The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-07
REMEMBER YOUR FRIENDS.
BY John Anderson Jayne.


All through this great country OF
ours you have friends scattered far
and wide. There are some far of In
Portland, Maine, while others are in
Portland, Oregon. Some of them are
in orange groves of Florida, others
are among the pines of Michigan.
Some are in Pasadena, while there is
one whom you will never forget away
up in the Aroostook country where
the SHOWS of the Pine Tree State lin
ger long after the sun has crossed
the equator in its northern journey.
Take a map of our country. Get as
large a one as you can. Then take
white-headed pins. and wherever you
know or suspect you have friend,
there place pin. You'll be surpris-
ed to know how many pins you will
take and how far and wide your
friends are scattered.
Then, IL you take map OF the
world, and still remember your
friends you will locate some of them
in Australia. others in the Philip
pines. some in China, some Japan and
wherever your eye falls on the map,
in pretty nearly every country you
will find that you have friends.
Take a moment to remember your
friends. Think of the happy. days of
the past when they were your
friends. They nursed you through
sickness, they helped you when you
most needed help. They shared their
substance with you and gladly gave
OF their store that your rough and
rugged road might be made smoother.
There was no sacrifice too great. no
labor TOO severe, but what they did
they did it gladly, chesrily, on your
account
Think of the dear ones of the past
Let great vibrations of love and SYM
pathy reach out after them, who
knows but what, through the strange
wireless telegraphy of soul. your
message may come to them and en-
courage them now, even as they en-
couraged and helped you in the days
that are far down the track of years
bygone.
II you can write to your friends
let them know through the media OF
the sign language that you are think
ing of them. If you cannot pen a
good long letter, take paper and pen
and ink and send them line or two
that they may know how glad you
are to receive letters from your
friends. You know the truth of the
old lines.
"'Tis sweet to be remembered
AS through the world we stray,
To know there is one kindred soul
To cheer us on our way"
Because you are bone of their bone,
heart OF their heart and brain of
their brain, because your heart is
linked to theirs by the mystic ties OF
friendship, they will be glad, oh. so
glad, to hear from you.
If you cannot do more than send a
souvenir postal card with pictures
of good old scenes on It, send that.
Sign your name 10 It. Only in some
way let them know that they are not
forgotten.
Too often 1t is in this busy. strenu-
Gus life we lead that 'out of sight
means out of mind" But there Is not
one so busy or 80 busy in the next
three or four days to come that they
cannot send messages of affection to
the friends far away. A message
sent to a distant friend now will
make the. meeting sweeter when 1t
comes by and by.
Where are your friends today, you
are asking Perhaps they are ask
ing the same question relative TO you.
As you have right to know concern
ing them, so they have the privilege
to know concerning you. Therefore
think with soul vibration, think in
sign language relative to your friends
and the friendship will be sweeter
and dearer, The fires Of friendship
that are kept blazing with the fagots
of kindly remembrance tighten and
brighten life's dreariest way and
make II glow with the. light Of the
land where friendships are never
severed and friends are never parted