Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Johnson says that .Tones is wrong, and swears that he can prove it; that my belief in .Tones is strong, and idle tales can’t move it. I have much confidence in Jones, who is a goodly fellow, and I would lend him seven hones without a kick or bellow. My neighbors come to me and Say, “Jones is a low down sinner; he carried off a hale of hay, that we had bought for dinner.” But I belieA’e that Jones is right, as honest as the dickens, and I would trust him any night, around my coop of chickens. I fill my beaker to the brim with buttermilk, and toast him, for I will not go back on him because the neighbors roast him. My friends and comrades I select, without the town’s assistance; and if some gents don’t seem correct, I keep them at a dlstance. And If I find a friend O. K„ I will not £hake or flout him for anything the neighbors say, for yarns they tell about him. Because William Bell, a wild duck rearer for Sir Richard Graham of London, already has nine sons in the army, all having volunteered at the outbreak of the war, his tenth son William, age 18, has been exempted from military duty.