Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

If things were always done just in the nick of time, we all would have more fun, there’d be less grief and crime. “When comes tomorrow’s dawn,” I hear the Voter talk, “I’ll sprinkle ashes on that dad-blamed icy walk. I kno'w you fret and chafe, because I put it off; T know it isn’t safe for any guy or toss. But I am tired tonight, I have* no strength or pep, my headache is a fright, I will not stir a step. I labored in the mart, throughout the long sad day, and I’ve a broken heart and whiskeos turning gray. My hours of tell are through and here I sit and rock; I am too tired to strew cheap ashes on the wajk.’’ Meanwhile seme worthy gent goes toiling up the street; on urgent errand bent, he wields his trenchant feet. ’ He strikes the glary walk where ashes are not strewn, then falls around a block beneath the wintry moon.

His tuckers and bibs are spoiled, that once were fine; he’s caved in tall his -ribs, and spoiled a useful spine. And when he’s borne away Upon a cellar door, I hear that voter say, the while he walks the floor, "A'h, me, and eke ah, you! My soul is stained with crhne! Why did I fall to strew the ashes there in time?” His tears are all is vain, struck is the hour of fate; he would be safe and sane, when it is just too late!