Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1911-02-01
Gumption On The Fam

Never too old to yearn.
The wages OF gin is death.
II the elevator to success is stopped
try the stairs.
Nobody without some pe~~er in lin
is worth his salt.
Don't call on your neighbor iust TO
borrow something.
The doors OF opportunity are mak-
ed PUSH and Pull"
Tell your wife how well her cox
ing tastes. and what good butter ,he
makes.
Don't envy the man who is riany
around in all auto until you know low
big his mortgage is.
Now is a good time to nail lose
boards on the barn and sheds ant to
replace broken glass in the windows.
Time may be money, but the aveage
man would rather give you two hc1rs'
talk than lend you a quarter,
He mortgaged the farm to set his
son up i'll business in the city, the son
failed, and now the sheriff has the
farm.
Cultivate the friendship OF every arm
animal, rom the dog to the hrse.
The man who has not friends OF this
kind is not apt to have many ,lse-
where.
II we would devote even one lour
each Saturday morning to the title
postponed fxing-u tasks, how much
we might add to the general appear
ance OF things!
When you want legal advice aunt
up some man who would rather help
you to keep out OF trouble than to get
you out after you are once in Up to
your knees.
Kind lady, I'm just merely trying to
keep
Sole and body together '-he did
look thin;
But the lady did neither smile nor weep
As she handed the tramp a sdety-
pin!
The woodchuck, the frog ana the
skunk went to the show The wood
chuck got in, for he had a quarter
(hind); and so did the frog with his
greenback but the skunk had to 60
home, for he only had bad scent.
Farmers who have occasion to draw
up contracts, agreements, notes,
checks. etc, should remember thGt tn
safest plan is to employ pen and ink
for this work-never use lead-pen-
Gil. The law will recognize the lead
pencil, but the writing may be erased
too easily, and the amount or terms
may be changed. If pen and ink are
l,npI ,,-ban Jro, c,,rl,
papers, use all indelible pencil
A Long Island farmer heard noise
one night, and thinking that the wagon
spoke he went out to investigate, He
discovered that the wagon was tongue
tied and that he had mercy heard
Long Island Sound Hearing at an
other time a commotion near piece
OF timber not Jar from the beach, and
fearing that it was smugglers or pir-
ates, he went out to brighten them
away by having the hickory bark. The
hickory failed, but he found that the
lockwood succeed However, turn
ed out to be simply an acean stuall.
InJthe olden times the farm was
general loafng place in the winter.
The farmer loafed at the store or smith
shop: the cows loafed in the stable, as
the milk pals proved; the horses LOAF
ed and grew soft and fat in their stalls,
and the very hens loafed on the roost
waiting for spring before beginning to
lay eggs. A wonderful awakening has
come! The modern rarmer is on the
Job every day OF the winter; The cows
are doing their best to provide plenty
OF ffty-cent butter, and the cheerful
cackle OF the hens on these bright ID
cen1ber DAYS atttests the fact that they
are inspired by the twentieth century
determination to make good at forty
five cents a acknowledgements Farm