The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-07-24
Local News Overflow.

Local NEWS UV6IllOW,
An advertisement in the Journal will
pay you 1t pays everybody else.
Why not you? No matter what your
line of business, an advertising space
in these columns will bring you hand
some returns. If you haven't already
tried it, try it now.
1t is about as easy to get man into
the habit of trading at a certain place
as it is to keep him trading there when
once he has started. The merchant
who wants the custom of any citizen or
class of citizens must keep telling them
how badly they want their patronage
whether they have been in the habit of
coming to that store or not. Try the
newspaper.
The secret of success in life is to
keep busy, to be persevering, patient,
and untiring in the pursuit or calling
you are following. The busy ones may
now and then make mistakes, but it is
better to risk these than to be idle or
inactive. Keep doing, whether it be
at work or seeking recreation. Motion
is life, and the busiest are the happiest.
Cheerful active labor is blessing. An
old philosopher says: "The freely
only shines when on the wing; so it is
with the mind when once we rest, we
darken."
Among current newspaper filings at
the fair sex is story of husband and
wife who, while driving in an eastern
city, turned the corner into a narrow
street and encountered heavy wagon
There was no way to pass and the lady
in toplofty tones demanded that the
seamster go back. The husband mild
IL suggested that il was difficult for
the man to back his horses out of the
way, but madam was determined
Finally the teanster said: Never
mind mister, Eli back out I'm sorry
for yor. I've got a woman at home
just like that"
There is power in little things, We
are warned mot to despise the small
things" The wise man tells us to be-s
ware, for, ''He that despiseth small
things shall fall by little and little" A
spark falling upon some combustibles
led to the invention of gunpowder. The
cackling of goose aroused the senti-
nels and saved Rome from the Gauls.
You turned the cold shoulder but once
you made one singing remark, yet it
lost you friend forever. Remember
the might of little things Alabama
Baptist
1t is impossible to do anything sue
cessfully and do it in half-hearted
manner What would you think of the
soldier who would go into conflict
dreaming OF science, or the lawyer who
pleaded the cause of his client while his
miDd was occupied with other thoughts
and along other channels? We feel safe
when we consign cur lives for the time
to the keeping of the engineer, that his
heart and his mind are wrapt up with
his vocation and as we speed through
space at fearful rate we feel that there
isno TART of his mighty engine that he
has not made himself thoroughly ia
miliar with.
The world does not demand that YOU
become a great lawyer, great physician,
or great merchant; but it requires
that you shall SO carry yourself through
life, as to uplift and not blight your
fellow men, so as to help and not him.
so &c m n IN Il
them. 1t does not ask that you shall
not gain riches by impoverishing those
who help you to become wealthy, that
your dollars shall be clean and not
smirched with the guilt of trying to get
ahead Of your competitor by sharp
practice it demands that your wealth
shall not be stained with the blood OF
WIDOWS and orphans, that you shall
mt mt yourself by tearing others down.