Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-08

40 SEATS. sAYr"
starryiy unhappy. This ought to buoy
MP those who are only unhappy every
four years or every alternate four years.
1 Ike 20 sit down on the first day Of
every year for a few moments and think
over the good 1 have done. 1t does not
take long. can mostly attend 10 it be-
fore breakfast. Then can attend TO my
regrets for duties unperformed during
the rest OF the day. But / am a poor re-
sretter and soon tire Of this
Tho glad new year should be more
wisely used. We should only regret just
enough to chastixe ourselves. and then
with a firm and rigid upper lip proceed
10 do better. Some people do not allow
their sorrows TO heal, but keeptheIn open,
torn and bleeding, just as weak and
cowardly soldiers sometimes create and
naaintain chastity sores IN order TO avoid
a coming battle. We must cheerfully go
forth TO meet our duty with each return
ing year. and the home Is the best place
to investigate mans efforts. There are
. good many 'joIly dogs" in this world;
bat. as Gretchen says: did you ever sec
the wife of jolly dog? She sleeps in a
kennel Did You ever ethe children of
> jolly dog? They are the ours Of the
street"
So the Jolly dog may DO as bad as the
nal qcnant regretter. Let Us therefore
not oysrdo the jolly dog business with
strangers and exhaust ourselves, SO that
nc homo We may DO more civil
Pardon me for moralixing On the glad
new year. bat there ought to DO one day
In each year when wecan put our past
out on tho line and look it over and
pound It with broom to knock out the
harvest of selfshness and unldndness.
Enough OF the glad new year,
Last evening there was pathetic
scene at tho box oftiee IN Paris. where we
spoke for tho benefit Of thrifty church
society under the auspices OF the ladies'
committee. AS usual in such cases, tho
seats were sold the day before. Paris
generally is regarded 10 tho wickedest
and most immoral city IN the world, but
Paris. HIS. should not Do confused with
Paris. France.
We came at noon and registered at the
Hotel Bristol. on the Place Nendone-
pronounced p!ass VondOme-and in the
evening We began. after prayer meeting.
is being Wednesday evening. at D
o'clock a tired rRan- with tail, heavy
boots aad the sad air Of one who had
been thirty years trying TO prove that
agriculture was enc OF the most delight
ful occupations known 10 humanity.
asked the man at tho box Office window
for good seat.
Elf you had been hero yesterday" said
the ticket seller. you could have bought
aseat. bat not today"
"Siry' said the man.
seats al sold yesterday" was the
rntie reply.
II didn't hear what You said" an
wared tie old gentleman. urrolling his
ar aud placing hand with rcd mitten
81 il tchind tho ear
'sNo seats. 1 sayr' was the hurried
answer Ia . lead tone.
Not even in the orchiSters'
-Nolr
-WhassayY
NO.
Wen. that's me ell over Come four
teen miles over a road that's froze tighter
than the top On new bile. and can
hear nothin over right foot 70 save my
hfe. and gosto buy st.lndin ROOM Lou
STAN. anil the girls has got the iaff on mo
this time"
Mich has been printed throughout tho
United States regarding the condition OF
society 1T Hurley. Wis Probably somo
~ h i true. n Is said that the people
there are mostly miners who have been
isnro-tetl from abroad under contract
Serno ~ fhcm vraro caught IN Poland
alive. and rfh,rs vrre SHARED IN Russia.
Ther ts'k roir cNn anEuage. drinl.
aicohol WREN depressed mentally AMI
chew tfhacco SD RIO Enrhsh language.
sawrsl tunes the weria has been star
ffol 81 ire news that large stoeka3e
h,f besu s~tahiisael II a forest few
miles frem ferlsv ard tlat Young girls
-vat-s fsius 'lidrarad from Chicago g b.
loekaf NJ ia these siocka,les 70 lead
WI kel Ewes or nc rrually slam ani
Nr7ri Il af nnlnieht in t1e asparagus bed
efsriniag "a prsssn. Sri vas a sal tale
as srou,s>1 much svfnpafhv. hut Later
fnfs-r.afiat shows that These girls WE'RE
taiuaoe1 fra,a Itai'rr avene~. and that
thes sieo hang en- che Sank cf ''ae Union
eriff sfrfrig ne war They hars there
fers srr.yei al che aTe ~ iiscrsten. Z
ta7 IA zoe care 81 D. klin,p.d taey
couii 1ava seno right away frofu there
gFsnnek sretircl lsn3h RI ffcm hBTty
en- CO. fsan ta slpara the ofirr day IT.
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t.sfh anil wls .li 81 rafP.e and
ffe Ersa Ec 8is1 wore biab slk bat.
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