Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-22
CHOICE CHITCHAT
On Moral and Miscellaneous
Matters,

Don't reckon on the good fortune
which you simply, hope for. Unlaid
eggs are uncertain chickens. /.
1t is vastly easier to break the head OF
one of your enemies than to break the
back OF one of your own bad habits.
Guiteau seems to have "let loose the
whole contagion of hell, and opened a
vein that bleeds a nation to death" ~
The season of the year is approaching
when many a careless man will catch
such q bad cold that he can't tell the
truth. Die .'.
It is sometimes a great honor to re-
ceiye the degree OF D. D., but there are
degrees which are nothing more than
fiddle dee dee.
The very best thing IN connection
with gambling is not to gamble. II you
wink at it YOU are gone; if you frown
you are saved.
Ifyou throw a pound OF bread to the
poor the Lord will throw a pound OF
butter into your lap to make what you
have left more palatable.
1t is inpolitic as well as untrue to say
that you sre perfect. Ii you are really
half decent you will hit the general
average OF human nature.
Some men talk as though they had
swallowed the component parts OF .
Seidlitz powder separately and the in
ternal commotion had begun. " i
How perfectly in accordance with the
eternal fitness of things it is that the sim
ner who is guilt all over should want a
prayer book which is also gilt ali over.
1t is wrong to shoot Guiteau. Every
hemp field on the continent cries out
against the outrage Let everything do
its ordained work for the good OF the
world.
In these times OF base alteration the
old topper is willing to die that he may
90 to the land of pure spirits, for it is
Impossible for him to purchase the
article here at any price.
True religion consists in doing the
most mental service as gracefully as you
would tie the shoe latchet OF king.
the man who makes a good pair OF shoes
is better than he who makes poor pray
ers.
Some men make you feel as though
the warm sun had just broken through
the clouds, while others make you feel
as though sudden east wind, with It's
arms full of a cold fog, had caught you
with too thin clothing on.
1t is not necessary to get up an ex-
petition ito either pole' in order to vote
twice. 1t can be done in the city OF
your birth or adoption and with i'm
punity, or, as Mrs Darlington says,
with perfect impunity."
II you want to know what a woman
really is before you marry her try to-
catch a glimpse of her before the hour
when she expects company, and before
she has put all the pieces OF herself to-
gether TO be looked at and admired. III
you can stand that you are ready to be
sacrificed on the altar OF Hymen.
Bad luck depends very largely on the
amount OF downright laziness which Is
packed away in your system, and good
luck consists greatly in what is proper
ly called your grip on affairs. Some
people have bad luck because their
hands always slip when they take hold
OF anything, and others have good luck
because they simply take hold aud keep |
hold. "All my crop of corn" said one
of the former ik, sulkily, "has somehow
failed me this season. | never do have !
no sort OF luck" A brisk, thriving
farmer who stood by remarked, well,
John, that's very strange, for we haven't
had such good season for many year:
What kind OF corn did you plant, pray?'
wall" was the reply, IL suppose 1t IS
partly to be accounted for by the fact
that laat spring was SO awful bnsy
about other things that forgot all about
the corn until It was too late, and then
| concluded not to plant it."
We have lately been reading what is
called Manual OF Gesture" a book
which PROCESSES to tell you how to get
your elbow at the proper angle and how
to arrange your fingers in order TO give
proper expression to your thoughts. In
this as in most other matters, however, /
nature is the best teacher. Depth OF
genuine feeling is the only thing neces'
sary in order to insure appropriateness
of gesture. We saw the other day two
for instance, one OF whom
had INDUCED in degree OF freedom OF
speech regarding the other which no !
true American ever allows, and as they /
flew about the sidewalk or tumbled /
into the gutter, one could not help T.
thinking that though they had probably /
never seen this manual, good mother
nature had taught them the proper ges-
lures to make and how to put their nm
gers i'm such shape that they would De .
most effective At any rate, they seem
ed TO be perfectly satisfied with their
oratorical efforts, for one OF them gather
ed up his pile OF journals and SAID, !
cheerfully, "Mister, have a morning
paper? Full account OF the bullet In the
while the other wake
away mournfully,as thou ;h he had been /
convinced by tie arguments
used. After all, true oratory IS the ora
tory OF deeds.
For Centuries there has been contest
among scientists as to the seat OF lie
and thought. Some have commended
that the brain is the all-important or
gan, and vet We have seen men who
seemed to get on pretty we'll without
any exhibition of the article. Others
have insisted that the heart is the source
Of vitality; but We have heard OF per-
sons who only had hole orcavlty,
vacuum in the place where the heart
ought to be. The fact is that some peo'
pls have their sense in their brains,
others have it in their hearts, and still
others who are naturally seCreuye, carry .
it where nobody can lind it, and are so .
ia its use that nobody has
ever SCENT. 1t is probable, however
that there may be other receptac!es IN
known to science where some men car
~ their minds, in proof nj IT we adducs
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