Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-10-20

IDy Bert walker il osborne Farmer.

by Bert Walker IN Osborne Farmer
Young man, you evidently have
forgotten that old adage which runs
that those who dance must pay the
fiddler You have the idea that you
can waste your youthful days on the
streets doing nothing and working
when you feel like it, and wake up
when your sun is beginning to down,
with a pocketful Of shekels. You
can't do II unless some one takes
pity on you ana remembers you in
will. II you waste the golden
hours Of your youth in loafing you
must expect to come to want when
you are old. II You, dIasipate the
strength Of your early years in riot
GUS living and look upon the wine
when 1t is red, you must expect to
have stomach trouble and shaky
nerves when you begin to approach
the sere and yellow. II is all right
to dance little, but don't overdo
| it so that you will go broke in pay
ing the fiddler. There is mighty lit
tie to this dancing business anyway.
The fellows who become railroad
presidents don't do it. But, of course
| II you want to tag along at the tall
end of the procession when you get
old, the thing to do is to dance your
head off while you are young.
So
Too many politicians wait until
after they have made their pile and
cinched their job before they get the
idea that the whole body polite
should be purified.
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may be rather optimistic, but
here is the way look at it; Remove
the Jobs and fat salaries from the
game Of politics and neither insur-
gent nor standpatter will bother us
any more.
expect to get my block knocked
off some day. Whenever fellow
starts to tell me story that ] have
heard about dozen times I can't
resist the temptation to say, That's
old, heard it twenty years ago.
will labor and vote for any can
didate for office who will announce
that he can get law passed making
lit a penitentiary offense for a person
to ask to borrow my lead pencil.
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1t is all rightto assist the preacher
with your prayers but when it comes
to paying his salary don't forget that
he has to eat and the ravens may be
busy elsewhere.
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II the people had the power to
make it rain whenever they wanted
to BY voting on it, there would be as
lmuch scrapping as there 10 over poll
tics. One man would have out a
lhice field Of corn and his neighbor
would be right in the midst Of his
harvest. One would want rain and
the other sunshine. Then there
would be a scrap and all the rest
of the neighbors would take sides.
The man4With the corn would insist
that he was right and the man with
the wheat would point out how IT
It did rain 1t would ruin the coun-
try. The man who was running
hamburger sandwich stand at the
street fair would become the mortal
enemy of the man who had a gar
den. The politicians would tell how
they stood for rainy weather and the
country must be saved. That's about
all there is to politics. It all de-
ponds on whose OK is gored among
the big fellows, while the rank and
file stand aside and watch the scrap
and vote one way because their
neighbor votes the other. But It is
a lot Of fun SO long as the machine
doesn't bump into our own fence.
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You may talk about the onward
march of PROCESS all you please, and
how the wonderful inventions of late
years have revolutionized the world,
but when it comes to convenience and
satisfaction nothing beats the small
potato that is stuck on the snout OF
coal oil can, scheme discovered
by our poky forefathers.
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