Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — Arrow Shots. [ARTICLE]

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. A man who boasts that nobody can change his mind, usually has not much mind to change. Nothing looks as ugly as a strange crowd of people. It is wonderful how much time some folks spend learning nothing. How gullible we all are. We often wonder why everybody calls just whenwe are busiest. Nearly every day we hear some new kind of a lie. On one thing we nearly all agree, and that is that we are all poor. A man will admit that he pays a good deal of attention to what his wife says, if it will help him out of something that he can’t get out of very well any other way. The only time we are real glad that we do not have to depend on church charity is' when we see the contribution box passed for the poor. The hardest person to convince is one who doesn’t know what you are talking about. Every time we get up early and see how much time it gives us, we make up our mind to do it every morning and keep the resolution till the next morning, when we forgot all about it. There is no use in trying to get out of paying your debts. They will show up every time there is a chance. On amateur programs many numbers are “selected/’ but they have to show us. We always envy a working man his appetite when he eats a cold dinner out of a dinner bucket. The biggest cigars are not always the best. A woman will get a letter and go on getting dinner before reading it. No matter how trifling a man is, he swells up if asked advice. Some people like to run funerals. Half the gossip you hear is not true, and the rest is doubtful. Some things seem easy till you try to do them. Every day we run across somebody who is mean in money matters. Ever notice how anxious you get for your mail when the train is late ?