Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — Plantation Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Plantation Philosophy.

A bald head ain’t al’ers de sign ob sense. De turnip ain’t so scund airter yer cut off de greens. I has know’d tender-hearted men dat would stan’ and lissen to a tale of dis* tress an’ cry, but at the same time da hil a mighty tight grip on a dime. I owed a mgn onct an’ when I spoke ter him about it he said, “don’t think ob that, fur it’s all rite,’’ but I noticed dat airter I quit thinkin’ about it, he tuck it up an’thought about it till it worried me powerful. Es a man thinks dat he’s done suthin’ funny, an’ yer laugh, it pleases him mightily, but es yer laugh at him fur doin’ suthin’ what ain’t funny he doan like it. All through life a man want’s his frens ter look at his own an’ not da own pleasure. De pusson what is only smart in one thing mav make a big success ob hisse’f, but he oughten’ter think bard ob people case da gets tired ob him, for we think more ob de mockin’ bird, not becase he can sing l>etter den any udder bird, but becase he’s got so many different songs. —Arkansaw Traveler. The once famous tribe of Cherokee Indians is now reduced to about 1,000 persons, and they suffer a steady decrease, which will extinguish them by the middle of the next century. . ,