Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-01

and encouraging? No one. To do that
one must have Il quorum of likedoers
And then how easy and gay it is!
Virtue is dead easy under such condi-
tions. But II l should get out on my
front walk, alone. in the morning, and
go thru those antics, the neighbors
would laugh and guy me, and say, do
come out here and see what a monkey
Burrell is making Of himself; their
laughter would be like the cracking of
thorns under the pot, and their ridicule
would butt me off the track, and some
would think it best to tote me off to the
asylum. The environment isn't right,
don't you see? We all lean and defer
and knuckle down when we are alone.
zone with God may be a majority"
but somehow, we want and must have
human associations and the right en-
vironment, or we'll not stick at right
practices.
Can one live wholesomely, eat the
proper things and leave the other sort
out, and keep up the exercise In the
open air and sunshine that every one
should take, when alone? Nay, can you
say to the bad things, the things that
you know are not wholesome, Get
the behind me, Satan" when invited
out? Try it and see. You must have
heroic fiber If you can land do, and a
will made Of granite, and a bonhomie
and Independence Of the character that
most men lack, but which are proof
against testing and ridicule. 1t Is so
easy to do as others do, so easy to
swim in the current, so hard to live
after the law of righteousness or right
doing, alone. The solitary he sets in
families in order that the lorn creature
may amount to something.
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RICH MEN AND THEIR RICHES.
Esprit Lake Beacon.]
It is impossible to understand the
mind and motive Of many men OF
wealth. They pile up money which
simply increases their cares and re-
duces their real enjoyment. They rec
ognize no obligation to the unfortun-
ate: they care not to contribute to
the sum of enlightenment or of happi-
ness. Moved by the lowest impulses,
they grovel for gold to live contempt
tibly and die despised. II a man might
live forever, there might be some sort
of selfish foundation upon which he
might build their foolish fortunes. But
man must die. Blind to the higher
purposes of life, he must leave his dirty
accommodations to imperil the souls OF
unappreciative and misguided relatives
or to lawyers who would reap where
they have not sown.
Man may If he will insist that the
fortune he has made is all his own,
No human power can take it away
from him. But how cheap and vain
and contemplate 1t must appear TO
such one when he stands at the por-
tails of eternity. Those who make
large accumulation should feel moved
by high motive to noble deeds of fnan-
cial hopefulness, but If they have not
the soul to inspire such sentiment it
would appear for very selfishness they
would bid for the comforting balm Of
contemporary appreciation denied the
selfish and silly rich. If a man be not
by nature generous he may by assum-
ing the virtue reap some measure OF
reward in life by disappointing inlpa-
tient heirs and Withholding booty from
expectant lawyers.
If some rich men could only realize
what 1t meant to them in this world
alone to give their shriveled souls
chance, they would speedily emulate
the helpful life Of James Callahan,
whose splendid motives gave additional
relish to his money making and who
in Ehis receiving and his giving en-
loved even in this life rich dividends
| of happiness