Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-28
.sOySaISG THE EARTH,
Some OF the Mistakes Made by Men
who ssssss Ahead in Life,

From Feck's Sun.
How often We hear Lien say 81 am glad of it. >,
when speaking Of some man who has been at
the top of the heap politically, socially or finan-
eialig. and has suddenly dropped. Once in a
great while man says, Il am sorry" but that
Is when the man who has fallen was the same
Kind of a fellow when he was on top that he was
before he got there.
The trouble Is that too many men who go to
the front get the idea that they own the earth,
and their old friends get down On them. and
they do not make new ones to take the place of
the old ones. ward politician who becomes a
Congressman can make no greater mistake than
to get too biz for LIS boots when he is elected
and forget his friends and put on airs. The boys
who have have Tade HIM what he is talk with
each other about him. aid laugh at his great
Ness. and never tell MIN what they think out
Some day. wheL he comes up again, they
slaughter him. and he drops on the political
Sidewalk AID never knows what hit him, but he
knows that he i hurt. Then he tries to smile at
his old friends and slap them on the shoulder,
and explain himself. but 1t Is eyeriaStingly too
late What they wanted was to have him re-
main just the same when he was on top.
A man may 90 ,s.'-. -nOr and be respected
and have thousands OF ItiC.lis. and he NAV sud
denly have fortune left him. The first time he
puts on silk uD.le shirt he changes towards
bis fiieLds and seems to own the earth. He
goes around block to avoid meeting some
friend OF the old days. aid lie looks over them
when be meets them They watch for him to
crop ana when 1C doc, 70 through his money
and gets down 70 earn again and finds that the
Other fellows own some Cf It, lie meets an Old
friend that Be haS not noticed for years and
say: Hello BILL out Bill does not hello :"
BIZ LAD wanted 10 hello for some time. but
h didn't receive any cGcoura cement and now
tis appetite fCT ''hviiOiu9 has left him If he
wants to hello. Bill. he goes off and does it
VIII somebody whose mead has not got too big
for his hat and the man who has been Temporal
riy at the top OF the heap sees hat he has made
u Beaver Dam fool of himself.
When man las been climbing hill all his
lie. ana slips back so much that it mad made his
head swim. bu. finally, by sticking his toe nails
IN. gets 10 the top, ne has right to feel glad
but he wants to be coltenteJ where he is and
not Try 10 fiy h:h. When - gets to the top of
the hill he is ~ Il mere dangerous place than he
was while he was climbing, lrctuse from where
he stands AZ IS ,iO,sa hA IA ere7!f direction Did
you ever think of that ooys2
Every way you look. when you get up there
Il is down hill. and you have got to brace Your
self, and not lose your head. or the first thing
you know your loot will slip and YOU will 90
down head oyei appetite. III you have kept
your head and your friends, while YOU
were at the top. and those who are still
Climbing see that you g letting your foot slip
they VIII try 10 brace you, and keep you up but
IL you have me- an ass out OF yourself and
Thought because you had got there that you
'u eit ui4' dait t41fc lslIoNU go. tacieS III the
way Of the othe- climbers. and you start to 90
down. Is Josh Billings has said, ''Ail creation
Seems creased for the Orcas. on. and when YOU
GO 10 going nobod, will reach out TO save YOU
IL Is good lesson for boys as well a. men to
learn. that thH top of the Hill is the most dan
feEoGS place, and when they get there they will
be the same careful. sensible persons that they
were when they ere sticking their toe nails In
and putting The country is Iul of late politi-
Clans who would .,ye all they have got and
IaortSage all they expect t. have Il they had not
lost their heads when they goI TO the top Of the