Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1874 — Saw Tecth. [ARTICLE]

Saw Tecth.

Don’t quarrel with enny man’s religion; ytrEant prove tliet yure own iz right. If I hav.got to lift a log I want to take lioit ov it lust az I hgv a mind to, not az enny body else sez iNomankan du away with hiz pasliuns; they were given us,- not to eradikate, but to control. Philosophy teaches a man how to bear with grate composure the trials ov others, but often fails in a combat with hiz own. Good luk lias ruined more men than bad luk ever liaz. The most degrading punishment that haz been diskovered yet iz the toe of a tliik boot. If yu kan call a man a liar with truth, yu kan add to it almost ennyother krime with impunity. Never go to enny one for advice un'il yu hav fully made’ up your mind what yu are going to do. It aint so mutch what men kant do that makes them fall short of suckcess az it iz what they wont do^ Aim hi, yung man; the same charge of powder will carry the bell match farther if the gun is elevated than it will if it is depressed. « . « Menny a man haz cast the lead to find the depths ov misery, but>git down az low as yu kan, yu will find others belo JUHe who allwuss watches the suckcess ov others and then hurries to drop hiz hook into, the same hole seldom bags much fish. 1 It iz time. enuff to feuffer martyrdom when yu - kant dodge it : but t hare iz plenty uv folks who are allwuss hunting for it, and who dont feel virtewous nor

1 1 1 , 1 " happy unless they are bleeding at some ov their pores. He whom good luk nor bad luk haz no effekt upon iz more than haff a hero. Energy and good luk are twins-, but energy waz bom fust. I hav seen people so nicely balanced in their constitutions that they waz perfektly happy, and didn’t kno it. True luv kant be successfully counterfited, and it iz really one uv* the skarsest qualities uv the human harte. Silence iz safe; for tho yu may be a phool, nobody kan prove it. Phools are allwussthe fust ones to proclaim it. _ Thare are no ones who git so tired and disgusted with themselfs as the lazy do. Fame that yu kant make vure brefi and butter out ov iz a kussid* poor investment. * I hav studied sumtime onto it and kant tell yet whether the most blunders we mak cumsfrom the hed or the harte. Man’s best friend and wust enemy haz alwuss been himself. Those people who fish for others are the most apt to be kaught themselfs.— Josh Billings , in N. Y. Weekly.