The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-07-12


argys with himself allwuss. gifts bea
when he argys with others.
Men ov excellent judgement often ha'
the least executive ability.
If hav got to bav either weak frient
or violent enemy, | say, Civ me th'
enemy.
True courage never givs up until i
gifts beat. but then givs it up gracefully
When yu cum akrost man who
neither flattery nor abuse won't stimu
late, let him alone-he haz gone 10 seed
The CRATE trouble with most oy
thinking people liz they are hunting af
ter CRATE truths, and overlooking the lit
tic ones; all the CRATE truths kan be
kounted on yure fingers, while the little
ones are az numerous az the moments ov
time.
1t liz the eazyest kind ov thing to
define gentleman a strictly honest
man liz allwuss a gentleman.
Politeness never makes emmy blunders;
it often gifts snubbed, but never gifts
beat.
Thare liz lots ov people who won't
learn ennything even bi experience !;
they are butting agin stun walls all their
life, and never find out that the stun
wall liz the the hardest until at last they
hav butted their branes ont.
Ambishun haz no friendships; after
it haz reached the top round in the lad
der Of fame it IL anxious TO pull tho lad
der up after them.
Thare never waz woman yet but
what had rather look up to her husband,
and who never looked down upon him
until she waz obliged to.
Thare il one thing that IL harder for
sum people to learn and even stick to
than the Ten Commandments, and that
is, to allwuss shut a door after them
when they go out.
Don't displse yurc poor relashuns
they may bekum ritch some time, and |
it will be awkward then to explain
things 20 them.
Obituary notisses, to be ov emmy value,
must be true, and it liz too often the case
that If they are true they are ov no value.
One ov the best trades that emmy man
could mako would be to swap off what
he thinks he knows for what he don't
know.
Take what we enjoy in this life and
add to il what we suffer, then divide bi
what We deserve, and we shall find the
quotient just about right.
/ define kissing az luys dual, at short
range.
A mans pashuns are bis steam power,
but he must k eep hiz hand on the throt-
tlo-valve all the time.
i kno lots ov people who wont never {
indorsc cnnything until it haz bekum a
sure failure, and'then they tell yu they
knu all the time the thing wouldn't
work. s
hav all mi life been in the habit ov
casting an ockashlonal slice of bread t
onto the waters, and hav tried not TO I
care whether il ever floatcd back or not {
The very best hstners we hav are {
thoze who hav the best right TO do the t
talking. =
Thare liz very often less danger in fac
ng dlfiikultye than in trieing to avoid
hem 80 in battle more men are lost in
he retreat than in the fight.
| Law allwuss notisscd that the pet d
Kings in this world are more apt TO git u
'ut of repair than emmy others. Il
If man liz plcazcd or dipleazcd with II
'nnything, like to hear him say so out o
oud 1T liz only the mules that hav o o
light TO mutter and be sullen. )
Young man, after YIN hav lived about o
hirty years longer yu wont kno but u
bout half az mulch az yu kno now; but II
What yu do kno will be worth twice az N
nutch to yu.
If yu are going to do man o favour, II
% il at once this pulling a man out ov u
no fire hi inches when yu kan just az q
'oll do it at jerk liz tho wust kind ov u
ruclty. ia
Wize men are never stubborn; they m
re tho only ones who kan afford not Ia
0 be. CT
The maddest thing hav ever seen in u
his world, ackording to the hight and u
70 ov It, liz kat's back and tail. ~
An honest man kant disguise his kar- AT
kter; dishonest one sumtimcs kan. al
a baby IL a blessed lump; they hav W
rought more JOY TO tins world than en- OF
ything else that haz eyer entered it, IN
osh Billings. nc