The Lincoln County Leader, 1882-12-30

starter '. Oí course the people all turned in and assassinated him as soon its be got so he could play one tune, but it r-hows what an old duf duffer - fer duffer like Socrates can accomplish when he sets about it in the right way. Then there is Cato. At eighty years of ago he commenced to study the ( í reek language' so that lie Mould ta.lk back to bis mother-in-law. He used to sit up nights and wrestle with the Creek roots and verbs and nouns and adjectives and cylinder heads and sot-screws and other dingusses, but his mother-in-lau died before he got so he could handle her in her own tongue, bat for all that Cato was afterward heard to remark that he should nc er think the time he spent in downing the Crook language was, spent iu vain. Plutarch, when between seventy and eighty years of age, tackled Latin, and got away with it, too. I'lutarch was tin ambitious Athen Athenian - ian Athenian liar, but he wasn't satisfied to

The following from the Albu Albu-ipier'iue - ipier'iue Albu-ipier'iue Democrat is every word true, as we know from act mil ob observation, - servation, observation, having tramped and mingled with these men for nearly three years in the mountains, and sat around Jheir camp fires through the long winter evenings. "There isa general impression among the people that prospectors are a shiftless, drunken class of men, with no respect for law and order. We will admit, that there there-are - are there-are some such among the boys, but the average prospector has an hon honorable - orable honorable object in view and fights manfully with pick and shovel to fulfill it. Some of the best mechan mechanics - ics mechanics in the land are to-day roving over the mountains and vallovs, and enduring hardships, that peo people - ple people living in houses seldom dream of, or can imagine. Men of such a high character and standing can bo

From Check. To the young and old, the loo.-e- jointed and spavined, the round, full chested and the old and w heezy, let us nay it is never too late to learn. Never too late to cultivate some neglected art, some wild am ambitious - bitious ambitious . desire which you have nursed through infancy and reared on the bottle oi yonthfull hope. Now there u old Socrates. lie is a bright and shining example of what patience, energy and porse porse-verence - verence porse-verence can accomplish. At an extreme old age he f.rst learned to play on a musical instrument. What do 3-011 think of that for r

That the wife loves her husband '.10 well that she hits no thoughts for other men. That the husband ;o loves his wife that he loves ell women for her sake. That the married man is apt to think himself all-killing among the fair sex, simply because ho has found the woman fool enough to marry hinf. That homely husbands arc the best. They never forget tho com compliment - pliment compliment paid them by their wives in accepting them. That homely wives are the tru truest. - est. truest. They know how to make the most of what they have. That the man who marries late in life does well.

Tin.; only tin mice i:i the ddtcd States is reported to have been re recently - cently recently discovered in Oh:y county, Alabama. The Aer ynUhvv4 of Silver City blossomed n;t into a six-column daily December :M-t. It is a very newsy ii'tle .sheet aiid ha. our best wishes for its micccss. A gran J-son of David Crockett has been ."i i.t to tho penitentiary, from St. Louis, for forgery. It will bo remembered that his illustrious rand-dre canio neur f;"ing there cuito liiniseli he was etit to Con- ti'-1

The Las Yeas Ojtk' has a man out writing ti the dill'ereiit minina eamp in the territory. As he lias not either materialized or vapor vaporized - ized vaporized at this place so far, we infer he is oinji' to take in all less im important - portant important camps ii est. There is a rumor t!i::t the IV .ce Hotel at Saula I-'e will ) v. closed after the iirsl of January for the want of patronado, üereaí'ter it will only stand as n monument to peoph: who bit oil' more thai; they could chaw.