Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1874 — Splinters. [ARTICLE]

Splinters.

Natur never puts on enny airs. She knows her strength too well for that. Men never forgit the favors they bestow on others, and seldum remember thoze they receive. If a man iz natral now days he iz charged at once with trying to be excentrik or silly. The man whom prosperity makes haughty, adversity iz sure to make a groveling coward ov. I am violently oppozed to betting, but it I do bet, I am violently in favor or winning. Thare iz no grate danger ov too mennv getting famous; there iz too much jealousy amung mankind for that. Cunning men are despized more than they are feared, bekauze we have to watch them so cluss. Menny a man haz reached the summit ov fame, and then lookt down into the humble valley he cum from and longed to be back thare agin. Thare are but very few people who are superior to their fortune. Friendships are like mutiny in one. respekt: it is easier to make them than to keep them. __ z_ - One-haff the trubbles ov life kan be traced to not saying “ No” at the right time. Thare are but few people who kan dress just az they pleaze. Don’t forget one thing—thare iz no <me but what kan do yu sum hurt or sum good, and thare is more that kan hurt yu than thare iz that kan-help yu. It iz the little things that enable us to judge ov a man’s karakter; he don’t try to hide them, and couldn’t if he would. A desire to be popular iz not only natral, but propper; it iz the means we use to gain it that iz so often disgracefull. Very humble people sumtimes want az mutch watching az a snapping turtle dus.

Silence iz one ov the strongest arguments a man Kan use. A man waz born not to satisfied, therefore he waz born not to be happy. If you kan speak well ov a man dont fail to do it; if yu kant, pleaze let him alone. If yu kno that yu are right yu kan afford to wait until time and cirkumstansiss prove it. If a man tells a lie, he iz allwuss in a grate hurry to prove it. Yung man, i dont want to make yu avarishus or covetous, but yu will find out az yu gro older that munny iz a friend, if yu use it rightly, that never will disapoint yu. There iz more real happiness in redusing our wants than in gratyfying themj No man ever failed ov suckcess who could do a thing better than another could, and kept a doing it. Aim high; yu had better fire into the klouds than a dunghill. Fashion costs more than bred and butter duz. We are all ov us brought up to think that munny iz the chief end ov man, and when at last we find out our mistake it iz too late to rektify it. If a man wants to find out the utter weakness of munny, let him try to hire a dubble tooth to stop aking. • A matter-of-fakt man iz one who when he hits hiz thumb with the hammer, iusted ov the nail, thinks it’s all right. Munny that is spent foolishly,, and then mourned over, is spent twice foolishly.—Jo*/* Billings, in Neu> York Weekly. —The newspapers indicate that more men are trying to live by their wits than can do it honestly. They recite countless and varied incidents of petty swindling. Up the Hudson a man goes into houses with a woful tale of sudden poverty, and asks for a loan on a gold ring. He would not permanently part with it on any account, as it is a hallowed keepsake, and he only wants a dollar until he can return and redeem it. He has thus disposed of hundreds of brass rings at a big profit. An operator in Connecticut starts lamp-shade stores as a cover for borrowing money, and then decamps. An Ohio knave sells cows of a supposed new breed to farmers, showing only fictitious photographs. He collects a small sum “to bind the bargain,” and leaves the rest of the payment until the cbws are delivered—which of course” never happens. The old dodge of fooling farmers into signing promissory notes, under the’delusion that they are simply putting their names to an agreement of some kind relating to patent rights, and then selling the notes for collection, has been revived in Western New York. And finally a seller of a new grease-extractor in Buffalo cleans one of a pair of gloves “just to show how it works,” ana then refuses to make the pair mates in cleanliness for less than ten cents.— N, Y Sun. —A scene was enacted atf* the Hahnemann Fair yesterday afternoon which was not down on the bills. A very fash-ionably-dressed lady, from whose ears hung diamond drops, and on whose fingers sparkled gems of the first water, was detected stealing some children’s underwear. The services of a detective were secured, and the kleptomaniac subjected to a custom-house search, which revealed the fact that her pockets we're staffed with fancy articles of various descriptions which she had pilfered from the different tables. The managers of the fair, with a magnanimity much too liberal in the present era of crime, allowed the woman to take her departure, with the injunction to keep away- from theffair for the future. —Chicago Inter - Ocetm.