Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-04-25
If a man pursues path, is the
path supposed to run away from him 7

love il increases their sighS wonder
fully.
Charity is frequently displayed
!, , best in helping others to help them.
selves.
g Make no expense, but do good TO
I. others or yoursclf-tbat is, waste
nothing.
An apt quotation is like a lamp
which filings its light over the whole
sentence.
Poverty is the only burden which
grows heavier by being shared by
those we love.
He is rich who saves a penny
year and he is poor who runs behind
a penny year =.
Dark seasons arc never pleasant
to us, but they are alwayslgood for us.
A cloudless sky could never producea a
lrich and abundant harvest.
"A farmer made his last will and
testament in words few but significant
~ have nothing, owe nothing, and l
give the residue TO the poor"
-"Were you ever oss-questioned2"
Yes when questioned by my wife,
after spending the evening abroad
cross enough, in all conscience"
"A convicted criminal never objects
to the grammar of the Judge, but he
doesn't like to have him show off in
Court by passing a long sentence.
Faith dies when charity ceases to
feed its flame, and strength decays just
in proportion as cheerful hope fails TO
quicken the energies of the mind.
-Idlcness is constant sin, and labor
is duty. ldeness is the devils home
for temptation, and for Improbable,
distracting musings, while labor profit
eth ourselves
TO know man, observe how he
wins his object, rather than how be
loses il for when we fall, our pride
supports-wben VIC succeed, II be-
trays us.
Energy will do anything that can
be done IN this world and no talents,
no circumstances, no opportunities, will
make a two-legged animal a man with
out IT,
-" Dear Julius You say yourlove
will surmount all obstacles. Meet me,
then, adored, on the summit of Mount
Blanc on the first Of next month.
Your Celestina."
The trouble with our praying is
not SO much that we do not pray
enough, or have not faith enough, as
that We all want TO be on Gods Ways
and Means Committee.
Some have wondered that disputes
about opinions should so often end in
personalities but, the fact is, that such
disputes begin with personalities, for
our opinions are part of ourselves.
1t is strange thing to behold
what gross errors and extreme absurdi-
ties men do commit for want Of
friend to tell them of them The light
oia good counsel is that which setteth
business straight.
"A chap was arrested in Phlladel-
phia the other day for stealing clock.
The Judge told him that as he had
taken another mans time TO begin
with, be could now take bis own time
to reflect upon it, and sent him up for
three months forthwith.
=" Steam is great thing remark.
ed traveller in railroad car to his
pis-d-uis. $50 it is" was the reply
4" owe my fortune to it." "Ahl Mon
sieur is manager OF a company" "No."
" An engineer, perbnps?" "No; |
have lost number of relatives by
railroad accidents"
=" You are the dullest boy | ever
saw " Grossly exclaimed bald-headed
old uncle TO his nephew. .Well, un-
Gle" replied the youth, @you can't ex.
pect me to understand things as quick
as you do because you don't have the
trouble of getting EN- through your
hair
Nothing so tyrannizes over one as
a habit OF jesting and contempt, real
or assumed. Success in the use of sar-
casm and ridicule rarely fails to make
its practice more frequent and its appli-
cation more wide than is either iustif.
able in itself or agreeable TO listeners.
We must not wonder when the
loaves grow small, and are only made
of barley, and the fishes decrease in
number, if the mere hangers-on show
us their quality and disappear. He
who comes TO Christ for what he can
get of worldly good will leave him
when poverty and shame lie in the way.
AN enterprising American firm has
established literary agency at Louis
vile, Ky, where they advertise to
manufacture all sorts of literature to
order, such as orations, tales, funeral
notices, love letters, essays, poetical
effusions, learned treatses on all man
ncr of subjects, &c. "llliterate persons
please take notice.
:, -Chlldren are lnqulsitive bodies.
For instance "What does cleave
mean, papa 1T means to unite to.
ge,nor docs Does John unite wood
means to separate" "Pa, docs a man
separate from his wife when he clcaves
to herr" "Hem, hem Don't ask so
many foolish questions, child"