Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

To a moated grange In Holland sneaked a king, to save his pelt; he was feling pretty small and looking smaller than he felt. There was no display of bunting, neither circumstance or pride, when his majesty was hunting for a hole in which to hide. It were mean to jeer and chortle when a worthy man goes down, be he king or common moTtal, wear he derby lid or crown; but there was no kindly feeling for this monarch on the blink, who, until he hit the ceiling, was the world’s most hated gink. Had he not been cravenhearted, had he scrapped, with sword and lance, in the three-ring war he started, leaking Tlch blue blood in France; had he sent his sons, like others, where the carnage used to flow, fighting likes the peasant’s brothers, with their faces to the foe, then we might have felt, T ’m thinking, liity, in some small degree, when wa saw the outcast slinking, hunting for a hollow tree. But the outcast’s name is raven on the slackers’ dastard roll, and the tremors of a craven shook the loud bombastic soul; so no briny tears were leaking from the eyes of honest men, when they saw the kaiser sneaking from 1 a palace to a den. The invention of bells is attribto ‘the Egyptians, who are credited with having made use of percussion instruments to announce the sacred fetes of Osiris.