Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-08-08

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Nobody looks any longer at the
rainbow which has lasted quarter Of
an hour.
Vanity indeed is a venial error;
for it usually carries its own punish
ment with It.
Our evil genius, like the junior
member Of q dellberative body, always
gives its views first.
If we had no faults ourselves, wo
should not have 80 much pleasure in
discovering the faults of Others.
Our repentance is not 30 much
regret for the evil we have done as a
fear of what may be the consequences.
"A Milwaukee man ate fiveloaves Of
bread and two hams for wager, the
other day. He should be made King
Of the Sandwich Islands.
1t IS said certain Boston divine
never asks blessing over table where
there is wine or liquor. Perhaps he
thinks It is good enough without
"A fair one says she knows
what she's talking about, and that IL
Just doubles the value of kiss TO have
to burrow for it under big mustache.
"A Chicago grocer stuck out sign,
"Call and see my figs.n A joker chang
ed the initial letter of the last word "p,"
and the sign was promptly taken in,
"A poor man, who was i'll, being
asked by gentleman whether he had
taken any remedy, replied" No, aint
taken any remedy, but I've taken lots
o physic."
Scarcely have ever heard or read
the Introductory phrase, 81 may say
without vanity" but some striking and
characteristic instance Of vanity has
Immediately followed.-Frdnktin.
The history of the world teaches
no lesson with more impressive solemn
ity than this: that the only safe guide
Of great intellect, is a pure heart
that evil no sooner takes possession Of
the heart, than folly commences the
conquest Of the mind.
An old Irish seaman, at prayer
meeting in Dublin, in relating his ex-
perience, stated that when at sea in
storms and tempests he had often de-
rived great comfort from that beautiful
passage in Scripture, "Faint heart new
er won fair lady"
AT the close of one of the battles
in the Peninsular war, an officer seeing
private Of his regiment bringing three
French prisoners, asked him how he
had managed, unassisted, to mako such
capture. "Be jabers, yer honor,
replied the man proudly, "I surround.
ed them.'
Frank" said an affectionate
mother the other day to a promising
boy, 1if you don't leave off smoking 80
much you will get SO lazy after while
that you won't care anything about
work" Mother" replied the hope.
ful, leisurely removing very long
cigar al have got so now?"
"A man rushed breathlessly into a
lawyers office in Chicago, and ap-
preaching the legal luminary, excited
ly remarked, ga man has tied coop
to my horses tail. Can do doanything?'
"Yos," replied the attorney; ego and
unite it" That was good advice, and
didn't cost the man but S..
DO you ever reflect that your pow
ers of accomplishment are direct mer-
cies from Heaven2 God does more
wonderful thing when he holds all
your faculties in such nice adjustment
and perfect play that you win success,
than he would have done if he had
wrought the fruit of the success him
self by miracle.
The truth Is that the intellectually
high and the intellectually low will be
pleased and edited by the same style
Of preaching. 1t is only those who lie
between, who belong not to the former
class, and are afraid of being ranked
with the latter, that prefer the sound
oflearning to the sense and understand
ing of il.
"A man once took piece of white
cloth to a dyer to have it dyed black.
He was so pleased with the result that,
after a time, he went back to him
with piece of black cloth and asked
to have it dyed white. But the dyer
answered, "a piece of cloth is like
mans reputation it can be dyed black,
but you cannot make it white again"
One OF the most useless Of all things,
is to take deal OF trouble in providing
against dangers that never come.
How many toll TO lay up riches which
they never enjoy; to provide for exi.
gencies that never happen; toprevent
troubles that never come; sacrificing
present comfort and enjoyment in
guarding against the wants of period
they may never live to see.
Trouble, like a strong electric
light, casts another color over the for.
merly dark scenes, and We discover
what we had forgotten Trials work
degree OF tenderness ofspirits, and so
make sin conspicuous 10 the weeping
eye and TO the troubled heart. Many
man, when in great trouble about
other matters, has also begun 10 be in
deep distress on account Of sin.
With some, scolding is chronic.
Life is one long fret. The flesh is fe-
vorish, the nerves unstrung, the spirit
perturbed and in a state Of unrest.
The physical condition and the mate
rial surroundings may have Strong
tendency to disturb our equanimity,
and to exasperate our feelings; but We
are TO bear in mind that scolding new
or did anybody any good, and withal
grows to be very uncomfortable TO the
party who INDUCES in it.
"A recent writer says: '1n no other
country have we seen so much show
and tinsel in the churches as in some
of our own cities. In Europe-not only
in England, but on the Continent
such display is rigidly forbidden, not
by law, but by the recognized canons
of good taste. Nothing is considered
more vulgar--a more certain mark OF
low breeding-than this kind of osten.
tation in aplacc ofworship. Its only
the "new rich"--what we should call
the "shoddy"-that try to exhibit
themselves in the house Of God. But
as that class is larger in this country
than any where else, VIC have moro Of
these wrctched exhibitions.