The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-19
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1 Topeka Kan. Lance, l

Topeka (kan. Lance
 DeieIence Is silent fiAueTy.
 Beauty is the melody of the features Ignorance Is the wet-nurse of prejudice No man is rich who wants any more than he has got
 Trusting to luck is only another name for trusting to laIlness.
 People oi good sense are those whoGe opinions agree with ours.
 The highest rate of interest that we pay Is on tho borrowed trouble.
 tis a grea, deal easier 10 be good dove than a decent serpent.
 ltisa great art to be superior to others withou, letting them know it.
 Selfmade men are most always apt to be little too proud oi the job.
 We arc happy in this world just in pre- portion as we make others happy.
 The man who never makes any blun ders seldom makes any good hits.
 You can't hire man to be honest: he will want his wages raised every morning.
 IL may be liule vsxl,ious. but don | consider 1t any disgrace to be bitten by a dog.
 Health can be bought, but you have got to pay for il with temperance at the highest rates.
 Dissatisfaction with everything we come across IS the result of being dissatisfied with ourselves.
 A slander is like a hornet. you can't kill |, dead the frs, blow, you had better not strike al it.
 If wit forms the blade. good sense should DC tho handle, and benevoleuce the scabbaid ol the sword.
 To be thoroughly good natured, and yet avoid being imposed upon, shows great strength ot character.
 Pleasure makes folks acquainted with each other, but it takes trials and gFiets to make them know each ether.
 Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opIn- ions strengthened, not corrected.
 IL seems to me that good breeding h the art of making every body sA,is6ed with themselves and pleased with you.
 If you anaiyze what mos, men call pleasure, you will find Il composed of one part humbug and two parts psia.
 Ifyou want to get a good general Idea of man : character, and out from him what his opinion of hts neighbor is.
 Titles are valuable; they make us sc- quainted with many persons who other wise would 1e lost among the rubbish.
 It is a good deal more profitable to make ten men think they are above you than to make one think you arc above him.
 It isa great deal easier to look upon those who are below us with Lity, than upon those who are above us withou, envy.
 Counseling with fear Is the way towards are made; coanseling with hope Is the way heroes are made counseiing with iaiih $ ihr ~ay Christians are made.
 We should be careful how we encour- age iuxanes; il is but step forward from hoecake 10 plum pudding, bat it is a mile and half Dy the nearest road when we have to go back again.
 The late Josh Billings" was a philos. opher as we'll as genius, thinker ss well az a speller, and his many chunks of wisdom" shorn Of odd spelling and quaint phrAseology, arc diamonds of beauty still. An sdmirer of this philo-. sophicai vein in "Josh's" writings has made collection Of his sayings" and has put them in ordinary spelling, 90 as to prove that their worth Is independent of their photographic trickery. From this collection wc take following sentences:  It Is fact that we can never pick up .