Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — SAWED-OFF SERMONS [ARTICLE]

SAWED-OFF SERMONS

People sometimes stir up a lot of trouble by telling the truth whew it would be policy to say nothing. An office seeker ia a man who shakes the voter’s hand before the election and shakes the voter afterward. The average doctor would die of starvation If his patients had no more confidence In him than he has in himself. It’s Just as important to be sure yon are wrong before backing out as it is to be sure you are right before going ahead. Time' may be money, but somehow a man’s friends always appreciate the money he spends with them more than the time. ~ Fine feathers may not make fine birds,* but they attract attention to some birds that would otherwise go unnoticed. You may have observed that as the bride and what she married leaves the church, trouble gets busy and camps on their trail. You know yourself better than other people know you, therefore you should swallow flattery with several grains ofsodium chloride. When a woman says unpleasant things to a man she always ends byconfessing that what she told him was for his own good. There nre lots of near-great men In the world, but a truly great man Is one who has traveled extensively and neither lectures or writes about it. When you have said enough, shut up. Many a man keeps on boring after he has struck oil and It all runs out et the bottom. —Indianapolis Star.