Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1911 — WIT AND WISDOM OF BILDAD. [ARTICLE]

WIT AND WISDOM OF BILDAD.

Department fortune seldom provides herself with a return ticket. The man who has to fish for compliments is usually short of bait. The man who saves up for a rainy day will always find his rain checks negotiable. Some men seem to think that they have to lead a fast life to keep ahead of their creditors. It is only after the fool and His money are parted that there is much hope for the reformation of the fool. If we all looked before we.leaped, it is highly probable that there would not be so many lepers In the world. If the average man whose hands are Idle would devote all his powera and strength to holding his tongue, there would not be so mueh gossip in the air. The man who tries to show off in his aeroplane is in all probability suffering from that kind of pride that the philosophers tell us goeth before a fall. Actions speak louder than words, especially when they are actions for breach of promise or something equally available for the purpose of publicity. . ' The troyMe with a great many men who begin at the bottom of the ladder Is that they spend most of their time looking around for an elevator to tgke thenrup.—Judge.