Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-02-23

your hands too soft. When a fellow
knows so much that he can't bend his
back on account OF his head, education
is hurting him. Education reminds
me of these big circular scenic rail-
ways-as you get around to about a
little this side OF the halfway point,
you think, be golly, that you are 60
ing around the whole ~world-but il
you hold your seat and keep going you
will come around TO the place where
you started. You don't know much
more for certain. You may feel a lit
tie different, but If you feel 30 dizzy
that you can't work any more you had
better not have taken the trip.
Education is like a wife, a good
thing to have in the family, but you
must not try to make it do all the
work. Schools are pill houses where
everything is done up In little. wads
with sugar coats on, but you a take
medicine without taking pills. You
can go TO the woods and get your stuff
and roll your own pills. Schools can't
give a man anything but a diploma.
They can offer you an education and
you car take II away with you If you
have anything 10 carry it In. Bill
didn't have the vessel. Bill entered
at once the University OF Hard Knocks
and his education may never have the
BRASS shine to it that Charles has,
but II Bill keeps bis eyesight good you
will find that Bill will know some
things, too.
IL you missed the train for school
take a hand-car and you will get there
just the same. 1t may be a little slow
Init you will see some things that the
fellow that went on the fast mail miss
ed. The a, b, c's are still here. Every
thing is printed There is plenty Of
sunshine and plenty Of oil, if you can
pay the price. Charlie went on the
fast train and Bill was on the freight.
BiIl's last crime was smoking an
old cob pipe" Here my heart goes
out to Bill again. at $50 a month it
was all Bill could afford. I'm not try
ing TO defend tobacco. Tobacco is bad.
My pa always rolled a wad back under
his tongue and told me so, and / al
ways noticed that he only smoked
when somebody set 'em up. / have
Inherited this distaste for tobacco,
but | can't go back on Bill or his cob
pipe. As l say, / don't smoke, but |
keep a cob pipe. If l have a pipe 1,
know l can smoke IL | want to and /
don't have to smoke. But IL l have
no pipe and can't smoke then | have
just got to have a smoke. That is
why | keep a cob pipe. 1t is not to
furnish a text for preachers or to set
a bad example for boys. Next to the
hog a cob pipe is the farmers best
friend. A man who smokes a c5b pipe
always has something to look forward
to. Not 50 him Of the cigar--it has a
bitter end.
We will all agree then that tobacco
is bad, especially for boys, our boys.
We advise all not to smoke. But If
you must, Bill had the right instru-
ment, a cob pipe, ar old cob pipe, for
who wants 10 smoke a new cob plpe?
The real flavor does not arrive until a
cob pipe is six weeks old.
So here is to Bill, Bill Of the cob
pipe, who is braking on a freight,
without whom vi farmers couldn't
get U stuff to market. You, Bill,
are braking on a freight and we are
.raking on a farm. But Charlie, the
railroad president, is living easy and
thinks OF Bill.
But here's 10 you, Bill,
The farmers love you still.
DO your duty and be good to your
Ma, I
Remember your sisters and stick to
your pa,
Watch the cars and throw a little ]
water Oh our hogs,
Punch up U steers, we don't care
about your toys.
We IN with you BIZ, we like you, I
you bet your tin type, l.
And say, BIZ, II you don't do any
other harm, smoke, [
smoke your old cob pipe. !