The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-05-28
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A Bit of Talk for Boys and Girls, BY tins
Late H. H.) Helen jackson.

Late (H. H.) Helen jackson.
Every body knows the timetables
hat tell at what hours trains come and
70. Travellers consult them to learn
low to reach their destination; when
20 start; how long they are to be ON
their way; where they will make stops;
and many other things to be found oue
before 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 angements must be made for
their passing one another at the light
places. If single train is behind, 1t
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 tilne-ta-
BILE how to avoid danger. 1t he can
not reach station at such a 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
frightful collision may follow. Indeed,
some of the most dreadful casualties
ever known have been caused BY the
pushing on of a train that should nave
been kept back. That is why have
selected for the motto of our private
timetable: "Waitl'' 1t might well be
written three times over: "Wait!
wait! wait!" If we are angry-Walt!
,, If we are tired-wait! IT 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-
gine, 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
7 health, greater strength, more lndus-
I 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. Well, don't we
y stand in the same perilp am sure
that we are too apt to have collisions
y with other people, collisions with cir
u 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
ie to do; when we are idle, and hinder
81 busy people; when we act as If 1--we be
!. lieyed that any sort of good end couit
w W be reached without hard work, AM
~ steady work, and cheerful work, w
= are certainly off the track.
- Well. then, when we know that sucl
> 9 is our plight, dom t you think that tn
o., sooner we stop, the betterP Whether
~ is a question of possible collision, as il
ha a rudeness to some one of the hom
81 circle, q quarrel with a friend, an ur
Ia kind word to a servant; or OF runnin
off the track through headlong blum
az dering, or bad preparation, or lgnt
u rance, or wlllfulness, we might, ha
tha the time at least, save ourselves frol
IN, these misadventures if we took tin
III, to think, If we remembered to ''walt.
,nn Perhaps jingle which ! have write
I; NAV help you to recall this good a
IN vice (for we are apt to forget good a
t,at vice when we most require it,) at &
hnt moment when you lind yourselves
danger.
and ANEW wTIME-rABLE-.wAIT1"
,ar- When you are puzzled and perplexed,
Leave OF the worrying debate,
the And think of other things awhfle;
rets You'll see it clearer, If you swat"
adj whon +enner rises hot and Quick,
9 of And YOU are vsxed at friend or mate;
,ora Watch yv4lr time-tablei stop just thereI
'oto Save the collisionl Simply "waitF
.ly / Each thing in nature keeps this law,
the The smallest plant abides its date
And summers heat and winters flaw,
wen And storm, and calm, their season wall
in
1oht This is the law that rules our lot,
q? And holds the whole of human fate;
III He conauers who has force to strive,
ties And equal patience has-to wait"
hom st. Nicholas