The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-30
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Reported for the REcoRD-UN1oN.l
old CRANK'S' SERIAL SERMON.

NHATILN ".
TEXT-"As q man thinketh so is hen

A man who don't think occupies a po-
sltlon in the world similar to painted
portrait Some women may like to look
at him, if he is handsome; and he may
perhaps with propriety-be called an or
nament to society; but when you talk
about his usefulness, the least said is the
most appropriate.
My advice to any such man, is to marry
some bright woman-if he can find one
foolish enough to accept him for hus-
band-and let her do his thinking. 1t
don't take a very wise woman to do the
thinking for such a man. Tryphena has
always been great help to me. Some
times she will give me more ideas in a
minute than l would have had myself in
six months. The other day she looked
mp from her work, and remarked.
quietly:
~ on modern politicians, Lawmakers
and law-enforcers remind me of little
boy l once saw. His father was walking
around, about his business. and that little
boy was following him up, and stepping
just where the old man had stepped He
had to stretch his little legs to their ut
most to reach from one step to another,
but he was hound to put his little foot in
every track the old man had made.
Just so you modern followers of pre-
cedent appear TO me to be stretching
your little legs, trying to step in the
tracks of some giant, without CONSIDERING
have no occasion to 60"
i see the drift Of your remarks. Try
phena," said l, but don't you think that
weli-trod path is easier to walk in than
| the uneXplOred Wilderness? If YOU
should see man get out of a smooth,
beaten road and go tramping through the
| brush, you would think him foolish;
now, wouldn't you?
THAT is all very well about your
smooth beaten road" said she, pro
vided you only want to go where some
| body else has been, but ! thought from
| your talk that you were intent on reach
ing the goal of superior civilization, Do
| you expect to find a smooth, beaten road
all the way there?" asked she sarcastic
ally. The road you are travelling on don't
lead within thousand miles Of that goal,
and you may travel back and forth on
your smooth, beaten road until doom's
day, and you won't be any nearer to it
than you were when you started"
Then she Strengthened up and raised
up her head proudly. and her eyes shone,
and she looked at me as though she was
queen of the earth, and as though | was
all of the politicians, and all of the law
makers, and all of the law-enforcers of
| the world, condensed into one, and that
one her humble slave. AS she exclaimed.
emphatically: Get out of the old mans
tracks, and make some tracks Of your
own"
Pathology is big word, and some peo-
pie object to 1t, but | think it is good
word to practice sometimes. If a man
goes out to cut down a tree he whacks his
AK into the tree; but if he has common
sense he don't stop then and wait for the
tree to fall. He keeps on whacking his
AK in, and if he has skill enough to strike
twice in the same place and keeps on
striking i'll the same place the tree is
bound to come down.
thinking OF anything once, and never
thinking OF it again, don't accomplish
anything. You have got to keep on
thinking and get your thoughts into
words, and keep your words flying about
until they hit somebody or something
Then, again, there is an old saying that
there may be too much OF a good thing"
This is true of tautology. Ii the man who
cuts the tree down should keep on whack-
ing his AK into the stump instead OF cut
ting up the tree, and making it available
Tor use, he would resemble somewhat the
followers of precedent, who keep on do
ing the same old thing in the same old
way, and don't seem to realize that the
thing IS done and out of the way, leaving
an opportunity to do something else.
OLD CRANK.
To be continued