People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — FARM PHILOSOPHY. [ARTICLE]

FARM PHILOSOPHY.

The more you love yourself the less you are sure to love others. A TRiFUNGtdog is generally not half as trifling as the man who keeps him. Some fellows kick a horse every time they enter his stall and then wonder why he does not love them. The stalk of corn that grows the tallest and appears the most conspicuous nearly always bears a blasted ear. Prodigality is no sign of generosity. It rather indicates a narrowness of both mind and heart too contracted to comprehend the real value of things. If some men Avould hoc with as much devotion as they appear to pray in prayer meeting they Avould not have nearly so much complaint to make of hard times. The man who will spend the most time in the harvest season talking polities is generally the one who is of the least account to himself, his neighbors or the government.—American Agriculturist.