THE BRIGHT SIDE.
THE HAPPY FACULTY OF LOOKING
“ON THE BEST SIDE OF LIFE.
Too Many People Allow Themselves to Ile
Weighed Down by the Dally Cares of
Life That Must Be Met and Fall to See
the Pleasant Things Near By.
Everything has at least a good side to
#8, and sooner or later rome one will he
able to ee it. It is a happy fortune to
be able casily toses what is good, thong
Ido not believe in shutting our éyes to
the evil. Ihave a friend who never secs
the evil until it overwhelms her. She
considers all things to be well enough at
Teast and so has no foresight to ward ff
disaster. This is certainly a curious dis-
"position and not a good qne for those
who have the care of families, What I
‘do mean is that it isa capital thing bo
soo the good that really is in all things
1 said to my neighbor, who is deaf in
one ear, “Tt is n pity, my dear; is there
no remedy? “Idon't think there is”
‘she said, “but then thera is a great bless
ing in it, for I have learned to sleep with
“my good ear to the pillow, and so nonolse
ean disturb me.” It-was acurious illus
- tration of how one may use a depriva-
tion and make it a real advantage," It is
8 great art to find out all the goodl there
is in life. Emerson says, “Do not dilate
on your private wrongs and personal
fll.” But no one ever becomes tedions
by dilating on her privileges and joys.
© The longer [live the more I find that
moet of our {roubles are imaginary.
Theres are half a dozen things we have
to learn, and many never do learn them
One of theso is thet we have will power:
$0 control a vast deal that wo sit dovn
underneath. Life has no blessing grent-
er than its antazonisms. Differ as we
may from professional faith. curists,
they hevo a great truth in store, and I.
wish they may have vast influence in
reconstructing sentiment. There is no
peed of being an éxtremist in belief, yet
ft is a fact that we have cultivated a
Xind of moral cowardice about our dis
‘eases. I believe they are right that we
are vastly more powerful than we have
sd ourselves to be.’ i
t I ama a broader believer than they,
for I am confident we cannot only cry
“Jown snd out” to half our physical
, but to a lzrge proportion of our
bles and what we call onr bothers.
And that is just the meaning of life--it
fs a serias of defeats or of victories over
small affairs. The habit of making
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THE IMPRISONED ROBIN.
We heard his cry this morning, and his wall
‘Was like the sad song of a whi
1% seems that in his prison cage he still
Hs wmation of the fields, und he recalls the
© The lonesome. bird sang at vespers till
He desms it fs bis own. His joyous thrill
And natural pipingy are now all in jail.
How different.from the notes when, wild and
greetings to his mate
And pleasure seemed the business of his days! : 2 ; 3
No night bird's acts were mimicked in hiswavs : ; : oh . : :
When he strode o’er the lawn in pride slate : = : 3 ] ” FE : : : | :
‘Or filled the air with melody fromatree. = i a Pe) da Yan anal : hi ;
—Edward 8. Creamer fn New York Sun. | is | ay 3 he above figures represent the dimensions of the New Store
Not Big Things Only Excite Wonder. BE: n Ba iF al Ctl tai ; hale a Ls
Tt is not always the things of gigantic | BEE Eo 8 : a Po Room in the Stone Black. In this room 1s carried
: that excite the greatest || - i. | i 6 ; 3 | : a
erivaity, Mastodons, slephants. wisley A | ¥ 3 * | everything conceivable in the line of
motive and other triumphs of me
and other creatures of monstrous sise
chanical skill. But while this is true | : 3 . w- : 7 DR \ (xOODS.
beyond question, how about the wonders | : Ta , z -, ; : | : : :
drals, towers, monunients, etc,
are and have been wonders indeed. So, |
$00, are the pyramids, the great cathe |
the
reveal 2 by im EET i : | Boots, Shoes, China, Queensware, Glassware, Groceries,
Vr: Meer, who painted a landscape on
the side of a grain of wheat? By the
use of a strong microscope only could:
the wonders of this minute painting be ¢
: Every
Yet when a good glass was brought to os
bear npon what appeared to be a spot of : : : i :
variegated paint upon the side of the | ;
wheat grain all was changed into & : : ‘ fn :
beautiful landscape—a forest, a mill at | : : G
the side of the river, a miller climbing | | - d d i tl m |
sn outside stairway with a sack of grain | al Y an en € an
upon his back, a tall cliff at the side of
A very convenient place for merchandiseing.
