Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1890 — Cornfield Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Cornfield Philosophy.

A hair is a very small thing; but one - golden strand in a biscuit has been known to wreck the happiness and* ruin the digestion of a loving pair. Man does not like baldheaded things, , except in the case of the butter. Never kick a man when he is down. He may get up some day, and besomewhat on the kick himself. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will - not depart from it,” said the wise man. Solomon was careful not to say that the child would not depart from the “good old way” while he was in the vigor and yum-yum period of youth. It is when he is in the “now-I’m-old-and-can’t” period that he will not depart from the “wicked but nice” ways • of earth. “Blessed are the poor in spirit," says the good book. The difficulty ■withthis is most people live as if they thought it said “Blessed are the poorspirited and, verily, they have very - poor spirits. Eccentricity is often an excuse to» cover up vulgarities. The eccentricman is, most generally, a hog.