Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — OLD SAWS RESHARPENED. [ARTICLE]

OLD SAWS RESHARPENED.

Pay as you go if you can’t get your trunk without doing It Great oaks from little acorns grow, if a hog doesn’t eat them. There’s many a slip between the banana peel aud the sidewalk. Count your chickens after they aro hatched, and lock the door of the henroost. Rank Is not always an evldenfe of merit; there’s a rank smell, for instance. All the world’s a stage, but some have box seats while others have to hang on behind. Never do to-morrow what yon can do to-day; but this doesn’t apply to paying your gas bill. Birds of a feather flock together, but none of the feathers get into a board-ing-house mattress. It is said that the end justifies the means, but millionaires don’t always have the biggest funerals.