The Falls City tribune., 1910-08-26

again, and AGAIN until he hd stolen HoO0OOo. hen he coh-
fessed. No doubt the ease will be expeditiously dealt with and he
will have a cell in the big pcntentiary up the Hudson in which
to reflect upon his folly for what may prove the rest Of his life.
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What is the moral?
The ~wickedness Of betraying a trust}
The folly of permitting envy, and discomfort to creep in,
souring his life of quiet integrity and chronic deprivation, and
leading him to enter upon the crime path to success?
The silly innocence of the MAJ who pits his ignorance against
the INSCRIPTIONS shrewdness of stock market manpulators?
The increasing number of trusted men who go wrong, - in
these degenerate days.
And any N of a number of other commonplace morals that
are usually exploited at such times.
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But there is another moral which seems for more significant
and worthy of attention.
While it is sadly true that here and there and now and then,
some man does 'go wrong what a countless throDg there IS
of those who can be absolutely trusted
The wonder is, not that 80 man go wrong but that so few
do knowing human nature Us we do; and remembering what
the power of temptation must often be, it is a remarkable testi-
mony to the hold which Christian principle has upon mems lives
that the great majority are faithful to their trusts,
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If you stop a moment to think you can recall the names of
scores of men and women who follow their somewhat bleak and
beaten path of fidelity to routine tasks, and not only keep hon
est, but keep sweet.
They cannot help seeing, all about them, others, no more de-
serving-often not IS much so; with no more alertness and
effcency-often with far less; who have enough and to spare
while they patch, and darn, and invest in grease eradicators and
straw hat cleaners, and all the other devices of the trytomake-
endslmeet" brotherhood, while the Dives crowd has purple and
fine linen by the bolt. If their ample possessions could be a-
counted for ON the ground of superior merit, or ability, o II lnteg-
rty-it would be different. But often these have little or nothing
to do with the matter, so far as the individual is concerned, and
he has gotten what he has merely by some turn of the wheel OF
events with which he himself had nothing to do-blth, nheri-
lance, a fortunate hit in investments, or in some similar way.
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Now-to repeat-knowing human nature as we do, and also
knowing how easy it is to let greeneyed envy creep in one
would half expect the dweller in the cottage to look over the hedge
at the dweller in the mansion, as some day his ten thousand dol
lar touring ear rolls in over his wen-kept driveway, and be
soued by the contrast.
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q And yet, the fact is, If you measure it by the lump, there is
more real genial good nature and genuine enjoyment of life among
the members than among the spenders. The enyious are the ex-
ceptonal. There are throngs who walk, and who probably will
walk all their lives, who glance at those who ride, as they roll
by, without their thought being o'ereast by the green tinge. They
are not stoical, nor easygoing, nor unambitious, hut they very
sanely refuse to sour their lives with the bitterness of envy.
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God bless the multitude of faithful toners in store and shop
and office, who go and come by whistle or time card-whie the
pampered few roll in luxury-who keep sweet; who have learned
to blend honest ambition with glad contentment.
And instead of over-emphasizng the occasional fall from bus