Literary.
(ORIGINAL AND SELEC TED .)
p ve!y man is eventually
what
he
trains himself to be.
He that knows not when to be silent,
knows not when to speak.
The greatest work has always gone
land in hand with the most fervent
¿oral purpose.
The past is associated with the pres­
et. To learn from the past is the wis­
dom of the present.
1 man can take one or two interests
¡n life, and so give himself up to them
that all the greater tru ths of life are en­
tirely unheeded by him.
Any man who sacrifices the best part
of bis nature to the worst is a loser ev­
eryday, even it he gets twenty percent,
on his money.
The sweetest music is not in the ora­
torio, but in the human voice when it
speaks in tones of tenderness, truth or
courage.
instance it pays richly and fully for
wha ever labor or self-sacrifice i t ' mav
tnvo \<, .»nJ in the few cases where they
cannot see the results most of them have
sufficient faith in the law to trust it.
le t, n this be the only motive inaction,
it cannot be called right-doing in the
a s sense. I hat which is done wholly
from the hope of gain or advantage can­
not be in the highest type.
A reputation which survives him who I
made it for a hundred years, and then
s mws no sign of impaired vitality, must I
be well founded. By survival we do notI
mean a passive existence between the
covers of books and in the cognizance of
’ookish men. In that sense everybody
who manages to get Ids name printed
secures a kind of immortality. Our ref­
erence is, of course, to continued life as
an active force—as an influence in some
department of human energy. It is sur­
prising how many men of note fail, in
this sense, to become centenarians. In
the case of literary workers, our librar­
ies are largely the receptacles of dead
reputations, given over to the hook-worm
and of no further concern to the active
world.
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CLOTHING, HATS AND CAPS.
BOOTS and SHOES
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L A D ,E S A N D G E N T L E M E N . B E S T
S TO C K IN F L O R E N C E .
Every-day is a little life, and our
whole life is but a day repeated. Those,
In listening to the sound by which aj
therefore, th a n dare lose a day are dan­ clock or watch marks the passing of th e 1
gerously prodigal.
diminutive portions of time, one might'
It is more often necessary to conceal almost fancy that deductions so extreme-i
contempt than resentm ent, the former ly small would never wear away thej
being never forgiven, but the latter be- whole duration of a long life. But it has '
been by such minute lapses in never
ingsometimes forgot.
Keeps a full line of Extra Quality
ceasing
succession,
that
the
vast
series
Suffering becomes beautiful when any
one bears great calamities with cheerful­ of ages since the creation has passed
ness, not through insensibility, but away; it has been by the succession of
instants that all our ancestors have com­
through greatness of mind.
pleted their sojourn on earth, and by
Nothing is so great an enemy to tran­
this it will be that we shall one day
quility and a contented spirit as the
have arrived at the end of our mortal
amazement and confusion of unreadiness
existence. Each passing moment, then, iTARTAWAPU'
T i v r\tr a
and inconsideration.
may bev regarded as having a relation to
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‘ HARE,
B O O 1N & S H O E S ,
Life is so complicated a game th at the the end, and everything which hints to
devices of skill are liable to be defeated us that moments are passing, may
lay be
oe a HATS & CAPS,
MEDICINES,
N VT8 & CANDIES,
at every turn by air-blown chances, in­ monition to us to be habitually to4WN
calculable as the descent of thistledown. great work which ought to be accota- )
TOBACCO,
C IG A R S ,
l i o last
Jaat
No man is born into this world whose plislied against the period when i the
FURNISHING GOODS.
work is not born with him ; there is al­ of them shall come.
ways work, and tools to work withal,
IT LIGHTENS OUR BURDENS.
lor those who w ill; and blessed are the
Prices W ill be Found Reasonable.
heavy bands of toil.
It is the beautiful work of Christianity Goods as Represented.
The good is one thing, the pleasant every-wbere to adjust the burden of life
another; these two, having different ob­ to those who bear it, and them to it. It
jects, chain a man. It is well with him has a perfectly miraculous gift of heal­
who clings to the good ; he who chooses ing. Without doing any violence to hu­
man nature, it sets it right with life, har­
the pleasant misses his end.
monizing it with all surrounding tilings,
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile
and restoring those who are jaded with
which, none know how, has the power
the fatigue and dust of the world to a
to lighten the weight of th a t enormous
new grace of living. In the mere mat­
C. E. SM ITH .
QEO. T . HALL.
chain which all the living in common
ter of altering the perspective of life and
•lragbehind them?
changing the proportions of things, its
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Life, altogether, is but a crumbling functions in lightening the care of man
ruin when we turn to look beh in d ; a are altogether its own. The weight of a
mattered column here, where a massive load depends upon the attraction of the
The Largest Wholesale Dealers in
P'lrtal stood; the broken shaft of a win­ earth. But suppose the attraction of
dow to mark my lady’s bower; and a the earth were removed? A ton on some
»mouldering heap of’ blackened stones other planet, where the attraction of
'‘'ere the glowing flames once leapt; gravity is less, does not weigh half a ton.
In the State, Outside of Portland.
M
|d over all, the tinted lichen and the Now Christianity removes the attraction
clinging green. For every thing of the earth, and this is one way in
We are also the largeet dealers in
■oins pleasant through the softening which it diminishes men’s burden. It
1 ,ze of time. Even the sadness th at is makes them citizens of another world.
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l,l't seems sweet. Our boyish days What was ft ton yesterday is not half a
'cry merry to us now, all nutting, ton lo-day. So without changing one’s
"'P and gingerbread. The sufferings circumstances, merely by offering a
"" toothaches and the Latin verbs are wider horizon and a different standard,
‘gotten, the I^itin verbs especially, it alters the whole aspect of the world.
The nearest supply ¡aiint to Glenada and Florence by land.
is the brightness, not the dark-
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All orderw by mail or wtage guaranteed Ailed prom ptly, and
that we see when we look back,
If
I
am
asked
what
is
the
remedy
for
correctly, at the lowest market price.
sunshine casts no shadows on the
I**1- The road th at we have traversed the deeper sorrows of the human heart—
i r' ^hes very far behind us. We see what a man should look to chiefly in bis
’ tt‘** sharp stones; we dwell but on progress through life as the power that
roses by the wayside, and the stray is to sustain him under trials, an< ena
Urs thnt stung us are, to our distant blehim manfully to confront Ins afflic­
but gentle tendrils waving in the tions—I m ust point to something w nc
calk'd,
that
be Blanked th a t it is so— in a well-known hymn is
old
the ever-lengthening chain of mem- 1 Old, Old Story, told in a n . Book, and
onb' pleasant links, and that taught with an old, old teaching,
e itterness and wounds of to-day are
at on the morrow.
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