A Philosopher

Nearly every villaje has its philosopher, ofttimes in humble guise, whose chief business is to observe the ways of the world and duly moralize thereon. öuch a philosopher held forth in the corner grocery the other evening to a small crowd of listeners. "There are lots of farmers, "he began, "who think they can turn everything they tonch into gold. if they can only lócate near soine villaje where tlieras business going on. Vell now let me teil y ou that on an aveiage there liever was a bigger raistake in the world. You look around the outskirts of any large village or city in the state and see if what I teil you isn't true. "You'll find some good farmers living close to the towns, but you"ll find a heap more of men that farm a little, keep shop a little, work out carpentering or in the factory a little, aud sit round agood deal and don'tamount in the end to much of anything anyway. I've known lots of 'em of just that sort If they had farms too far from town to loaf in the stores and to catch up so many 'jobs' as they cali 'em, they'd attend strictly to business and run the farm to make a dollar out of it. I5ut this 'edge of the village' business SDoils them."' Y iii deplore (xuafTeUng, inn wc (Ic.-iily lnw (o sec a gOOd fiffht. 'i'hc prlze-rlsg :mii 1 1 1 ■ marrlage ring are hoiii neglected for tfae stage. A rolling stonc liMtlicrs no diom . meltber is it aifllcted Ui any fungus. ;i,iiliiu-ss is next to i?ollins ; luit siiiail lioys siimild nut go s iniminu' on Sunday.