Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — Squire Hobbs’ Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Squire Hobbs’ Philosophy.

Religun an* hangin’ am bofe de nat’ral outgrofe ob konwickshun. Dar wil be a grate skrable now ’mong de fare Beks ter get er Folsom hat. A good gubberment gibs a man unfettered liberty—liberty ter du rite. Simplicity am de bes’ attribute of wizdum, but egotizm am de kloke ob de fool. A gemman am er man hooz ruff kornahs hab bin polisht off by frekwent kontakt wid sosiety. In salin’ down de riber ob lif doan' ■low de bote ter drift, but grab de ore an’ steer wid all you’ mite. Es konshens am de only ting dat makes kowards, dar mus’ be er pow’rful lot ob brave people in dis worl’. Dar orter be er konstitushional ’mendment prohibitin’ er Presiden’ from gettin married durin’ hiz term ob offis. Dar am wun konsolashun in Hope. Shaam alwaz promisin’ bettah tings in de futur dan she hab eber gib us in de pas’. Sum fokes am bawn grate, sum hab greatness trust upon em, but monstrus fu ebber akkwiah. greatness fo’ demselves. Es er man kood fo’see wat orter be dun az wel as he kin reflek wot orter hab bin dun, hiz rode to suksess wood be short and strate. A man ma be intellektually superior ter ’oman, but wen it kums to morrallity er ’oman kin skunk er man ebery da in de kallendar. Take all de adwice dat am offered yo’. - Ob koars yo’ ain’ got enny use fo’ it, but it wil kum handy sumetime ter gib ter sum odder fellah. De isolated skollar nebber rebolushunizes de worl’. Edukashun, to be ob praktikal utillity, mus’ inklude er noledg ob human natur. De kweschen wedder er not ’oman am ekwal to man kood be settled by obzarvin’ de little matina in er fam’ly bed-room ’bout 2 oklok a. m.— Chicago Ledger.