Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-11-06

When walking over this beautiful
hill some five years hence on a
beautiful Sunday morning don't
say to a friend l could have bought
this lot for $500.00 or that one at
$500. 00,i it is now selling for $1,000
90 or 10000, but say bought this
one for $4,000 on easy terms;
never felt the payments; it's now
worth $4,000. 1t sounds better and
makes you feel better. Address
Geo. F. Long, 1929 Kenwood block,
Minneapolis. (2O-2)
There are mighty few young peo-
pie who go into marriage with any
real idea Of what it means. They
get their notion of it from the
clouds where they lived while they
were engaged, aid naturally about
all they find up there is wind and
moonshine, or from novels which
always end before the real trouble
begins, or, they keep on, leave out
the chapters that tell how the husa
band finds the rent and the wife
the hired girl. But if there's one
thing in the world about which it's
possible to get all the facts, it's
matrimony. Part of them are right
in the house where you were born,
and the neighbors have the rest.
A slandering tongue is more to
l,p lrnoIol fhpxo +ln To-
reptile that crawls upon the face
of the earth for he will give warn
ing before he strikes you-but a
slanderer-never. Let a man or
woman start on the downward road
to ruin and we are all prone to
step aside and cry out, "slide on,
slide on to destruction instead
of stretching out the hand of broth
erly love and staying their pro-
gress, stand by and let them slide.
He who can stoop down and if 1t
up his fallen brother from the
mire and place him on his feet and
whisper sweet counsel in his ear
and bid him go and lead a better
life, is truly a benefactor to the
race.
A town that never has anything
to do in a public way, is on the
way to the cemetery. Any citizen
who will do nothing for his town
is helping to dig the grave. A man
that curses the town furnishes the
coffin. The man who is so selfish
as to give no time from his bust
ness to give to city affairs is max
; ing the shroud. The man who
will not advertise is driving the
hearse. The man who is always
, pulling back from any public en-
terprise throws boquets on the
grave. The man who is so stingy
: as to be bowling hard times,
, breaches the funeral, sings the
. doxology, and thus the town lies
buried from all sorrow and care.
A perfect town is that in which
you see the farmer patronizing
the home merchants, the laborers
spending the money they earn
with their own tradesmen,a and all
animated by a spirit that will
not purchase articles abroad if
they can be bought at home. The
spirit of reciprocity between
man and the mechanic, tradesman
and laborer, farmer and manufac-
turer, results every time in making
!, the town a perfect one to do bust
!; ness in. Perfection" should al
ways be desired, even where at
j tainment is barely possible, we
!. presume, but perfect town must
Il be denomiated a great rarity until
/ we reach a more advanced stage
Il toward the millineum than has
4 yet been gained.
Parents do wrong in keeping
4 their children hanging around
/ home, sheltered and enervated by
A parental indulgence. The eagle
1 does better. 1t stirs up its nest
4 when the young eagles are able to
4 fly. They are compelled to shift
\ for themselves, for the old, eagle
4 literally turns them out, and at
4 the same time tears all the down.
{. and feathers from the nest. IT'S
1 this rude and rough experience
! that makes the king of birds so.
i fearless in his flight and so expert!
in the pursuit of prey. tits a
misfortune to be born with a silver
4 spoon inyour mouth, for you have
4 it to carry and plague you all your
/ days. Riches often hang like a
weight. Yea, like a. milestone
about the neck Of ambitious young;
men.
This is Thanksgiving month, the
i month sacred to the pumpkin pie
and roast turkey with cranberry
sauce fxings. Have we not all
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