Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1879 — WHAT AN OLD MAN HAS NOTICED. [ARTICLE]

WHAT AN OLD MAN HAS NOTICED.

I have noticed that all men are honest when well watched. I have noticed that parses will hold pennies as well as poands. ' I have noticed that in order to be a reasonable creature it is necessary at times to be downright mad. I have noticed when the purse is empty nod the kitchen cold, then is the voice of flattery no longer heard. 1 have noticed that silks, broad-cloths and jewels are often bought with other people’s money. ' 1 have noticed that whatever is, is right, with a few exceptions—the left eye, the left leg and the left ride of a plum padding. I have noticed that the prayer of the sel fish mao is, ••Forgive us our debts,” while 4e makes everybody that owes him pay to the utmost fairthing. 1 have notioed that he who thinks every man a rogue, is certain to see one when be shaves himself, and he ought, in roerpy to see his neighbors, to surrender the rascal to justice. have noticed that money is the fool’s wisdom, the knave’s reputation, the poor span s desire, the covetous man’s ambition, and the idol of them all.