Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
AS WE GO ALONG.
|Scratch-pad Reflections, Wise and
Otherwise.

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The right sort of man never forgets
how his mother used to say, My boy"
The trip down life's lane seems |
short enough when we are laughing
all the time.
The slogan of a fair-weather friend
is, Run when the storm breaks"
We never learn to value pair of
eyes until they look the other way.
The way of a man or maid is never
past finding out, so long as there are
neighbors around.
Any kind of work is worta while, if
you put your heart in it.
Everyone has some sort of cross to
bear and it is surprising how light
most of them are.
Roller skating has been recommend
ed as an antidote for intemperance.
Intemperance is also an antidote for
favor.
The fact that Mr.. James 7. Jeffries
doesn't like bargain sales doesn't t
make him any more famous. 1t merely
shows that he is human like other
men.
People looking for the waste line
might try Broadway. A lot OF money
is wasted there.
A contemporary discusses Murder
ers in High Places" Proper enough
if those high places happen to be gal
lows trees.
i Carrie Nation says Englishmen can.
not think. The chances are that they
think "cuss' words when she is
laround.
A traveller who had his trousers sto
len in sleeping car missed some i'm
portant connections, including con
nection with his trousers.
II The only regrettable feature of Col
, onel Roosevelts trip to Africa is tina
| lit started Professor Starr, of Chicago
. Ito yawping.
et An Atlanta man fell in love with
: Widows biscuits, married her and die
of acute Indigestion. A sad sho1
lstory.
If nobody feels able to whip Mista
l. Johnson, steps should Immediately /
It taken by the Anti-Noise sociey to ga
d him.
The knowledge that Buffalo Bill
is on the water wagon probably make
" the driver of that time-honored veh
Gle feel like cracking his whip loudt
- than ever
,ol When a man gets up in the morni1
y feeling as if he were 100 years old, tt
70 chances are that he travelled the equi
p alent Of century" the night befor
[e Some people will spend two do1la
e. and half for about thirty cents wor
II of popularity, such as it is.
An exchange says it is exceeding
hard to find a woman who says on
ly what she thinks. Or anybody else.
d A good many people work overtin
In trying to keep up appearances tn
D. nobody notices.
There's more than guess coming
. the speculator sooner or later
- A great many people seem to ia
first and do their thinking afterwar6
The optimist is the man who sli
on a banana peel and gets up with
- smile accompanied with the observ
tion that it might have been worse.
O. Most any man out of a job can t.
:. just exactly how the governme
ought to be run.
A successful expert is man w
knows how to keep the public in t
dark by a bunch of technicalities.
The best way to learn how to do
o thing is to jump in and try.
Any man can be a sport if som
body else will stand the cost.
True courage usually stands on
foundation of truth.
A good many women seem to G
engaged for the purpose of not MARI
no ing.
sb Nothing makes a stylish, dashi
od young woman so tired as for a suit
"a to call her an angel.
* Some people appear to think all
20 rest of the world was made to anu
~ them.
70 The average woman will add
couple of unintelligible words to
bo telegram to fill out the number
av lowed.