Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-01-23
THE VILLAGE DEACON.
BY Bert Walker.

Most all successful crooks pay
. their little personal obligations. II
is only the vermin OF humanity thai
borrows a few dollars OF a friend
and then forfeits that friendship
rather than pay 1t back.
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j am sometimes bothered a good
deal about what to say, but / gener-
ally take consolation in the thought
that what l don't say the people
will, and let It go at that.
once knew a preacher who found
several mistakes in the dictionary.
Before he left town the people found
so many mistakes in his past life
that he had to get out.
People WILL let an all around stink
err do things in a town for which
they would hang a decent citizen.
Look around your town and see If
1t isn't so.
Women always take greater inter
est in a man as soon as they find
out that he has a picture on the
inside lid of his watch.
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Some men will lie right down on
a volcano and go to sleep. Friends
warn them and tell them that the
volcano will some day be in a state
of eruption, but they laugh and pay
no attention to it. Are you sleeping
on volcano? Are you allowing
something to grow into your life
that will some day turn into a vol
cano, the eruption of which will
throw burning lava and hot ashes
over all the days of your future ex-
istence? II you are you had better
stay awake long enough some night
to pick up your bed and move 1t to
q place of safety. You may think
that your neighbors do not know of
the existence of this volcano, but
they do. They may cay nothing to
you about 1t, but they are "onto"
you bigger than a house. 1t is the |
wise man who moves before the vol
cano erupts. The foolish one lin
gers too long and is lost. This DR..
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde business does
not pay. Too many men have test
ed the plan and lost before your
lay for you to attempt any expert
nents. Every town has its vol
.anoes, and you cannot afford to be
taught sleeping near the crater when
he ashes begin to fall. Move out
INTO the clear while there is yet time.
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Some women are Jealous of their
husbands when the facts of the mat
or are that he married them as the
cry last chance.
It doesn't require much of an eff
ort for boy to get to thinking that
be boss can't get along without
Inn, but 1t takes lots of hard work !
, get the boss to think so.
Good card players among the wo-
en are about as scarce as good
Ike makers among the men.
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Ask man who says he does not
Sieve the Bible If he has ever read
and nine out of ten of them will =
y mo" But then, the proportion =
those who do believe in 1t and -
i've read 1t is about the same.
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An old bachelor will lie just as !.
UGH about his age as an old maid =
ID get a whole lot more people to, "
lieve him. :,
What I'would like to know is this:
you get any longer credit mark ~
r going to church on a July Sun !,
y morning than you do for going
January? -,
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I have about made up my mind =.
at whenever a woman runs her ~
stands business and it is sue :.
is, that there wouldn't be any =
siness If the woman wasn't around. -
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have been in the business myself -,
g enough to learn that when you
Igle up with a liar the best policy =,
to play a waiting game and let
q tell his story first. ",