_ the mill and a winding road along which |
some peasants were trying to drag are |
Sractory plgt-S%. Louis Begubtie. | | Should Attend the
Gloves to Ruin Husbands and Lovers.
The revival of light kid gloves for
wear with walking dressis rather a blow
to the thrifty minded. Those who have
BESILIE T Great Auction
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"suede, which could be worn quite a
number of times without showing signs |
of being weatherbeaten in any way.
horrific green sre soiled in an hour when = : - : :
worn with sealskin, dark cloth or serge. | an : -:
Fortunately four or six button lemgth pot
does vory well at present, but there are
some indications that in the season | :
sleeves will be short and gloves long. If | :
so, light kid will be atrociously extrava- - is :
gant, even though they will not soil so Eve ry N ioht at the
readily when worn with light colored : ” >
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. Many a woman is thoroughly ‘whipped : :
by her ordinary household duties, as Marrying by a Formula.
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much of petty evils indicates defeat. gowns. —Cor. Chicago Herald.
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many a man is whipped out by weods
and thistles, She never can face a day
with a smile and a strong will. She
does her duty as a task and never asa
joy. This hefts our duties down; the
opposite way lightens them.
i Life everywhere has a better sido to it
than we are always willing to confess or
- able often to see. Oar choicest gifts and
blessings lie just the other side of our
saddest moments. It seems like monn-
tain climbing to get a view of a sunrise,
Put we are willing to toil hard to get to
the mountain top. It pays not only at
the top, but all the way up. I have a
delicious fern bordered gien that every
gammer 1 visit and do not mind the
bushes that tear nor the extremely hard
climbing to get in and to get out. Ah!
the lovely brook at the bottom, and the
_ pebbly island in that brook, and the old
- moss covered beech logs, and the banks
of “creeping hemlock.” It pga. Evary
step pays. I coms baek Zull of rest, not
«of woeusriness, of joys that sparkls and
run like the brook itself. Lart suminer
1 took with me sn enthusiastic lover of '
a good scientist found in an hour'ssearch |
five sorts of salamanders,
it" on’ the The best effect of
' studying history is to teach us to look
back st events some time after their oc |
currence, wheu we are almost surely
struck by the real advantage that comes |
out of what at the time seemed totally
~ gvil. There is no qustion but that Arier- |
To comclude the series, she now st 43
‘lives much and is determined to | Se a pe :
Dre ne omaton mame. | Dress Goods Given Away.
_ mial ventures, she will have to advertise : ey .
two and specify a new religion as one of
Freel E.J. SEVERIN,
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Thou res, ala NEW YORK DRY GOODS HOUSE,
marriage #° Newcastle, England, bad a | :
mathematical formula to gnide her. Af OPPOSITE. HOTEL BECK. :
16 she married a man of 82. At 30 she
married again and chose s man of 60.
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was 8 Quaker, the second a Catholic and
marries a man of 84. Her fret husband | Dry Goods, Coats, Underwear, Muslins, and
the present one a Protestant. If she : ly
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fn the want columns for s centenarian or
- The wardroom “boy” cn board a man-
of-war is often as old 2s many of those he | it
serves, but the old fashioned titleand | = -
form of address stick to him. Wardroom | ‘~Dealer in and Manufacturer of —
boys usnally are colored men or foreign-
Tite teva of 0 Sp Towleswt | Harness, Bridles, Saddles, Collars, Nets,|
Whips, Blankets, Harness Oils, Etc. [3nd em vhis floor you cau see 8 sice Hae of CARPE ! 5
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