Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05

may even do many mean things with
out being found out. 1t is a great
relief not to know about a great
many things But when one has
nothing to do then he will examine
his troubles. A trouble never shrnks
under examination. There are many
little troubles that active men VIII
step on or kick out of the way that
look formidable to him when he sits
by the wayside wondering whether he
shall go this way or that to reach
the inn. The fellows trudging by
with the harness on look good TO him
for like as not they are chuckling or
humming some snatch of song. Ii $
easier to put the harness off than II
is to get it on again. for preference
runs to colts. AS men grow old :.
may be they have not as mueh 20
love, and then 1t is pity II they have
lost love for their work. Iher9
are many sorry widowers who have
not yet buried their wives. or VINO,
having performed that sad office. are
doubly bereft by being separated
from the company of the harness IL
is better to die in it, one is pretty
mean if he says he has nothing more
to work for, and, withal. he Is pretty
stupid. He has himself to work for,
and that is an object worth While To
him. 1t is the duty of every one, II
duty is to be thought of in assocla
ton with selfshness. to carry as littie
misery about with him as possible
Misery is contagious and 1T attacks
the weak viciously Every man Is
made better and lighter of heart by
doing something, There is conscious
power in doing something. and 1t IS
we'll to keep between the tugs worry
is a great executibner of human life,
operating among the lowly and those
in high estate. 1t is we'll to observe
that love and worry are not COM
monty hitched together. Love does
things, and worry sits around ana
wrings its hands. There is no safe
guard like that of having work that
comes around every day for the bene-
dictton of love- 1t is well to stick
forward the head for the collar and
TO nut the breast against it when the
lines are gathered UP. Work is the
best doctor and the cheapest. No
knowing how many complaints can be
cured by forgetting them. The things
tnat are CalieQ large are Aoi eifo iiioSN
part small 1t is sometimes great
annoyance to find that ones noun
tain has not been heard of across the
street But when one begins to FREE,
and to say outright that his feet slip
from under him, the nelghDorhooo
will take notice and say 1T is pity
the condition of mind he is in. Pity
is a cheap sorrow, and to hunger FOR
it is proof enough of a depraved APP
petite. 1t is better to think of an
others trouble than of ones own,
for that will tighten ones own bur-
den and may throw openNa door from
which light will stream to the point
of desolation 1t is not given to all,
despite philosophy and courage, to
die "in the harness" But to do so
may we'll be the ambition of men,
An old harness is tender to the flesh,
and the buckles of it are not hard TO
clasp Friends may go and the ROXY
currents of life may make wide sep
arations but every may may cling TO
his work and the love of It while ne
has strength to stand. The sun may
have passed the meridian, and the
western sky may be reddening to re-
ceive 1t, but it is great at the setting
TO have the harness on.