The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1916-01-26
GOOD SUGGESTIONS.
by j. KNOX HALL.

De pIOuQ 20 10. our lOIu6 m0TCIlduUS
are men who are always with you.
They are men of tried integrity. They
are men who have a livelihood to earn
and reputation to uphold. They are
not I'M business today and out tomor-
row. They do business at the same
old stand day after day and year after
year. You buy an article of your
homeperchant and if it is not exact
ly as he represents it to you, you can
always find him, and he is more than
willing to make his word good. Be-
sides, he is man, who, no doubt, has
let you have goods time and again on
your promise to pay after harvest or
when the spring opened and you could
get work. This is something you
should think of when ordering goods
of a foreign firm. Will they ''carry"
you till after harvest? No indeed, if
you want their goods you must pay for
them when you get them, and run the
chances of the coffee being half peas
and the sugar half sand. 1t never
pays to patronlze any smooth speak
ing stranger who tells you that the
men whom you have known and done
business with for years are swindling
you. He, himself, is not around on
a mission of mercy that he may take
place among the throDg that will
walk the streets of the New Jerusa-
lem.
In many towns of this size women's
clubs are numerous, and while they
are criticised by some, they are GER
tainly beneficial in many ways. In
small towns and villages the club has
been special providence to many
weary mother or to the woman of few
early advantages and large aspirations.
In our great cities women's clubs have
been the first to institute social re
forms and to call public attention to
crying evils.
You want good advice? Rise early.
Be abstemious. Be frugal. Attend
to your own business, and never trust
it to another. Be not afraid to work,
and diligently, too, with your own
hands. Treat everyone with civility
and respect. Good manners insure
success. Accomplish what you under
take. Never be mean-rather give
than take the odd shilling. Honesty
is not only the best policy, but the
only policy. Time is money. Make
your own word as good as your bond.
Reckon the hours of the day as SO
many dollars, the minutes as so many
cents. Live within your income.
Ninety. nine may say no, the hun
dredth yes. Take off your coat; don't
be afraid of manual labor America is
large enough for all. Keep out of
politics unless you are sure to win.
You are never sure to win, so look
out. Z '.';' : ~ So
When the tongue of trade is coated,
when the eyes and limbs of the clerk
are dull and languid, when the raging
fever tackles the empty vitals of the
till, when the spider roosts in the
empty cash box, and bouquets of de-
cay are on the chandelier, it is con-
elusive that the advertising doctor
has not been consulted.
All honor to the man who earns his
living by honest toll. He, it is, above
all others, who is always pulling for
better things. He is always on the
front seat of the community band
wagon. He is the first resident to
greet the stranger and tell him that
he is visiting the best town in the
state.
When a town ceases to grow it
commences to die, and the more the
people try to kill off each other in
their business and good name, the
lmore rapidly will utter ruin come to
all. Stand together for the advance
ment of every citizen. If a man
shows ability to prosper do not pull
him back with jealousy or weigh him
down with cold indifference.
Many a woman goes out shopping
dressed in silk and enveloped in per-
fume whose hard-working husband
hasn't had new suit Of clothes or a
decent meal in five years. Yes, and
many loafer stands on the street
with sinking pipe in his face, his
tank full of booze and his mouth full
of profanity, whose Woodworking wife
hasn't had new dress or kind word