Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1910 — JOSH BILLINGS’ PHILOSOPHY [ARTICLE]

JOSH BILLINGS’ PHILOSOPHY

Next to the luv ov mutiny cums the luv ov praze. Thare would be no flatterers if tharc wax no listeners. The wound that fust luv makes is often healed, but the skar never iz. Oratory and musik are sumthing alike —sense iz often 'sakraflced for sound. There iz a good deal ov art in knowing how to help a man without hurting him. Most people are more grateful for what they, expekt to git out ov us, than for what they have had. The man who sells cheap whisky, and never drinks enny bimself, iz one ov the meanest kritters I know ov. When a man haz just about as mutch vice az virtew in him, he iz az unsartin for milk az a kicking heifer iz. Thar iz hardly enny thing impossible. The gratest sekrets, when we cum to kno them, prove to be the simplest. I hav seen people so severe in their karakter that their failings waz the only thing about them that waz endurable. Gravity proves this to me—whare thare iz one person so grave bekauze they kno so mutch, thare are 19 grave bekauze they kno so little. Very cunning men allwuss git kaught at last. When a fox gits so full ov mischief that no one can endure him, all turn out and hunt him. Thar are very fu persons in the world that people will run after. If yu expekt to be taken notiss ov, yu hav got to git in front ov folks, and worry them sum.—New York Weekly.