The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-21
SETTINGS
THE SPIRIT OF r

THE SPIRIT OF FIRE +
L am the spirit of fire, hal hal
Once free to leapi and circle the earth;
1 dwdt in the sun-swung heat through the universe
And light the genius of my birth.
j a the spirit of fire, hi hoi
Imprisoned to use of man l shrek,
And crackle, "a and rumble, and seek
Out flight in the dead of night,
While the Weakened sleepcrs faint from fright,
And tumble naked into the light,
And shiver, and shudder, and shake, and squeak
While / laugh Ho, H,
Hol hol hi hOl hoi hoi
i laugh at m y master, man.
He holds IN e red in the head of a match,
Feeds from me bound in an iron can,
Reads from me loosed from a wires catch,
His gamut of needs 1 quickly span.
Yet l bide. and hide, and Turk, and wait,
And laugh at my master, man.
1 kiss the gray of his mother 8 hair,
L bring the blush to his sweetheart IS cheek,
1 warm the clothes that his babies wear,
When the mornings are cold, and chill, and bleak
1 lie in the bowl of his pipe and glow,
While the fragrant smoke floats through the air,
I nurse my own, and tighten his woe,
And burn the fuse of a nations care
I cater to needs If mankind 10.
L am the spirit of fire, hal hal
And greater than he that binds me
Through crannes of pride the egotist builds,
Of a sudden I'm loose and he finds ne.
L lick up his home and swallow his adj.
Leave him stripped and fashion his pail,
Fierce slave of his beck and call,
Ho! hl hoi hl hoi hoi
Think of the mn and his gall
L am the spirit of fire, hal hal
Once free to leapl and circle The earth;
1 dwet in the u swung heat through the universe
And light a the genius of my birth.
Strange indeed are the ways of lei and women, and other men
and women. Strange are the ways of me with their ferowmen when
a woman is concerned.
"What did the colonel's lady thinki
Nobody ever knew.
Somebody asked the sergeantis wife,
An she told ZEN true.
When you get to a man in the case.
They re like al a row of pins
For the coIonelt lady an Judy o'Grady
Are sisters under their skins"
Yet of all the fallaces yet known to man the greatest is that where
John thinks that he raises himself in the lady's estimation when he
knocks Harry. I hate a knocker-one who has the habit. Everybody
else hates a knocker. When two If us get together tea tn other
to pieces We leave n another satisfied that when the opportunity
arises the fellow re have just been talking to is going to hold us v
the gridiron. And nine cases out of ten W 9 are right. That is why
you do not lift yourself in her estimation, and with this piece Of phlos-
ophy, you have all my knowledge about the other sex. schopenhauer
says women are a luxury, he says they are n good. He goes o n to
state instances of poor women raised by marriage to opulence, through
10 fault of their own, who became SC snobbish that tt sit ear them
was to feel the nose tilt upward in telepathic sympathy. d Q points
out that women take n interest in anything but undressing other
women, and in making other women feel mean-that is when they are
young is only their sense Of a oss OF attractlveness n drives
them to literature and French verbs-then he says they too late to
get any solid grounding and become obtrusive and cacking hens.
schopenhauer evidently had it in for women.
Yet the dead philosopher Notwithstanding, a noble woman is
the greatest work of nature. She possesses the dearest quality known
to man-sympathy But mean a woman-I don't mean the young
There is n hasher, meaner, btterer, mor unjust, and cruel Judge
of human mature than the young girl whose experience has been limited
to a boarding school, whose sorrows are a matter of dances and ribbons,
and who is still a inhabtant of the land of gush.
Education-womanhoo manhood are not a question of age, they
are questions of experence. All experience is go0d-think It over? Il
L once knew rbtker intimately a young man He swore that he
would never swear. He used to say, 'Oh fudge, = and phrases of the
type. Someone had the temerity n day to say of him, "the sissy =
it did the young man good, and with a effort he finally said 'damn."
He was there after a better a This same young a abhorred drunk
ness-o day he vas inveigled and became intoxicated. He never
became a drunkard, but thereafter when he saw his felowman hanging
to a lamp post he understood. He wa nearer to humanity.
Each day brings u IS nearer to the end-and the end is death. When
asleep what boots it is to us what is said of us, it is hearing it all in
the morning that hurts And yet We stir up the boiling pot of hatred
by mining each other down.. all of which reacts to or certain dlSad-
vantage. I like to see other @ succeed. DO you mea to say that
you are the sui of all the virtues and that M other is worthy. Bosh,
IS the young a would have said, peanuts"
A brainier than 1 ICE advocated a policy of living that "a
like this: essay to yourself, if you like, will not do this or Sc, but when
you see the other doing that thing do not judge, do not crticise,
I'm day it may com o you in irresistible fashion to do the thing
yourself, and then where are you, in the day Of death the things you