| Show = ftXXXXXXXXXXXXIXXXXXXXXXXXX F EDITORIAL exuxxuu anc oc ocxxxxxuxxo r Scandalmongers In all communities we find people who are ever ready to belittle the Mork of others commonly called Mudslingers slingers We are sorry to note that there lire a few of these in our city persons who are ready at all times to pick flaws in the work of everybody else The old saying is To err is human to forgive divine We arc not sure but it would be just as well to say overlook instead of forgive No good can come from a public attempt at-tempt to condemn the city or the city officials If anyone has just grounds for complaint let them make it to the proper authorities and not give it out to yellow journals whose chief object is to assassinate characters i It is a poor excuse of an old hen if permitted to run loose in town that cannot at least make one enemy out of a good neighbor 4 A horse race is an interesting event to some but more of your friends ure interested in any event that concerns you If you go away on a visit or friends come to visit you see that the fact reaches this office before publication publi-cation dayBoys day-Boys who are in the habit of killing our song birds with air guns and slingshots sling-shots are probably not aware that such sport is in violation of the state law and any person who sees them kill a bird can have them arrested and fined for every offense To avoid unkind criticism Soy nothing noth-ing do nothing be nothing f The good book says Give to everyone every-one that asketh thee but that docs I nt menu to give this drunkard money to buy whiskey it doesnt mean to give the baby n hammer and a looking glass because he asks for it and it doesnt mean that we should give to professional beggars who travel from town to town The Bible doesnt always al-ways mean what it says but it always means what it means Some of our farmers wonder why their sons have a desire to quit the I farm preferring town or city life The cause is with the farmer himself With the boy on the farm it is perpetual perpet-ual toil in good weather all through I the busy season and perpetual lonli i ness in bad weather and most of the I winter season The time when the i farmer has leisure is at the very time when they cannot get away from home I on account of their isolation and had roads The boy hungers for company apd hIs heart revolts against this unendurable un-endurable lonliness and to free himself him-self from it walks miles through the mud to spend an hour at the Country store We are glad to note that in some sections of our country the young people of both sexes have broken brok-en through these barriers and established estab-lished 1 farmers clubs and little societies > socie-ties of one sort or another This should be encouraged and will prove n great tonic to keep the young people on the farm and make life to them worth I the living I |
