The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-12-20
PrOverbial Philosophy.
MrlI ihat ends Mell.'

Shakespeare did not invent this proverb
He wrote a comedy with this title. hut he
borrowedit from another fellow. The point
II here: You never know whether any
thing i well until the end comes Ii a
thing ends all right then j; has been all right
all the tImy. But II IL does not end all
right, II * amt has been al wrong. Let III
! look into the false philosophy OF this pro-
verb little, and see just how much credit
the man who manufactured IL l. entitled
la. heath l. q very bad ending. Every
body not Vet dead will atknOw ledge that
Therefore, death makes every mans Lille
bal thing. heCau,e IL has not ended well. IL
death l. bad end. Now, this i = iine
provcrb ior = man io live by. il ne doesn't
care much how he lives, bat a mighty poor
one Ia die by. Because a thing does not
end we'll, there has been no goOd in il from
, the start. You may Get married. fer in
Stance. Iou and YOUR wife live tn lives
al cooling doves for twenty vear>. Every
man and woman of vour Acquaintance is
impressed with the felicity OF yUur eN-
i>Ienre. The preacher makes Won the in
coeniIo subject oi a homily on the divine
character 81 marriage. People de- nDI al
way> stop Ia think that, according To- the
whether a thing i we'll or Dot I'LL the end
comes along and settles the matter
I ThvT.iurc. they >av that this mans lie i
the h,>j thing possible. After twenty
wears Il cOolnr>> arises In the family.
through the old man. going IL 4 variety
show. The gTeen-eyej monster, a. on MANY
previous occasions, puts IN an appearance.
The next thing that puts in an appearance
al. l. 81. i n
The old mans head make, the close ac-
puaintamce al each several leg oi this stool.
Alter u lew months OF this cOmiOrtable>lat
oi affairs there i a divorce. Does this
thing end we'll? No. The only thing
gUvG about IL i the tat lee which lies snug
" an'l cunienledly i'm the LAWYERS pocket
Was i, ever we'll NJ. Then IL Was a bad
thing from the beginning because IL didn't
end well ? Yes. People were mistaken
III ever imagining IL was 4 good thing.
The proyerb say, that nothing can I've we'll
Iha, does not end we'll. Did th, man who
gal up the provsrb understand hi> bust
nes> Well, no he didn't. What ought to
be dome To- him? Nothing. He j. dead.
'''Ive every man his due
This is the SUM cuique trihuendi I'll
Jusiinian's code. IL has been found to
work variously in this world, however il
may be found To operate IN the next. 10 l.
Il useless proverb in tn. nature oi surplus
age in an Indictment There is no use in
suggesting that every man should he given
his due. Tor that Is what no man ever gets
this side of the grave. Shakespeare, again,
tried his hand on this proverb. and, after
his Elizabethan manner, greatly improved
ii. Give every man his due" says Ham
let, land who shall scape whipping"
That's just it. Because no man gets his
due, except occasionally, when be is hung,
mankind as a very general thing escape
the whipping to which the melancholy
Dane refers. This poverty proverb which
directs one 10 give every man his due
would rob suffering world of every COM
fort, because a man never makes up his
mind when tn quit when demanding his
due. From the frequency with which this
proverb is quoted, il would appear that
every man of your acquaintance II being
robbed of something or other. Whatever
you >ay about man, there Is always some
body al hand To reiterate, Give every man
his due You hear this so often that you
Justly conclude that You owe everybody
that you know. Ii YOU would start I'm to
paw YOU would never know where TO stop.
You might derive some enjoyment
in practicing the precepts Of the proyerb,
however, a. Shakespeare has modified IL.
Justinian did not invent this1proverb, Tor
il e1 listed long before his time. The true
inventor passed Tn his reward some time
SINE, and let vs. hope that he got that due
which he spent so much time IN insisting
that other men should get, in the other
world.
A bird III the hand i worth two in the
bush"
Yes. two hundred in the bush. What
niggard ever went to work and produced
this bright saying? Some miser who was
unwilling to release his wretched claim on
more than two ieathered songsttrS OF the
free air at one time. He wanIs 70