Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1874 — Driblets. [ARTICLE]

Driblets.

BY JOSH BILLINGS.

A large proporsliun ov the welth ov this world iz only used and enjoyed to excite the envy ov other people. Mankind kan be divided into two klasses, thoze who lead and thoze who follow; and thoze who lead hav more vanity and stubborness than honesty. .. Lazyness is safer than idleness. There iz nothing like adversity to sho the strong spots and the weak ones in a man’s Jcarakter. The wize people in this world are thoze who think az we do, and the phools are thoze who disagree with us. One ov the most diffikult things for us old phellow’s to comprehend is, that we are most butifully' played out. It iz diffikult for me to tell whether luv or fear makes a man commitlhe most pbooiish akts. 7 I don’t rekolekt now' ov ever meeting a man who didn’t luv to phrovecy, and w T ho didn’t think he could beat ehny other man at it. Thare ain’t nothing that would ruin a man quicker than to giv him all he hank; ers for,. Friendship iz about seckond cuzzin to luv. It iz a very fu, if enny, hippokrits who liav been able to slip thru this life without being ketched at it. The majority ov people had rather say a sharp thing than a true thing. Avarice is its own whipping-post, it eats its own vitals out. It takes tuo to get up a quarrel, but one kan settle it. The wizest men that the world has ever produced, and at the same time the biggest phools, are the philosophers. Adversity iz the only thing that will set a lazy man in moshun, and it takes a good deal ov that sumtimes. Vanity and Envy are the tuo most unworthy, and at the same time most common, traits in every man’s karakter. Tliare iz advice enuff now laying around loose to run iust three sutch worlds az this—wdiat we are suffering most for, iz sum more good examples. A man haz got just az mutch right to be affeckted az he haz to limp when he aint lame. The only way to get thro this world and eskape censure and abuse iz to take sum back road. Yu kant travel the main turnpike and do it. Tliare is now and then a phool so well bred that he iz really quite endurable. Notoriety iz a short-lived deceit, and its ashes are like the ashes of a brush heap. A good reputashun kant be bought, nor inherited, nor stumbled into, it iz the personal labour ov a life time, and. aint fully ours, until we hav been ded and buried a fu years. Employment iz the absolute necessity ov our naturs. The man who kan liv in idleness and keep happy, and virtuous, haz got no more intrinsik value in him than a tudstodl haz. — New York Weekly.