The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-10-03

ATcSlsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

that sc many men will continue drink
ing when they know ruin Is inevitable.
Years ago in the frontier country
where this reporter lived. there was a
religious community known as Holy
Zionists. When the Holy Zionists Sc
thought they had a useful and holy
man, n kept him, but a popular
preacher was soon discharged. The
Holy Zionists didn't believe in anything
pleasant.
A mar and his wife and six children
have been waiting all day at the depot.
They arrived early this morning and
expected a man living north OF town
to meet them; they expected to visit
the man living north of town. We don't
blame the nan living north Of town
for not showing up.
If an unmarried man complains to
his girl of the hot weather she makes
plain after he is married and she will
tell him he ought to be thankful he
hasn't a corset on.
Every day we meet a man who Is
certainly fifteen years older than we
are, and he says: When men become
as old as we are, it makes a differ
ence." etc. And we don't like him to
ak that way.
Bill Moore is always telling how he
worked like a slave, and that he has
worked so long he can't quit. We have
worked a long time TOO, but we'd have
no difficulty in quitting if we had a
chance.
1t is said that when a man tells the
same stories day after day. it Is a sign
young or old. tell the same stories day
after day.
We don't know much about cunning
a newspaper; sometimes we are dis
posed to believe we don't know as
much as critics who were never in the
business.
A man takes more credit to his sex
when he walks the floor one night with
the baby, than a woman takes to her
sex, when she supports the whole fam
jly.
People do fool things for years and
know 1t. We never heard anyone de-
fend the habit of drinking i~ntoxicants,
yet how many people have the habit.
There are 50 many ways Of killing a
friendship: One is expecting something
of your friend, and another is being
perfectly frank" with him.
How much charity there Is for the
thoroughly worthless and useless man.
And how sharp the criticism of the men
who are decent and useful!
Pick up a few bits of information
every day, take care of your health and
live a long time. and you will know a
whole lot before you lie.
Why are farm hands SO scarce One
farmer gave this olution today: I'VE
pay them so much that it takes half
their time to spend it,"
Il frankly confess said a citizen
to an editor, that I hate you, not be-
cause you abuse me, but because you
have not praised me-"
Almost every neighborhood has its
CHI who come in just at meal
time and sit and watch every bite yor
put In your mouth.
Everyone complains that In his lin
or business there are more things that
must be done at once than in any other
business or earth.
Perhaps n reason the women out
live the men is that they are so self
sacrificing at meal time they don't get
enough to eat.
People give lots OF excuses in ere
GREETING" a party invitation, but there
is only n reason they do not go:
Don't want to.
An Atchison man said today: 81 was
awake half Of last night owing to the
heat. and awake the other half owing
to chiggers."
This Is what a corset does for a fat
woman: Take it off her and put her
in a Mother Hubbard and she looks like.
her mother.
Subject for discussion at the mex,
meeting of the Shannon Literary so.
ciety: Resolved, That a man is usual
ly guilty"
Everyone who has had his share of
ines responsibility and cares has
deep hatred for that word viva
cious.''
Every young man is full OF
schemes Every old man has trieC
2 lot Of scenes and lost confidence III
them.
If you have a scheme, keep it or
Ice until cooler weather. Don't Civ
people a chance to turn it dow.
now.
When people long for someone who
understands" them. they mean who
understands" them as their mother
did.
When a boy hakes hands he uses
his left hand, and when he is gtyei
a nickel he forgets to say thank you.
When a friend offends you, he US
ually says he hasn't lone anything.
that the trouble is. you are peculiar
Was today 81 bad? Yet al one tins
It was q FAR Off tomorrow, and you
lay awake nights and dreaded 1t.
The man who makes loans at a bant
should be a man of correct Judgment
to say nothing of iron nerve.
A properly appreciative man meets
a new reason every hou for being
grateful that he is not a woman.
If a man owns a small horse, you
can make him mad by referring to ii
as a pony" in his presence.
She" other women are always saw
Ing of another woman. who is devoted
to her husband, "is g. fool"
Ever notice the majority Of people
who ride on the cars look as though
they could afford the trip?
When a poor man gets hurt, how his
kin squirm around. trying to get rid of
taking care Of him!
Put a fence around every daughter,
but make 1t several bars higher If
h is impulsive.
The tendency lately has been very
decidedly toward a little less work and
a little more pay.
We are all anxious to be on the safe
side. The trouble lies in finding which
Is the safe side.
II you must exaggerate, clothe
your fnu!t with grace by exaggerating
the good points.
The guests may like pie, but if the
hostess hasn't any pretty forks. they
will never get it.
One Of the easiest things in the
world is to be an acceptable long dis
lance friend.
You can't always pick out the man
who is making money by the way he
spends 1t.
Sometimes what you pay for isn't
very good. but what you get free is