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Life Sketch of Dennis O'Rafferty, the
Greet Irish Poet.
BY HIMSELF.
The paple of Ballysloughgutthery
Were prone to be fussy and flutthery,
lint rason desarted thin, uttherly,
One beautiful morning in June ;
Because Mrs. Pathrick Lafferty,
First cousin to Barney McCafferty,
had said Mrs. Terrence O'Rafferty
Was blist wid a handsome young scn
A regular Irish jubilee
Was held, and bedad, betwixt you and me,
Great pails of good whiskey, yis, two or three,
But served as a taste for the crowd ;
The paple came flockin' from far and near—
Tall sowljers an' swaggering mariners—
Until a fine shillaly war in there
Broke up the carnival loud!
Me relatives made the air ring again,
Their musical voices all mingling;
It exsaded the wake of Tim Finnegan,
Or Donnybrook's noisiest fair;
The wounded were piled in each corner, Shure,
An' many an eye was a mourner, shure,
An' divil a bit of whole furniture
Was found on the premises there!
The war o'er, me father felt young again,
An' longed for a sason of fun again;
So seizing ould Kathleen ()'Monaghan;
They thripped off an Irish reel ;
But whin a phrenologist fingered me,
And rowed that the muses had tinctured me,
"Och, Nora, dear, fot do ye think?" sez he:
" The world shall his great power feel !"
As soon, thin, as "Dennis" was ould enough,
An' all me good qualities tould enough,
An' all the excitement grown cold enough,
They sint me to Dublin high school;
But ere I had tarried a quarther there,
I carried more shtripes than a martyr there;
They vowed I was " dull as a barber's chair,
An' stubborn as Lanagau's mule!"
But soon they found out where me science lay,
An' stein' I bid them defiance, they
Fed me on nothing but pie and tay,
To Ivaiken me powerful arrum;
But little effect did their caution have,
I left them the weight of me jaw soon have;
They kicked me out then for a gossoou knave,
But fit for the bog or the faxrurn.
But ere I deserted the premises.
I guy thin encouragin promises,
That, by the protection of Nemesis,
I'd live to bring grate to each heart.;
For by me own power, intuitive,
If death didn't mate me, I knew I'd live,
The nations an idea new to give,
And upturn the dogmas of art.
Me jeiniu3 ye see was all natural,
Bestowed at me birth shure and that was well,
I counted instruction but tatters all
Compared wid me powerful brain ;
At fifteen they christened me "Prodigy,"
Because I was "posted" in strategy,
A stranger to all mental lethargy,
I could not from rhyming refrain.
But poverty, man's frowning enemy,
Kern very near making an end of nic,
So ditching, for one Hugh McManamay,
The monster soon forced me to go ;
Which retarded the growth of me intellect,
It had on me mind such a keen effect,
'Twits worse than the races of Limerick
For surging the wind to and fro.
Hut nie muse, like the boiling Vesuvius,
Disposed me at times to be studious,
And so, by the efforts of two of us,
Me intellect slowly matured ;
Until a most promising bard I was,
But no one on earth knows bow bard it was,
Or how most intensely absurd it was
To be thus in throuble immured.
'Twas thin that I heard of America,
Whose grane shores I saw o'er the merry say,
Which roused all me Irish energy,
And filled one wid longing to go;
So finding a good opportunity,
To go to that land of swate unity,
I thought 'twould he worse, shore, their. lunacy
Behind me this offer to throw.
Right over the ocean I hurried thou,
Poor Dennis a breaking heart carried then,
But soon a most murtherin hurricane
A greater grief brought to me cowl;
%Yid'Woo I bloody mut ther ! how scared I was;
The captain soon noticed how 'feared I was ;
The storm was so fierce, double-geared it was,
Like goblins infernal it howled.
But fate overpowered the elements,
Warding off by her band such a fell event,
The calm that succaded was illegant,
And gladness again cheered me heart ;
For shure I forgot all me former grief,
And dhried me new bandanna handkerchief;
In less time than justice would bang a thief
I bid all me sorrow depart.
