Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — THE GRIND. [ARTICLE]

THE GRIND.

Oh, llaten to the water mill, through all the live-long day—“Toor salary will atop about the time yon loee your pay; The fellow at the ladder's top, to him all alory goes. And the fellow at the bottom la the fellow no one knows. No good are all the “had been*,” for in country and in town Nobody cares how high you’ve been when onoe yon have come down. When once yon have been prealdent, and are prealdent no more, Yon may ran a farm, or teach a school, or keep a country store, No one will aak about yon ;yoo never will be mlaaed— Tbe mill will only grind for yoa while yoa support the grist.” —Burlington Hawkeye.