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

found America, got money enough to
pay up all your back rent and go into
garden truck, and now you let right go.
If any one else wants to discover a
hunk OF land to the westward let him
go ahead"
That's the way Columbus fggered,
my son, and the result was that he
don't bust. On the contrary, he lived
to d good old age, had brands of cigars
and condensed milk named AFTER him.
and when be died every farmers wag-
on for ten miles around wanted a
place IN the funeral procession.
Bring the case down TO our George
Washington. Lord. but how things did
happen to cause him to swell up.
From the time ne cut down that cherry
tree his couIsa was onward and up
ward. bro: ATS FOR foods nor cy-
clones could s;op him. he went scoot-
ing right to the top of the tree, and
whea he got there be he'd on with
tooth and toe nail ard conduit be shak-
ell down. He kept swelling and swell
Jag az Commander III "l:ef of the ar
my. and then be put in eight years
Eo-e as president. They wanted him
for a thiv. term, and most any man
living would have taGan it, but what
did the Father OF His Country do? He
goes put behind the cider mill one day
and sits down for a talk with himself
and says:
Say, George, you are the biggest
oak in the woods. You are the only
pebble on the beach. You are the fat
test blackberry Oh the bush. You are
at the top Of the tip toppers. Now.
then, look out. A bladder can hold
only just so much wind. You have got
to stop right where you are or bust"
That's the gist of what he said, my
o n, and what was the result? He
goes in and sits down to the kitchen
table and writes out his little document
ing that he could hereafter be found at
Mount Vernon, Z. S. A, by any one
wanting potatoes, Onions and cabbages
fresh grown and at reasonable prices.
and he stuck to his word. He didn't
bust. He retired with a cart load of
hOnors, and no American is ever goin,
to forget that his last name is spelled
with a capital w.
I'm telling you, sonny, that if you
get ahead as you should you are goinG
to swell up. You are going to think you
are the smartest, cutest thing on earth
Even if a corporation pays SIS apiece
for votes to send you to the legisla-
frJra Won - no rniro tn {IirIy tho + - ,,a
all on account of your smartness anI
popularity, and you will pity the DE-
feated candidate for a fool. Fellerj
will come to you with their hats III
their hands. Fellers will come and pat
you on the back. Fellers will whisper
in your ears that this old earth didn't
amount to shucks until you were born.
You'll swell and swell, and some day
you'll reach the pint where you'll have
to unOutton the top button to get an
easy breath. That's the turning pint,
Go out and commune with Yourself
q little kicking and cussing- Look
at things square in the face and make
up your mind that it's either stop or
bust.
I've got the 5LiLSIe all Whitfield UP,
my son., and I'm going to pocket my
j~ackknife and go down to Snyder's.
grocery. Thirty years ago, when l a
constable of this town, I had a mort
gage on the widow Simpsons house
and lot and had a hundred dollars in
the bank, and l was on the swell. I
walked in there one day feeling that I
vas 1T" and tried to bluff a tin
peddler. That was my day for bust
ing. but l wouldn't heed the signs. I
bet him 500 and lost, and since that
time I've been as humble as a goose at
the bottom of a rain barrel. Come
along with me and see. They look up
me as a busted man, and if l tell
'em that jim Goodhue's boss has a
Of the bolts they'll look down on
me in pity and wonder why l hain't
been sent to the idiot asylum.
VI. QUAD.