Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — About Mottoes. [ARTICLE]

About Mottoes.

"I doan’ go much on mottoes an sick,” said Brother Gardner as li« opened the meeting on the usual degree and winked to Samuel Shin tc raise the allgy window. “I once knowed a man who sot. out ir life wid de motto: ‘Excelsior.’ He was proud of it, an’ he stuck to it, an’ df las’time I saw him he was in de poo’house. He got so tired of luggin’ dal motto around dat he couldn’t work obei three days in de week. r, I once knowed a man who had d« motto: ‘Time is Money’ hung in eberj room in his house. He invariably rushed in- his co’n ten days too airly, an’ der tried to aiverage up things by plantin his taters twenty days too late. Dc only occashun when he got even wid time was when he jumped his clock hall an hour ahead. De only time when In had a decent crap was when he lay sicl an’ his wife -worked de truck-patch. “I once knowed a man who carried de mofto of “A Penny Saved am i Penny Aimed’ in all his pockets, an’ n< pusson eber found him wid a dollar ii cash to his name. He was all on d< save an’ nuflin on de airn. “Doan’ you* git de ideah inter yei heads dat a motto or a maxim am gwin« ter feed an’ clothe ye an’ whoop up rent /md doctor bills. It’s mo’ in de mai dan jn de maxim. I kin show ye rfafo pussons in my nayburhood who , sot dhp de fences all summer an’ keep deir eyefe on de maxim: ‘lndustry am de Road tc Wealth.’ I kin show ye fo’ty mo’ win hang up de motto of ‘Providence wil Purvide!’ and*sot down fur Providenci to do so. If de wife aims a dollar dat’i Providence. “Stidy work at fair wages, wid i domestic wife to boss de kitchen, an motto. an’ maxim ’nuff fur any of us. I anything furder am wanted let us strivt to be hofiest, truthful, charitable an Virtuous. We needn’t hang out a sigi on de fences dat we am strivin’, but jis git dar widout any Fo’th „of July fire works to attract public attenshun. Le us now purceed. ” —Lime Kiln Club.