Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-08-18

belong to churcn ana you KNOW tndt
The shines there like an electric
headlight on foggy night. You will
see him in politics and in the bust
ness world, l don't care where you
/ go, you will find the grandstander. |
have even seen him do stunt at a
funeral. You will notice him in the
baseball game and in the parade.
! And surely, after our labors on this
bright planet are completed we wan
der on to that bourne from whence
no traveller returns, we shall find the
grandstander there working eigh-
teen hours a day. l fully expect 1t
and Shall be disappointed If mis-
taken. But the grandstander does
very little real harm. He makes a
person very tired on warm day,
but there is no real danger in him.
He runs his brief course and then
his place is taken by another per-
former who puts on a different stunt,
but 1t is always the same old grand
standing performance in the end.
julius Casear grandstanded when oil
the Lupercal he thrice refused the
crown, and the world has been as 1t
ever since in one way and another
y y
know, l am getting older right
along and at mighty fast clip. l no
longer care about the color Of my
neckties or whether l wear any, but
I kick like bay steer If the clerk
tries to sell me pinchy pair OF
shoes on the theory that they Will
stretch. 1.
You never run across a. man who
doesn't have some redeeming feat-
ure to commend him to his country
men. Even old Bill Shiftless never
thinks of singing or whistling in an
other mans place Of business.
The Fool Killer will happen along
at the right time some day and pro-
coed to execute some village cutup
right on the public square and 1t will
nut a stop to the craze for few
years.
Brother Philander," said ] to our
head deacon the other day, you
have been our church treasurer for a
long time. What class Of people do
you usually find most enthusiastic
in the work Of our church," Those
who pay in prayer" replied Old Phil
ander without a seconds hesitation.
Too many fellows go crazy over
politics. They get the bug into, their
r
system and they can't get 1t out.
They read every long speech and goI
to every meeting and poster their
friends to death with their ideas.
There is no money in politics for
the common plug. But when the bug
once bites us we are goners. know
of fellows who waste hours OF prec-
ious time every day in the pesky
game Of politics. That is, they ar
que and argue, and when the shades
of night fall they haven't made a
single convert, a single vote nor
enough to buy cheap piece Of soup
bone. But they imagine they have
saved the universe. They absorb so
blamed much politics that after
awhile they think they know more
than the president, the members OF
the cabinet and the United States
senate combined. But they don't.
Every day you will hear one neigh
Dor say Of another, Hes all right
except that he is nutty over poll
tics" Cut the worry of politics out,
You can't do anything to help. Nine
times out Of ten when you cast your
ballot you vote the wrong way. All Of
us do.
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Occasionally, but not very often,
you will run across a railroad brake
man who is as modest and unassum-
ing as the president Of the road.
Then some day that brakeman gets
the big Job.
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Did you ever know anybody to
make any money out Of anything
they bought Of an agent!
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