Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-31
Wise AID oTHERNME.

Patience heals msny q wound.
Ignorance is the father Of the slave.
A lawsuit is an ill-f1tting garment.
He who has nothing to do has hard
job.
A Trance-action-Walking in your
sleep.
Fact, really3Some Scotchmen can
live on Ayr.
Nothing tries the soul of man
more than shoe-peg.
The darkest moment is when you
can't find the matches.
There is charming elasticity about .
girl of eighteen springs.
A mans character is the moral value
of his acts and feelings.
He who faces the sun of truth leaves
all shadows behind him.
An upright piller will bear more
weight than a leaning one.
It is better to know less than to
know too much that isn't true.
A hog trust is said to be forming.
Are not all trusts of that kind.
Waiting for the fish that bite other
peoples hooks is what wearies.
If the spider break his thread twenty
times, twenty times will he mend it.
We rise by rising others, and he who
stoops above the fellen stands erect.
He who confesses fault makes half
amends, but he who denies it doubles it.
The intelligent and unjust are not
the superiors of the ignorant and
honest.
Vanity is a vane that turns, a willow
that bends; pride is the oak that defies
the storm.
A cat makes the most noise when
everything is still-that is everything
but the cat.
A bite of bread to hungry man is
worth more than a thousand words of
coincidence.
It is not the false teeth which should
be objectionable, but the false tongue
behind them.
The real value of an action depends
not only upon it's effect, but npon the
| motive of it's agent.
A lady, in advertising herself as a
teacher, referred to the reputation for
teaching she bears.'
Judge Ito the plaintiff)-Who was
present when the defendent knocked
you down? Plaintiff was.
Why will street-car conductor stop
man from smoking and the next
minute help woman to alight?
A broken reputation is like broken
dish; it may be mended, but it will
always show where the break was.
Honesty is the oak around which all
other virtues cling. Without that they
fall, and groveling, die in weeds and
dust.
It is ordained in the eternal consti-
tuition of things that men of intemper-
ate minds cannot be free; their passions
forge their fetters.
Truth is like deep well in whose
cool depths is the sweet water which
the old oaken bucket of mere emotion
has never reached.
Singerly-"J -"Jawkins, did you ever
hear me sing Within Mile % Ebin-
boro Toon?" Jawkins-''No, nor with
in mile of any other tune"
Mediocrity touched with ambition
fiatters the base and calumniates the
great, while the true patriot who will
do neither is often sacrificed.
Philosophers have noticed that when
a man makes up his mind that he must
practice economy, he generally tries to
begin with his wife's expenses.
1t is claimed that the railroad sand
wich contains 81 per cent. Of nutriment.
Come to think of it, we don't think we
are especially fond of nntriment.
Tramp docking over the republican
platform): They've got free whisky
plank and free tobacco plank; whats
the matter with a free lunch plankP"
Mems souls are naturally inclined to
cOurteousness; but if ye be kird to-
wards women, and fear to worry them,
God is well acquainted with what ye do.
The rhonograph shows that a mans
voice has not the same sound to him
self that it has to others, thus finally
explaining why some people persist in
singing.
A hnAeful fhaOlo0ian saws he has M