Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1909 — PERT PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERT PARAGRAPHS.

It may be that the good die young, but it by no means follows that the young die good. The way some men run for office it almost seems as if the office were running, too, and keeping a good bit ahead of them all the time. It is hard to please everybody, and, after all, nobody would care to be that inoffensive, anyway. No man has a cinch on wisdom. Any man is due to go off his base and qualify for service in the great army' of fools at any minute. If anybody is justified in tendering himself a vote of thanks, it is undoubtedly the self made man.

If you want to know how stubborn we can be, just oppose us on an immaterial •point and watch I us get busy. ' Wh?n some on® else comes tp, F—.. grief it is curious how we somehow seem to remember that we al--1? ways thought he would.

Ever notice that thoae people who suffer In silence are always round telling their friends all about It? If you say nothing about people that you would not say to them, you would do much to ward overcoming your die* ease of talkitta. / *’