Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-03-15
THE FUTILE MAN.
A Definition Of a Certain Kind OF
of Bore.


s"lhuler VINO Preys PTincipaly upon
americans stationed IN LONDON
lhere IL announcer very eNasperat'ng
kind Oh man VINO sVeais What Is more
valuable than money ana tnat IS time'
can TINS orand Oh ihuiViuual me ,u-
tiie man iou Gun 40 hotnihB LOT
MN, or with MINI lie Is hopeless ana
the law does not a.low you 10 KIN MN
MY experience SHOWS me 'nat there
Is Hlnu Oh man with aWhooly oraih
VINO doesn't Know quite what uod put
MN IN TINS world lot
When you ask MN What ne can 90,
as ne mas appheu 10 you ior some SORT
OF SITUATION ne answers quite cheer-
nlly' Oh! can turn my mana 10 III
most anythhR .,
Now want 10 state rlRht mere 10
the boys anu 10 the young men VINO 90
me tne nohor OF reauinH what Wrlte'
tnat the man VINO can 40 everything Is
not worth d cent ihere Is no place
ior MN on inns earth' ana the earth
does not need MIN
MY advice 10 boys Is this: Make up
your minds not to do everything, but
10 90 one .hihR, ana that thing partlc-
nlarly we'll Inns Is an age OF special
lsta Inc man VINO can dig dltch' the
man VINO can plane board' the man
VINO can lay one prick on another or
the man VINO can compose an opera Is
the man VINO Is needed ana VINO Will
get along IN TINS world
| Inc tntlle man Is Wiling and ready
TO turn MS hand TO anything ana con-
sequently he comes up ana bothers me
and other busy men TO ma something
Tor MIN TO 40
One pathetic TACT about the futile
man is his Willingness TO work. His
neonlous prain' however mas never
taught MN the stern tact tbat no must
DO some one thing well ana not 1901
away ms Time DONG everything BADLY
ihen he must storm the citadels where
that particular thlng Is pelng done UNI
til he gets II to DO and when he has
got ms situatlon' nc must DO ms work
SO wei that MS employer cannot afford
To 90 without MN
gave mere conversation winch has
no particular point TO IL and whose
oniy merit Is that IL ~ a fair specimen
OF some hundreds Ike II mat have
taken part m
NY once 10Y Drought IN To me the
other day the card OF man whose
name had "A aim recollection OF hay
ing seen somewhere before There
was vague something away BACK IN
my mind, AZ II h'd reid BOOK ny
man OF that name but as had useless
" 1851 so h'uch time OF Iale III seeing
people / sald 10 iie ooy'
ASK nun "hat ne wants,
lle refuses 70 say what MS business
Is answered the boy
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must 'S huy Mhu' mn ous'''eSs ID oeiore
WI. sec MN ~
A''eF ie" in1,lehts the Uoy re-
turheu' h"ylnR ne suys nc Knows
you ou' mat per"apS you won re-
,ue'loer ii'i' iie Buys he from amer
'ea,
oh' very we'll men, su'u' sho"
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INC moment nc came III ! reilem-
oereu nm ooiio 'Nlee nionVns osiore
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everything,
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ar perVaue1 n's 'nunn1r eoWaru nie,
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