Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-03-28
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Always De sure you are right and thel
go ahead.
lndolence is the rust of the mind and tn,
inlet of every vice.
That is most wretched fortune which
is without an enemy.
Young men should pattern after pianos
be square, upright, grand.
Life becomes useless and insipid when
we have no longer either friends OF
enemies.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle
words and resolute actions; lie is neither
hot nor timid.
AS rule, the less money you leave your
children when you die, the more they will
have twenty years afterwarf.
7 Viii never purchase lottery ticket so
long as l can hire man to rob me at reas-
enable wages.-Josh Billings.
Labor is the duty man owes to society {;
rest is the duty he owes to his person !;
recreation is the duty he owes to his mind.
Young man, learn to wait; if you under
take to set hen before she is ready, you
will lose your tinie and confuse the hen
beside.
AT social gathering few days since,
the following pleasing sentiment was pro-
posed as a roast: '.In ascending the
hill of prosperity may we never meet a
fiiend.''
If in debt, economize in all possible
ways, devoting all your surplus means in
relieving yourself, and, if possible, COM
mence the coming year out Of debt, then
you will have no tears of call by the sher-
if or constable.
Jeremy fayltf says of marriage: IF
you are for pleasure. marry; if you prize
your health, marry if money be your OBJ
ject, marry. a good wife is Heavens last
best gift to man, his angel and minister Of
graces innumberable, his gem of many vir-
tues, his aasket of jewels.''
''Better sense than grammar was the old
Dutchman's saying: "a good character
ish breddy much der same to man ash a
good umbrella. Ven darg CLOUDS threaten
over his head. all he ish got to Go vas to
hold him ub, und der storm basses over.
and he ish none der vorse."
Some have said that it is not the business
of private men to meddle with govern !
ment--a bold and dishonest saying, which
is lit to come from no mouth but that of |
tyiant or a slave. To say that private men
have nothing to do WITH the government
is to say tina. private men have nothing to |
do with their own happiness or misery;
that people ought not to concern themsel-
YES whether they are naked or clothed. fed
Or starved, deceived or instructed. protect
ed Or destroyed.-Cato.
''Stick to your business as.we are
aware, is very trite saying; but it has
oeen emphasized by every man of fortune
who has accumulated his property himself.
successful men of affairs, throughout the
,lTtire country. join in advice of that kind
o the young merchant, mechanic or pro-
Follow this advice earnestly, in
diligently. honesty, manfully, and unless
7ou have utterly failed to prepare yourself
or the vocation which you have chosen,
Ton will achieve good measure Of pecuni-
Try success. and earn the lasting respect of
he community in which you reside.
There is structure which everybody is
'uilding. young and old, each one for him
elf: 1t is called character, and in it every
ct OF life is stone. II Jay by day we are
arefll to build our lives with pure, noble,
UPRIGHT deeds, at tie end viii stand a fair
emple, honored oy God and man. But as
me leak will sink ship and one flaw
'reak chaln. so one mean, dishonorable,
'ntrut.1ul act or word will forever leave
Is impress, and work its influence on our
characters. Then let the several deeds
mite to form day, and one by one the
lays grow into noble years, and the years,
Is they slowly pass, will raise at last
beautiful edifice, enduring forever to our
praise.
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