The Red Cloud chief., 1885-06-26
SERMONETTES.

In common-scpse IL wisdom. So observe these
Though hewed and fashioned far away from
colleges and schools:
Discriminate discrcetly between enemy and
friend:
And never grasp q hornet by Its active bust
ue>s end.
Against q curtain lecture place your silence
You spHil your tongue, or ~jack-knife. IL you
white ON q ME
In shaking hands with donkcys, never take
them by the heels.
Don't push a stubborn human: driving pigs
II you simply pull the porkcr by the kink upon
his tail
Don't b 30 blind for honey as to bite into a
II you rush along too rapid you are not SO apt
TO see.
Don't look for flowers or fruitage in q sandy
desert waste:
And don't eKpend iung-pressure on a man de-
II you want more noise than music. shout into
You find the loudest cIapper in the fashions-
bic belle.
Waste not your brains best effort ON q soul OF
You do not want a cannon IL you're only shoot
ing flies.
II you want to keep a secret tell it only to
Tho tongues Of others often hide a babblins
echo elf.
II you would stumble DER yourself. some
lovers plans oppose:
In kicking ut the rock OF fate you only break
your toes.
Don't let your appetite. IL sharp. too quickly
leave it's sheath:
The men are many who their graves are dig.
9ng with their teeth.
Avoid a man whose Icy heart gives other hearts
the chIlls:
A grumb.ina sp rt shortcns life and lengtbens
doctors bills.
Some politicians rarely try to skirm:sh with
verac.iy they stab to death and bury in its
youth.
Don't he alarmed If pompOus fools grow Big
with great prctense:
il takes about u ton Of sound to make an
ounce OF sense.
And never estimate a man by lavish spread of
sails:
The peacock and the lizard tribes display the
longest tails.
Esteem no woman for her garb. her trinkets
and her rings;
The weilh hts of fowls are never found in fcatn.
ers or IN wings.
Expect no measure of success from narrow
souls and small:
You can not dry n river up by dipping with
an awl.
IT you would conquer mems respect, just cul-
tivife your own:
You can not club il into them with Samson's
old jaw bone.
To st on tate's long added eggs is suited but
10 Turks.
Don't scold the Lord: His word conforms to
certain cha0gclcss rules:
You can not warp them out OF place, or butcher
ali the fools.
And when you strike a fanc.ed Ounce. with
ow! sh look and tone,
be sure It $ not u mirrOred form. its image but
your own.
The man who growls at everything is wasting
venOmcd breath;
Perhaps he knows, If all retained, 'twouId
poison him to death.
Begin at the beginning: all trees begin with
roots;
You can't ascend a sunbeam Just by pulling
ut your boots.
Let no illluck d scourage: the treasures some
times drop,
While empty gOurds and bubbles serenely bob
on ton
Ia watching fools ascensions, sing no sad
grave yard tunes,
The winds and upper currents soon burst such
toy balloons.
In short. be philosophic-let naught be a sur
pr SIS:
nrint rice, Of bot,loa s,rSh;ro snd -.
your eyes.
There's many n simple blessing and many a
precious thing
For these who use their weapons and shoot
them on the wing.
I'm these untriinmeds suggestions are life's best
tempered tools;
Just help yourself and use them, these home
made. patent rules.
II. Ld1:r Jones. ia Boston Transcript.