Literary.
to » higher level. Simply storing ¡t up
“totoory Kill not do this. It must
he used intelligently, scattered liberally,
(ORIGINAL AND SELECT ED.)
ami transmuted into the very life „( the
knouW ge
Itigfar easier to be happy than to ap­ nation itself. Much 0(
of the present day will doubtless fade,
pear so.
, ¡ke the greatest virtue the greatest pass away and be »„.grown, as m ud, of
tlie knowledge of the past lias done;yet,
| ¡^tred is q«»«1-
It it lias been used aright its effects will
To be trusted is more of a compliment
remain.
dun to be loved.
There is uncommon power in the com­
He knows not his own strength that
monplace. Nothing is more common­
hath not met adversity.
place than the infinite blue of the sky,
Wise men have but few confidants and
yet one never tires of turning to its quiet
fanning ones none.
and abiding majesty from the vain
Vever value any thing th at compels pomps and changing spectacles of men
I tliet. to lose thy self respect.
Truth, virtue, faithfulness,—these are
I ¡he greatest perpetual battle of life is the sky of the soul, and all brilliant
the warfare waged against self.
wickedness and all worldly wisdom pass
There is no enmity so hard and fierce away as vain shadows before the ever­
lasting glorv of these simple goodnesses.
that kindness cannot melt it.
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C EN TS’ D E P A R T M E N T
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C L O T m « J E ' N ALL *T S V A R ,O U S L IN E S .
C L O T H IN G , H A T S A N D CAPS.
BOOTS and SHOES
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Z ? n n u T H L A D " E S A 'M D Q E N T L E ,* ' E N - B E S T
S TO C K IN F L O R E N C E .
There are innumerable ways of being
To make friends, accept small favors;
useful in the world, and each man has
tokeepthem, decline great ones.
I Every man has two educations—tl.at his peculiar gifts and qualifications.
! which is given him and th at which he Each man will walk in the path best
adapted to him ; hut there is no reason J
I gives to himself.
why every path should not lead toward !
He who betrays that he is the keeper
the benefiting of men in general. Good '
,h secret, lias already betrayed half of
Keeps a full line of Extra Quality
principles are just as good for the a rtis t!
I the secret itself.
as for the artisan, for the poet as for the '
A noble thought or a noble feeling
plowman, for the man of business as for I
amounts to nothing unless crowned with
the clergyman. It makes no ditlerence |
| a noble action.
what you do, so long as it is just, and
He who would command among his you are honest and diligent in the doing
fellows must excel them more in energy of it.
HARDWARE,
of will than power of intellect.
TI NWA RE,
ROOTS & SHOES,
The process of growth as one sees in
Todo well is to be well. Persevere in the trees and plants is very interesting,
IIATS & ( ’APS,
W EDICI N ES,
N UTS & CA N DI E8,
[te thought “ I shall be better to-mor­ but the same process as illustrated in
row,” and it will help you to become so. one’s own experience is often painfully
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Death, like school examinations, is tions of the same kind of development
«illy to be dreaded by those who have in themselves. Growth is one thing to
[spent their time in idleness and folly. a spectator and quite another to its sub­
The faithful student has nothing to fear. ject. The first sees all the signs of
MANAGERS.
Talking is like playing on a harp; movement, the second feels all the birth-
C. E. S M ITH .
[there is as much in laying the hand on pains into a larger life; for growth is a
CEO. T . H A L U
C w mr v t
kind
of
continued
birth,
the
passage
out
’he strings to stop their vibrations as in
A T i T », *
hanging them to bring out their music. of smaller into greater things, and it
carries
with
it
a
certain
kind
of
pain.
I It is better to meet danger than to
There are few things so difficult for most
”iit for it. He that is on a lee shore,
The Largost Wholesale Dealers in
men to hear as the waiting involved in
,n|I foresees a hurricane, stands out to
the process of growth. To put forth ef­
*^1 and encounters a storm to avoid a
fort of any kind is easy, but to patiently
I’liipwreck.
abide development within one is a great
In the State, Outside of Portland.
"hen we feel the narrowness of these
test of character. Struggle is often dei­
'w of ours, each in itsown small circle, fied as something inherently noble, but
We are also the largest doalen in
eire consoled by knowing th at every struggle is of very little importance un­
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‘rinust move within its limits, though less it results in growth. There are a
T«« be around it.
great many barren gtruggles in the
'• "e wait until we have more than world because no permanent moral re­
p"ant before beginning to give, we sults are achieved by them, as there in a
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•1 be without giving. But if we give great deal of wasted energy because
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IJf our scanty portion to those whose nothing permanent is accomplished by
correctly, fit the lowest market prie«».
I* greatei than ours, we shall live giving it out. Life would be easy if we j
Xo experience makes one grow old so
fast as struggling to keep down the
voice of conscience. No one can do this
without wasting the strength of his life.
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**'’*«, and shall enjoy living. The could secure its end in a few months or
sn "ho only gives from his surplus a few vears. What makes it difficult is
,r knows the real joy of giving.
the necessity laid upon us of remaining
'"1'iiied merely for its own sake, patient and acquiescent while the hand
'l^dge may lie a heavy and undi- of the potter holds us tinder its steady
I "'ass in the mind of the owner, pressure. There are many times when
••‘**g bis activities, and feeding only nothing hut heroic fortitude keeps us
cheerful, and these times of passivity,!
a,llt-v ; hut, as a means of some be-
' “t and well defined end, its pre- so far as definite action is concerned, are
H'^can never be over estimated. often the most fruitful ami progressive
-I*1 into practical operation for the periods in our lives ; for growth, not ac-
,u °f mankind, it will bless a thou* tion, is tlie real measure of life, and
... htm who gains it and the world often grows as in_. uch in enforced passiv-
'****«.. It »111 preserve b<mItb.l U y « * " tht i ^
'“wl<civilization, and lilt up all life!
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