Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1906 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

A Gunner exceedingly canny One morning remarked to hi. granny, “A oanner can can Anything that he can, But a oanner can’t can a can, can he? Sin is sexless. Heaven is a reward,' not a gift. Not all “high flyers” are aerialsts. The greatest luck is born of pluck. It requires trials to make triumphs. Honest sweat makes sweet slumber. Any coward can do the popular thing, A cinch in the hand is worth two in the mind. A little knowledge of how to handle a gun is a dangerous thing. An honest vote is the best medicine for the ills of the body politic. A life measured only by length of years is usually a life wasted. It usually takes less time to go around than to find the shortest route, A lie that is half truth is not improved much by reason of its better half. Everything is profit that comes under the pencil of the amateur chiqken raiser. Science has yet to discover Jan opiate as soothing or an explosive as deadly as love. What some men believe to be a crisis in their lives is usually merely an incident. Men who pose in the limelight should be careful of what they do in the twilight. It is very few persons who ever have a chance to look a gift horse in the mouth. A dollar-owned man is of less worth to the community than a man owned dollar. It is mighty hard for the man who has to take laughing gas to see the point of the joke. When a man begins "flying high” it is a pretty good sign that he hasn’t been walking straight. It is a mighty poor astrologer who can not predict whatever the man wants who is paying the bill. Frequently the young lady with a piano will play for the man next door without having been asked. You can depend on more steady results from the garden when the man with the hoe is a woman. -It would be a much happier world if the postmen could be broken of the habit of leaving duns in the mail box. The man who says he is at home where his hat is off changes his mind when a cyclone come along and lifts his lid, If there is anything more ridiculous than an old maid who tries to act giddy it is an old man who tries to act coltish. A prophet who can prophesy to the profit of others fills a long felt want and a long leather pocketbook at the same time. Occasionally you hear of a man having more money than he knows what to do with, but no one ever heard of a woman being in that delightful condition.