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Show DffMOii5 JKkLANPWGIlUCWb iCopyrisht.) j THINK OF THIS. Fay. tin. Just celling down to (acts. . Our ji-ri. as Irti'.er scuriiiii. H;is aiiVytif, bv your kind acts. Been gladder siii.-e thi morning? i Settler. Settlers are divided Into ninny kinds. Among those who have done a great service to mankind In the classification classifica-tion of settlers are Dun and Brad-street Brad-street and the Credit Men's association. associa-tion. Sofne people tire proud to he called "curlv settlers." hut many of the early settlers In one place did so because they were such late and reluctant settlers set-tlers somewhere else. Shakespeare said: "The evil that men do lives after them." Hut the people that men do run after them, send after them, and do other disagreeable tilings like that. There wouldn't be enough persons there for a quorum. The only people you can converse freely with on the subject of settling Is the man you owe. The man who owes you Is strangely reticent and sensitive on the subject, and will even rudely walk away If you persist In referring to those disagreeable dis-agreeable things. The average old settler. If you have the dots on him. will stick fairly close to the actual year he moved Into the community. But If vou haven't got him tagged, he'll stretch It at least fifteen years. The Inducers to colonization are al-wavs al-wavs begging people to come there ami settle., - Their pleading usually gtfts those that the former neighborhood pleads with to stay where they are and settle. FINN1G1N FILOSOFY Moit min whin tliey have I Iurrned thrado -y: "Good-1 "Good-1 kye, bra-aim! I won't iver nad I yez anny moral I now hiv a ' thradel" An' peoplo that hire thim f'r a job notice nt right I awa-ay. One hears now and then of an "old settlers' picnic." But if some one were foolish enough to try to organize a "prompt settlers' picnic," it would be a rank failure. |