Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-07-01

would prevent many quarrels
first to have it we'll ascertaineG
whether we are not disputine
about terms rather than things
and, secondly, to examine whether
that on which we differ is worth
contending about.
An old bachelor, who had lately
been hanging the pictures of an
exhibition, having rejected those
of certain painter, was waited
upon by the painters wife, to
know why, when he had the cour-
Iage to address the lady in the fol-
lowing terms: "Madam, the
reason your husbands pictures
were rejected was that they
were as big as a tree; but if he
will send US anything as small as
you are, and as pretty, and as
nicely framed, and as we'll painted,
We'll hang it. -
To what base uses may greater
| than we come at last |! Let pop
ular preacher make a bit with a
novel or a lecture, or by any
tricks of the plat sorm draw a pay
ing crowd, he is at once snapped
up by some speculative publisher
who knows the trade value of
anybody's ssLife of Christ if
only he holds the car of the
masses. The latest to consent to
this work of supererogation is
DR.. Ian Maclaren. His true
friends would do we'll to save him
from this false step. There are
/ too many fancif1l delineations,
none of which is "Life'' in any
serious sense, by Farrar, Beecher,
Talmage, and other "popular''
caterers They probably in
crease their own fame and legit-
imately add to their store, but
they do not seem to realize the in
jury such books do to the inter
ests Of Bible study by tempting
people away from the "Life'' it.
self as written by those who knew
more about it than these enter
prising colorists do.
If you have anything to do, do
it at once. Don't sit down in
the rocking chair, and lose threes
quarters of an hour in dreading
the job. Be sure that it will seem
/ ten times harder than it did
at first. Keep this motto: Be on
time, in small things as well as
great. Habit is everything, The
boy who is behind time at break.
fast and at school, will be sure to
get "left'' in the important things
of life. If you have Il chronic
habit of dreading and putting off
things, make a great effort to cure
Iyourself. Brace up! Make up
your mind that you will have
some backbone. Don't be limp,
liellyish kind of person. Depend
upon it, that life is very much as
you make it. The first thing to
decide is, what are you going to
make it. The next thing is to
take off your coat and 60 to work.
Make yourself necessary some
where. There are thousands of
boys and young men in the world
who wouldn't be missed if they
were to drop out of it tomorrow.
1 Don't be one of this sort. Be a
power in your own little world,
and then, depend upon it, the big
world will hear from you.
When life was lived on simpler
terms than now. men and women
used to write what they were in
spired to write, their books were
published. and they were cons
tent to wait for legitimate celebs
rity. It sometimes happened that
t. cir proper reward did not come
until long years after they had
gone to the happy land whore
5 feathery quilts are not deformed
J into pens and .Stygian ink is uns
known. Nowadays the upstart
8 author cries for fame while in
his swaddling clothes and de-
mands public homage for his
: genius before he has cut his
wisdom teeth. Witness the aver,
sge literary letter." .concocted
. by agents of-..publishing houses
and supplied at wholesale prices
d to any paper that bankers after
] an air of bookishness. It usually
I teens with pretty loud whispers
5 about the just discovered great
y ness of some raw book concocteG
by a young man or maiden. who
1 cannot possibly haye read ever
f the titles of one in thousand O.
= the really ripe books that have
long forestalled his or her ''Crig-
iIa'" effort.