St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-10-24

1.-THE majority OF men that / know /
PIX forward to the time when they
lie not to take any pleasure in this
Ee, said old Lam Jucklin, and his
sighbors who were standing about
e horseback wherein the old man |
ad Just taken his seat looked at him !
establishment
II don't see how that can be-" spoke |
Sam Niles, goat-whiskered, squint- /
yea, and liar on most occasions,
y9t Ike most liars, the inheritor of q
prt Of engaging wisdom.
Old Lin cleared his throat. "And
he reason You can't see 4, Sammy, is
ecause you are morally blind. The
tTerage man looks forward to the
me when he won't have to work, and
sfhen this time comes be almost al
Jays finds that for him there is no
aaore enjoyment Next to the enjoy
eent OF work itself, we get the most
Measure out Of rest and"
And when we rest we are enioyin'
ourselves" Sam broke in.
Old Lin nodded. Yves, but when
re haven't worked we can't rest, for
est means the luther side of bein
Ared. After climbin' hard to reach the
DID OF the hill we take a long breath
md II Is as sweet as spring water,
Ind the reason It seems so deep and
etchin' is because the breaths comm
ND the hill were short But IL we set
aown on the top of the hill and stay
Mere the breaths amt so sweet. After
while they get to be like the breaths
lown in the valley. To make EN-
sweet you've got to climb for EN- In
#his life all the way through it is al
most impossible to get any real good
81ut Of thing you don't work for.
That's the reason the gamblers money
lon't amount to. anything. It hasn't
huy sweat value. And even if he
hadn't done anything to cause him to
be driven out, Adam couldn't have
stayed much longer in the Garden of
eden He never had worked, il is
true. and he didn't know what it was,
but the fact that he had nothin' to do
had, accordin' to my notion, begun to
Enake him wish that Sunday was over
lwith reckon old Miz Eve could
Shave stood 1t a little while longer, I'M
It'll the fail of the year, when the
leaves, changin' their color, brought
about new fashion, and that would
have held her while longer. But
Adam would have had something to
40 II she had given him leaf and
" told him I'd go out and match it for
her. Every leaf In the garden might
4 have been green, all Of an exact shade,
but IL Adam had tried to match one 1t
would have changed color like one OF
these here lizards they fetch from
Elorida. And I lay you the sweetest
meal he ever eat In his life was the
arat bread he earned by the sweat OF
K Iis brew. It has been writ that man
was made to mourn, but I've noticed
that he don't mourn SO much when ne
is at work. He starts out lookin' fol
place where he can ease his mind
he never finds it, but when at worA
he seems to feel that he is gettin
there"
seBut the happiest man l ever saw
waa the LATEST" said Sam, and the
old-timers looked at one another and
smiled for no matter in what rev
erence j country oracle ia held the in
grained envy of his neighbors ap
maud the threat Of his overthrow.
aIsn, not here to deny truths, but t.
h,sng an outs" replied the old man
.sT've known lazy men that appeared
~ auioy themselves simply becaus'
fbav want ct work, and can go lii
til further and say that the happles
saI,ar ever saw was an idiot. All b
had ID i'd was to jolt himself and h
waa tsekled mighty nigh to death. Tn
atqht of d dog q scratchin' of himSsl
y,or better to him than the keen 1ok
og & Wise man. But when / spoke Q
tHe average man / meant the ma
with mind.
.sRnt one of the smartest men eve
saw was lazy. said Sam.
.vea that may be fact, and som
We the ulainest truths have been tol
IS liar. but the liar amt the ma
tnat ans the world with truth. But
sssIl ineist that I'm talkin' about tn
average man, and don't think tn
average man is lazy. The brightes
minds have had the most beautit1
thoughts, enjoyed mebby by the feV
nut It ID the work of the average min
that has built up civilization. II ever
mind had been as great as Shak
eneare,s. the world would have been
whirlwind Of ideas, like light'nin' bug
in I swamp, and there wouldn't nav
been anybody to stoop low enough
dtg food out OF the ground. Thel
.womIfn,t have been anything to lear
IA fhe universe would have been
great mental starvation. There
more happiness in bein' able to EMO
~ wisdom Of the Wisest than to .
90 wisest Wisdom is sometimes
~ort Of savior, crucifed for the ben
Al 81 mankind. A man at the top is
ftstIe TOO lonesome, should think, az
wa'd Get mighty tired havins 10 loc
w - ..s.ss-~,e es.-s-ss ySl,,15ari
the time In my blunderl
$50. Tsye read some Of the great Doo -
i don't seem to me that y
a .,.,ters az them we're happy. 8
.,nderstand that q new ana sufprlsl
! s,. ,, shootin' through . man : m !,
800 thrill him to his marrow 2