Negro Maxims

Dorg in strango town better stay iuder de wag;in. De town nljcjter dai w'urs too mach wotch cliain at picnic is 'lectloneerln' fer er lickin'. JJull dorg may be good fríen' but bis inem'ry ain' good ui de dark. De bts' roas' pigb'longs tor somebody elae. Di; man d.it (foei in debt fer bis stuinuk eroi ter pay big int'rus'. Many a man '..is broke inier de eallyboose by not drinkin' t the well. ; Ole cliiokin roos' miglity liib IncampiiiiM-tin' time. Mud turtle dat tries to live on hick'ry nuts gwlne ter git hungry. Oreen 'slmraoos knows mo1 'en de man dat eat3 'em. De hin' laigs uv er ïniul don' 'lons ter no chu'ch. At home Is de bes' place fer bob-tailed 'possums. Livin' on de rieolluctions uv ole times is sortcr like entin' gravy wkl pllclifork. 'Possum (iou' l.ave ter read olmanick ter know v"en 'siiuniotis is rlp". Yaller-jacUits at camp-ineelin' don' mek mauy converts. Folks det fpeu's ter-morrer's wagia terday don' pester savin's banks mueb. - Willitm G. Engleston. To Live Ricli or to Die Rich? - Wlien Henry Grady died poor no one wondend. What is it to be rich and what to be poor? While Grady livtd lie was ricli. Every wish was gratifled and no millionaire bad more of tbe plensures of Ufe than this editor, whose sabuy was small and whoae stock In bis paper was mortgaged. Is it better to live ricli or to die rich ? Is it better to live up to all possible inoome and enjoy all the earnings of your labor and at death )eiye nothlng but üre Insurance to your family, or is it better to live witbin your income, InTest the savings to make more income, and to stintand to save to make the BavltiKS largpr? Does tbe family or the wond tliink more loviDgly of the spendor or the saver ? Beyond questiou the world likes the man who lives up to his income bettcr than the man who stiuts and economizes and dies rich.-Birmingliain Chroniele.