The man who can fulfill the bible by taking the slap on both sides of the cheek is seven parts lamb and one part Irish. * * * * * The difference between a cackling hen and a cackling woman is, one cackles when she lays and the other cackles all the time she don’t lay. * * * * * Trust in God but look out for everybody else. * * * * * The man that totes a whiskey blossom on the end of his flue carries a cheap add for the devil. * * * * * Don’t worry over the sport that can smoke twenty cigarettes a day. * * * * * The girl that marries the man to reform him has a SAD lesson to learn. A good excuse saves lots of lying. GLIMPSES FROM THE PAST. I most humbly beg your pardon for inserting here a short address to a Republican Convention when I was aspiring to the office of County Clerk for the second term. The chairman having instructed the secretary of the convention to cast the entire vote of the delegation for myself, I addressed the convention as follows: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Convention: Accept my profound thanks for the splendid manifestation of honor that you have conferred upon an humble individual like myself. I wish to impress upon you the political principles I outlined to you briefly two years ago, are the same today as they were then. I would rather be defeated honorably, squarely and honestly than to be successful with a tarnished character obtained through disreputable methods. I realize, as do all intelligent reasoners withholding myself to be the humblest among you, that character is something that is not acquired while we sleep. It is a constant every day struggle, a life-long battle. Take away our character and what have we left. I desire to say to you gentlemen that during my lifetime I have been intimately acquainted with labor in its most aggressive form. I know what it is to stand between two shining bands of steel under a scorching July sun. I know what it is to stack hay under a sultry and oppressive heat. I know the loneliness and privations that comes to one who has tended stock in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. I fully realize that these different pursuits require grit and determination, they are the hardest kind of labors, but I can say to you in all candor that I have never worked harder in my life than in the past two years endeavoring to serve the citizens of this county in the capacity of clerk.