Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-30
By Way of Relish

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Written for the News:
Just for our folks by way of relish.
Much of what we call love at first
sight fails when it comes to the sec
ond, sober view.
When you your resolutions make be
very sure they will not break.
A good head is an essential to a
story as to a man..
When woman tears her rufies she
is apt to be ruffled.
A freckled person always wears
specks.
Did you notice that birds in their
little nests agree to crowd each other
out.
The wind often travels eighty miles
an hour, and that, too, without tick
et
Many q man who is calling loudly
for Justice would be in the county Jail
if he got it.
A word to the wise is sufficient, but
a whole column wouldn't convince the
otherwise.
Some men are like laying hen.
They set up big cackling every time
they do anything.
II doesn't do for the dentist when he
is lifting one for a set of teeth to make
false impression.
Women may possibly not know
enough to vote, though we don't admit
it, but she certainly knows enough not
to sell that vote to the first briber who
may happen along.
When a man comes along whining
that he is the victim of circumstances,
the chances are that the Circumstance
ca were contained within iron bound
slaves and labelled, "Old Rye"
It is quite right to get rid of the I'M
profitable COW, but suppose bossy
would turn the table by insisting up
on getting rid Of the Improbable
man.
A saloonkeeper was franker than
some others in business, for be
had cards printed and distributed
among his patrons which read as fol-
lows: Friends and neighbors. am
grateful for past favors and having
supplied my store with fine line OF
choice liquors, allow me to inform you
that | shall continue to make drunk
ards, paupers and beggers for the So
Der, industrious, respectable part OF
the community to support. My liq-
uors will excite robbery and blood
shed. They will diminish your COM
forts, increase your expenses ana
shorten life. / shall confidently rec
ommend them as sure to multiply ia
tai accidents and incurable diseases
They will deprive some of life, some
of reason, many Of character, and all
of peace. They will make fathers
fiends, wives widows, children or
phans, and all poor. 1 will train your
sons in infidelity, dissipation, ignor-
ance, lewdness, and every other vice.
I will corrupt the minister of relig-
ion, obstruct the gospel, defle the
church and cause as much temporal
and eternal death as l can. This will
accommodate the public. have re-
solved to gather the wages of sin and
fatten on the ruins of my species. -
1t is not what one earns but what
one saves that makes a competence, so
saving should begin early in life and
in ones business career practice occas-
ional self-denial, that cigar, that box
of candy, that frivolous bow, that
magazine, that expensive shirtwaist,
that fiashy tie or scarf pin, that string
of beads. These do not make one the
least bit happier. The cost of each
can be slipped away into the savings
fund, which will soon grow from
cents to dollars. Lay away few
cents every week. It will be mighty
handy in an emergency.
Take no thought for the morrow. 1t
cannot be interpreted.
They who toll not. neither do they
spin, will be likely to lack proper
clothing.
Do it now, put away from tempta-
ton that money that burns hoIe in
your pocket until spent. To ourselves
and to those who observe us we may
seem to be making little Roadway,
but to the Eye that looks beneath the
surface every effort counts. That eye
that never sleeps knows who it is that
looks after himself and little ones that
are dependent on him for bread.
Some folks want all the pie, but l
believe in dividing it up with all, for
the test of the pudding is in the eat
ing it.