No incident further befalling us,
The wind like a stame engine hauling us.
In New York we landed shure, all of us,
On the twintieth mornin of June ;
The city had no charms for Dennis, so
I bought out a travelin ~ monkey show ;
'Twould plase ye to see how the money flowed
Whin I got me hand organ in tune.
But soon I fell in wid a cannibal,
Who come from New Holland or Hannibal ;
He offered to sell me some animals
As chape as the dust in the air;
I invested stbraightway in an elephant,
A hairless baboon and a pelican,
Along wid owld Captain Jack's skeleton,
To give it a touch of the rare.
Rut life is a scene of diversity,
From opulence oft to adversity,
We fall, yis, and waping we'll curse the day,
Ilesilf was struck down by the tide ;
'Twas hunger that caused the owld elephant
To swally the baboon and pelican ;
Rut oh, bloody murther, the skeleton
Took sick of a fever and died.
Afther failing in all sorts of business,
Being sorely afflicted wid laziness,
Accused like Tilton of craziness,
And everything that is vile;
I took to me ould trade of schribbling ;
I find that the paple arc nibbling,
And if they but cease their mane quibbling,
I think I shall shortly shtrike ile.
A sketch of me life I have written here,
If ye fail to percave any wit in here,
Yc're skull must be thin as a kitten's ear,
And saw-dust composes ye're brain ;
The JOURNAL'S wild Irish bard I am,
To be found in the seventeenth ward I am,
And right good at wielding the sword I am,
But betther by far wid the.pen.
Zitt #terj-Zelter.
NEIGHBORING.
"No, sir, I don't go neighboring. I
mind my own business, and keep within
my own doors. I've a large family, and I
find plenty to do to keep my own house
straight. Let folks look after their own,
and leave their neighbors to themselves—
that's my notion. A woman can't have a
worse habit than to go neighboring."
"Well said, Mrs. Benson, but may there
not be another side to the question ?"
"True for you, sir, and that there is,"
exclaimed smart Mrs. Adams. "My house'll
match with any in the village, I know.
My husband never has a hole in his
stocking. My children show up with any
at the school, and any lady may trail her
fine dresses on my floor any day after
twelve o'clock, and nobody can say it isn't
so; but I'd scorn to be penned up in four
walls the week round. I like a dish of
tea with a neighbor, and to know what's
going on. Dear me ! there's the men with
their papers and their club rooms, and
their this and that; they get the cream of
tl:e news all the world over, and what's a
woman done to be shut up and told, 'You
mend your stockings and mind the house ?'
Mind the house, forsooth ! as if the house
can't be minded, and a woman see a bit of
life into the bargain !"
"Softly, softly, my good woman. I've
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1874.
nothing to say against a chat by the way
—'As iron sharpened' iron, so doth the
countenance of man his friend,' you know.
`Good words are worth much, and cost lit
tle,' said a wise man ; but I don't know
about the dish of tea, unless your family
can take it with you ; and I au' not sure
whether the words the dish of tea suggests
are always good words, but more of that
anon. Let us try to settle Mrs. Benson's
point, and see how far we may "neighbor"
without breaking the wise rule which set
on foot this conversation of ours."
This discussion took place at a Mothers'
Meeting of mine, when a good, wise friend
was addressing us as we sat sewing, taking
up the kindred admonitions, 'Keep thy
foot when thou goest into thy neighbor's
house," and "Be not a busybody in other
men's matters." Now, thou:li I hold
Mothers' Meetings, I am by no means a
friend to them as a general thing. Most
frequently they are, I think, an excuse for
the very thing of which our smart Mrs.
