The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-05-18
TALES AND ENDS.
WRITTEN FOR THE MIDLAND JOURNAL.
BY ALLEN PAYNE.

When ones health is broken down they feel all
broken up.
If the black sheep of the family were not SO
green the rest of the family would not feel SO
blue.
Some folks never begin to save until they come
down in the world and have nothing.
Wouldn't it be charity if some folks could be
hung for being nooseance
There are men who have gone to the bad after
finding good thing.
It's nice to be go successful in life that full
dinner pail isn't a drop in the bucket.
When young men grow up their worth often
grows down.
The man who is not ever ready to grasp the
hand of death will find himself way at the foot.
A mothers heart will often ache for her boy but
seldom it is that it is the reverse.
The man who gets scooped in, If put in the
balances will be found wanting.
Man does not get everything he wants. nor does
he want everything he gets.
When one gets in real hard luck all that your
friends have for you is feelings.
What it cost to keep up most fads will keep a
family.
Rats worn in a woman's hair are good company
for those in the garrett.
Don't imagine you are SO useful in the world
no one can take your place. there may be yet no
place for you to take.
A smile today is worth kiss tomorrow.
Man wants but little here below does not apply
to the man who is found short in his accounts
When man is made to swallow his own med
icine he usually has to take it in gulps.
Fashions are really nothing more than sew to-
day and rip tomorrow.
Things that are hard to swallow make some
folks fill up.
Don't count your chickens before they are
Matched else you may brood over it.
A face may be the owners fortune but it's like
it's value it will eventually shrink.
When the sheriff hangs man he usually puts
him "next" to it.
It's of no use to argue with woman in regard
to buying useless things at bargain sale.
Root, hog or die is not the root of all evil.
immortality does not bring immortality.
IT'S better for. a lean stomach to be filed from
a fat pocket book than for the purse to get fat
from lean stomach.
The ms and outs of life are really the ups and
downs.
If some folks didn't aim so high their bullets
would return.
YOU can hurt ones feelings without bruizing
their character.
The more friends you have the leaner your
bank account.
There are people who have mind to do a
thing9and stilllhaven't the brains to do it.
why is it that preacher usually gets larger
salary at new charge than he did at the old
The way to Easy Street is reached by the ave-
nue. Of sincerity.
When wind.fall strikes the average man he
spends it like breeze.
Your muscles are poor thing to depend upon
when it comes to strength of character.
Money is bliss but it takes brains to be wise.
Pity the one whose wheel in their head gets to
be ball bearing.
The one who strikes while the iron is hot seldom
strikes snag.
poor mouth is often caused by rich ex-
perience.
1t isn't hard for man to get up in the all
when he get beyond himself
Tisn't always pie to be in the upper crust OF
society.
The millionaire may be a captain Of industry
but he is usually very private in conducting his
affairs.
The tempest may roll but bread cast upon the
waters will return unto you again.
Why is it that the SON always knows more than
the father?
When man gets in hard straights his money
has often gone in the wrong channels.