Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1916 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

<q, The old time brimstone preacher, when once he waded in, said every human creature was loaded down with sin. Beneath his towering steeple, in bitter, scathing terms, lie, roasted all the people, and said we were but worms. This poor old earth we cumbered, according to his rede- and when our days were numbered, we’d have some grief, indeed. The hymns that we were, singing were of the same grim style, such lines as this one springing: “Where only man is vile.” We all of us were lepers, the baby and the dame, the cripples and ‘high steppers—all soaked in sin and shame; the lovely girls were ditto, their beauty was a snare, and none of us were fit to pack liver to a bear. But nowadays the preacher is willing to confess that man is quite a peach, or, at least, a great success. The learned and reverend thriller no longer says I’m vile, or calls me caterpillar, or worm, or crocodile.

What must he one of the last remaining links with Trafalgar, says the Western British American, has been snapped by the death at Whim pie, Devon, of Miss Emma Agnes Yule, who was an officer on the Victory. America, not to be outdone, has found that ozokerite, hitherto imported almost wholly from Galicia, exists in quantities near Soldier Summit and Colton, Utah. Ozokerite is mineral wax and possesses practically all the properties pertaining to the common or beehive kind.