n the State militia?"

"No, he never entered the militia."

"Then, how did he get to be a colonel?"

"He drew a sword, sir, at a church fair!"

1925

_Tobacco-takers._--Dr. Caldwell says that there are but three
animals that can abide tobacco, namely:--The African rock goat--the
most loathsome creature on earth,
The foul tobacco worm,
And the rational creature, man!

1926

Talk less about the years to come--
Live, love and labor more to-day.

--_Alice Carey._

1927

Better be preparing for tomorrow, than regretting yesterday.

1928

To-morrow is, ah, whose?

--_D. M. Mullock._

1929

What cannot be told, had better not be done.

1930

Never hold any one by the button or the hand, in order to be heard out;
for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue
than them.

--_Chesterfield._

1931

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your
own moral.

--_Alphonse Karr._

1932

If you will control the tongue, you will soon be able also to control
the mind.

1933

_Tongue._--When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue
creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

1934

The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil
that is done in the world.

1935

Let mildness ever attend thy tongue.

1936

It is more necessary to guard the mouth than the chest.

--_From the German._

1937

It is related that a peasant once came to a monk to be taught the
Scriptures. The holy man began with the Psalm, 39 chapter, 1st verse: "I
said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue."

The peasant went his way to practice this and never returned. Lifelong
was the lesson, and lifelong the endeavor to master it.

1938

The tongue's not steel, yet it often cuts.

1939

A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant
use.

--_Irving._

1940

There are tourists who so busy themselves in traveling that they see
nothing.

1941

He'll seldom need aid
Who has a good trade.

1942

A useful trade may be said to be like a mine