Adams spoke, an hour of idleness and gossip,
—"seeing a bit of life"—gathering the news
of the neighborhood under pretenso (worst
feature of the whole) of industry or even
religion. That it is good sometimes to
gather the hard-working, anxious wives
and mothers together, and take counsel
one with another on the difficulties we all
know so well as besetting the best ordered
and most highly favored home, not to
mention the many others which arise where
sanitary laws are little known, where burn
ing cheeks, languid eyes and achi ng h ea d s
carry the aggravated terrors of ignorance,
both of cause and management, and where
little knowledge of life does not teach the
comforting maxim, (take it for what it is
worth !) "Ye're no deeper i' the mire than
yer fellows." Many a burdened, wearied
mother, "discouraged because of the way,"
has carried home from our friendly chat
fresh courage to "try again," with the
wayward child, with the drinking hus
band, with the narrow means, aye, and to
try again with her own peevish, broken
spirit, and the sore temptation to "give up
altogether."
On this occasion, among our "mothers"
sat a cheerful, rosy, happy looking young
woman, with a baby on her knee, soathed
into the placid sleep which babies ought to
sleep, and do seep when their little day is
ruled by wise love. I knew Mrs. Williams
well, and her cheerful, clean, shining heart,
the snowy linen in her bed-room, the
bright polish on her chest of drawers, and
the good cottage clock, and, above all, full
well I knew the glad content of her hus
band's face, and the half shy, but evident,
pride with which Le responded to appre
ciative words of his neat and notable wife.
I know that, had she men, Mrs. Williams
might haVe uttered a holder nolenge than
either of our two ready speakers or
did—her elder children, Jean and
hand in hand, were always among the fir',
at our morning school ; and it was a real
treat to pop in at the home-tea, with the
fresh, trimly-set meal, and the little group
waiting mother's call to take their seats
and then, not rushing. as too many in lux
urious nurseries do, with greedy haste for
the biggest bit, and best, but showing a
true and gentle courtesy one to another,
and a quick unquestioning content, which
could but spring from a mother at home
—a mother who "minded her business,"
and "looked to her own," and yet this good
woman I had met in neighbor's houses—
ay, again and again neighboring—ah ! truly
neighboring.
"flow do you find it, Mrs. Williams ? I
know you do your own work; and I know
you can do sonic for other people. too.—
Will you tell us what you think about it
all ? I fancy you do "go neighboring"
now; but your good seems to have
nothing to complain of."
"Well, ma'am, if "neighboring" means
the tea-drinking and the bit of gossip the
gentleman spoke of', I can't s y I'm much
for it, any more than Mrs. Benson there.
I find plenty to do, that's certain, in my
home, but I can't help doing a turn for a
poor sick body sometimes ; it's only getting
up an hour earlier in the morning, and
sitting up a little, maybe, when they're
abed. And I've never found myself the
worse, nor my husband either, for taking
a bit of my time for a neighbor in trouble.
'One good turn deserves another,' and
they'll do as much for me."
"But bow when you went every day fur
a week to see Kate Simmoud's sick baby ?
There was the mother able and strong
there to do herself."
"Well, you see, nneatn, it's her first, and
the poor thing was frightened, and didn't
know much what to do eit•her."
"But how did your own little people
fare then ? Didn't you find them cross,
and crying, and dirty, and hungry ?"
"La, bless you, ma'am, I haven't brought
them up for that. No, no; I just looked
in now and then, and I saw them morning
and night, and father's meals, too; and
they all put their best foot fbremost that I
shoula not find things wrong. No, no;
I hope they have got a heart in them.
They know I don't go gadding on my own
errands, fur gadding's sake, and they'll
make a push ; and father will, too, once
in a way, when I've a call like to help out."
"I've often thought, sir," continued the
good woman to my friend, "that keeping
your foot when you go into your neigh
bor's house, isn't a bit the same thing as
keeping your foot out of it. I don't pre
tend to understand a deal, but always seems
to me that it means keeping your foot
ready to go out when you've done what
you came for—only that must be worth
the doing—such as helping, or saying a
comforting word to those that want it, and
I don't think if a woman keeps her house
straight, it ever need be the worse fur that
sort of neighboring, and if a man's a good
heart, he'll never grumble at a bit of mer
cy his wife can show to another by the
way."
