The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1902-06-12
LlFE's SPICE.
VARSITY IA ths spice of life. e"
By 8. Men. ~.

NSSH AhahN AA@N N1ANh NAN"~N f'''
aud hold Office and make laws. I am
a great sticklor for the enforcement Of
laws, and u / were law-maker and
office. holder, there would be war ID
camp II laws were not obeyed. seme
,!me ego the City Council passed = law
10 the interest Of deeehoy against ex-
peclorsliCn on the sidewalks, for our
sidewalks were horror 10 walk on.
don't know whose duty Il il 10 Gu
force the law, bat I see no improve
ment 10 the condition Of tho pave
mcnts, and / have never heard Of 90
arrest for the violation OF the law.
From what have seen aud heard
lately Of two towns in Illinois, they
are far ahead Of Us In CLEANLINESS. Ii
Pekin the law In regard 10 sxpectora'
ton on sidewalks IL most vigorously
enforced. When was IN Peoria !
was surprised 10 see on nearly ever
downtown corner a large box thSi
took TO be a newspaper box, but laiei
I learned they were trash boxes. Then
/ noticed there was not scrap o.
paper on the streets ready TO hy with
every breeze Into the faces Of horses
and scare them, aud there were M
banana skins, peanut shells, aud al
the trash thai ndorns our streets, bu
eaod citizen seemed to be \ COMMITTEES
Of one to put all such things In ihes,
boxes. l suppose Il Is somewhat I
matter Of education.
When there l. SO much said now
abou, the town beautiful, Ii shOuld b'
the earnest effort Of each one Of rs t.
use our influence to bring about a re.
form 10 the direction Of our priueipa
streets al least. Those Of US who cat
remember a. far back as the Odd
Fellows celebration here several years
ago, know how nice the streets looked
for few days when they were spe'
cially cleaned for thst occasion. They
will hare to be cleaned again when the
drussmors meet here next May, so q
little everyday work in that direction
might be 4 great hslp.
l remember when a child, In the
days when we learned TO write In copy
books, that one sentence we wrole
was, Honesty Is tho best policy"
IL was brought iorcibly TO my mind
during The strawberry season. | saw
4 crate that bad been shipped here on
sn order, and when looked at ihsm
exclaimed about their beauty aud
size. aud at once bought boz to take
home As ! lifted the box cot looked
at the under layer, aud what con-
lrasl to the upper one. They were
all very small, inferior berries, aud
had been carefully picked aud packed,
ss II were, "to put the best foot for
most. When I emptiea the top
layer box | bought, l found that the
same dishonest method had been used,
for only tho top ones were Of any size
aud the others were smaller thar any
saw Of our home grown berries.
That skipper found undoubtedly that
honesty was the best policy, for all
further orders to him were counter
handed. Several years ago bought
some baskets Of pears. really had
thought wanted only one basket, but
they appeared so superior and fine
that INDUCED myself 10 three, only
to find tho "best foot was foremost
,hen and the under layers werO small,
knOtty pears. That was my last pur-
chase from that party. am eonsid-
cred by my family as very gulliblO
person. hate cant and hypocrisy
and try to consider everybody as free
from these faults as / am myself, aud
so occasionally am taken In aud done
for In fine shape.
Here Is the thought in verse for tho
scrap book;
when we've dane the bess We can.
Let's don't fTeti
better yet
FOR somo noBler doih'E plan.
when blue bird mis- with song tia dale
nocu ho siEff
And wonder why
he wasn't born a nightinEalsr
whom Crocus hears the sprinsti.as call her
name
Does she wait
TIL she's hate,
An cause she's not e tulip blush for
shamef
Liie's a deal the test TOR Ne
AsitisI
Wo may quiS
An question WHY, an foam an fuss.
mt we cannot change O letter
OF the plan
Yet We can
TRY 10 make Our evsFg day the better.
We must reap the kind OF grain
We naWN ansFuf