The news & observer., 1897-02-25

heat it by striking 1t until it gets hot
and shape it as you want IT, These are
the sort Of fellows that get there with
both feet.
The trouble with You fellows is that
you ought 10 travel You want to learn
a few things. Its better to be rascal
than a fool. You cam reform a rascal,
but there's no hope for a fool Don't
monkey with a fool
Now to get there the firstt hing I'd
put in a fellow is life, force, vim. The
devil can run a mile before some preach
ers can put ON their boots The trouble
with too many people in the church now
is that they are just a'trust:ng In the
Lord and a-laying down on his PROMISES
The Populists to-day are just aytrusting
in the politicians and a-laying down ON
the government.
You cam tell live preacher these days
by the subjects he breaches ON. Those
fellows that are preaching about the
sweet-by-and-by had better be talking
about the nasty present. The only thing
10 do is to find out in what hole the fell
low is and then shoot i'm there. He'll
come humping out in n iiHy and swear
You never touched him There are more
dead men than are i'm their graves. If
you want to get there you must get life.
"Hhe next thing necessary in getting
there is grit Not such grit as the bully
has who gets tankncd up and tries to
clean up the town. Fighting is the worst
thing a white man ever engaged in--or
a negro either. A yankee asked me some
time ago If there was much difference i'm
the instincts of the white man and the
negro. | told him no the principal diff
ference was in their out-stinks
I've gOt the profoundest contempt for
little pistol toter It's a wonder it
doesn't go off and blow out his brains
Go home and kill a dog with it. ! mean
blow out your own Life. No brave man,
no gentleman will go around with gun
in his pocket Courage is what you want
that courage that makes you do right
regardless of what people say.
"Of all the fellows in this world that
I'm sorry, for it's the preachers who are
trying to do anything with the gang
they've got. There's not a preacher i'm
Raleigh that hasn't got these four
classes in his church--'the old kicker, the
old butter, the old stinger and the old
stinker The preacher may get the load
to heaven but he'll never get the team in.
Another thing necessary to get there
in good shape is patience. Mother, if you
had more patience You would be the best
mother on earth, and if you had a little
more patience still you'd be a grand
mother. | pity the man that has fussy
wife or the woman that has a bear for
husband Solomon said he'd rather get
out ON top of the house than stay i'm the
parlor with a quarreling woman. Solo
mon ought to know, he had 200 wives.
The element in human nature that gets
there IN greatest shape and stays
there, is kindness. It is the dew of heay-
en-. sweetening earth and purifying l:fe
Girls don't offer any premium ON mani
hood these days. When there's woman
in the case the biggest fools the first in
favor. A dude will down man w til
a girl amy day. And the girls, they want
to be pretty-beautiful We need more
honey bees and fewer butterflies. The
most dangerous thing in the world is to
be beautiful woman. But don't think
any of you all need be uneasy II beauty
is only skin-deep I've seen n few people
w1hom I've thought skiuning would help.
''You can tell a boy who will get there
if You VIII watch how he treats his moth
err She's got as much right i'm a saloon or
at a gamblers table as he has \ young
mans devotion to his mother is the
standard of character. / believe in the
double standard of money and the single
standard of morals DON'T do things you
don't want your wife, sister. sweetheart
or mother to do'
The speaker closed his lecture with an
eloquent tribute to mother's love.