"Right, right, Mrs. Williams, that's the
whole root and core of' the matter, and I
think your own homely words tell it so
well, that I won't spoil them with more
added on. My friends, that is true 'neigh
boring,' and the secret of obeying the two
commands we haye spoken of, and the
seemingly opposed one. 'Bear ye one an
other's bnrden's, and fulfill the law of
Christ.' The one great burden of Christ's
teaching is love—where love leads, you
cannot go astray—the , real genuine love
that worketh 'no ill to his neighbor.' My
friends, when you go to your dish of tea
ask yourselves, 'Does love take me out?
Do I go to talk over my neighbors' con
cerns, because I love them so well ? be
cause I care so much for their well-being ?
because I want to know how to help them ?'
If love, and love's offshoot, syn►pathy, fel
low-feeling for a fellow-creature, prompt
your neighboring, then it is the right sort
—you need not be ashamed of . it; but if
conscience tells you that no such worthy
motive, but a selfish, or just an idle curi
osity, a vain, profitless wish to hear and
tell—leads your fo3t into your neighbor's
house, then keep it out—shut yourselves
up in your four walls, with your forty-four
duties, till you have learnt of llin► who
'came to minister'—who went about truly,
but 'went about doing good.' "
` , l,3eitaing for Mt 4 ; RHO%
Notes of Travel.
TANGENT, OREGON,
August 10, 1574.
MR. EDIT3It in our last, we had
done justice to this valley, or had not left
a part of its capabilities unnoticed, our
pen, for the present, would remain idle
and rusty, fn. August - dog days are not
conducive to vigorous thought Where
to be found is the oxygen that makes us
feel fresh, and able to do something worth
doing? Sitting in-doors we fancy that by
going out with bowl and spoon we might
dig up enough of this thick air to supply
the breathing apparatus a while ; but re
ally the outer air at the middle of the day
is no more life-giving than that within.
An all-prevailing stagnation seems to rest
upon all life. The daily journals, of course,
present the usual quantity of reading
matter to their patrons. There is a full
supply of murders, railroad and steam-boat
accidents; but these alas ! have become
common-place. Some slight gossip comes
from mountain retreats, and sea side re•
sorts; but even in those places the usual
vivacity seems lacking. If the mantle of
some departed poet had fallen upon us we
should feel inclined ti parody Bryant's
well-known lines, somewhat after this
style:
The thick and muggy days are come,
The saddest of the year;
Of sultry morns and sweltering nights,
And streets all damp and drear;
Ileaped in the gutters of the town,
The summer garbage stays,
All undisturbed by sudden gusts,
Or by the sweepers' ways;
The fashionables all have flown,
secure from vulgar sight;
And froM the fence-top howls the cat
Through all the gloomy night.
But no poetic mantle having fallen in
our path we forbear. And a consolation
is that the dog star will not fbrever be in
the ascendant. In the midst of these dull
times what can one away out here, almost
cut off from railroad and telegraph, writo
that will interest those in the midst of tel
egraph and morning papers ? However,
we have both railroads and telegraph lines
here, and others are in contemplation, and,
it is thought, will be built, since some of
the stock has been subscribed, and the
principal part-of the "wind work" done.
At present the Oregon and California
Railroad is the principal one, extending
north and south from Portland to Rose
burg, a distance of two hundred miles.
In our last front here we showed forth the
" 01 "" of the illatn et to valley as a
grain•raising section, " --)nnection with
its equable and salubrious climate. art a
fertility of the soil, as we noticed before
enables the principal grains, fruits and
vegetables to be raised in abundance, ex
cept maize and peaches, which have not
been successfully cultivated. In fact no
corn is raised here for market, or feed,
owing to two facts, the first of which is
ot; account of the sea breeze and dryness
of the summer it cannot be cultivated with
sufficient success to pay the producer.
