The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-06-24
LAFAGAN'S LOGIC.

Spite is an infirm vindication Of
fools.
The best way to hold a grudge is to
forget it.
If wine is mocker, then whisky
must be an outrage.
Vencration for age is the indisputa-
BILE proof of well-bred man or woman.
If not cultivated, depravity would
soon cease to grow in the gardens of
the vicious.
Take influence out of the world and
how many men would gain position on
their meritsp
Those who would learn of the world
must not themselves know too much to
start with.
never yet squeezed a favor out of
the world by abusing it, but have Sc
cured a few by petting it.
Every time that young man is wreck
ed the devil cuts another notch in his
stick and rosins his bow anew.
If we would endeavor to govern our
selves more and other people less, NOR
ality would be increased forty per cent.
l am thankful that there is at least
one thing in this world money cannot
influence, and that is the triumph Of
death.
We are all farming. preaching, and
writing with the same sequel in pros
pect-the money there is in the busi-
ness.
l believe there is just as much genu-
inc as Magdalene virtue in the world.
The real trouble is, the demand for it
has fallen off.
Greatness is pretty hard thing to
tie to and not lose any flesh. 1t is gen.
orally the easiest to control when there
is not much of it.
The world is full of martyrs. Some
of them are working ten and twelve
hours a day for what they can get to
support wife and five children.
Praise is what we generally get for
G that which ought to mortify us.
A really good deed is seldom recog-
nized even by common civility.
There is too much talk. Plenty of
men are always willing to fight an
army two miles of, but few of them
can be depended on to attack or van.
quish anything at close range.
l do not expect or even desire to rev.
olutionize the world; but hope tc
work an occasional dose of plain ad
vice, with good-natured coating, into
systems that can retain it. That's nv
platform.
1t is not only possible that poor man
in his struggles for bread is often hap
pier than rich man with plenty, but
it is fact. Everything in this world
has its drawbacks, including wealth
and raising chickens.
l cannot sing song through without
getting mixed, yet never feel so happy
as when humming away and trying to
convince myself that am masculine
Patti. recommend it for the blues.
Ii you can not sing. try it occasionally
anyhow, as music is the froth of happi-
ness from the heart.
Parents, bear with the little ones.
Their pure hearts are as tender as
their little bodies. There is nothing
more heaven-like than the family cir
Gle where mildness and kindness clasp
hands. We have got two diminutive
beings at our house, and-Jerusalem!
there goes the last flower pot. They
have busted it all to thunder! l only
wish we had dozen more little fat,
bow-legged cherubs like them.
Most writer's try to be comic, but on
ly one in a thousand can do it and not
disgust others first and themselves soon
after. Good sense is about forty de-
grees ahead of poor humor. There is
nothing that | can think of just now so
slow to gain public favor as good hui
NOR at its best Some people are nat
ural-born humorists and others natural
born fools, and have known of such a
thing as the two getting mixed up in
the deal, and the fool to eventually get
away with the pot and all.-Chicago
Ledger.