The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-10-27

Seems queer, too. But come to think
of it, we didn't register.
Now that's another thing tonsilitis
can do to you-it can keep you from
registering and drawing farm and
growing up with the country and get
ting rich Aren't tonsils the devilish
things, though?
The man easily approached is usual
ly the hardest to get away from.
People who are always expecting
impossible things to happen are much
surprised aC events that should be
as confidently expected as spring ar
ter winter.
There are certain words one rarely
sees except in a description of we'd
ding, or some other society event, and
| hate every one of them.
Many men wreck both fortune and
health trying to make another dollar
they do not need.
There is an umpire in every walk
of life. You say what you think is
smart. The umpire decides the re-
mark isn't funny, and there is no
laugh. You write what you think is
great book. The umpire decides you
are out, although you think you made
home run. You buy hat you think
is becoming. The umpire says it is a
foul, and street boys whistle approval
of his decision. SO it goes in every.
thing. Always an umpire to decide
against you.
This is the year you expected so
much of last year.
A man went to Chicago and made
a big success. And now his wife is
denying that when she lived in a lit.
tie town her family owned a cabinet
organ and traded it in on a piano.
Nothing is more pitiful than to see
the wife of a dead beat go into a
store and ask for credit.
We all need thoroughness in plain
education more than we need a smat-
tering in the higher branches.
There are so many rat holes for a
mans money that he can't fill all of
them.
A congressman is a good deal like
a railroad man: he jollies the people
along until they forget their wrongs;
and the people have so many wrongs
that they can't remember all Of them
very long.
How careful and sensible a man is
the day after he made fool of him
self!
In winter, when the different legis-
latures are in session, a reform wave
IS as certain as a revival in the
south when the negroes have nothing
else to do.
A poker joke always gets a laugh;
but large majority of men know
little about the game except that a
good hand is hard to get.
An awkward man in society is often
thoroughbred in business.
We all have too much confidence;
and this conceitN often gets us into
trouble.
Keep out Of trouble, if possible;
about all your friends will do for you
when you get in, will be to say: I'm
sorry"
A contractors tomorrow means
three or four weeks from tomorrow.
| haven't gone to school in forty
years, but the ringing of a school
bell always gives me vague feeling
Of dread.
This is great country for rain when
we don't need it, and for dry weather
when we need rain.
We Americans have lot Of old
traditions we accept long after we
know better.
The manager of an Uncle Toms
Cabin" show which is touring the kerr
osene circuit has Autograph showing
himself and Abraham Lincoln as the
two greatest men of the age.
1t is as much as a mans life is
worth to marry a second time, If he
has daughters; but sons, particularly
married sons, usually realize that if
there Is any punishment coming to
the old man because of the folly of a
second marriage, the second wife will
provide it.
How many foolish things there are
to beguile us from the really import
ant work Of our lives!
Every circus day a farmer drives
team of young colts to town. The |
colts are sure to go crazy at sight |
of an elephant, but the farmer will
tie them in front of a store on the |
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