The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-02-09
Trying to Beat 2:4o.

airy hit the nail on the head when
asked how his downward course be-
gan He said "it began in trying 10
beat 2:<0 with a 3 100 horse" How
many people in all branches of busi-l
ness are trying to beat 2 40 with a
3 100 business. The man who has a
small business that is paying him, and
goes into debt and tries to spread him
self over too many eggs, is trying to,
beat 2 40 with a 3 100 horse. The.
young man who gets a small salary,
and spends more money for ice cream
and perfumery and neckties than he
earns, is trying to beat 9 40 with a
3 900 horse. The girl who is calculated
by nature to be the wife of mechanic,
and gets above her station and looks
with scorn upon man who earns his
living by hard work, will look at an
old maid in the glass a few years from
now, and realize that she has been
trying to beat 2 40 with a 3 100 horse.
The ordinary, every day sort of man,
who is elected to a small Office by a
big majority, on account of men vot-
ing for him for charity, and who there
upon aspires to big office 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, examine his
empty pocketbook, look around at the
debts he has contracted, and the ene-
mics he has made, and it will sudden-
ly come to him that he has been trying
to beat 2 40 with 3 90 horse. The
men or women who leave profession
or employment to which they are fit
ted, and in which they can be pros
porous and happy and have friends,
and 60 upon ie sta ye to compete with
men 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 failed to beat 2 40 with
a 100 horse.
The young man who has been left a
fortune by a dead father who has
worked lifetime to accumulate riches,
and who changes from beer, that was
good enough for him before, to cham
paigne, and plenty of it, and who can't
find places enough to spend money
without sitting up all night, and who
finds old sledge and penuchle too tame
and adopts draw poker and faro, and
who forgets that his sisters are splen-
did company, and gets acquainted
with quick girls and buys them dia-
monds as big as pieces of alum, will in
a few years be walking on his uppers
and having fur collars pinned on to
linen ulsters for winter, and he will
wake up some morning with the al
mightiest headache on record, and
come to the conclusion that trying to
beat 2 40 with a 300 horse is what
ails him. ...".E
The whole-souled good fellow, every
body'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 whisky cough, and his friends
try to reason with him and get him to
let up, but he laughs at them with his
good-natured laugh, and tells them
that he has got constitution like a
horse, and that nothing can hart him,
and he asks them to take a drink.
Some day he gets the jim-jams, and
all his friends say: 81 told you So"
and they sit up nights with him and
drive away snakes, and just before he
lies it suddenly occurs to him that he
has been trying to beat 2 40 with a
100 horse. oh, there are thousands
IF people who make mistake by try
ng to beat 2 40 with 8 100 horse
Peek's Sun.
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