Side by side ov Plain Truth stands Common Sense--two ov the gratest warriors time haz ever produced. Diogoneze waz a grater man than Alexander, not bekauze he lived in a tub, but bekauze a tub waz all he wanted tew liv in; wealth could not flatter him, nor could poverty make him afrade. It takes just 3 times az long tew tell a lie, on enny subjekt, az it duz tew tell the truth. Vanity iz the most jealous disseaze; i hav saw men so vain that they kouldn’t look with kompozure upon a peakok spreading hiz appendix tew the morning sun. Tru valor iz like honesty, it enters into all that a man sez or duz. The man who thinks “he kant do it,” iz alwuss more than haff right. One ov the hardest things tew learn a child, iz tew tell the truth, but it should be done, if--death ensues. SHOOTING STARS. Most people are like an egg, too phull ov themselfs to hold enny thing else. Thare iz this difference between genius and tallent, one iz a natral reservoi, and the other haz tew be kontinually pumpt up. “Misery luvs kompany,” but kant bear kompetishun, thare aint no boddy but what thinks thare bile iz the sorest bile in markit. A reputashun for honor once lost, iz lost forever. Men who kno the least, alwus argy the most. A crowing hen, and a kakling rooster, are the poorest kind ov poultry. To be a big man amung big men, iz what proves a man’s karakter--to be a bul frog amung tadpoles, dont amount to mutch. What a blessed thing it iz that we kant “see ourselfs az others see us,”--the sight would take all the starch out ov us. Thare iz lots ov pholks in this wurld who kan keep nine out ov ten ov the commandments, without enny trubble at all, but the one that iz left they kant keep the small end ov. I never question a suckcess, enny more than i do the right ov a bull dog to lie in hiz own gateway. To wake up from a sweet sleep, iz tew be born agin. Expektashun iz the child ov Hope, and like its parent iz an arogant brat. [Illustration: SHOOTING STARS.] Mi friend, yu may be more cunning than _most_ men, but yu aint more cunning than _all_ men. Excentricitys are most alwus artyfishall, and the best that kan be sed ov them iz, they are quite az often the result ov diffidence az ov vanity. If i want tew git at the trew karakter ov a man, i studdy hiz vices more than i do hiz virtews. Faith wont make a man virtewous, but it makes what virtew he haz got red hot. Those who expekt tew keep themselfs pure in this life, must keep their souls bileing all the time, like a pot, and keep all the time skimming the surface. It don’t do tew trust a man too mutch, who iz alwus in a hurry, he iz like a pissmire, whose heart and bones lays in hiz heels. Thare iz nothing so delishus tew the soul ov man az an ockashional moment ov sadness. The man whose only plezzure in this life, iz making munny, weighs less on the moral skales than an angleworm. _Manner_ iz far more attraktive than _matter_--monkeys are watched clusser than eagles are.