Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1888 — Plantation Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Philosophy.

It *pear like de meanes’ men has de mos’ ’fluence ober de bes’ women. Dia would be er diffunt worl’ es we all had our lives ter live ober ergin, but I doubts es at de las’ we would be any better prepared fur Peahen den we now is. Dat sorter charity dat is only drawed out by de sack dat de pusson whut needs he’p longs ter de same secret s’ciety dat yerse’lf does ain’t de sorter charity de Lawd lubs. —Arkansaw Traveler. The people of Thessaly were the first, probably, among the Greeks who broke horses for service in war, and the proficiency of these people as equestrians gave rise to the ancient myth that their country was originally inhabited by centaurs. Everybody in the church, except the new pastor himself, seemed to enjoy it when he lost the place in his manuscript, and while hunting for it spoke of “Esau, who sold his message for a birth of potright.”— Burdette. Martin de Sodza discovered Rio and established the first European colony in Brazil, at Vincente, in 1531. The country became an independent kingdom. Mount Auburn, the most beautiful and sacred of New England cemeteries, was set apart as a resting-place for the dead in 1831. Would yon know the keen delight Of a wholesome appetite, Unrestrained by colic’s dire, Headache’s curse, or fever's fire, Thoughts morsose, or icy chilis? Then use Dr. Pierce's pills. Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pellets—the original and only genuine Little Liver Pills; 25 cents a viaL An utter failure—the inability to make a speech.