Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — Plantation Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Philosophy.

Tumbstones is de visitin’ cards ob death. De rattlesnake am de alarm dock ob nature. De sun and moon is de fader and mudder ob de stars. De dog dat barks arter he bites yer is a thousand times wuss dan de dog what barks befo’. It’s astonishin’ to some how a rioh n»»i can accept Christ, an’ how a poor man can rejeck Him. I ain’t got no confidence in a hoss dat once runs away. A reformed hoss is as onsartin as a reformed ’oman. Judas wan’t the arnly pusson what betrayed wid a kiss, f kissed a mightylikely ’oman wunst an’ cotch de itch. Doan jedge a man by de bizness he follows. De honey bee is engaged in a worthy trade, but he’s got a powerful sting. De human family mus’ stick togeddera han’ful ob dirt doan’ ’mount ter much* but put annff han’sfnl torgedder an yer can raise a crap. —Arkansaw Traveler. • Arizona covers an area of 72,000 000 acres of land, four-tenths of which is mineral-bearing. It is larger than New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware combined. Since 1849 there has been extracted from seven States and Territories the sum of $2,100 000 - 000, for which California is credited $1,148,307,731; Nevada, $469,125,943; Idaho, $71,543,901 ; Oregon and Washington Territory, $48,637,251 ; Utah $55,848,831 and Arizona, $17,930,175 ’