And again, when lie has it his stock will
riot feed upon it, not knowing its use. The
secon l and most insurmountable one is
that, at or near the time of gathering it,
the wet weathor sets in, and withmit frost
and dry winds the corn is nut sufTiciently
cured, and hence the inability to keep it
front spoiling is the most serious objection
urged tt,ainst its cultivation. Peaches, in
sonic places, do admirably well, but it is
only in such places as are protected front
the sea breeze by high mountains or belts
of timber. In situations where these
winds strike thew they do not thrive s
well. But in respect to apples, plums.
and other fruit, I think this valley has no
equal. Tire amount of fruit raised is in
credible. Orchards are merely public
property. There is no market for it, and
consequently what is not used ruts on the
ground. I ant told by a person who has
been a resident of this valley for over
twenty years that he never knew the fruit
crop to tail. Fruit trees of*all kinds begin
to bear when but mere twigs, and. in con
sequence of their incessant bearing, do not
live more than eight or ten years. From
my window now while I write, I have
counted thirty-two large pears on a tree
not two inches in diameter. And when
cherries were ripe, I saw a heaped pint
taken from a twig no thicker than a man's
tliumb, and which had only been planted
out the previous fall. Now, these stem
incredible; but yet they are facts. Ido
not think I have saw au apple tree here
yet more that nine incites in diameter.
The cause given for this is that their con•
stint and heavy bearing stunts the trees,
and from their present appearance it is al•
together plausible. And now if' any of
your readers wish to see fruit, grain, and
all vegetation groWing with a luxuriance,
let them visit the Willamette valley at this
season of the year. Now, aside from the
adaptability of this region to all branches
of agriculture, it is rich in mineral depos
its, which include copper, iron and coal,
and in some parts gold and silver deposits
are found. The iron is deemed to be in
exhaustible, and equal in purity to any on
the continent. It has been worked, to a
limited extent, with decided success. The
other minerals, except the precious metals,
remain partially undeveloped. Excellent
mineral springs exist in several localities,
and some of them are thermal and contain
a large quantity of sulphur. Saliferous
springs are also abundant and a good qual
ity of salt has been prepared from them.
Then again the country is well watered
and timbered, and possesses all the ele
ments necessary for the support of' a large
population. As a manufacturing section
of the Union it has many advantages, as
streams are numerous, all having good
water power; and were eastern capitalists
here, they would undoubtedly improve
these facilities so as to make them rem•
nerative to the capitalist, and the country
at large. Thought grist and lumber mills,
woolen factories, carding and spinning
machines arc numerous, yet the demand
is greater than the supply. Towns and
cities, with their supply of schools, colleges
and churches are numerous along the
rivers and line of rail, but at this writing
we shall nut attempt any description of
them.
We read of you having storms, floods,
and all such agencies in the east, destroy.
ing life and property. Such things are
unknown here. Thunder, lightning, and
wind storms, and violent or sudden
showers of rain are never seen in this
valley. And were one of these terrific
thunder storms, such as you have lately
had, to visit this country, the people would
undoubtedly think that time was to be no
more. No rain has fallen here since the
first of -June—not even a sprinkle, to lay
the dust, which is at this time probably
over an inch deep on the marls, and blow
ing somewhat disa!_zreable. Ilarvestina of
grain has only began here, and will, it is
said, continue till October. The grain is
all taken off here by means of headers.
and immediately threshed and taken to
market, so that when a man is done har
vesting he is in a manner ready for winter.
When the grain is taken off in this way
it miEt stand until it is thoroughly ripe,
in elnsequence of which their harvests are
some two or three weeks later than they
otherwise would be. We should like to
give you some idea how the people in the
west enjoy their delightful summer weather,
but as our letter has already become too
long we will desist until air - Aber time.
Advice to s Dyspeptic.
have asked me to prescribe forit.
Von expect medicine, perhaps you hope
for whisky, which is just now the rage for
chronic maladies, but f shall give you
nothing to swallow; you 113%e swallowed
too much already. Of all nialioiit!s, dys
pepsia is the mnst distressing; to get rid
of its horrors you would part with your
right arm ; I believe you. but would yon
part with a portion of your table luxuries ?
I fear not; but presuming you are in earn
est, I will prescribe for you :
1. Rice early, dress warm and g o out—
if strong. walk ; if weak. saunter. Drink
cold water three times—of cold baths this
is the best for dyspepsia; after half an
hour or more, come in fur breakfast.
