Putnam patriot., 1908-07-03

can't take time to get an education, it <
 hop, skip, jump, and out. (lilustrat- ing. Laughter went through two colleges. don't know as look IL. | l don't know how much of them went l through me. once knew man who had calf that got the milk from two cows. When asked what became of il, he replied, u became big calf Had l to do IL over again l wouldn't go through two. l would take plenty of time and go through one. When was boy 1 wished l was man. There i, were so many beautiful women in the world, and was afraid they would all he taken up. What fool l was. daughter Look here, Look there! Pointing behind and in frontA Would l were a boy again. More laughter.l "Yen are net losing time when talk ing lime. Things of the greatest worth are those of the stowest growth. Take plenty of time for getting rooted. Go through every school in sight and get the best there is.
 "rhe best gun ever made was no good unless IL had something In Il io he charge, Il must he loaded. This brings me to the second division of my talk.
 "l believe powder has done more than anything else to shorten war. There was a tune when man granpied with man, hand to hand and cheek to cheek, ran each other through with sword and bayonet, became covered with bloody gore. This was horfible.-too much like hog stieking-speaking in the lingo ot Chicago, where lived so long. l bad rather stand up and be shet like gen. ileman.
 efherc must be something eorres- bonding to powder in the human sys- tenn. We live in an age of 'tulture,' when Il isn't good form, you know, to have feelings and express them. l like the Methodists and the eolored people, for they let themselves out. This re- minds inc of a little story of an old col. ored couple who were among my con. gregation in the South--Sarah and Abraham. Aunt Sarah had one pecu- liarity. When she got SD full--of hap piness 1 mean--that she couidn stand Il any longer. she would leave and go out into the woods and shout 'glorys After the war the white folks wouldn't come te hear me. l suppose because
 was on the wrong side. The colored | folks would, but they seemed to have changed. They didn't let themselves out as they ased to de. did my level best 10 rouse them. 1 did everything
 could think of. One day, when was i almost in despair, 1 heard back In the rear smoiheted sound. 1 looked about and finally down between the benches
 1 spied old Aunt sarah. just doing all she could to hold In. shouted, Let go, Sarnhn And she let go, and we all 1 let go---and Richard was himself again.
 Let s(f shouted the speaker. "I was <11re talking with the actor | Garrick, and during the conversation 1 l asked him how II was that he filled his theatre every night, while right be- side him we could get so few people to go to church. He replied: We present l fiction as though Il were true, while | you present truth as though II were tlc- ton. A man once preached from my
 pulpit. Every word weighed Il pound
 and every phrase lon. As 1 listened I 1 wondered if should ever dare to 1 to address niy congregation again. A l he lowered, l covered; but as l looked
 about l was amazed 10 see that many l of the congregation were asleep! He was as dry as a bane, and so mofiaily
 deliberate. II hs proieclile power had
 been equal to his pfoieetile, he would
 have plowed right through everything in sight. Use plenty of powder. Not only powder but ball. Not only explo-
 sise force, but something to project. There are things we call material that
 are not material things. There are dia-
 monds greater than ever graced the per son of a queen: ships greater than ever sailed the seas: guns morei powerful
 than ever fired projectile. Thoughts are
 the things; these projectiles travel fur thest, hit the hardest, and sink the
 deepest. Where 1t strikes 1t springs,
 bends down and springs again, until a
 whole continent Is covered.
 Filing thought! But where will you
 get itg you ask. Whats the use Of
 booksy Whats the use Of libraries?
 Whats the use of going to school?
 What's the use of listening to great commencement addresses? (Bows.j 1 a.aughter.l I had college mate. We
 were rivals in love. He didn't get the girl, so forgive him. didn't get her either, 70 1 forgive him all the more. 1 He became a preacher. He threw aside
 books and undertook 10 proceed on \ theory of evolution without them. Ills congregation began 10 thin ont. If there is to be evolution there must be inyoiution.
 The best gun and the best ammuni-
 ton amount to nothing without proper
 aim. Most failures in life are due to lndefIniieness Of aim. l haze been dis appointed in many Of iay college mates
 they didn't turn out as ] expected, There was Bill Thomas. He became a
 minister. Think Of Bill becoming a 1 preacher. Then there was Jim Win Essoek. He became fhe President Of . ! f.a.x.s x..s.4 ft.atss ali ssrf hos. I TO