The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-29
NUMBER 26.
WATT
A Bit of Talk for Boys and Girls, by the
 Late GIL H.) Helen Jackson.

Late (H. H.) Helen Jackson.
 Every body knows the timetables that tell at what hours trains came and go. Travellers consult them to learn how to reach their destination; when to start; how long they are to be on their way; where they will make stops; and many other things to be found out before a journey is undertaken.
 But there are other timetables, on all railroads, of which the passengers know nothing. These schedules are made out for the conductors and en- gineers, and show the exact second at which each train is due at each station, along the whole line of the road. You see there are so many trains running both ways every day that the most ex- act arrangements must be made for their passing one another at the light places. If a single train is behind, it throws all the rest out of order. So every conductor is instructed by his timetable, where to wait, if another train is late, how many minutes to hold back his own train. how far he may then push, and how long he is again to wait. Meanwhile the belated conductor is instructed by his time-ta- ble how to avoid danger. If he can not reach station at such time, he must stand still, at whatever safety point he may have reached, till the ap- preaching train has passed him. Let but one man on the line disregard or misinterpret his instructions and a frightful collision may follow. Indeed, some of the most dreadful casualties ever known have been caused by the pushing on of train that should have been kept back. That is why have selected for the motto of our private timetable: "Waitr' It might well be written three times over: ''Wait! waiti wait" If we are angry-wait! If we are tired-wait! If we are per plexed-wait!
 After all, managing ourselves IS not so very unlike managing train. As the train must be in good order-en- zine, brakes, wheels, couplings-to make time, so we must keep organs and senses up to the mark, or drop be- hind. Other people who have better health, greater strength, more indus try, will run ahead of us, do more good, enjoy life better, improve faster.
 Again, the greatest dangers that threaten trains are collisions, and run- ming off the track. We'll, don't we stand in the same peril? I am sure that we are too apt to have collisions with other people, collisions with cir cumstances, collisions with our own weaknesses and perversities, even. And when we spend our time trying to do something that we don't know how to do; when we are idle, and hinder busy people; when we act as if we be- lieved that any sort of good end could be reached without hard work, and steady work, and cheerful work, we are certainly off the track.
 We'll, then, when we know that such is our plight, don't you think that the sooner we stop, the better? Whether it is question of possible collision, as in 8 rudeness to some one of the home circle, quarrel with a friend, an un- kind, word to a servant; or of running off the track through headlong blun- dering, or bad preparation, or igno- rance, or wlllfulness, we might, haH luO OllllO dO lCdoO, saw OuJ oClfOo HUH these misadventures if we took time to think, if we remembered to ''wait." Perhaps jingle which I have written may help you to recall this good ad- vice (for we are apt to forget good ad- vice when we most require it, at the moment when you find yourselves in danger.
 NEW TIME-TABLE-"wAIT?
 When you are puzzled and perplexed,
 Leave or the worrying debate,
 And think of other things awhile;
 You'll see it clearer, if you "wait.
 When temper rises hot and quick,
 And you are vexed at friend or mate;
 Watch your time-tablel stop just thereI
 Save the collisIon Simply ''waitP'
 Each thing in nature keeps this law,
 The smallest plant abides its date
 And summers heat, and winters flaw,
 And storm, and calm, their season wait" This is the law that rules our lot,
 And holds the whole of human fate;
 He conQuers who has force to strive,
 And equal patience has-to wait.
 -St. Nicholas.