The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-19
LENT.

Where is the mind we had before
iro 10 s 1lasn the red light from the shore.
It's lent.
The feeling. that we could i'd not OF think N'
was possible to put gezink?
It's lent.
Na Mhere is the purpose that we should
40 everything to make ungood
And jar the whole darn neighborhood?
MheTe, w eTsr5 is the he constant wish to go
mat told US what we shouldn't know?
It's. lent.
Wherever We might find the % chance.
NO matter time nor circumstance?
It's lent.
~ Where G is the yearn before we had
o 90 the things the good call bad
And make the higher life look sad2
It's lent.
Lent, all of it: that we admit.
But who the dickens borrowed it?
New York Times.
ROoSeyelt's Estimate of Himself.
You ask me to speak about vigor of
pody, L believe in it for its own sake.
oelieVe in it still more as an aid to
vigor OF mind. and, above ALL to vigor
OF character. But 1 do not believe in
Ne~ Gil Il II IL IudQe an enQ instead OF
means, and especially if play is per-
mltted to become the serious business
II hfe. High proficiency in sport is
not necessary in order to get good out
OF It; although, of course, it is in every
way bad to show a sIipshod indiffer-
ence to high proficiency, an unwil-
llngness or inability to put, ones whole
heart into struggle. Personally, as
you know, am not really good at any
games. Perhaps in my time I came
i,~1rr l.
er, rider and rifie-shot than in any
other way; but 1 was never more than
an average good man even in these
three respects. Whatever success I
have had in game, ,hunting-and it has
been by no means notewOrthy-has
been due, as well as can make it out,
to three causes: first. common sense
and good judgment; second, perSever-
ance, which is the only way of allow
ing one to make good ones own blum
ders; third, the fact that 1 shot as we'll
at game as at a target. This does not
make me hit difficult shots, which a
good target-Shot will often do in the
field. Most of my bears, for instance,
were killed close up. and the shots
were not difficult so long as one did
am simply a good, ordinary, out-of-
doors man. You speak of my recent
hundred-mile ride. Now this was no
feat for any young man in condition
twice out in the cattle country, on the
roundup, when I was young, I have
myself spent thirty-six hours in the
saddle, merely dismounting to eat or
change horses; the hundred-m ride
what an elderly man in
fair trim can do if he chooses. -. 1t
has always seemed to me that in life
there are two ways of achieving sue
cess, or, for the matter of that, of
achieving what is commonly called
greatness. One is to do that which
can only be done by the men of ex-
ceptionaI and extraordinary abilities.
OF course this means that only this
one man can do it, and it is a very rare
kind of success or of greatness. The
other is to do that which many men
could do, but which. as matter or
fact none of them actually does. This
is the ordinary kind of success or kind
of greatness. Nobody but one of the
worlds rare geniuses could have writ.
ten the Gettysburg speech, or the Sec
ond inaugural, or met as Lincoln met
the awful crises of the Civil war. But
most of us can do the ordinary things,
which, however, most OF US DO NOI.
do. NV own successes have come
within the second category. Any FAIR
ly hardy and healthy man can do what
I have done in hunting and ranchlng
If he only really wishes to, and Will
take the pains and trouble, and, at
the same time, use common sense
Theodore Roosevelt in Golfers week