Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-06
WISE AND FOOLISH.

Clipped from Exchanges.
Some men find fault because they
are never lucky enough to find anything
else.
Money you earn yourself is much
brighter than any you get out of dead
man.
Some men are born witty. Others
have good memory and some witty
friends.
Talk is cheap. If talk were dear we
should haYe less trouble and more work
in Congress.
Self-posession in a young woman is
well enough for awhile, if she don't keep
it too long.
Society has been likened to q pie. We
can dispense with no part so well as
the upper crust.
A young horse always goes faster af-
ter being broke. It's the same way
with ten-dollar bill.
A lady advertises that she has "a fine,
airy, we'll furnished bedroom for gen.
teman twelve foot square,"
A five pound lemon has been raised
in California. Such lemon should
last circus man life time.
A religious paper says ''it costs moth
ing to SMILE" The bartender proba-
bly, keeps slate down that way.
One of the main questions of the age
in regard to some men, is not what
they live on, but why they live On.
What pity old father Noah did not
let his wife set fly paper and poison
those two flies he had with him in the
ark.
An editor without boldness is like a
smooth file, knife without an edge or
sentinel who is afraid to let off his
gun.
A manse is house, and romance
ought to be boat house. A romance
may be said to be constructed of moon
beams.
Farmers who change their crops
every time the market is low, and go
with the crowd into something new,
are almost sure to fail.
The tongue shows to physician the
disease of the body; to philosopher
the disease of the mind; to a Christian
the disease of the soul.
Gentleman-"If you will get my coat
done by Saturday shall be forever in
debted to you." Tailor-''O, if that's
your game it won't be DONE"
When a man learns to mind his own
business and to leave the affairs of
others alone he accomplishes a success
as great as falls to common mortals.
. "Who can govern a woman's willp"
asks an old proverb. Well, unless a
woman is smarter than most men in
making a will, the 1awers can, every
time.
The man and woman who take pos
session of the nearer end OF the pew,
compelling other people to climb over
him or her, still 60 to church every
Sunday.
The ancient proverb says: ''You
cannot get more out of bottle than
you put in it, That's an error. Be
sides what he put in, he can get head:
ache, sick stomach, and perhaps ten
days in the lookup.
The girl who can put good square
patch on a pair of pantalOOns may not
be accomplished as one who cam en-
broider and work green wOrsted dogs
on blue ground, but will be far more
useful at the head of large family.
A gentleman of Detroit was walking
down town the other day with a witty
lady, the intimate and guest of his
wife, when be began to revle facetious-
ly the gait and carriage of her sex. Even
you." he said, ''walk with a very me-
chanical step.' "Yes,'' she instantly
replied,1"I am going with crank"
The loving heart is the stronger
heart. The generous hand is the hand
to cling to when the path is difficult.
There is room for the exercise of char
ity everywhere-in business, in society;
but the first and chief need Of it is at
home, where it is the salt that keeps
things sweet, the aroma which makes
every hour charming, and the divine
light which shines star-like through all
gloom and depression. .
Ill. STATE TICKET.