2. For breakfast eat a piece of good
stake half as large as your hand, a shoe of
coarse bread and a baked apple; eat very
slowly; talk very pleasantly with your
neighbors; read cheerful comments of
journals; avoid hut b:seui:s and strung
coffee ; drink nothing:.
3. Digest for an hour, and then to your
work ; I trust it is in the open air. Work
hard until noon, urd then rest body and
mind till dinner; sleep little; drink water.
4. For dinner—two or three o'clock—
eat a E lice of beef or mutton or fi..11 as
large as your band, a potato, two or three
spoonfuls of other vezetables. a •lice of
coarse bread; give more than half an hour
to this meal; use no drink.
5 After dinner play anaconda for an
hour; now f►r the social, pleasant games
—a good time.
6. No supper ; a little toast and tea.
even for supper, will make your recovery
very slow.
7. In a warm room, bathe your skin
with cold water, hastily, and go to bed in
a well ventilated room before nine o'clock.
Follow this prescription fir three months
and your stomach will to fir recover that
you can indulge for some time in all sorts
of irregular and gluttonous eating; or if
you have resolved, in the fear of heaven.
to present your bodies, living sievifiee.
holy anti acceptable unto God. and will
continue to eat and work like a Christian.
your distressing malady will soon be for
gotten.—llia Istria, .if.
The Duty or a Woman to be a Lady
Wildnes is a thing which girls clam, -
affurd. Delicacy im a thing which eann-t
be log or found. No art can re.4tore t
the grape itFt bloom. Familiarity without
love, without confidence, withmit rcgara.
is destructive of all that make.. w , intan
exalted and ennobling.
"The world is wide, these things are ,:n :ti
They may he something, hilt they are all:
Nothing?• It im the first duty of a
woman to be a lady. 1;nosl hreedin7 is
good sense. Had manners ill w-nrin is
i►uimo rarity. Bashfulness constitutional.
Ignorance of etiquette is the n•sidt of cir
cumstances. All can he e , nilonol. and do
not banish man or woman from do. aroe.
nitics of their kind Hut self poss,ssion,
unArinkiier and aggressive coar4 ( nes. a
demeanor may be reckoned as a •it ite pris
on off, nse. and certainly meri t ' the mild
form of restrains (-died imprisonment f,r
life. It is a shame for women to Is' lec
tured on their manners. It is a bitter
shame that they need it. Women are
umpires of society. It is they to whom
all mooted points should be rekrred. Tn
be a lady is more Clan to be a prince. ..
lady is always in her right inalienably
worthy of' respect. To a lady, prince and
peasant alike bow. Ito not be restrained.
Do nut have the impulses that need re
straint. Do not wish to dance with the
prince unsought. Feel indifferently. B.
such that you confer honor. Carry your
self so lofty that men will 1,,,k up to you
for reward. not at you in rebuke. The
natural sentiment of man toward woman
is reverence Ile loses a large means of
grace when he is obliged to account her a
being to be trained into propriety. A
man's idea is not wounded when a woman
fails in worldly wisdom, but if' in grace, in
selitiment, in delicacy. in kindness. she
should be found wanting, he receives an
inward hurt.—Gall m
With Regard to Grasshoppers.
Come this way now on lift.;il wing, with
fiery lightnings in his eye and cereal crops
of six counties in Minnesota in his craunch
ing teeth, the wild unbridled grasshopper
of the West. A jerky bird is the =rays
hopper. lle folds himself like an arrow
from a betide(' bow, propels himself over
large spaces and subsists on the coun:ry
be covers. He assimulates the people to
himself. When lie alights upon the fiell
the firmer looks in- his crop, and behold.
