The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-08-17
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gun was discharged by accident, and he
entered, "ForeGnger right hand. "
AT an evening party lady was
called upon for song and began: 81, IL
strike again my tuneful Tyre Her
husband was seen suddenly to start
huTricdly from the room remarking,
mot if know it she won't"
If you give your word TO any one
how can you possibly keep it2
The richest man of Russia was
Count Basile wskie, who died recently,
aged 90. His income for a long time past
amounted to 81, 900. .000anrualy. He was
the father of the Princess SOuvarOff the
lady who, during recent visit to this
country, displayed so much spirit and
determination in resist ny the attempts
of an anonymous scoundrel to "back-
mail" her by threats Of making sour
rilOus publications concerning her in the
New York press.
Girls talk alike about marriage, as
though it was a jubilee, a gladstone
thing, a rose without thorn, and so it
Is, if all is right, If they go about it as
rational beings, instead of merry making
children. 1t is serious thing to marry.
1t Is life business. Therefore never
GO 1t in haste; never run away to get
married; never marry for wealth or
standing, or fine person or manners, but
for both, for the qualities of mind and
heart which make an honorable man.
Take time, think long and well before
yUu accept my proposal; consult yonr
parents, then some judicious friend,
then your own Judgment. Learn all
that is possible for you to learn of your
proposed husband. When all doubts
have been removed and not till then,
accept him.
Remember that there are no heroes
in real life. Que day you will be pleased
with friend aud the next day dIsap-
pointed in him. II will be so to the
end, and you must make up your mind
to it and not quarrel, unless for very
grave causes. Your friend, you have
found out, is not perfect. Nor are you,
and you cannot expect to get much more
than you give. You must look for weak
ness, fOoi,hness and vanity in human
nature; it is unhappy if you are too
sharp in seeing them.
An eastern editor throws up the
sponge with the remark "it doesn't pay
to run paper in town where business
men read almanacs and pick their teeth
with the tail of a herring"
The photograph may bottle up the
voice and pass it down to future ages;
but the smile that twists the face of
man As he seeks solitude and gazes upon
his name IL print tor the first time, will
always have to be guessed at,
When an Indian gets mad and
ready to fight, he would as soon Ratchet
a baby as an indian trader. That's the
one great fault in his makeup, ard lie
will never stand A l in society until he
learns to go for the trader first.
"A mind reader recently looked
into the head of a fashionable young
lady, and dividing it into double quar-
ter section map, found that it read:
First, self; second, spring bonnet; third,
French heeled shoes; fourth, spring bon
net; tilth, self; sixth, French hepled
shoes seventh, spring bonnet; eighth,
self.
"A little boy ran away from home,
and while enjoying himself in forbidden
fields, thunder storm came up, and it
began 10 hail. HIS guilty conscience
need,d no acuSer. Running home he
burst into the presence of his astoni>hed
mamma, eXclaiming bIeathlessly:"Ma
ma, Gods frowlng stones at me -
Whatever you do never set up for
a critic. We do not mean newspaper
one but in private life in domestic cir
cles it Will do you harm-it you object
to being called disdgI eeable. 1t you
don't like any ones nose or object to
any ones CHA don't put your feelings
into words. If any ones manners don't
please sou remember YOUR own. PeO-
pie are not all made to suit one taste,
recnlect that. Take things as you
find them unless you can alter them
Even dinner that is swallowed cannot
be made any better. Continual fault. Gnd.
ing continual criticism Ol the conduct
of this one and the speech Of that one,
the dress of the other, aud the opinions
of the other will make home the un-
happiest place under the. sun.
Men OF force and talent are
always in demand Society is q troop of
thinkers, and the best heads among
them take the best places. A feeble man
can see the farms that are fenced and
TILED. the houses that are built. The
strong man sees possible houses ana
farms. His eye makes estates as fast as
the sun breeds clouds.
The most perilous hour of a per-
sons life is when he is tempted to des.
pond. The man who loses his courage
loses ALI there is no more hope for him
than OF dead man; but it matters not
how poor he may be, how much pushed
by circumstances, how much deserted by
| friends, how much lost to the world il
only he keeps his courage, holds up his
head, work with his hands and, with un-
conquerable will, determines to be ana
70 do what becomes nan, all will be
well. 1t is nothing outside of him that
Kills, but what is within that makes
and unmakes.
Small beginnings end in great end
lngs. How many great men have test.
lhtd that their whole lives were ,inhu
cnced by some single remark made to
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