked that be must
feel rather lonely without Mrs. X. and
the little ones Yes, he replied, do;
but the wind is tempered TO the shorn
lamb and, yeu see, when my wifc is
away ] can smoke IN bed"
Some persons take special pains
to fish up something bad. Suspicion
Is their faith. They seem TO regard
others with distrustful feeling, and
hence, on every possible occasion,
charge themselves with the Office of
detective. They look after spots on
the sun instead Of enjoying its light.
They look on the dark instead OF the
sunny side. Such persons are gener-
ally very unhappy themselves, and
make others unhappy also. If they
are in position OF influence, whether
in Church or State, they do world Of
harm by tboir suspicious pursuits.
lie called at tho police ofice