Year: 1874

Hard Times.


A contemporary says when you NEE,
any one now, the first thing they say is.
lizard timesP', The subject has been
discussed until ii seems that II ought by
this time to have been exhausted lizard
times p las become so patent remark
when you meet people, that you are of,
ten reminded by it of the common prac.
tice some people have, when you first
meet them and salute them, of calling
your attention to the state of the weather.
They will look about them with seem.
ing degree of deep concern, and remark:
1--WE have beautiful, pleasant day -
just as if you have to be told so, to know
the fact. We all know that the financial
muddle exists and why discuss it all
times and upon all occasions. To have
the subject constantly ringing in our ears
is enough to dampen the energies Of tho
most energetic, Every one you meet
and discuss the subject with, has bis or
her theory about the matter, and eau &C.
count for it satisfactorily, and have their
financial schemes which, if adopted,
would greatly benefit the country, not
only at present, but for all time to come.
Il people would 60 to work, aud work
with more assiduity at whatever business
that happen to follow, and at the same
time ecouomize, they will unquestiopable
make times easier with themselves, and
be the sooner enabled to pay what they
owe; and in that way will relieve their
creditors, and in a short time, times will
be in truth and really easy. Confidence
will be restored aud the property of the
country will sell for its legitimate value.
Too much credit and over trading has
produced the present hard times" and



If every one will pay up hard times will
be thing of the past. To deplore it
docs mischief. To sit down and brood
over it in spirit of dependency is ua>
manly. Now, of all other times, il ,ho
time when men should look tho matter
Sternly in the face, and resolve 10 be up
and doing, to work with more euqrg,,
and to endeavor to devise means to oyer.
come their adyersitics aud financial
troubles.


True merritt always comes to the sur,
face.


The heated in quarrel are always do,
fcated.


Long life is the result Of temperance in
all things.


Plenty consists in the powor TO Grub
your wants.


Prosperity is poor scale to weigh our
friends in.


Employment is natures physician, and
is essential to human happiness.


Wrong always Furnishes sooner or later,
the wrong doers. There is no escape.





Mental pleasures, unlike those of the
body, never clog, and are increased by
reputation.


Nothing elcyates us so uuch as the prss,
eu'e of spirit similar yet superior to our
own.


The wish of most people is for for.
tune and nothing to do. How fully men
are punished when it is realized


As who reforms himself has done more
towards reforming the public than crowd
OF noisy and important patriots.


The human heart was made for love
as the household heart for Gre for truth.
as the household lamp for light.


AS the sun appears largest when he is
about to set, so does the proud man swell
most magnifcently just before bis fall.


The habit of being always emplosd is
a great safeguard through life, as well as
essential to the culture Of ovsry virtue.


Send disappointment To the winds, take
life as it is, and with a strong will
make it as near what il should be as pos
.ible.


In weighing the characters Of men We
must penetrate the envelope Of affection
Ind assumption which many habitually
wear.


A good rule for daily use-do Just that
luty each day and each hours which ought
o be dons in that exact day aud tb.t
lour.