The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-18
Possibilities.
knEE THINGS CAN BE DONE
Image Tells of Exploits Within the
Christians Power.


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|Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner, came
[,,n three times with his army to desolate
u Jews. advancing one time with hun
I'll and two trained elephants swinging
ioir trunks this way and that, and sixty
o thousand infantry, and six thousand
kyalry troops. and they were driven back.
ben the second time he advanced with sew
Nv tbonsand armed men and had been again
,sated But the third time he laid success
4 1eqe until the navy of Rome came ia with
n fash OF their long banks OF oars and
kmanded that the siege be lifted. And
Xptiochus Epiphanes said he wanted time
consult with his friends about it.and Popi-
,s one of the Roman ambassadors, took
ar and made circle on the ground around
ntiochus Epiphanes, and compelled him to
kride before he came out of that circle;
Xberapon he li'ted the SIEGE Some of tho
Svs had submitted TO the invader. but some
them resisted valorously, rs did Eleazer,
ben he had swne's flesh forced into his
konth, spit it out, although he knew he must
L for IL, and did die for II, aud others, as
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An exploit ! would define TO he n heroic
a brave feat. great achievement.
Nell YOU say, 81 admire such things but
ere is no chance for me; mine is sort OF
bmdrum life II had,an Antiochus Epiph-
eS rs fight also could do exploits" You
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here will probably b. no opportunity to dis
bcush yourself in battle. Tho most
the brigadier-genprals of this country
bud never have been heard OF had
not been for the war. General
Rant would have remained in the
sefu work OF tanning hides at Galena, and
ncwall Jackson would have continued the
hiet college professor in Virginia. And
Ihatcvcr military talents You have will
<ohahy lie dormant forever. Neither will
bu probably become n great inventor
neteen hundred and ninety-nino out OF
cry two thousand inventions found in the
k,ent office a. Washington never yielded
|eir authors enough money To pay for the
nen.os of securing the patent. So you will
tobaby never be n Morss or an Edt.
b.. or Humphrey Davy or an Eli
5hitncy There is not much probability
Iat YOU will be the one out of the hundred
LAT achieves extraordinary success in com
)ercial or legal or medical or literary
ohercs. What then! Can YOU hsvo no OPP
brtrinity to do exploitsi / am going to
bow YOU to-day that there are three oppor.
Inties open that are grand, thrilling far
8nching, stupeudous and overwhelming.
boy are before you now. In one. II not all
)ree of them, YOU may do exploits. Tho
Areo greatest things ON earth to do are to
I've man, or save woman, or save
bd.
y During the course of his life almost every
IAN gets into an cXigency, Is caught between
10 fires is ground between two mllstones,
4 on the edge OF some prccipice, or in some
bier way comes near demolition. IL may be
Financial. or n moral. or n domestic or n
Dcial. or n political eNigency Nou some-
bnes see it in court rooms. A young man
Is got into bad company and he has Offended
4e law. and he i arraigned. All blush
&g and confused he is in the pres
zee of judge and jury and lawyers.
can b. sent right on in the
- ar. - He is ie-,ins III .-,-,"ad
VI he is almost desperate. Let the District
ftorney overhaul him rs though he were an
D offender; let the abest attorneys at the
r refuse TO say word for him because he
hnot afford IA considerable fec; let tie
Eige give no Opportunity for presenting the
Mitigpting circumstances. hurry up the cnse
nd hustle him up to Auburn or Sing Sing.
The live seventy years. for seventy years he
viii be n criminal and each decade
of his life will be blacker tran
~ predecessor. In tho interreg.
Nuns of prison life he can get 40
uork. aud he is glad 10 break window glass,
"a blow up sac, or play the highwayman,
as 20 get back again within the walls
3hero he can get something TO eat and hide
mself from the cruel gaze of the wcrld.
nv don't his father come and help him,
is father is dead. Why don't his mother
me AMI help him, She is dead. Where
fe MI the amellorating and salutary in
nences of society! They do not touch
20 in the case understand that
1ere was an opportunity for the exploit
Xhich would be famous in heaven quairill-
IN of years after the earth has become
knttered ashes in the last whirlwind' Why
III not the District Attorney take that young
ann into his private Office and say: my
pm, sec that YOU are the victim cf circum-
Iances. This is yonr first crime. You are
prry. will bring the person YOU
/ronged into your presence and YOU
till apologize and make all the
Rparaton YOU can, and | will give
pu another chance" Or the young man is
resented in the court room and he has no
bends present, aud the judge says: Who is
pur counsel" And he saws: ~ have none. +"
nd the judge says: "Who will take this
pung mans case' And there is n dead
pit and no one offers, and after while the
pdge turns to some attorney who never had
Igood case in all his life and never will, and
secure the condemnation of inno-
Rnce itself. And tine professional
competent crawls up beside the prisoner,
lple'SneSs to rescue despair, when there
pght TO be struggle among nil the best
Pm OF the profession as to who should have
r. honor of trying To help that unfortunate
ow much would such an attorney have re-
nNtu rs MS Ice LOT Sncn an uuNOcncyt
pihlng in dollars, but much every way in
bappy consciousness that would make his
kn life brighter and his own dying pillow
gee ter and his own heaven happier-the
nSciousness that he had saved a man!
20 there are commercial exigencies. A
ry late spring obliterates the demand for
flng oyercoats and spring hats and spring
Pparel of all sorts. Hundreds of thousands
people say: at seems we arc going TO
we no spring and we shall go straipht onb
winter into warm weather, and we can
along without the usual spring ATTIRE
there is no autumn weather. the beat
nn. Ing into the cod, aud the usual cloth
r. which Is "A compromiee between sum.
fr and winter, is not required. IL
nEcS difference in the sale of
liions and IN lions of dollars of & -0ds, and
me over.sangune young merchant Is
xcGht with a vast amount of unstable
pods that never viii be salable again eX-
pt ut prices ruinously reduced. That
pung merchant with somewhat limited
p'tal Is in predicament, What shall tho
~ merchants do as they see that young man
thls awful crisisi Rub their hands
Pr laugh and say: Good for hun. Ho
ight nave known better. When he has
zen IN business as long as we have, he
iii not loal his she YES in that way Hal
"a lie will burst up before long. He had
business TO open his store so near To ours
pyhow" Sheriff's sale. Red flag in the
ndow: How much is bid for these out
w" fashion spring overcoats and spring
ats or fall clothing ont of data3 What do