like the grasshopper which has pissed, he
has antennae. For sociability and gregar-
iousness there are few wild fowls like the
grasshopper. Ile MOWS in battalions at
company front, and wherever there's one
there's a million. Standing on the ground
his knees overlook him like a step-ladder,
and his tout ensemble is that of an over
loaded wheelbarrow. He has the unbound
ed stomach of a weekly story pap.2l- for
cereals, and when he has cleared up the
standing crops of a county or a State. he
skips to the next. picking his teeth as he
goes, and then gathering himself' in mass
convention, he, following the fashion of
the time, "points with pride'' to tha re
cord of the past. The youth of our coun
try call him indifferently the grasshopper
and the grasshopperel. and say "Shins" at
him as he goes by. The hardy Ptah pion•
cer gently entangles the leg from hi, h a ir
and whiskers, and covers him with No. 13
boots; the guest at Townsend's MO, in
Salt Lake City, hears him through all the
silent watches of the night rush into the
window, as one who has been sent En- from
afar, and drop with a thud into the wash
bowl ; and the I)izger indigo gathers him
in trenches and harbecuei him flit- the
noonday meal.—.Yee' York Tribune.
THE finest stationery in the market can
be had at the JOURNAL store, and so cheap
that everybody can buy.
.11thotzis the Devil be the father of
lies, he . ...I'M+. 11k.! other :mat investors.
to have lo , t much of reputati•in by the
continual inv:iivement4 that hove been
made upon hint —Swift
The welt intangible. awl thqpiCire the
worit kind of 3 lie is a half truth. Thai is
the peculiar device of a -ennoeientieinn''
detractor.— Trosii;v6,4
No lie yon nn Teak or set. hut it sift
come. afl , ..r linger shorter eiresbittne.
like 3 bill ilnw• on Natere's reality. and
be prtentol there fur paynien:—*:th the
anNwer: No effertli.—Cirroile
Habitual liar+ invent rel..ehonde 'tot to
;rain any end nr even to deceire their heir
era, but to 3 'bent...lvo... It i 4 partly
practice and partly habit.— geziiso.
Lying. i 4 a ilinrat•eral vier. and 'AI. that
Plot:was paint. in moat di.ce-aceftil
when he .Iy. that it is •aSsrdiagte.sieso
ny that one Grit and rhea
fears men. - It pi not posmibie more happily
to describe it. horrible. ilnipasiting , .
mbar is r.rt nature : fo- cm we itamsciwe
anythin.z more vi:e than :o he eowart.
with rt•zaril to men and brae, with rvlari
to I :oi.—.ltotheigo •
.1 Tt3l awl csnnot Itaml hot
it hi:. win k !. and can tly E a r Wry.-
hurt, .
Nos REDNLIT
Th., pin of lyinz nothing el.* tot 1).4
to he trome.l nr in 7 nor to be believed
wh.,r, we ~y the t rtt h.— . 4 i:e :Poe Nts
/e;://:
tonil ,; e ha onee r,c bruit
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a!naret. it is , to rerr-sins it
Whence it e- , tne.:o verg. that ar.•
..)rne Merl. %Olio ire t.therwi.e very honeet_
so bj tt. tlt6 r i ee. —.llO
IVlteo thou art •p alt, hr mom
t Ape ik the tro:h for erfoiroentioo is
hilf-wty mn•l th
wny to !lel.— I%am
wh., bii not a ••• - wkl nervenry .bnel.l
never tak•• niem bins :he trade of lyisg.—
.Iknaily-i.-.
Lord, I.nr.i. how ;hi; # rirza
11 0 w ho ten. 3 fie i 4 mot .4.16.1de bow
great a twee he owtertakes; foe be imp!
be forced to invent twenty MOT” to main
tain otie.—Pr.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly.
Sufseribe for the JorienAl..
Font-p0.14--11nnion plsoter4
!Vane rele—Tho brmiertick
l'h:arneter aerie. in the Ion?, rill
.1 Bear rt—r. nerthern
r4t LW,
rh, I little well and yon mn,ll
Vt•getable philo.ophy—jade
Nee,...ity - ,rnetirnei het no em.ei.n.- ,
Falit prnperfyis flies tone!) poi.
Straining swe , An.7.4-ICiotsia; dorm/Ith
a veil.
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it
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Fact
Wciith n t hi. who gets ,t.
wli.) Cnjr,y4 .t.
