Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-14
WILL POWER.
Its ~Lamentable Failure to Work in the
Case of One man's New Year Keso-
buttons.

Case of One MANS New Year Keso
l~utions.
Boston GLJe.
No man likes to have any one Tell hiu
that he hes no Will power A msn's weskss
spot of conceit is The supposilion Of a per
sousl possession Of will power. My FRIEND
bjinks got very Wrathy when a friend told
him that he (BiinkS) hadn't will power
enough to stop chewing tobacco. What
I've got no will power9 Why, man alive,
you don't know me. I've quit buckwheat
cakes. ! used to be a a perfect slave to
the deadly griddle PLAQUES. l."
Yes, you've quit them because your
wife mother will not allow her rooms to
De smoked and scented up any more"
"W-Well! Isn't my allowing my wife
mother to set her foot down upon one of
my pleasures one of the grandest mani.
~festations of will power, I'd like to know
clustered Bjinks.
1T might be; but, all the same, l reite-
rate, you haven't got will power enough to
quit chewing tobacco"
Haven't, hey? See here, I'm going rab-
bit hunting tomorrow. When / return /
shall be able to tell you that I've formed q
solemn resolution TO quit chewing. You
can believe me. If there is any one thing
more than another that I'm proud Of, it is
my immense
Very well. Try it on, and good luck to
you, Bjinks. | suppose you'll come back
from rabbit hunting hump backed with
will power instead of game. Good morn
ing and Blink friend took his departure.
I've got no will power Humphl I'm
proud OF my will power. When | put my
foot down to do q thing, l do it. A stone
wall couldnt turn me out Of my way, when
| say 60. Can't quit chewing! Nonsense!
Any man can do a thing when once he sets
out 10 do it. I'll go rabbit hunting to.mor-
row, and to show my friend that I've got
will power enough to pass roun1 among
my neighbors. I'll form the resolution to
Quit chewing while I'm on the chase. Will
power Bah! Only children and week,
puny women haven't any will power"
Thus Bjinks unused as he wended his
his way toward bis Office. All day long he
chewed vigorously. To morrow he will
manifest the stupendous abundance of will
power which can be encompassed in one
human frame, 5 feet 5! inches, weighing
ll3 pounds.
When the roseate blush OF early morn
peeped through the windows of the house,
Bjinks arose, got his gun, called his dog,
and started forth to clay tie gentle rabbit.
The air was crisp and fresh. Bjinks felt
as buoyant as a boy with a little red bob.
sled. He felt a new strength within him.
He feels more manly, more like one of
natures noblemeD, and less a serf to a
habit. His thoughts rove to his
childhood days, when he wore a chip hat
and VEN fshing with a pin hook; when he
the cows home to milk, and stole
cream off the pans in the cellar when he
got a thrsshing for that act and various
little mistaken ideas OF life too
to mentioD); when he wove the
wreath Of omsnce from the pages Of o
dime novel, and went forth bent for the
trackless plains to stay redskins with a
ham merles5 pistol and a brass pair false
knuckes. All these and various other
connected with his days Of freedom
Illuminated the research OF his memory.
He is once more free
He slaps his hand upon his ~hip.pocket
He halts and st8res about him. A cotton.
rabbit sits upon it's lunches and
Dlinks it's curious eyes and points its rose.
ears at him. Great heavens! I've
come away without my top-pshsw How
| am. Aha! will power, Bjinks;
will power" The rabbit flashed out Of
sight, and the mar Of s%tupendous will pbd,
led on III search of tracks.
His thoughts went back 10 bis sparkling
The little parlor with a fire in
and dampness in summer; this gate
hat swung without d creak when he enter,
ed at :, but groaued enough TO wake the
sleepers when he went out at 3 the
next morning; the a~ttenusted bundle Of
conversation he was won to throw at his
seven nights in the week; the pop
the "yes"-the holy alter of mstri-
by heavens / must have been q block
lead! Here | am FIVE miles from home
my top-Pshswl nonsense; Will
power, Biinks; will power!' 1t wa q strug.
lie. 1t was a relentless, cesseless struggle.
de saw halt a dozen rabbits. He shot at
hem. He didn't bag q single rabbit
dIs hand was very unsteady. But he was
big in his own eyes; for-his i'm
nense will power. He hurried over the
ground rs quick as possible and made
racks for the town. The first man he met
vas his friend who had twitted him about
lot having will power. "Ah! my festive
Nimrod. Been shooting, eh2 Got q bag
=" For the sGke Of heaven and a suf
man, give me 3 chew" groaned
3jinks abjectly
Will pow
"Be hanged to it! Your plng-ohI
hanks. Good morning y and Bjluks went
lome feeling like Q man again, but very
%eusitive on the question Of will power.
II. S. KELLER.