As there are no blessings which may
not he perverted into evils, so there are
no trials which may not be converted
into blessings.
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Literary.
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n p selected .)
a TRAGEDY.
B y J- B oylk O’B eii . i . y .
h„.flste<l bird from th e sea
' S0 ‘ I ,ve with the lig h t house flame,
1,11 " -Heeled around th e tow er on its airiest
Mid i t "
, r t 'i S and cried lik e a love-lorn th in g ;
?,1 al! dav and it fluttered all n ig h t,
"
, , u in no look from th e stead fast light,
« it h the ships a t sea;
¡ 1 thinking of ch ild ren and w a itin g wives,
Harkness and d a n g e r to sailors lives,
f 2 Wrd ha<5 its ten d er bosom pressed
, e glass where a t last it dashed its breast:
-rhtonly flickered, th e b rig h ter to glow ;
J the bird ¡ay dead on th e rocks below.
Help yourself and others will help you.
Fame is a bright robe, but it soon
weSr9 out at the elbows.
1 doubt is the heaviest thing you can
ork is the best educator of practical
character. It evokes and disciplines
obedience, self-control, attention, ap­
plication and perseverance.
LE A D E R S IN ALL K IN D S O F S T A P L E A N D
F A N C Y G R O C ER IES.
Honest good humor is the oil a n d !
wine of a merry meeting, and there is j
no jovial companionship equal to that i
where the jokes are rather small and the
laughter abundant.
It is a true blessing of our age th at we
are beginning more and more to esti­
mate a man, not by what he owes to his
birth and fortune, but according to the
advantages he has won for himself by
his mind and heart that even those
whom civil order bus placed in the low-
est rank are learning to think of their
rights and to feel themselves as ereat-j
ures who can demand respect.
DRY-GOODS
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OF L A T E S T P A T T E R N S A N D
F A B R IC S -IM M E N S E S T O C K .
C H O IC E S T
CENTS’ DEPARTMENT
IS R E P L E T E IN ALL IT S V A R IO U S
C L O T H IN G , H A T S A N D C A PS.
BOOTS and SHOES
o
B O R F O T H L A D IE S A N D G E N T L E M E N . B E S T
S T O C K IN F L O R E N C E .
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pick up and try to carry.
He who will not answer to the rudder
A thoughtful and considerate sobriety!
must answer to the rocks.
Clothes that speak for themselves of mini!, so that one always knows what
he is about and what he means to do
leave their wearers nothing to say.
and what he means not to do, as con­
The best reward for having wrought
Keeps a full line of E xtra Q uality
trasted with a headlong, impetuous, and
well already is to have more to do.
reckless mode of acting, is a cardinal
The road to heaven is too narrow for
quality in living a successful and a vir­
vou to travel it and pass anybody on the tuous life. Men must think and do so
way.
seasonably, if they would make the
If vou have never been in adversity journey of life wisely. Every young
vou have never found out who your real man needs to learn this lesson.
Sympathy is costly; aid o( every sort ¡H A R D W A R E ,
T IN W A R E ,
BOOTH & SH O ES,
friends are.
Inheritance is the least dishonest way is costlv. _
_ , ____
But,
as Dr. ___________
Johnson said, , so
iacquire wealth, and generosity is its are gpjte ftnd ill-nature among the most
1IATS & ( ’APS,
M E D IC IN E S ,
N E T S & C A N D IE S,
nly excuse.
expensive luxuries in life. It costs us
EC KN ¡S U IN G GOODS.
Trouble and perplexity drive us to immensely to be rude, ill-mannered, or
C IG A R S,
TOBACCO,
irayer, and prayer driveth away trouble mean; it costs us much to give way to
unrighteous anger, to harbor spite or ill-
nd perplexity.
Prices W ill be found Reasonable.
As we must render an account of ev- nature. If we must spend so much of Goods as Represented.
our
life
forces
upon
others
were
it
not
j
ry idle word, so must we likewise of
better to spend it in kindness than in j
ur idle silence.
Be careful from whom you accept fa- unkindness?
MANAGERS.
Every one needs to avoid, ns far as
ora. The duty of gratitude may be-
possible, obvious dangers. But we ought
ome a heavy burden to you.
not to forget that such avoidance simply |
Q E O . T . H A LL .
C. E. S M IT H .
True courtesy is kind. I t exhibits it-
means, in many cases, the running into
• ©w-
elf in the disposition to contribute to
dangers just as great, though less obvi­
J.
he happiness of others.
ous. There is a point, therefore, at
Harsh counsels have no effect; they which we must accept dangers, as well
re like hammers which are always re­ as a point at which we must slum them.
The Largost Wholocale Loalorc in
mised by the anvil.
To place too much stress upon their
All true work is sacred. In all work, presence, is to paralyse all effort; to
iere it but true liand-lahor, there is place too little stress upon them, is to ig­
In the State, Outside of Portland.
omething of divineness.
nore a divinely appointed agency for
Wo aro also the largest dealers in
One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed keeping us wise, alert and sensible of
ind of property which it is very un- responsibilities. Indeed, as an eminent
preacher said: “ The world would not be
leaaant to find depreciated.
Courage combined with energy and j flt to Hve ¡n if there were no dangers in
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it. Dangers are God’s wlivtstonw
with
severance will overcome difficulties
which to keep men sharp.”
parently insurmountable.
The nearcKt supply point to Glenuda and Floret,«« by la.nl.
There are men and women who hau
Sever fear to bring the sublimest mo-
MI orders by mail or etage guarantee«! filled prom ptly, ami
a genius (or drawing «.every « »»*"'
e to the smallest duty, and the most
corre< tly, at the loweat market price.
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their
associates.
A
«vn.it,v.
inite comfort to the smallest trouble.
fed . unconsciously the persons! - m W
Labor may be a burden and achastise-
„here of another, and the cyme nr a
mt, hut it is also an honor and a glory,
satirist »hot. op such a ».tore »> eom-
itliout it nothing can he accomplished. pietely
COM o - t h e n c e .
Sweetness th a t never
sours
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In the presence of a
e to soothe one’s pathway through 8en8lU'^
ft Hensitive pewon
world than great accumulation of cjnii
». ]pjeg8. In a genial and a|>-
THE SEATON STORE
DRY COODS § GROCERIES.
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:CENERAL GROCERIES:
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I preciative atmosphere, however, «uUi a
haracter is made up of small duties
1,fully performed, of self-denials, of I
-sacrifices, of kindly acts of love and
oDens as freely M the Mower in
opell9 gt the touch o' J 1'«
n0 bapp,er food,
sun. There cai
that
in life than to so act upon I P
ome souls there are like the cactus
^^„k their l>est, “I*-’11
ssoin, surrounded by a prickling and do their Iwst.
ss of ugliness, themselves a marvel of
Subscribe (or Tn«
setness.
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