Hardware Dealers' Magazine, Volume 29

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D.T. Mallett, 1908

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Page 145 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 180 - And bid you wake, and ride to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances passed away, Weep not for golden ages on the wane ! Each night I burn the records' of the day; At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped. To vanished joys be blind and...
Page 180 - I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances passed away, Weep not for golden ages on the wane; Each night I burn the records of the day, At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped, To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb: My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come. Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep,...
Page 180 - No shame-faced outcast ever sank so deep, But yet might rise and be again a man! Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast? Dost reel from righteous Retribution's blow? Then turn from blotted archives of the past, And find the future's pages white as snow. Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell; Art thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven; Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell, Each night a star to guide thy feet to heaven.
Page 108 - ... 38 per cent. of its silver, 40 per cent. of its iron, 42 per cent. of its steel, 52 per cent. of its petroleum, 55 per cent. of its copper,
Page 998 - ... this debt? If so, we should certainly be justified in concluding that you are void of gratitude, indifferent to confidence, and blind to your losses and those you are causing others. . Have you forgotten that the law gives certain rights to creditors? These rights will be exercised to the fullest extent by adopting such lawful methods to enforce payment as will teach you by experience that, aside from a question of honesty, it costs far more to attempt to evade the payment of a just debt, if...
Page 547 - ... Legislature to declare the public policy of the state, it is the duty of the court to be guided thereby in administering the law. The acts of the plaintiff, not only offended against good morals and public policy at common law, but constituted a crime under the statutory law of this state; and he is here seeking the aid of the court to enforce a contract which he procured by violating our penal statute. Nothing could be more corrupting, nor have a greater tendency to lead to disloyalty and dishonesty...
Page 167 - To preserve steel from rust dissolve 1 part caoutchouc and 16 parts turpentine with a gentle heat, then add 8 parts boiled oil, and mix by bringing them to the heat of boiling water. Apply to the steel with a brush, the same as varnish. It can be removed again with a cloth soaked in turpentine.
Page 547 - ... secretly offering bribes to servants, agents and employees, to induce them to place contracts for their masters or employers, had spread to such an alarming extent in this State that its viciousness and dishonesty and demoralizing tendencies attracted the attention of the Legislature at its session in 1905 * and led it to declare it to be a misdemeanor to give or receive such a bribe, by enacting section 384r of the Penal Code, which provides as follows : " Corrupt influencing of agents, employees...
Page 82 - The rate which he advocates is five cents for the first pound and two cents for each additional pound, or twenty-five cents for an eleven-pound package.

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