Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — Josh Billing’s Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Josh Billing’s Philosophy.

New Y'ork Weekly. If you will sit down and wait, young man, at least one hall ov the good things ov life will at sum time eddy around near yu, while the more yu chase them the more they wiil break into a run. All ov uatur’s works are a part ov a perfekshun ov a plan. She makes no mistakes, creates no vacancies, aud guesses at nothing. Ideas are what wins, but if a man hain’t got but one, he is very apt to run that one into the ground, aud take himself along with it. hiaffter proves nothing. Wize men lass, and ideate grin all the time. Cunning is a weak imitashun of wisdum, and is liable at enhy time- to merge into fraud. Happiness has no abiding place, biit often is very near at baud, like the old woman’s spectacles. After hunting for them hi ami lb, she found*them at last safe on her noze. Gravity is bekuming to a phool at all times, but only to a wize man on state ockashuns. Very menny seek knowledge, not So much for the truth az for the speckulashuu there iz in it. Heroizm iz simple, and yet is rare. Every one who duz the .best they ken iz a heroButy is a dangerous gift. The vanity it inspires, and the base flattery it attraks, to its possessors are not tu be • ivied. Charity makes no mistakes that she kan be charged with. Good breeding iz the only thing that kan make a phool endurable. Servitude iz so uuuatural that an honest servant iz the rarest ov all things. There iz great art in knowing how to give without creating an obligation. As selfish and ill-bred as the mass of mankind are, I prefer to live with them rather than go into the Bolitude and try to live with myself. Gratitude is a word that you will find iu the dictionarys, but you will not find much of it anywhere else. If a man has got the right kind of religion he kan pick up a kreed euny where that will fit it. A true friend iz one whom yu kau chide for his faults, without giving offense, aud who, without giving offense, can chide yu. Nature haz never made anything perfect, aud she luvs variety so well that she never haz made enuy two things just alike. Indolence iz a quiet malady, but it haz eat up more foundashuus aud tipt over more superstruktures than wild ambishun ever haz. Abstinence should be the excepshuu, and temperance the rule.