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DECEMBER 28 1906
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A Problem Worth While
Ho has tacked divers questions
With assurance great to view,
From preserving our digestions
"dp to how big game pursue.
He has donie work literary
With an air of honest pride,
And has writ in manner cheery
All about race suicide.
Of canals and arbitration,
And of income taxes, too;
Of the freight glut situation
-And the right course to pursue
To make railroads come to center,
Or to back up old Monroe
To be brief he is a Mentor
Knowing all that men can know.
But he has his limitations
Just like any other man.
He can't solve some situations
'Cause no human mortal can.
Vainly would he wilt his collar
If he faced the problem great '
How to make a single dollar
Feed and clothe a bunch of eight.
Some New Year Reflections
Of-course you are going to "swear
off" a lot of things next Tuesday. It
Is a fiabit you have contracted during
the last twenty, thirty or forty years.
You wake up on New Year's morning
and "swear off" something just as
naturally as you shed your clothing
when you went to bed the night be
fore. And as a usual thing, the day
after New Year's finds you donning
the old habits again, just as naturally
as, you don the clothes you took off
when you went to bed the night be
fore. ' The liabit that you hold on to so
you can "swear off" on New Year's
day is a habit that is going to keep
its throttle-hold on you. You figure
it out this way: "Well, as long as
I can quit it when I want to I don't
need to, and just as soon as I can
not quit it I will."
There is the tobacco habit, for in
stance. There are worse habits, to
be sure, hut none more foolish. Here
is a thought for the hoys to ponder
over:
You never saw a tobacco user who
was glad that he had contracted the
habit, and you never saw a man who
had not contracted the habit who was
sorry for it.
Nine out of ten men who use to
bacco started the habit when boys,
because they thought it was manly
to puff a cigar or masticate a hunk
of the stuff. By the time they re
alized their mistake the habit was
so firmly fastened they did not have
the will power to shake it off. Did
you ever know a smoker who did
not Insist that he could quit if he
jwanted to? Strange, isn't it, that
so many of them never want to quit?
That is, they want to quit, but they
do not want to undergo the mental
strain of quitting.
George was a young man much
given to the habit of chewing to
bacco. He fairly devoured it. When
asked by his wife to quit It he re
plied that he didn't want to undergo
the struggle. Then she suggested that
he try a patent preparation guaran
teed to cure "the tobacco habit
George consented and bought a full
treatment When he was half through
he flung the remainder of tho cure
into the street.
"What did you do that for?" queried
his wife.
"O, the stuff was curing me," re
plied George.
And that's the way some men try
.tu huil u uuu uaun.
There is a vast difference between
making good resolutions, and keeping
them. And it is not enough that you
resolve not to do certain things any
more. You should resolve that you
will do certain things you have not
heretofore done. Living a Christian
life does not mean only that you will
refrain from doing wrong; it means
that you must begin doing right. Same
way with New Year resolutions. You
must resolve to do certain things as
well as resolve to refrain from doing
certain things.
One-half the worry and trouble ex
perienced by the average man lies in
the fact that he takes his business
home with him Instead of leaving it
at the office. Happy is the man who
can close the lid of his roller-top desk
on his business worries and go home
to enjoy the comforts of home.
The most popular lecture delivered
by the late Sam Jones was the one
entitled "Quit Your Meanness." It
was all right as far as it went, but
it didn't go quite far enough. It is
not sufficient that you "quit your
meanness;" you must begin Borne sort
of goodness.
O, pshaw! How easy it is to moral
ize about this time of year! Just
because the old year's accounts are
being closed and a new year's ac
counts are being opened, you natur
ally drift into the moralizing habit.
And you can meander along to an
interminable length. But what's the
use?
Let's quit moralizing and theoriz
ing and get down to something prac
tical. What's the use of wearing a face
long enough to eat oats out of a
churn?
What's the use moaning over the
world's wickedness when there's so
much that is hopeful and cheering all
about us?
The world growing worse? Non
sense! Today is better than yesterday, and
tomorrow will be better still.
The light is being thrown Into dark
places, and that's the reason you see
more of the world's wickedness. And
every time the light strikes one of
the dark places things are immediate
ly made better and purer.
Let's do a little light-shedding dur
ing the coming year. Let's carry
hbpe and cheer into the places that
now know them not Let's oegin ngnt
at home, too. Don't waste too much
time making good resolutions just
begin doing.
What a grand year 1907 will be If
every man tries to do his duty to
himself, to his family, to his coun
try and to his God!
The Day After
Battered and dented and torn;
Scattered all over tho floor.
Dog-oared and dainty and worn,
Scattered from window to door,
That is tho fate of tho Christmas toys,
But lasting and precious tho Christ
mas joys.
Nicked and scarred and hnfinrn.i
Tho soldier, trumpet and drum;
Heedlessly, rudely scattered,
Drum and trumpet both dumb.
That is the fate of tho Christmas toys,
But lasting and precious tho Christ
mas joys.
Uncle Jecms
"I have often noticed," remarked
Uncle Jeems as he replaced tho lid
on the crackerbox, "that the feller
that worries about tho bills comln'
duo on the first o' January gets mighty
little lun out o Christmas."
Of Course
"I always vote for the best man,"
declared Mr. Swagger.
"I am truly glad to hear It, sir," said
Mr. Stillman. "I want you to vote
for Squareum for coroner."
"But I am going to vote for Crooks,"
said Swagger.
"Crooks has been exposed as a
grafter, a confidence man and as a
defaulter."
"That does not Influence mo in the
least," declared Swagger. "Tho fact
that he was nominated by my party
is evidence enough that ho is worthy
of all confidence."
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Of Course
Grouch "Of course tho children
have broken that ten dollar lot of toys
you bought 'em for Christmas."
Sunny "Yep! Busted all to flind
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Sunny "Well, I should say not! I
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By Installments
"What are you going to give your
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"An automobile."
"How can you afford It?"
"Buy it on the installment plan,
rve ordered a two-gallon can for the
gasoline."
Brain Leaks
The man in the limelight needs to
stand straight.
Never put off until next year the
reforms that should begin today.
' The man who waits for New Years
to "swear off" generally doesn't.
There is something wrong with the
father who can sleep late Christmas
morning.
Some people are so eager to sot
to crown wearing that they skip tho
cross bearing.
Something more than the mere ex
penditure of money is needed to make
a real Christmas.
One good resolution well kept is
better than a cargo of good resolu
tions easily broken.
Tf von have any regrets about your
Christmas expenditures it is a sure
sign that you did not possess the prop
er Christmas spirit.
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