The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1910-07-14

couldn't come back boys JET
fries gaaped 10 his fricnds ar he was
lifted Of the ropes 10 save him the
humiliation OF being counted out II
Is The old story which IL still SO for
ever new that there is always a man
ready to believe himself the e1cep-
ton needed to prove the rule What
We have lost OF value In the result .
Reno is not glory. for there would
have been 10 glory IN Jeffries vic
tory II is not money, for though
money has been lost 10 individuals,
the loss Ii not 10 the race. The lost
is OF practical demonstration of a
means By which man who has gone
the pace can have reasonable hope
OF rehabilltating himself II Jeffries
could have come back, every man
who has ever gone a pace would have
studied his methods OF training and
regimen with a view OF getting back
TO what he himself was when at his
best This IN real loss, the loss 0
hope 20 many men that there Is a
road hack aud that Jeffries would
chart IL onthe map. They mourn
now as though without hope that the,
may ever again be bad and feed goof
AZ the same time Now they know
that they must be good and feel bad
AT the same time, 10 the end OF the
chapter.
II Joffries had come back We
might have been afflicted with flood
Of advertising matter purportipg to
q ..ll 4lsaf 4g. n o
mis- long walk Ia getting back This
might have been a new boom IN
breakfast foods Ii might have give
vogue 10 some sort OF aperlent wa
ter II might have raised loud call
for some particular style of bath
mitts. These possible ealamities we
are now spared The black cloud has
It's silver lining, after all, and 1t ma
even have golden lining If the you'll
~ the land, they who are travelling
The gait now, and raising dust to
hide the milestones as they go by
them. can grasp the moral OF the
Reno story. and not wait until they
get TO the point where the road turns
before they turn back II man, In
turning, turns before his stomach
does. II will follow him, and he Will
hen be coming back If the stor
aeh turns first he must follow II and
will then be going back f" Jeffries
did not turn first. and was really
going back when he thought he
WAS coming back
Every day OF wildcat sowing is
sunshiny, no matter what the wealth
er. The seed strikes root I'm warn
soil, but there is nothing OF what
farmers call "a crop stand" until
after the rainy days begin. The rainy
days begin with that change of sea
sons which brings strange Internal
emotions and eruptiOns resulting In
strange and unfamiliar sensations OF
main. He who waits for the rainy
days Is lost and can never get back,
For with the rains come seemingly
spontaneous upspringing of the crop
of Wild oats which, having struck
deep root In the yearsof sunshine. IA
now ripe unto an abundant harvest
A crop OF wild oats Is the only crop
which can be and must be harvested
IN the rain Aud there Is no such
hing as getting away from the job
Or doing il under umbrellas. Jeifriet
waited for the rains and then tried
lise an umbrella In his harvesting,
Had he stopped sowing before the
rains began he would have had nc
crop 10 harvest But we must credit
him with proving the impossibllity OF
a man coming back" after going a
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