| Show F A A ft 1 alp 0 fp in 0 acl lon amm A town is like soup a little pepper improves it most of 0 our town knockers cant seem to realino that the town could get along alone beautifully without mem it if they find things not to their liking here it seems strange that they do not move on 4 0 the other day we heard a citizen raising a jc considerable fuss because he heard a man knocking our village the man in question has only lived here a short time Court courtesy lesy prevented us LS from telling mis citizen that we have heard him knock the toan a great many times and he has lived here all his life what can call he h expect of 0 a stranger 9 W everyone has met plenty of those delightful people who never like the way the town is being run it they were in the lead tuey would have things thus and so it if it were not for or the fact act that it would be disi dis ast erous to the town it would bo be a eod plan to let these self sef satisfied I 1 cople try their land hand at the joli job tor for a d few months you never know the difficulties of a position until you try to fill it As a rule the advantages appear on the surface and uia the difficulties are buried tar far beneath but most ol of us are not far sighted enough to see this until we nye learn by actual experience w 4 the world has been very kind to many who were once known as dunce or mock block heads after they have become very successful but it ft was very cross to them while they were struggling through discouragement and misinterpretation st such lives do not how however that a numskull ts is sure to climb to the top because I 1 the last boy I 1 in his bis class became the great henry ward beecher is no reason to suppose that the last boy in the next class or vaa the next must become anything great at all there them must be some lire life in the boy or he will not rise under any circumstances until the day appointed tor for the resurrection ot of the dead it if he starts out in life as a failure he will end up as one unless he gets thoroughly wakened up in sonic some way give every boy and girl a fair air chance and reasonable encouragement and do not condemn them even because of a large degree ol of downright stupidity for many so called good tor for no nothing thin c boys block heads numskulls num skulls dul lards or dunces are only boys out ot of their places round pegs in square holes sometimes we hear the complaint from townspeople that our little sheet has no news in it yet nearly every week we receive appreciative and appreciated letters from absent subscribers who tell us how bow much news we manage to crowd into our columns people here in town expect the impossible ilow how can we tell them things they dont know when some of them know about events before they happen we cant manufacture news you know that Is the prep ot of the gossip and he is welcome to it we have troubles enough i already As it asp Is the editor is as a rule irule the best little prevaricator now passing as legal tender lie he would have to leave town it if he were not probably you want us to be too literal with our news instead ol of saya say ing that mrs jones spent jhc thc thursday in the city shopping you would prefer that we say mrs jones was in the city thursday and purchased a new set of false teeth that might be alright so long as the joke was on mrs jones hut but it might not please you so well to have us publish the facts when you go to the city ty to have your hair haar dyed or to purchase a new false front the shoe always tits fits differently when it is on your own toot foot and you should think of this be before fore you blame too much on the poor editor his shoulders are broad heaven knows but sometimes it only takes a straw to break a camels back BABY IS GOING TO SCHOOL the baby is going tp school ah me what will the mother do with never a call to button or pin or tie a little shoe ilow how can she keep herself busy all day with the little hindering thing awaya away another basket to fill with lunch another goodbye good bye to say and the mother stands at the door I 1 to see her baby march away and turns with a sigh that is halt relief and halt half a something akin to grief she thinks of a possible future morn when the children one by one will go from their home out into tho the world to battle with life alone and not even the baby be left to cheer the desolate home of that future year she picks up garments here and there thrown down in careless haste and tries to think how it would seeni seem it if nothing were displaced it if the house were always as still a ai this how would she bear the loneliness many young people who have had no early opportunities and who see no chance tor for a colleye course throw away any thought ot of self improve ment it if they cannot have several years at college they see no use in trying trying to educate Ahem themselves selves if I 1 they could only realize the immense value of spare moments and what whai can be accomplished in ten or fifteen minutes each day they would change their minds instead of 0 throwing away all the long winter evenings I 1 in profitless pleasure spend a f few ew of them in worth while reading and concentrated thought it is possible to pick up an education in the odds and ends ot of time which mose people throw away many ot of the worlds most eminent men acquired their education in scraps of 0 time IS If there is a real thirsting for knowledge you can usually make the opportunity to obtain it do not whine about your lack of advantages but get to A ft aoi oi aik oik k 10 aw A young man mail may have many friends says sir thomas lipton but he will find none so steadfast so constant so ready to respond to his wants so capable of 0 pushing him ahead as a little leather covered book with the name of the bank on the cover saving is the first great principle of success it creates independence it gives a young man standing it tills fills him with vigor it stimulates him with proper energy eberg y in fact it brings to him the best part of any success i happiness this is a time when the doctrine of thrift cannot be too strongly preached in every household some member needs to study economy sometimes the husband with his tobacco sf allows up the careful economy of his wife sometimes the wife with her household extravagance destroys the savings ot of her husband someone has estimated edward atkinson kin soll I 1 believe that in the united states the waste from bad cooking alone is over a hundred million dollars a year and the young people of 0 the household for simple luxuries these day they spend an ordinary income nickels dimes and quarters are a nuisance until they are pent then they wonder where all their money goes the squirrels know that it will not always be summer they store food tor for the winter which they know is coming but scores of human beings do not profit by the examples of these turry furry little creatures they store nothing consume everything as they go along alone and sickness and old age finds them with no reserve they have sacrificed their future tor for the present sometimes the farmers think that the town near their farms means nothing to them whenever they are asked to help any town mo bement they are rather up in the air over the proposition yet ret the value of their r farra farm depends a great deal upon whether they are near a good live market as they would very soon learn it if they would attempt to sell |
