Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1902 — They Say. [ARTICLE]

They Say.

Death has no almanac. All clouds do not rain. Virtue consists in aotion. A threatened man lives seven years. When cats are monsing they don’t mew. The morning hour has gold in its mouth. Genius cannot supply the place of virtue. Thunderous threats sour the sweetmilk. A man without money is like a ship without sails. Slander is a moth that eats holes in a good name. “Ignorance is the mother of impudence,” no father is named. Some buy health, but none by wealth can purchase wit. A tombstone marks the dividing line between here and there. “Employment brings enjoyment, when it brings the means to enjoy.” Occasionaly a woman’s face is her fortune—and her husband’s misfortune. Nearly every man actually believes that other men are interested in his troubles. If the donkey only knew he was a donkey he would kick himself to death. Half the troubles we complain of are troubles only because we complain of them. Ig isn’t what a man is, but rather what he pretends to be, that makes him ridiculous. Indolence is a sluggish stream, yet it eventually undermines .the last virtue a man has. The best horses need breaking and the best hearts aching, ere they are fit for life’s finest traveling. Whenever a man’s business is running down, the first expense he tries to save is his advertising bill, and then he rnns down faster than ever.