Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-03
THE VILLAGE DEACON.
Bert walker in Osborne Farmer.

I have tried 1t several times, but
| can never work up enough enthu-
siasm to talk very long with a man
who has proposition to sell me
something on the installment plan
of ten cents week.
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A lot of us would be badly handi-
capped in our daily walk II by some
hook or crook we should run short
of supply of that title ~"
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If whistllng was an indication OF
prosperity Old Bill shiftless would
have the biggest bank account of any
man in the state of Kansas.
Appearances are SO deceptive that
II is next to impossible for the young
lady to tell the amount of salary
the delightful gentleman draws by
the way he waltzes. But some OF
them make awful bad guesses.
"They never knock dead one j
is a headline ! saw some place the
other day. 1t is the solemn truth
Go into a town and find man who
has powerful enemies and begin to
look around for the cause. 1t ism
hard to find. 1t is generally spelled
in one word, Success" The man
has succeeded where others nave
failed. 1t may have been in business
or 1t may have been in politics. IL
, Is all one and the same, when 1t
comes to inviting the hammer OF the
I knocker. Some of the cleanest ana
< fairest men ever knew have been
4 victims for years Of the merclless
e hammer of the knocker But in the
q end II is the knocker who comes out
o at the little end of the horn. On
g the other hand, look around for some
It fellow who has been dismal failure
q all his life. Does he have powerful
e enemies who lie awake nights to
% knock him? Not much. He is toe
e small potatoes and few in hill. y
W ia the live ones; the fellows VINO
n. make success in life; the ones wh'
ID do things in a community and nav
credit at the banks and stores wh'
excite the malice Of the hamme
IN wielders. Look around and see
1t isn't so.
may be unpatriotic, but al
willing to admit never look in m
ed daily paper to see what the polit
.st clans are doing until l have read Tn
,st base ball scores.
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m, In OUR church when the minlstt
gil changes pulpits with some brotne
A.. in another town and we get a ma
m that can preach a stemwinding Sc
lot mon of about twenty-five minute
notice that Brother Philander a
ways has the collection box passe
after the preaching. When the vi
w. itor is a bum preacher Philander q
90 -. ways takes up the collection beio'
~ the sermon.
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'tn lust because you used to reel
iss "Bingen on the Rhine" when a x
% at school is no sign that you have
re- license to tell funny stories VINE
~ YOU are forty years old.
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The man who wears the most 81
terlug lodge pin isn't always the be
member of the order, nor the mi
red who can quote the most scriptu
M. the best man in the Sunday scno
'nes class.
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We are always hearing OF the mi
" who made good because he had
pull" The ones who have fall
~ ' by the wayside insist that II 1t hadl
'"' been for the pull" the successl
man would have been fiEzle. u
you ever stop to think how m
Of gets his "pull?" Did It ever STR
ird Won that the "pull" came along
the cause he made goOdH Look arou
roll town and note the successful Oh
ay- pesa men. How many Of them n
,wn a "pulr' when they were baretc
les, bOysY Do you remember how low
ing some Of them started and how eal
they got around in the morning q
how hard they tolled throughout
day? The boy who works haru :
Off faithfully is bound to get pul
'rty when there is an opening higher
the the boss remembers his faithiul .
rch' vice and gives It to him. This "pu
lies. You hear so much about Is mer
Ian another name for making good. 4
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