The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-07-15

Making money shows talent; saving
it, art.
The greatest Of all sins are those
that are found out.
One who finds it necessary to adyer-
tise his virtues doesn't have any.
Never mind what your neighbor
SAYS. It's what you do that counts.
The woman who marries her best
friend is in grave danger OF losing
him.
The only trouble with industry Is
that it needs to be a little more IN
dustrious.
The road to ruin is a well rodden
trail. You can't miss it If you want
to find 1t.
1t isn't the best Of policy to take all
you can get. You may get more than
you want to take.
We term them the weaker sex, but
many a poor devil wishes they were
not half sc strong.
Opportunities are never without
value, although many people are un-
able to fix the price.
"Kissing is forbidden In Japan"
chirps an exchange. Doesn't do any
good to forbid it here.
The efficiency OF some people con-
sists principally Of the recommends
tions of their friends.
They say that a woman can't drive
a nail but most of them can drive
their husbands to do 1t for them.
Beware of the fellow who is over
solicitous of your welfare. He prob
ably wants to sell you a gold brick.
A man is not necessarily a fool be-
cause he acts like one. Some women
could make a wooden Indian smile.
That Atlantic City mixup can hard
ly be called a prize fight, after all.
Payment was guaranteed in advance.
Thus far the summer has been quite
In keeping with the prohibition act.
1t Is a little moist, but internally dry.
If you never expect others to do as
much for you as you are willing to do
for others, you will not be disappoint-
ed.
You sometimes hear of a good-for-
nothing boy who became a famous
man, but did you eve know of one
that didp
It's a funny sort of combination,
but the mar who paints a town red
often gets a black eye during the per-
Torrance.
1t is universally admitted that the
Lord created but n perfect man,
but there are many millions who
claim to be No. 2.
There are very few fools in this
world. They generally have sense
enough left to consider others more
afflicted than themselves.
OF course, there might be method
In the madness of some women who
are continually putting their hands
on their back hair. 1t might fall of.
We intended to say it but an ex-
change beat US to 1t. 1t says the
stock of June brides was small in
quantity, but that the deficiency was
made up in quality.
/. you find it impossible to get rid
of potato bugs in any other way you
might squirt a little modern booze
over the tops. Even a p. b. couldn't
survive that stuff.
After all, there Is a bond of sympa.
thy between doctors and editors,
The n doesn't are to take his own
medicine, while the other seldom fol
lows his own advice.
Congress very properly threw the
hooks into that medicinal beer propo
sition-or perhaps it wasn't congress
after all. At any rate we can't afforC
to have a nation of invalids.
Since March 8 Attorney General
Daugherty has dropped rs special at.
torneys and 10 special agents from the
Department of Justice. The reform
has brought a saving to the Depart
ment of about 100000 a year. Al
an evidence of the extravaganza be
queathed by his predecessor In Office
he cites the case of n special at
torney who was carried ON the payroll
at an annual salary nf s2A, 200.
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