The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-02-19
KNOCKING THt TEETH OUT or OLD SAWS


'sWnn waste makes wofu want" and a dozen other
old having do with thrift temperance and reward Of
virtue be toohless when applied the hard facts
Of HE
As moral preeepts they arc fine precept they
not
Ii one wants moral health clear conscience and content
the old fiji his but there is trying TO make
people believe that they will be useful out great
fortunes
BY reason Of our belief the old saws. We generally
cude when gains riches, position power, success
and especially wealth. that be is stronger frugal
more Industrious arsghed than the majority Of his
fellows
In a measure this is true but only IN limited
In a lar broader the truth is that he his
superiority accidental fitness between his special talents
and the social and industrial conditions in which he finds
himself
Imagine Tor instance f. IT. Hartman and buy brawny
human animal who may be called John Smith, the sole sur
vvo Of shpwck and located upon deserted island with
prospect Of escape.
Who would be the better nans Who would enjoy the
tenderest coeoanuts cat the choicest bread iruitf
Would it be the with the genius for stock obbing
the with the hardest museiesl
Clearly Of conditions here.
Or supposng the casaways to be Perpont Morgan and
Q skilled in the mechanic
Put them lonely island with few tools and
that under system each win act for his own selfish
interests.
Who will he the most comfortably quartercdl Who viii
enjoy the share OF the Injuries which such life
affords
who knows how 70 use his hands'
Or. TO put ii in another way:
Frugaty not always success and is often
By who VIGOROUSLY spendthrifts
Temperance is road to fortune. Hard drinking
men have won great fortunes
Thrift, Is bar rather than TO great financial
achievement The who pennies nine out
Of ten never gets beyond the penny stage.
Fugalty. temperance and thrift may keep out Of
the pooouse but alone they likely make him rich
The dweer with the thckcst skull and the longest
chief
The man at arms with the suest seat steadies
The nancer With the best method Of transmitting water
into gold is richest.
In all the stages Of history the with the adapt
ability things he finds them has been on the top Of the
heap
Born before history began John D. Rockefeller would
have spent his time hiding hollow logs to his life and
Aa alive today would probably be wheeling Stag in steel
plant for dollar and quarter day.
rube apprehension ~i
Illustrated sing
vii not out in sympathy
s Just barely possible that no county otncla though.
the ia board bills when this county
paying three prices for II
the New York court which decided french
evidently apokefom wsh pink suede
upDsrs
The reaonabienea option
lutte prohibition and the nenahie right Of man TO run
saloon
one disadvantage
greater chance for some one q them oeas abrupt VIZ" revolver
Getting divorce because The vie. clothes aren't enough
seems 'o b roundabout way . setting op' o the difficulty
Socialism In Seattle Is rapidly eeans to be beau, lmprao
ueah''i as i tends toward. plain assault and battery
oughtut have
nnnrmountabe trouble ia doing the bickayng work
history q John - hardest sne. vnl be complete
ansn bis bout with > Barieyeon f. given BY rounds
ii appears humanity prnrresed point
Tor a cherrytreeless twenty -second
leading devoted band Of aufa
sestes against squad Of bury Irish eopsG
If senator Ponroae y careful Toilette VIII
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