Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — Too Well Educated. [ARTICLE]

Too Well Educated.

“Well, Cob 8.,” said a friend of education in Kentucky to a member of the Legislature, “I suppose we can have yout support this winter ?” “What fur?” “In our educational interests, of course. We are agitating the question, you know, all over the State.” “Dog on your educational interests. I don’t want no more of it in my tea.” “My dear Colonel, you surprise me! What makes you talk that way ? Are you not in favor of education 7" “No, siree, I hain’t.” “Why not?” “Well; because I hain’t. It makes more work for me. Yon see, before I was eddicated all I had to do was to make a cross-mark fur my name, but now I’ve got to wrassel with a pen-pint half an hour, and run my tongue out like a slice of liver, jest because I’m eddicated and kan sign my name. Go and try some of them ignorant members. I’m too well eddicated myself to be fooled any furder.” —Merchant Traveler. It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived by others because we first deceived ourselves. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. The age of miracles has not passed. A Burlington mother has miraculously cured her youngest hopeful of smoking by the paying on of hands. It should be understood, however, that there was a slipper held in the mother’s hand. ’Tobacco tea will kill worms in flower pets, and is also good for the plants. !