The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-25
Break-O-Day Tonic.

DItdh.O LAY 1OHAos
About as fast as God makes laws
men seek to revise them.
Labor for Others comfort and they
will seek you. Otherwise you can
drink life's gall unobserved.
Those who envy others. generally
have secret respect for them or their
begrudged prosperity.
A conceited man is not necessarily
a fool, but it only requires time and
patience TO make one of him.
The worlds clumsy balance may tip
IN favor of influence, but the balance
OF God weighs all men to hair.
Envy will probably cease at the
first blast of the archangel's trumpet,
but what human heart will part with it
till thenp
There are quacks in religion as well
as in other professions. A Goldfish
mouth is not always an Indication of
piety.
Cunning is but a step from false
hood, and is the ape of wisdom. To-
gether, cunning and falsehood are ras-
calIty.
ALI persons are made up of both
SOou duu cNh, dAo ~ uou OdhO ouO
more'n a week to draw conclusions
upon this basis.
That "this world owes every man
living" may be true, but if it is there
are some of them who appear to be in
no hurry to collect the debt.
Don't expect to get through this life
without some insults from others. If
you do, you will have to travel by
night, and obscure streets at that.
Many people do not recognize the
head from the tail end of an opportu-
nifty, and fewer know how TO profit by
one when they happen to foreclose.
It doesn't take much of man to
misuse nature and then whine because
nature retallates. 1t isn't much of
man either who has any sympathy for
him.
I never had notion that all there
was in this world was made expressly
for me. On the contrary, l have had
to. hump myself to get share and
then keep it.
There are too many would-be Briga-
dier Generals. Those content to be
counted among the rank and file, will
ing to earn promotion, are in demand
just now.
Where you find one young man who
can, if he has to, saw wood to raise a
family, you will find two others who
can display only white hands and talk
nonsense.
If at the start d man doesn't make
up his mind to get along with all the
annoyances in this life, and part in
the next to, if necessary, have an
idea that he won't enjoy himself very
much.
I believe that the Creator finishes
off our work when we are compelled
to lay it down, and that all our tri-
umphs and failures are SO constructed
as to fit their purpose in His original
plan.
Often not until friends are lost is
the power of nod. look, or word of
recognition realized, or the amount
of good feeling that has been poured
into the whole being by such small
means.
frequently mans success, when
translated, signifies that he has work
ed for ten dollars per week rath-
er than remain idle because he
couldn't get twenty dollars for his six
days. labor.
I have a great deal of charity for
those people who by the most bitter
circumstances during trials and per-
plexities have become hardened into
the selfish, unscrupulous beings that
they appear to be.
One reason why SO many young
men of promise fail is because
they set the mark up too high,
when by at fist placing it with
in reach and aiming lower, they
could fire with greater accuracy
and eventually raise it a notch.
l have seen young men whose lives
have been composed only of soft
words and sweet smiles flee in terror
from difficulties that other young
men, who had occasionally been rub
bed against the thorns and troubles
of life, take hold of, give cholera
nortus twist, and eventually crowd
to the wall.
There are too many people who are
everlastlngly running their constltu-
tions by the active interest they take
in the affairs of others. They never
know much about their own business,
but can estimate to nicely how much
a neighbo- paid per pound for the
white lead used in painting his picket
fence.--Jmd: LofagGn, IN Chicago
Ledger.
Bill Arp on Storms.