Part 138 (1/2)
Time passes like the wind
--_Portuguese_
1922
Spare old dust of time
1923
Time unveils truth
--_Portuguese_
1924
ONE WAY OF ACQUIRING A titLE
”Froe Asher Carruth, of London, ”Southern people have been lavish in bestowing titles I think there is so in the Southern temperament which explains this I didn't start out on this, however, for a philosophical disquisition, but rather to tell how a certain Kentucky gentleman established valid title to the rank of Colonel He went to Cincinnati once with a friend, who enjoyed many acquaintances there; and who introduced hi smoothly until finally one Cincinnatian asked of the introducer:
”I suppose your friend Colonel Broas in the Confederate army?”
”No, sir; he was not”
”Well, then, he fought on the Union side?”
”You are wrong there, too”
”Oh, I see now; he got his title by serving in the State militia?”
”No, he never entered the militia”
”Then, how did he get to be a colonel?”
”He dreord, sir, at a church fair!”
1925
_Tobacco-takers_--Dr Caldwell says that there are but three anioat--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