Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — THE IRISH PHILOSOPHER. [ARTICLE]

THE IRISH PHILOSOPHER.

Wh en succissgits starthed your way iverybody wants to help push it along. A Hall iv Fame’s th’ place where th’ names iv th’ most famous men is painted, like th’ side iv a bar-rn where a little boy writes th’ name iv th’ little girl he loves. In a week or two he goes back and rubs it out. I don't think it makes any difference wan way or th’ other how free ye make idjacation. Men that wants it’ll have it be hook an’ be crook, an’ thim that don’t ra-ally want it niver will get it. Ye can lade a man up to th’university, but ye can’t make him think. Opportunity knocks at iviry man’s dure wanst. On some men’s duree it hammers till it breaks down th’ dure an’ .thin it goes in an’ wakes him up if he's asleep, an’ aftherward it wurrks f’r him as a night watchman. On other men’s dures it knocks an' runs away; an’ on th’ dures iv some men it knocks, an’ whin they come out it hits thim over th’ head with an axe. But iviry wan has an opporehunity. So yiz had better kape your eye skinned and nab it befor’ it shlips by an’ is lost foriver.