St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-12-12
sOVER IN GEORGY..
Tho Sage Of Rocky Creek sem
Lives 70 Learn.


Lives to Learn.
aov uos CA.dviek Learnt 70 IlvSsoA
Natural Bern Feua-Men and Psllr
t3es saa 1hlsgs b ths
Oesbss sease.
'You win have to live to learn befors
you learn To live That il the plain.
general doctrine
! !. ! ! : / ! ! ! !
- which grandfa-
~ thcr (may hisl
race run on for
ever and his
tribe increase &C
NJ coTdin) give out
to me in his blunt
old-fashion way.
NN ~Thc smart e I
M NJ man in the round,
I'm NM ~ created world
WKNyEN would be . nat
wNkNNNlNy~ ural-bcrn durn
fool IL be Didn't mix and mingle mp with
the human iace. and see and hear, and
i've and learn," that good old man
would 60 on and say. "AOrtal man. il
you take him single and alone by bim-
Ielf. Rufus, is powerful small potatoes.
with but very few in the hill aud the
rows six feet apart"
The snaEe-lsookine Man.
"A mans mouth il most in generally
his open enemy, Rufus" the dear de-
parted old man were wont 70 tell me,
but his eyes and his ears are more
than probable to he his best personal
friends. The good Book says sOmethin
about . man putin . bride on his
tongue. or wearin paddock ON his lipe
-or words to that extent-but you can
nse your ears and eyes for all they are
worth. You never can learn anything
TO speak Of from your mouth. Rufus.
and it 10 tremendous doubtful II any
l'ody else can. But him thkt has got
ears to hear and eyes to see with let him
kcar and Sc. and live and learn.
"Now there was my friend and fellow
citizen, Bob Chadwick-Col. Robert w.
Chadwick, as other people used to call
him-hc never did have many brains
To be plum straight and plain about il.
Bob was born and bred fool, and he
lived and died . fool ON general facts
snd principles. You see had went to
school with that boy-we use to run
together considerable in our young and
rowdy days-and as to book learnin.
they never could git Bob to take any Of
- s~ &c., lwsA
foundation to start on. and consequen-
tally they couldn't do any buililin to
speak Of. But Bob he used his eyes AMI
his ears to see and hear with and didn't
talk much with his mouth. In that way
he lived to learn and he soon learnt to
live. He was q rale handsome young
SER, and when he growesl up do nat
;I-ally think he was about the smartest
lookin man / ever saw. He was the
same durn fool that he always was 70
me. but didn't say nothin about q
and Of course Bob wouldn't give hiuI
self away, and the people in genes1D|
lever did tumble to the naked facts III
The case. They jest simply took til
man ON his general appearments. and
as said before. he could look the,
amartest of any blame fool ever saw.
''In the run OF time Bob got in1osG-
race for the legislature, and was elected
by a smashing large majority. And
when he got up there he didn't do .
blessed thing but wear fine clothes end
look smart. He didn't talk and he didn't
act. He didn't do blamed thing, l tell
you. hut by crackey. he was the smart
est-looking man in the whole congrrga-
tion. Now anybody can see wherein
Bob helt the trump cards and played
the winnin hand. For common thing
when . man goes to the legislature to
save the country, half Of the people cuss
him for what he does. whilst the ulh4e)
half viii euss him for what ~ dorst|
do. But they conldn't cuss - en6d-'
wick. He didn't do anything = ~
didn't have nothin to cuss hiA
'-Well, Bob he went to the 6t2kp|
N long N he wanted to. and eleter]
emily he pitched out and rumzGU&41RI
gress. Did he git there? Well. I should
say. He never had done . blamed thing
to make anybody mad-he was WY
yonder the most sthandsomest and smnrt-
est-looking man in the district--aqd
consequcntially everybody was for him
and he win the race in . dog walk.
sWhen finally at last Bob Cha.J wick
ripe in years and full Of honors--tcok
sick and died. the people give him the
gonehyest biggest funeral that ha ) ever
come to pass in this country. By shat
time he was still Bob Chadwick, the
uatural-born fool. to me and few more
that knowed him in his younger dsys.
But to the people in general he was Col.
Robert w. Chadwick, and the smartest-
lookin man in the district. He liyel to
learn, Rufus. and he had learned to
live"
Some "00os9y Folleses.~
So gradually by degrees have lived
70 learn. And 20 in the fullness Of time
I hope win learn to live. wouldn't
make any brags about what ! know
which they tell me though that brains
always did run in the Sanders family
but this little bit do know. What !
know I know, and know do know .
whole passle more than use to know.
have now lived . righ. smart whet
amongst the people in this lonely strip
Of country-seein and hearin . heap
and sayin but precious little with my
mouth-and have learnt little some
thin in the main time.
took . trip the other day and went