Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — Lafagan's Logic. [ARTICLE]

Lafagan's Logic.

Reputation makes the author. Once established, even foolishness will receive the market value for wisdom in dollars and cents. I believe in charity for the sinner, but am not in favor of trying to compromise with brass-knuckled sin only to get insulted for my pains. I am grateful to England for one good deed, anyhow.. She set the pattern for dndeism in the country, or, in my native tongue, disclosed the fools. It must be pretty discouraging, this hunting for happiness and never real izing when it is found, and I pity some people in this respect as much as I do a stray dog. It is a hard thing to say, but when a woman once begins to go down hill man is ever ready to grease the track for her rapid descent. When a man cannot attain the height of his ambition by honesty, Then I recommend rascality. Although this field is pretty well crowded, yet there is always an opening and plenty of people left whose teeth have not yet beoome so sore but they will bite again. Do not get discouraged. No one is perfect. And if there is one curse greater than another, it is when despair has fastened its talons upon man or woman and the angel of hope has fled. Do not forget also that every trial or temptation outwitted places yon ohe round nearer the top of “Jacob’s” traditional ladder. I do not believe in sudden wealth. Sudden riches generally make us forget the time when we were poor, but riches accumulated as the steady dropping that fills the rainwater barrel, is one of life’s conquests that do not forget the days of want and worry. Such wealth is more often a blessing than otherwise. —Chicago Ledger.

“ A farmer near Factoryville, Pa., in one day killed a mill snake in his spring honse, three water snakes in his dnek pond, a black snake in his meadow, and another black snake which was in the act of swallowing a toad. He says that so many snakes appearing early in the spring is a sure sign of a dry summer. He has observed this sign for many seasons and has never known it to fail. Major Simmons and A. T. Pattillo of Gwinnett, Ga., saw what they tbonglit waw a Very large moccasin snake on the bank of a pond. Simmons fired a shot at the snake and killed it On examination he found that there were four snakes in the bnnch and that lie had killed them all. The word embossed was formerly applied to a deer when foaming at the ~ mouth. It was once usual, to call a pack of hounds a cry.