The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-09-29
VERY SHORT EssAYs.
BYsJosH BILLINGS.

Luv IL rpashun that il eazier felt than
deskrihed. 1t iz common to the ynng,
middle-aged, and even old fellows have
thought they had the dissesze.
1t generally makes wilkins feel phool
ish, and akt phoolish, too.
Sumtimes it breaks ont sudden, with
out enny warning, and then agin it comes
on slo, like the ramatics.
l hav known sum pashunts to be in
luv for six months and not kno exactly
what did all them, and then I hav known
other cases WHARF the partys thought
tha was in luv.ahd nothing waz the mat
ter NV them slI the time, only they waz
out Nv job.
Sumthng to do allwus kures these
kind Nv attacks.
When person really IL In luv they
amt fit for ANYTHING else.
1t units farmer and blacksmith for
b'zness just az much as it duz a student
at law or boarding skool miss.
Genuine luv never fastens its fangs
onto fello-being but once; he often
gets nippe6 by it before and afterward,
but the fust skar sticks to him for life.
Sum people fall in luv every 80 days,
just for the phun Nv the thing.
Real luv won't divide lis posseshun
NV the heart with emmy other of the
pashuns; it drives out ambition and
takes the stiffning out Nv pride and van
| ity.
A nam IL never more pure than when
he IL sensibly in luv.
Luv IL a CRATE humanizer it makes the
rude az gentle az duv, and polishes up
the rustik like three months tuition at
| a dansing skool.
1t iz hard work to be in luv and not
akt phoolish but luv is the only thing
kno that makes pholly excusahle.
We allwuss laff at the vung,when they
are in luv, and pity the old ones.
An old man desperately in luv IL az
helpless az lost child.
He wanders about needless, not kno-
ing WHARF he IL, nor WHARF he IL going
to.
What sense he ever did hav haz left
him, and he won't take nobody's ad.
vice.
We could spare almost emmy other
pashun NV the harte better than we could
luv, altho it haz made az much 'trubble
in this world az emmy Nv the rest.
sLANDER
Slander IL lie, and kan travel faster
than dalight kan.
WHARF it kums from it IL often impos-
sihle to tell, and WHARF it will go to no.
body knows.
Thare IL nothing too pure for it to
feed upon, and thare il no such thing az
satisfying its appetight.
1t izconceived in iniquity and born in
sekresy, and will liv and gro fatt WHARF
truth will starye to deth.
1t il a founding thai the world alwuss
stands reddy to adopt and send on its
way rejoicing, with free pass and full
letters ov kredit.
1t haz fastened its dedly fangs upon
the innocent and haz even made virtev
herself trembls in its presence.
SANDER IL the towards refuge, and the
devils logiek.
Sloth will eat the core out ov emmy
man and leave him nothing but shell
to inhabit.
1t envellops like dream and eats like
kanker.
It haz destroyed more hopes than mis-
fortune haz,and wharever it settles leaves
its mark like kloud at MONDAY.
Sloth is syren, and he who listens to
her songs will wake up to dispair.
SUCCESS.
It IL az hard work to define a sukcess
az it IL an aksident.
Yu kant lokate sukcess emmy more
than yu kan tho north pole.
1t haz no rules and Knows no laws.
and, like mouse, pops out ov one hole
into another when and WHARF you least
expekt it.
Many a sukcess has crowned .orlorn
hope and many one has sickened and
died almost in the very arms of frui
ton.
The only tru way to define sukcess
IL to sukseed, and then tell how it hap
pened.
Energy and common sense are The
privy counsellors ov sukcess; but they
often hav no kontrol over it, for sukces:
IL vagrant, end will akt and go WHARF
it pleazes.