The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-21
WSSesea for The ArkaNsaw TS'aeeisr.
 UNCLE BEN'S BUTS.

0NS6G DEN 0 70 V os Lay out work for tomorrow, but do not idle away to-day. Life Is too short to engage in many undertakings, but iohg enough to do those we'll that are begun,
 It is said: "It takes nine tailors to make one man," but one tailor can make nine dudes, ad Iej6aitam, Genius and tact are grand auxilia- ries, but they lose the race more often than opportunity and activity. Fame moves away from us and beckons us on, like "Jack O Lantern" near, but not quite within reach.
 We often urge people to talk by asking them to be social, but some insist on talking until they become so-cial-er,
 He who Is ever boasting of the greatness of his ancestors will be but the missing link" between ancestors and posterity.
 To urge people to make hay while the sun shines" is we'll enough, but it is like advising them to catch water when 1t rains.
 Each human life is ike jar of new milk-it must be set away before the cream rises; but some are hardly worth skimming then.
 Man may be "the lord of creation" |" but he will never be able to make as great a "bustle" In the world as the women of the present period.
 The ordinary country newspaper editor seldom runs out of subjects to "writc up," but when he does he universally lets fly at "spring poetry"
 Woman may be "the weaker vessel, 3 but she will resist ten times the temp tation that man can, bank officials, treasurers and cranks to the contrary
 Man is the top round In the ladder of creation, but 1t Is really humiliat- ing 10 think that common cur dog can beat him tracking rabbits on bare ground,
 A pure, truthful, tender thought will do more toward purifying the soul than all the "ism" lessons of ali the books, but the best way to think 1t is to live it.
 The clergy" have been running re- ligion on the "trust" plan for long time, but now the ''laity" have hold of the thrust business" and are about to run everything that way,
 A good, faithful wife Is source of perpetual happiness to her husband. but bad one can make a fellow smell more birthstone than an old fashioned iard-Shell Baptist preacher.
 The American people are all making headlong rush after immense for tunes, but which one of them can give better reason for his conduct than a herd of stampeding Texas steers couldi
 Treasurers and bank officials are, no doubt, as sorely tempted as Christ was on the mountain, but they should not forget that Canada Is cold country, and that the final change will be ter rible.
 Nj. Quad said 10 me the other day that he regarded Mir. William Nye as the greatest of living humorists, but I made him "confess error," as the law yer says, when replied, "I presume you have never read 'She.'"
 When the leading newspapers shall cease to make "human beasts" noto- rious by mentioning them and their brutal combats, they will die out, but the race will have made grand step toward better civilization.
 He who does right from fear of do- ing wrong belongs 10 class that are in great need of moral training, but he who does right because In his soul he loves it, will hold the key to all the pass words that St. Peter knows.
 Scientists claim that the flea can jump about faster and further than any other created thing in proportion to his size, but l very much doubt whether they have fully studied up on the ordinary congressman when he Is seeking reDominatioD.
 He who attends strictly 10 his own business will eventually win the sup port and patronage of the community in which he lives, but he who Is con- tinually meddling with his neigh bors' affairs, will, in the end, have to leave town between two days or have trouble.