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Some Bostonians don't know beans. 

 The poultryman's main guy the bone 

 cutter. 



A fool and his father's money are soon 

 parted. 



The devil's hardest blows are aimed at 

 the home. 



A tree will not bear fruit if it is not fed 

 regularly. 



The good housewife will never beat a car- 

 pet when its down. 



The hog may be a squealer but he never 

 gives anything away. 



The best way of spending your money 

 is the most economical. 



Oyster dealers are not arrested for work- 

 ing the old shell game. 



It isn't always modesty that keeps people 

 from telling the naked truth. 



When domestic troubles are little ones 

 married people ought to be happy. 



Domestic economy doesn't mean stop the 

 kitchen clock at night to save time. 



If the crow has a creed it is that all birds 

 are heretics that do not wear black. 



Always give your wife her own way; it 

 will save her the trouble of taking it. 



No poetry would be written if birds had 

 to keep still and let frogs do all the sing- 

 ing. 



The hatter and the shoemaker may not 

 be divinities but they shape the ends of 

 men. 



Bad temper in the milkman has a de- 

 moralizing effect on the temper of the 

 cow. 



An irrigated farm free from incumbrance 

 is better than stock in a Klondike gold 

 mine. 



The reason it changes so often is because 



there's a woman instead of a "man in the 

 moon." 



You might get along faster if you didn't 

 lose so much time telling people how smart 

 you are. 



The man who sits down to wait for a 

 golden opportunity to come along never 

 has a comfortable seat. 



The politicians are always willing to fur- 

 nish the bunghole for the candidate to 

 build his "barrel" around. 



The people who talk without thinking 

 and those who thiok without talking al- 

 ways make each other tired. 



What this country needs is a protective 

 tariff that will enable us to raise titled 

 young men for our heiresses. 



The girl in love who has a rival should 

 keep an eye on her and if the rival is a 

 widow keep both eyes on her. 



The desire of some men to wobble around 

 in a big place rather than fill a small one 

 accounts for many of life's failures. 



If your son is disposed to be a farmer 

 send him to an agricultural college and let 

 him start under favorable auspices. 



It is impossible to discourage the man 

 who has learned in whatsoever condition 

 he finds himself therewith to be content. 



A lawyer who would commence to prac- 

 tice without first studying the books of 

 his profession would cut but a sorry figure. 

 The farmer who attempts to farm without 

 informing himself of what others have done 

 and are doing in his business is at a simi- 

 lar disadvantage. 



THF CIRCUS CLOWN. 



The man who married a Boston woman 

 last Thursday need not have "gone to the 

 trouble of having the ceremony in a cage 



