The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-07-16
LAFAeAN's LOGIC.

To talk is nature; to listen gift.
Even talent. without energy, is fail
ure.
A long face is a failure. So is its
wearer.
Christianity alone can harmonic the
universe.
Beauty arrests the eve, but chastity
wins the heart.
A lazy man s best hold is a jack knife
and plenty of shade.
Politeness will succeed where money
alone will get worsted,
1gnorance's safest plan is to talk
sparingly and look volumes.
None but fools have an excuse for
oriticising the wisdom of God.
Man can prove "blue blood better
by his acts than by a pedigree.
All wit, all pathos, to have force must
be backed by logic and reason.
What were crimes one hundred years
ago are mere Irregularities now.
You can teach child how to hate,
but the heart teaches it how to love.
As man grows in wisdom he learns
how Independent the world is of him.
For every family contention Satan
puts an extra pound of fat on his ribs.
must give the devil credit for one
thing. He rewards every one alike.
Half of mankind lies awake nights
thinking how to outwit the other half.
Religion and temperance will always
agree Both are the sprouts of reason.
The days of originality are over, but
the days of Improvement are yet to
come.
When we do not understand other
people it seems to be second-nature to
ridicule them.
If it were not for the weakness of
the majority the success of the few
would be q myth.
Those who are honest from fear rath-
er than principle have no more to brag
of than rascals.
Always appear to agree with the
world, and you will get on smoothly
without soaping the track.
In itself lying is a base passion. but
its tendency to injurc others renders it
also a dangerous one.
Profit by others success and failures
and you get a reliable experience at
less than club rates.
Decorum itself is simply good sense
and goodwill, but society often ruins it
by empty ceremonies
1t isn't always the man who knows
the most that wins, but the man who
can apply what he does know.
So long as woman is on friendly
terms with modesty just so long is
woman yindicated and no longer.
DO away with Christianity and its in
fiuenccs, and mankind would run itself
into the ground in Il brief century
Most any man is willing to tell of the
good things he has done, but few tell Of
the good things they might have done.
Action can out-talk any man, and
have even seen women that exhibited
signs of WEAKNESS when wrestling
with it.
OF ten young men nine can be found
who are vain of their fine exterior,
while the tenth one is proud of we'll
stored mind.
After al! prefer "get-there" man
to Il 'don't-care-a-dum' sort of one.
Ii am skinned in a horse trade there
is some comfort in the thought that the
winner was no ''slouch."
must Say this for woman: If pure
as her sister angels just SO long is the
redeeming of the world among possi-
bilities. But, as a whole, if she falls,
the loophole of escape is closed.
l am not in favor of marking out
road for this man or that woman.
Everyone has a way of his own to keep
in the road. But do believe that I am
required to hoe my own row clean, and
to aid brother here or sister there
in their hoeing if they get stuck. The
helping hand or encouraging word is
no loss to us, is really blessing to the
weary, and rebounding help to the
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