Middletown transcript., 1907-03-16
sHARPS AND FLATS

the home be preserved against Juggled
Justice and the bloomered gang that hun
ger for equal privileges.
There is but one evil that is worse than
money and that is whiskered reformel
who can tell you all about the proper use
Of the coin and yet never fingered sou
in his life.
Never to have loved is never to have
lived. You may miss its perfection, YET
sit is better to have loved and lost than
never to have loved at all. -
"How were you able to whip the Aus,
trians one to four ~ was asked of NapoI.
con. And his answer was, II knew the
value Of time" The man who learns
that trick is sure winner, no difference
what he sets about to do.
When man has toiled for years, and
at last lays by enough to get out of the
worlds unceasing grind, he does not there
by become a retired pirate-this modern
croaking against the rich to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Sometimes it seems as if men and wo-
men must meet suffering in solitude; but
in the bitterest pain, that which divides
each human being from every other breaks
asunder. They draw near--they comfort
and lean upon one another
The chair of Applied Poultry Science, ="
in Cornell University, is filled by a COL
ored Methodist preacher. We pass that
up to the professional psychologist whose
business it is to explain that which is
more than merely accidental.
After all, a whole lot of rich men are
saving human barnacles-their kinsmen-
from professional hoboism The trick
is to put them in position for which they
have about as much fitness t..as a tabby
cat has for fracas with Bengal tiger"
A certain writer divided reformers in
to three classes: first, those who shope
for pertinent results; secondly. those dri-
ven by necessity or revenge, and thirdly,
those who make a living by it: OF the
last, the world in these latter days is
greatly burdened
After reading the manner OF some in our
metropolis on this side the earth, begin
to wonder why Maxim Gorky was kicked
out of new York hotel simply because
there was women in the case. But if he
had been"home foIks"it would have been
so different, you see.
The man who says he married the
wrong woman speaks for the one who
stood by his side in the years that are
gone. Did she not, therefore, marry the
wrong man? The truth it's an unspeak-
able tragedy beside which all other trage-
dies are comedies that mock and jeer.
Read this: Love transmutes every diff
ference into bate. Right here is the reef
on which the stateliest ships go down.
Would to God we all possessed the high
er power Of love-the love that's blind to
every solitary fault
Get wise You will see on any street
corner those social warts; the Johnhies,
'cavengers in quest of prey. The pity is
that some moveon-law does not mercilesslv
push them off the very verge of creation.
Whatever may be the pet ideas of those
who elect life Of bloomered, single-bless
edness, woman never was born to be
udge and jury. Her scepter is caress
md her boundIess empire is realm of
owe. When she fails there her power
over man has passed away.
Some men are too cowardly to pull up
he anchor and face the open sea. You
ant make progress when you drag the
Inchor. The fukes will hold some
where and you'll rock idly in placid
layep. Storm or no storm, turn toward
he bonndless deep. That's infinitely
,etter than the ceaseless and unehanging
larbor.
In sense, there is no such thing as
rec gift. We pay for all We get. Even
When free, we rightfully expect the full
st returns in the coinage of the heart.
Ind, like Prometheus, were we to steal
ire from the affairs of the gods they would
till let US feel and think, but the Olym-
ans would chain us to rock.
In Portsmouth, Virginia, a most sue
essful planter recently died. His corn
rop alone covered two thousand acres OF
ertile land he had redeemed from Dismal
;wamp. The dying regret of the old
7irginian was that none Of his SONS bad
rains enough to make farmer. The
lay Of the hay seed" is about over.
Strange, yet historically true, prosperity
las been the ruin of nations. Egypt,
iyria, Greece and Rome, went this route.
there is in it all tendency TO overstep.
The finer sensibiIities are blunted, ideals
re weakened and stunted, and the prin-
iples Of Justice and right are stuffed. |
When that's done, a nation is dead.
The poppy draws the deadly opium
rom the very same soil that the rose draws
Ier fragrant aroma. How strange and |
ct, no more strange is it than that two
ons are rocked in the same cradle by the
anne mother-hand One son heads for
lie lone sea and the frozen tide;the other
Dr. land Of flowers and beauty.
Once upon day ALI Baba was watch
1g his pigs industriousIy roofing, and
aifford King came along and asked, "Why
0 those pigs root SO ?''And ALI Baba re-
lied. Cliff, them pigs root to prevent in
The success of a pig in lie
inges on his ability to forget the fact
lat be is a pig; so them pigs, being wise,
re losing themselves in useful effort"
Why all this signing? Shall we count
uf ambitions lost because we do not at
lin the greatness Of which we dreBmed
ature. in her most remote Businesses,
,stoons her bosoms With flowers OF the
ildest beauty--only to breathe that frag-
snce on 4 solitude that's vast aud drear.
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