The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-01-18
ALay Discourse.

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4 A convict in the Indiana Penitentiary
| hit The nail on the head when asked how
his downward course began. He said it
began in7trYing to beat two-forty with a
/ three-minute horse. How many people
in all branches of business aretrging to
boat two-ferty with three minute bust
nessP The man who has small business
that is paying him, and goes into debt
and tries to spread himself over.too many
eggs, is trying to beat tWo=forty with a
three-minute horse. The young man
who gets small salary, and spends more
money for ice cream and perfuinery and
neck ties than he earns, is trying to beat
tWo-forty with three minute horse. The
girl who is calculated by nature toabe
the wife of a mechanic, and. gets above
her business and looks with scorn upon
a man who earns his living By hard work
will look at an old maid in the glass a
Flew years from now, and realize that she
has been trying to. beat two-forty with
three4minute horse. The ordinary, ev-
cry day sort Of man, who is elected to
a small Office, by a big majority, on ac-
Icount of men voting for him for charity,
and who thergupon aspires to big Of
flee for which he is untitled, will be
nominated for the big Office some day
and be beaten higher than kite, and
he will then feel of his aching head. ex-
anime his empty pocketbook, look around
/ at the debts he has contracted and the
enemies he has made, and it will sud-
tsdenly come to him that he had
been trying, to beat two-forty with a
/ three-minute horse. The man or
woman who leaves a profession or em-
/ ployment to which they are fitted, and
in which they can be prosperous and
happy and have friends, andEgees upon
the stage to compete withmen and women
who have been brought up to it. and
who have made success by lifetime of
hard work, will some day realize TO their
sorrow that they have failedfto beat two.
forty with a three minute horse. The
young man who has been left d fortune
by assdead father, who has worked a life
time to accumulate riches, and who
can't find places enough to spend money
without sitting up alt night, and who
finds old sledge and peendcklet too tame
and adopts draw poker and faro. and
who forgets that his sisters are splendid
company, will in few years be walking
on his uppers, and having fur collars
/ pinned on to linen ulsters for winter,
and he willwake up some morning with
the almightiest headache on record and
come to the. conclusion that. trying to
beat tWo-forty with a three minute horse
lis what afls him The summer resort
hotel proprietor who fitsup an old rock
cry and fills it with guests. who are seek
ing comfort, and charges them Fifth
Avenue prices for Bowery aeconoda-
ftions, will look at his empty house the
next year and say the season is back
ward, and when the guests do not come
with the dog-days he viii suddenly
scratch his head and say he made fool
of himself last year in trying to beat
two-forty with three minute horse. The
Ewholesouled, good fellow, everybody's
friend, gets to drinking too hard and,
as he is healthy, he gets an idea
/ he can beat whisky, a game that so
many have tried and failed. He keeps
it up until his nose gets. red, his eyes
bleared and his voice shaky, and he has
i a whisky cough, and his friends try to
reason with him and get him to let up,
but he laughs at them with his good
| y
q constitution like a horse, and that
hnothing can hurt him, and he asks them
/ to, take a drink. Some day he, gets the
jim-jan1s, and all his friends say: 81
told you So" and they sit up nights with
him and drive away snakes, and just. be-
fore he dies it suddenly occurs to him
| that, he has been trying to beat two forty
with a three minute horse "a man who
| is poor and wants to live onthe faFof the
land, marries,a pretty little rich woman,
/ and begins to squander her money, and
when she tries to persuade him to stop
it, he gets to treating her like adog,
gets worse and strikes her. and after a
| while she gets enough of it and obtains
| a divorce, and marries man who loves
her and doesn't want her money, and
! she is happy, and her former husband
I becomes a dead beat and drunkard and
would fain beg for the refuse that drops
from the table of his former wife, and
when he buttons his summer coat. around
him on winter snight and walks around
ablock for wind pudding, and looks
into the windows and sees the light oi
j the file, from the CRATE Of his former
wife 8 sitting groom, it occurs to him that
If he had not attempted to beat two forty
] with a three minute horse, heceuld have
! been in there toasting his slippers and
looking into pair Of eyes that would
have always looked their love for him
if he had been contented with a three
minute gait, but which eyes will never
look upon. him again except in pity. o.
there are thousands of people who make
4 mistake in trying to beat two-fortJ
with three minute horse. --Peck'S Sun
Entente COrliale Spilled.
Mrs. Bezumbee, a tall, elderly LADY