The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-11-17
MUSINGS ~ THE WAY.


can sympathize with the smaller life.
Nothing is quite so near a living
death as the sense OF being forgotten
by those you sincerely love.
.
Their is no real sadness in this
world until you are called to face
the dark vista OF waiting hope.
What the preachers call faith is
nothing less than responsive love Its
trust in perpetual reaction. II you
believe In men, men believe In you.
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A modern wit says that good way
to remove paint Is to kiss 1t on. And
If that we're permissible, lots of the
dear things would never be kissed
again.
What right have the money barons
to howl If this pinic is a huge fracas
in their own circle? II man monkeys
with the trigger he must not com.
plain II the trap falls.
Are you walking in an ever.diverg.
ing path? Why not 60 back to the
very spot where the paths took sep.
arate courses and are still overhead
ing to zones farther and farther away.
And 1t may be. to begin again would
bring depth OF sweetness hitherto
unknown. After all, our Joys are in
proportion to cur sorrows. The darker
the night the more We love the day.
Once to taste the bitter is TO reach
for all the fullness of the sweet.
Start over again-there's more honor
than disgrace In it,
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That man is blessed beyond com.
pare in whose home the child's Voice
is heard. Aall of life's nober interests
begin when the baby comes. Its
dancing eyes and tiny hands touch
every hidden spring They compel you
to grid yourself for harder toll II
they are 10 be fed by IL. The baby :
dear little hand strikes from your
brow the sweat OF the days labor
That man is blessed il tiny form
gathers about your knees when the
low syadrsik edon. sth yrndbabyrq-la
days work is done. Once 10 enjoy II
and then to lose II is to pass from
heaven TO hell. Pity the man whose
baby cannot nestle in his breast wher
the shadows fall!
We are coming tC see that tn,
amassing of huge fortunes is the enc
that comes to the man who happens
to hold the winning card. Manipu
lation in the stock exchanges eat
like a cancer into the worlds finan
cial heart. For months there Is n,
perceptible danger. but SUDDENLY W
awake TO find that the deadly sor'
has eaten its way through som,
artery-and our life blood GIBBS awya
A word about the Amalgamated sluml
the other day, written by YER!
trenchant pen. 10 recalled to my mint
since the big financial furry tina
came so near being a national panic
He declares that Wall street is tn
Monte Carlo of the financial world
likewise the flim.flammer-where a
option on Mars or a mine in tn
neon Is a legitimate business invest
ment. Millions are snapped ever
noon for the privilege of guessin
again. But something hit on ther
the other day. Because Teddy the Te
ror threatens to enforce the probill
and anti-gambling laws there was a
awful slump in fictitious value
whereby our sure-thing friends of I'll
efete lost muchness OF thf
sort of money. SO serious was tn
panic in wind that modest capiti
went up in smoke and more than or
millionaire changed his name TO mu
Lots Of aristocratic newsboys wi
!. have ben epeddling papers on b
lionaire license went broke. Natural
this threw slug into high societ
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