Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
These Things Are So.

IT don't make emmy diffrense what
trade or profeshun w put yure son at,
for If he ever succeeds at emmy, he haz
got to do it by adding dignity to the one
he adopts.
Emmy biZness that IL lawful IL bona
rabel, and no bizness, simply, ever made
emmy one respektabel.
The man who kan think kan never git
lonesum.
Superstishun IL the child ov ignorance
and fear, and IL worthy ov its parents.
The fakulty to decide between right
and wrong, and the power ov memory,
make reazon, and the planning ov things,
and the doing ov them, is mans chief
bizness.
A hungry man needs no bill ov fare.
The man who hasn't got emmy habits
hasn't got emmy thing that he kan call
hiz own.
The best way kno ov to tighten our
burdens IL to look around and find sum
one who haz bigger load than we hav,
and then pity them.
Poverty IL CRATE blessing to sum folks
az long as they are poor they are en-
durable
The meanest bizness that emmy one kan
follow IL to trade in sekrets.
The dead allwuss git more praizes than
the living. We don't envy them, and
amt afrade to do the square thing on the
ockashion.
Menny poor man haz been obliged
to feed on honesty until he starved to
deth.
All profuse people are selfish; they
either Civ to receive in return or to be
applauded.
A pedigree il a good thing enuff to hav
in the house, but IL a poor thing to liv
on; it ought always to be treated
like venerable piece ov old cracked
crockery, taken down once in while
and busted, and then sot back karefully.
never knu a man to fail in a good
cauze who sot hiz mark hi enuff, and
then went for that chalk mark without
emmy regard to emmy thing else.
l don't like to see yung man painful
ly diskreet; thare IL CRATE danger ov hiz
firing out before he gifts thru life, and
when he duz tire out he haint got nothing
under Heaven to fall bak on.
Poverty haz been called safe, but even
poverty haz to lock up it's bread and
cheeze or looze it.
Every boldly seems to banker for old
age, and after they hav got it then they
do nothing but grunt about it.
Profuse liberality il generally the eff
fekt ov vanity.
| think it IL an evidence ov a weak
mind to allwuss be in a hurry to take the
chances.
Truth, like the sun, only sets to rize
again with increased splendor.
Revenge IL towards viktory.
If all the people only had common
sense what fun thare would be in living
in this world.
Thare IL just az much sense in crying
for what we have lost az crying for what
we never had.
The only way to keep man from be-
ing ungratephull il never to refuse him
ennything, or never to give him emmy
thing.
The greatest howard is he who allows
himself to git beat when he knows he il
right.
Thoze who deserve suckcess very rare
ly fail to git it.
We may have the right to cheat the
world in menny things, but not ourselves
in ennything.
Cunning IL like a sword that is very
sharp at the point, but very dull at the
hilt
The nations ov the earth, like men,
have their day ov fuss and feathers, and
then sink into almost oblivion, leaving,
at best, but large-sized tombstone.
The truth will cum to the surface, and
it IL mulch better to tell it ourselfs than
to have others tell it for us.-Josh Bill
5aagS, IN N. z. Weekly.