The Mena weekly star., 1910-09-15

the kind of fish he wishes to eaten. Same is true of the devil. If he fish es for the miser he baits his hook with money. If for the social deyotee ne baits with pleasure. If for the drunk ard he baits his hook with red liquor, but when he fishes for the swearer he baits with nothing, throw out the nak- ed hook. He pays all of his servants except the cusser; he serves the devil free of all charge and boards and clothes himself to boot.
 have this way of thinking; If a man farms he is a farmer. Ii he teaches he is a teacher. If he pleads law he is a lawyer. If he "cusses he is a "cuss.
 A nephew from Mississippi was vls- iting his uncle in Kentucky. He was telling his uncle of how he had pros pered. He said: "I have bought 5O mules with an oath. l have made 500 bales of cotton--. l have bought 700 acres of land---" The old man replied: T have been req sonably prosperous myself. l have bought so many mules, shovel and tongs. have 100 acres of tobacco,
 shovel and tones. J have bought more land since you left, shovel and tones. Whereupon the young man said: Uncle do you mean to say that my cursing sounds as rediculous to you as your shovel and tones" do to me?" He said: That is exactly what mean. Well then, I'll quit. said the young man. Any swearer would quit if he only knew how it sounds to other people.
 Some men say they cant quit GUS sin. suspect that if every time he swore some one would knock him down he would soon learn how to quit. A merchant said to new clerk: I have a peculiarity, which must now tell you of and ask you to overlook, for I mean no harm by it at all. get mad and cuss man before think. " The clerk replied: "I also have a pe- culiarity. My peculiarity is that when a man cusses me 1 knock him down there and then. l don't mean any thing by it, do it before I think, and you will kindly overlook this little pe- culiarity of mine. How many GUS sings do you suppose that clerk had to take off his very peculiar employer.
 Some men say: When get mad I have to cussl" We'll I guess when man has to do a thing he has to do it. But if you have to cuss. if you can't help it, if you just have to cuss, I reckon you'll have to cuss. But hear me: Don't let any boy or any one else hear you. Choke the cuss down. and break for the woods, get out of the hearing of everyone. Go to the swamp, and then cuss to your full satisfaction. Cuss and cuss until ev- cry old COW and mule and horse leaves the woods, cuss and cuss until every coon and skunk and snake make for their holes, and cuss and cuss and cuss until every nighthawk and bull bat and buzzard seeks the upper ethet. Cuss until your eyes are blood shot, your cheeks pale, your lips pur- pie, the throat sore, your tongue black and your lungs are worn out, stick your head in an old hollow tree and cuss until the filthy slime of your putrid soul foully adheres to and drips in green venom from the murky walls of your dismal dungeon. Cuss and cuss until the atmosphere grows dark and black and green; cuss until you can't cuss. Cuss until you have got ten your fill Of cussii And then with a corncob. some ashes and blue mud go down to an old bog and give your black mouth and peafour lips a thorough scrubbing. and then come back home and live clean, respect able life among decent and respect able people. Young man, a man s language tells what court he repre- eents