The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-03-22
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The following very sensible and truth
fol remarks are from Peck's Sun:

Iul remarks are from Heck's sun:
How often we hear men say 81 am
CAD Of IT," when speaking OF some
uIAn who has been at the top of the
heap politically, socially or financially,
and has suddenly dropped. Once Ia q
great while man says Il am sorry"
but that is when the man who has fallen
was the same kind Of fellow " hen he
was on top that he was before he got
there. The trouble Is that TOO many
men. who go lo the front, get tie idea
that they own The earth, and their old
| friends get down ON Them, and they do
! not make new ones 20 take the place of
the I'D ones. A waId politician who
becomes a congressman, can make no
greater mistake than To get 100 big TOR
his booIs when he Ii elected, and forget
his friends, and put an airs. The boys
who have made him What he is, talk
with each other about him, and laugh
at his greatness, and never tell him
what they think, but some day when he
comes up again they slaughter him, and
he drops GA the political sidewalk and
never knows what hit him, but he
knows that he is huri. Then he tries TO
smile at his old friends and slap them
on the shoulders, and explain himself,
but IL Is everlastingly 100 late. What
they wanted was 10 have HIM remain
just the same when he was on top. a
man may go along. poor. and be re-
SPECIFIED and have thousands of friends,
and he may suddenly have a fortune
left him. The first time he puts ON a
silk undeEshirt he changes towards
his friends and seems To own
the earth. He goes around block
10 avoid meeting some friend OF the old
days, and he looks over them when he
meets them. They watch for him TO
drop, and when he does 60 through his
money, and gets down TO earth again,
ana finds that the other fellows own
some OF II, he meets an old friend that
he has not noticed for years, and says
Hello, Bill" but Hill does not "hello."
Bill has wanted to "hello" for some time,
but he didn't receive ANY encourage
meni. and now his appetite for "hellO-
ng" has left him. Ifhe wants TO ''hello
Bill" he goes of and does il with some
body whose head has not got too big for
his hat, and the man who has been tenn
poraily at tie top of the heap sees that
he has made q Beaver Dam fool of him.
self. When q man has been climbing
hill all his life. and slipped back 90
much that 1t has made his head
swim, but finally by stick
ing his toe nails 10, gets TO the top,
he has right To feel glad, but he wants
90 be contented where he Is, and not try
TO fly too high. When he gets 10 the
top of the hill he Ii IN more dangerous
place than he was while he was climb
ing, because from where he stands II is
d0soR hiH IN eUery direction Did you
| ever think of thai, boys? Every way
you look, when you get up there I is
down hill, and you have got Ia brace
yourself, and not lose your head, or the
first thing you knew your foot will slip,
and you will go down head over appe-
tite. If you have kept your head and
your friends while you were at the top,
! and those who are still climbing see that
you are letting your foot slip, they will
try To brace you, and keep you up,
| but If you have made an ASS of yourself,
and thought because you had got there
that you owned the hill and have thrown
obstacles in the way of the other climb
ers. and you start TO 60 down, as Josh
Billings has said, "Ail creation seems
CREASED for the occasion" and when you
get to going nobody will reach out TO
save you. II Is a good les son for boys
as we'll as men TO learn, that the top of
the hill is the most dangerous place,
and when they get there they will be
the same careful, sensible persons that
they were when they were sticking their
toe nails in, and putting. The country
is full of late politicians who would give
all they have got. and mortgage all they
expect to have, If they had not lost
their heads when they got to the top OF
the hill.