I;,,ilies ;r L
an! 3 3•1
Machinery r w3y with !b.
n"r•1 fif lir lin'.
It it am( h to :beep r Int
thin t.• imt
iniv•r:t virtn, ptivile-v. to wwrirw
it
T h , • FMst way t...• 1.. r bxe.- With,
work awn...
it ;4 Pile to 414 f riga
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—woo Imo pareiprome spy
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ple::% int tillsin , z w enari 411,t• • , whet 1 mi.. dap in" irk paw Iwo
Liipirslity make. frlete.:4 'Pr " 1 " P" illor °di
- !hippo. en" isparrnerrii ttur johir.
pri.l.. urtke.4 en,m:ee nr friewlo.
oh. 164 giallo.. rill. priourodise•
31..5t pc.,plJ are Ilk, fin Ir e . emire, time it b. 4 farbe
thenrteive4 t , • h , ,11 elm. >» woe If Ow •-vpr rim sisnemeally mire
.1;1 the witioem..• aro nos W l l- " "'• " 1 " 0600 . " god
:t. no 4 tow 1.• IP* row Pee es
rtinitnonesi till the , fay ..; jid;zieest
I.(rweifierx tbst
Sisper-t:tions pr Iple ought t.. telsorr- r ert per re,>V srw j p,
ate—they are • afraid of irir:.te. Vnol r - roologrosol olhe essomi. •
The zosseization: of woes zr+ istuaste; the
rootivel ire ! two. lore s rpt ( m ut
We! .4=3 all real:se jnot zo irsch heaven
an.l hell 34 it il 111 Tl 4 41 issarvose.
I:s.tuty io t h t Fort of Sivsanty.
'Truth t 6 Ingie3; Frsrt. love the *wiz' rut
Human nature livos by p-n l gre.rissa;
finioheil man or WGIUSCI is *italic 2 otaelsre.
Willlll wrimc mime a pevasca Sn
be:ieve that wr awl
true.
Why Lirlire t.) 4:erp ore tits, *ha
you need for recap-now. while yes loses
life'
WIL:n you -ee ;hit a thi:r4 otsught to he
done ; deem that the lan opportunity for
it.
The most irrAermable bowie yirt hissing
to thy , anal moral world are Tarp.
bond..
Farm. ctalts a wan above big orynahr.
bat his disesimetal from that rivnr ewes
him bekw them
Some ladies sr,. Wientifiefil with their
arm• that it i. 4 to know wheel, to
admire the m.,-t.
31.,hauilne.Lani.m 12474 been &imbed se
-that b1e4..4e,1 w hi r ! ' awa k e , psi>
pie wish thernielve+.-
It is nut a.lri4aikla w An oat .►t J.►nr.
without anything .►n your bral. or into
sockty wit bout anything in it.
We w All.l gain more if wa ;eft our
s , ,lves appcar au.zh 31 wa ar.•. than by
attempting' to app.•ar witat arr are Th
*.leetin:: : lire partner have rw.pret
to th,ie .133litie4 whi.-h improve with ne.
ra!hor than to th,ic
One th it the n..t. re
f.renell i.e. th:lt everylinely wai l hairy
other* mike 3 hejnninzren.l think two of
hiinewir
The Sitel , S4 .J. ,•sr,p
-ti..n3l. There are thormis4. y m ein
men who .lo 9,4 know h.eir to 3•4
yrt they are not worth 31.54).04161.
When 3 ,Losisin:: yonnz wtltw peumms
trace" , of Wreavensent, feet. the mesas of'
love. awl cunsirwner. 1., 11,1 k .4 the kidid
ha ter. it i 4 Aare pre4ntni.. !Obi, n n the
lookout fora Sit 4ingle.
k. I grow olcier, I bees me more leniewt
to the +law of hail humanity. The me
who loudly siewooweeg Mina,' I showy,
UMpeCt rieht thiskneg man knows
too mach of !TIM. to dellielleef 3 fi rNsw
creature unheard —Goethe
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