The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-04
Answers TO Correspondents.
BY JOSH D1LIINGs.

BY JOSu BlLLlNG5,
JAKr.-Man's moral and physical life
il made up ov bye laws and constitu-
shun, and if he will take good care ov
the bye laws the constitushun will take
care ov itself.
The fewer bye laws man ha2 the
better, only havo them good, and SEQ to
it that they arc we'll exoouted.
l hno lots ov men who are all bye
laws, and no constitushun, and then agin
/ kno ov sum men who ore all constitu-
shun and no bye laws.
If 1 cant hav but one, give me the
constitushun.
JoHN.-Flattery IL very powerful
stimulant, but its CRATE strength lays iu
being delikately administered.
There il some men who will take it az
they dew hasty puddin' and milk, just
gap ard swallow.
Honest fattery STAINS in the same re-
lashun to just praze that interest duz to
money.
Every man liz entitled to the interest
on his hiz money, and per cent Of Hat
terry won't hurt any man who iz honestly
entitled tew the principal.
Flattery alwuz makes wise man
humble and kerful, but it haz the same
effekt on phool that band of musk
has on plough hoss, the fust time he
hears it.
AMos.-Doktors are not all quacks, yu
have got wrong neshuns about this.
Doktors, lawyers and ministers have a
hard row to hoe, they have to deal with
the kredulty, knavery, and fears ov the
people, three Of the most difficult traits
in human nature tew handle.
I'll wuz doktor, and understood my
bizzness, should dobtor mi Pashunts, and
let the disease take kare ov itself.
More folks are kured this way than
emmy other.
It amt much trouble tew doktor sick
folks, but few doktor the well ones is
bothersum.
If I wuz a lawyer l would quit the
bizzness the fust good chance l got.
If wuz minister, and had tew
preach the gospel to mi people, whoz.
religion, nine-tenths ov them, was the
result ov their fears, and who want viii.
ling tew give me but four hundred and
fifty dollars g year, (half store pay, ano
the rest after harvesi) l should resigr
mi charge, and enter tnat field II q mis-
sionary.
ENoCH.-Thare iz NOTHING more wus
few young man just commencing tev
slide down the hill! ov life, than too mucf
inkredulity.
1t IL bettar tu larn wisdum bi expert
ence than bi precept; there is CRATE risl
of being wize before our time.
When see yung man who is sus
picious ov everything he sees, think h.
wants more watching than one who ain
afraid of nothing.
Suspicion amt app tew make a maj
wize, but it haz made some drediul kun
ming kritters.
Running and innosense don't grow o,
the same bush very plenty, but if the,
other iz the flowers.
LUTHER.-There IL 2 things in TIL
world pesky hard to do, and suit you
customers. one iz keeping distrik
skool, and the other iz being a mother
in-law.
Emmy man, CT woman, who kan kea]
distrikt skool and give general salts
facticn, amt good for nothing.
A good distrilit skoolmaster is like o.
undertaken, dreaded bi every yboddy.
It takes small woman to be sue
cessful mother-in-l
don't think, from what kan lesrr
that this iz good year for mothers-in
law, hear a good deal of complain
about them.
There IL only one way tew suckcee
in the mother-ln-law Dizziness, and tha
IT, don't run after yure children, bu
keep back, and let them hunt tor yu.
Good mothers-in-law don't liv mute
nearer than 10 miles ov their children
and alwus let the children do the hei
ov the visiting.
MARK.-Yu say yu are about tew be-
gin lite, and want tew begin right, an
yu ask me how tew do it.
First, az to yure religion, mi advic
IL, that you adopt leetle to time.
Commence with this, "do unto Other
az yu-would hav them do unto yu."
After yu have got this well lalnt,
will give yu another desc.
The great trouble with nu beginner
il, they undertake to raize more religio
than they kan lift, and the konsequent
IL, they git discouraged, and lose the
grip.
Too much religion is the worst thin
in the world to lit.
Az for the bizzness yu intend to folle
emmy that liz honest, IL honora6el, but
wouldn't be hess jockey, for / don
kare how pins men is, swopping hoss;
will make him careless.
In reference to Citing married, ha
got but one rule for that, which don
vary, 'Wa1Ty yung, and marry for H0."
This will win seven times out ov tel
and the other three times are respektt
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