Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. You can detect lovers out walking as far as you can see them. How many men there are whose full names are never known till announced in their obituaries. Flowers raised in hot houses are the prettiest of all, but nothing to eat is as good when raised that way. A great many people never get out socially except to some church conference.

Whenever you get a letter written on stationery printed with a rubber Btamp, do not get excited. It t oesn’t amount to much. Tv You can’t help judging folks by those they stop to talk with on the street. There are people who hate their neighbors so that they will not speak to them, yet they go to missionary meetings to bring to the heathen the love of the Lord. Home made dresses show how they are made. Every man likes to come to his office through a heavy rain, and have it stop as he gets there. Half the fuel is wasted because the women do not learn to regulate the dampers. If your baby refuses to come to you just have a lead pencil in sight. If your lead pencil is lost, send your baby after it. If a man carries a colored umbrella, you know he is'married end the umbrella belongs to his wife. A feminine faced man hasn’t much show. There are some people who cannot have any sense pounded into them. « Every day one is impressed with how numerous fools are.

Nothing will keep some folks from being fools. Whenever you hear of a girl marrying a man old enough to be her grandfather, you may know she spells her name “Edythe,” or “Alyse.” Men who can get all the credit they want, don’t need it. A cigarette fiend pays the penalty in the esteem in which he is held. You can’t tell by the flour on a miller’s clothes what kind of flour he makes. He may be grinding chop feed. Some day stop and count how many things are told you that you don’t care anything about. You want keep a sort of lookout for the man who always has a toothpick in his mouth. Every man- has to listen to long stories about nothing every day.' Babies imitate their fathers more than their mothers. That is probably because men do so many things they ought not to do. About the meanest thing to say of a person is that he doesn’t buy a thing because he can’t afford it. Half the work in the world is caused by folks who do not do what they ought to. The wonder is that half of us get as many things done right as we do. People will judge a man by his occupation, even if it is not fair to do so.

The son of Editor Kitt, of the Goodland Herald, lost his coat the other day and Bro, Kitt is advertising for it as follows: “Lost—A boy’s coat; will fit an urchin 8 years old. Had in the pockets 14 rusty nails, 1 fish-hook with dried worm on it, § pound twine string, 2 tops, 1 piece peculiar colored brick-bat, 1 pound of iron used as sinker on fish-line, small piece of rubber, two onion tops and miscellaneous other valuable articles. Belongs to our boy, who says he laid it off somewhere while he parted two kids that were scrapping. Thank heavens the hopeful still has his pants, although one suspender is gone. Please return the coat to the Herald office.”