The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-09-15
WISE and OTHERWISE.


No man cnn be u nd critic who is
not well te;id in huuAan nature.
Though not II man of means, the
policeman leads club life.
-HAmmpcks are knotty, but they are
nice.
A tramp called his shoes corpora,
tions because they had no soles.
What is wanted is to have Denis
Kearney mistaken for inform, Carey.
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HuggIng sorrow is not the way 10
lessen il, though, like the nettle, trouble
stings less when it is firmly grasped and
not feared.
Don't be suspicious of everybody.
The man who is everlastingly looking tor
evil can find the greatest quantity of it
in his own life.
Opinion is, as 1t were, the queen Of
the world, but force is the tyrant,
-"Heart," says one. sis almost as
strong as principle" 1t is rather the
channel in which principle flows and
acts.
--Modesty is TO worth what shadows
are in painting; she gives to it strength
and relief.
He who puts bad construction on
a good act, reveals his own wickedness
of heart
Let truth and unwavering faith In
God underlie all your motives and ac-
tions.
Teach your children to respect
their elders and themselves.
That is always best for us which ia
best for our souls.
Let your anger set with the sun.
but never rise with it.
Life is too short to nurse ones mis-
cry. Hurry acoss the lowland, that YOU
may linger longer on the mountain tops.
Our guides, we pretend, must be sim
less; as those were not tue best teaohera
who, only Yesterday, got corrected from
tn Dir mistakes,
If you have any curiosity to know
how subtle the devil is you need OF ask
your neighbors. just take quiet sua-
vey of your own life and you will find
out.
Love is circumspect, humble and ur-
} right; not yielding to softness, or to levi
ty, not attending to vain things; it is
sober, chaste, steady, quiet and guarded
in all the senses.
5 Observe the order in which provi-
dence sends your mercies. See how one
Is linked strangely to another, and is
door to let in many. Sometimes Que
! mercy is introductive to a thousand.
+ An elevated purpose is good and
ennobliug thing but we cannot begin at
the top OF it. We must work to it by
the often difficult path of daily duty al
ways carefully performed.
= Speaking truth is like writing fair,
and comes only by practice; it is less a
, matter of will than habit; and doubt
if any occasion can be trivial which per-
mits the practice and formation of such
a habit.
The greatest man is he who chooses
right with the most invincible resolu-
ton; who resists the sorest temptation
from within and without; who bears the
, heaviest burdens che rfullyi who is
calmest in storms, and the most fea rless
under menaces aud frowns.
a With a clear sky, bright sun, gentle
breeze, you can have friends in plenty; 4;
n but let fortune frown aud the armament
- be overcast, and then your friends will
prove like the strings of a lutte, of
which you will fiud one that will bear
the pitch.
-Fo-day's duty can only be done well
to-day. Time and circumstances are
!, now favorable, and We are ia the best
. condition 10 perform it. Tomorrow
all will he changed, other exigencies
will arise, other subjects will claim our
, attention, ard our capacity for perform.
ing that special duty will be sensiblv
. diminished.
Walls have ears. OF course thew
have You remember how quickly the
= walls of Jericho tnmLled to the racket,
When death occurs in a B.,,ton
family tue surviving members eat biacl,
bears for month, as a mark Of respect
for him.
!, -Mstrimony is said to be n lottery
= but up to the hour of going to press NO
law has been enacted prohibiting the use
OF the males.
,. Two or three weeks vacation snsnt
Is at farm house is a great thing for an
p. overworked business man. 1t SO recon.
e Giles him to his life in the city.
e They say in st. Louis that when a
ie Brooklyn man registers at Lotel there
IS the clerk at once rings the bell aud [. Ia
j. a boy to show this gentlon an to The
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