The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-05

MATURE THAT PINE FOR THE MAN
WITH THE
shire, Wisconsin or Canada work off a
"just as good pine shingIe on you, but
stick to the old reliable.
What l want to say to you as we
whittle isn't what the books are al
ways s~aying-be honest, respect truth,
obey the Golden Rule, and so forth and
so On. In this day and age you can get
a chap to sit down for $15 per week
and write you out whole columns of
books and advice and give you a hun
~dred different notices and watchwords
to choose from. What I've got on my
mind is this: Don't swell up and bust.
IL 1 was offered a hundred dollars a
word to give you better advice /
couldn't do it.
L don't care how smart and how slick
q young man is when he starts out in
3 @E1iife, he's going to foller the natural
fendency Of human nature unless some
old dozer like me sits down with a
tshingie and q jackknife and whites a
DIT and talks a bit and points out the
dangers in his path. The watered
IN stock of corporations that we hear so
4 + match about and which is one of the
great evils of the kentry is but a natu-
AoA NdoSANN 1"A\h anu SNCiy o1C vi
us is inclined to overdo things. In 9th
9ler words, we swell up We swell up
without figgering that we may bust
after going about so far.
Take any one of those old Roman
N"' and Greek warriors you will and you
-boHwillf find that he started out with steam
at high pressure. He was backed by a
~ e pull. and good luck hung to his coat
gsS tails till he got the idea that he was
the earth itself. He didn't swell up
to a certain limit, like a bari Of new
.y)gtcider. and then stop and buy him a
chicken farm and begin to enjoy life.
z ysrbut he kept right on swelling until one
day IN explosion was due, and he was
blown sky high. If Caesar had stopped
att certain pint he could have retired
to some pleasant spot in the countrv
land had a cider mill, a flock of Jersey
y, n COW and q .fshpond and been the boss
of the county but he hung on and
What did Napoleon do? You know
~ that he went Att and upset govern
ESHh&ments and licked the earth and swelled
around until nature had to ask his per-
mission to have a thunderstorm or to
grow huckleberries. A month before
Waterloo he could have started out
w1Cn q Bunaf0 Bill SHOW ana taken IN
money by the barrel, and every boy
III baby born! that year would have been
named after him. He'd been swelling
d year after year, like a yaller pump
Kin left behind the cook stove, and it
never occurred to him that there would
be a bust-up. No one dared sit down
and white land talk with him. He
was left TO go his own road, and he
wentit il, andGwhen the explosion came
1t was heard all over the world.
Nou've read all about Christopher Co
Iumbus,s Of course. When the king of
Spain grub zsssked him to go on a voy-
age Of discovery Christopher naturally
eeeswelled up. he couldn't help it. Things
mad come his way, and be was boss.
When he stumbled across America he
ss sYelled some more He'd been called a
VfR9ool9fora styling chat Spain didn't in
Glude all the IdnnH on the face of the
globe, and, having proved his case, he
twas naturally on the swell. When he
I'm raturneds nome and Yreceiyed a royal
'ft' Welcome and all the theaters were
|G0Isending him ddeadhead tickets, heiwas
20 pretty near ripe for Bursting. Did, he
VGgE go@aheadr until tle,calafnity came? No,
s~At sir! He sat down with himself one day
and said: 2Inm713II 81 II
"see here Chris, this thing has gone
about far enough. Don't run a good
&e13 sE !fss Al ef,|ssl a xSs a sss1 ; ! s {
xtrain on your suspenders. You've
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