Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1902 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow Into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. Treat a man well and he forgets it at once, but do him a mean turn and he will never forget you. Nothing will ruin a man as quickly as conceit. Some people do nothing but fool things. A man who begins to speak to folks as soon as he is nominated to some office thereby shows that he knows better. A Reuben in the car will always raise the window and look out when the train stops. * Outsiders always very greatly overestimate the signs made to one another by members of the same lodge. It isn’t worth while to be always* complaining about your poverty. Some men talk to you as if they were the only men on earth who iiave grievances. When one man slaps another with the fiat of his hand what a contempt he must have for him. He would rather be knocked down by a man’s fist, even if it hurts worse. Did you ever notice the number of rings worn by the membersofa cheap show troupe? People never criticise a lecturer if he belongs to their church. People who live on the second or third floor always go upstairs two steps at a time. A man who wears rings on both Jiands usually doesn’t cut much ice. Most girls marry chumps. When we notice that the landlord has dirty finger nails we do not expect much. Frequently state inspectors of one thing and another can’t tell B from bull’s foot, yet they are sent out to in spect things. Every woman thinks her daughter can cook. A baby always falls down in the very muddiest place in the walk. A man thinks no Sunday is as nice to stay at hoipe as the one when his wife takes him along to church. What a pity that the services at church do not seem to go as fast as they do at a first-class theater. Very few men talk to their preacher like they do to other men. Preachers will quote a poem that they have spent weeks in looking up and will say, “You remember the familiar poem,” but no one ever heard of it before. Why does the weather always moderate just as we have the stove pipe cleaned out? A ten. twenty and thirty show is the first to call either, “eyether.” It is a wonder that anybody believe? anything since everybody lies so much.