Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14
THE ADVANTAGES OF Pow.
ERTY.

MeeI philosopher WHO can GA
stract comfort out Of conditions
that seem to the ordinary mind
decidedly depressing.
Such philosopher we met the
other day, says the Globe Demo
crat.9
8He had no automobile and
frankly acknowledged that he
had no expectation Of being able
to buy one. Then he drew from
his pocket a paper containing an
account of an automobile. acct
dent. Seven persons, pleasure rid
ing in a six thousand dollar tour
ing car, had run over bluff.
Four Of the seven were kill
10 Cdeand the other three were bad
o iy injured. "NOw. suppose that
BUNCH had been just honest work
. ing people earning "a moderate
: living by the sweat of their sew
elal brOws and by the use of the
muscles and the moderate amount
of brains that nature had prOvid-
aed. They wouldn't have been able
to own any automobile. They
wouldn't have been SkalahOoting
around the country risking their
lives on that sky line boulevard.
ALI of them would have been well |
and hearty at this writing. When
they wanted some diversion from
: the, routine of their regular daily |
work they would have taken
stroll out among the birds and
flowers and been perfectly safe.
Then they would have seen more |
than if they had been riding in
that six thousand dollar autOmO-
bile.
Here is another account of a
rich man who offers a large a.
mount OF cash to anyone who will
furnish him with sure cure. for
indigestion. The trouble with
that man is that he has too much
money. He has been hitting the
high places in an effort to keep
up with the blooming nabobs of
his class They sit up nights, and
till themselves with all sorts of
rich and ihdigeStible truck I'm
til finally their 'stOmachs won't
stand for it any longer and then
they begin to offer big money for
new works Tor their interiors. OF |
course they fail. You can take
an old engine and put in a new
, crown sheet and new fire box and
: all the other thingumbObS that
60 with an engine and make a
pretty fair machine out of it |
but you can't take a human stom-
ach and refine it and make it
work. When a man gets a half
dozen punetureS in his traverse
colon, no doctor can take it out |
and slip in a new rubber inner
tube and make it work successful.
N. After a man has OverwOrked
his bile dmct till it springs a leak, |
no surgeOn can solder it up and
snake it good as new. Now what
does it avail a man to have a
hundred million dollars if he can t
eat anything but toasted walters
: without having a fit afterwards?
If that multmillionaire had stayed
''sF ar a. ,,u ST and worked hard
sth2 ralhc'-S ART that hr could
,havt I'd D; wlen"rwurSt and
; scramrpn without any serious re-
SUITS
"And here is another account.
tf a man who was held up and
made to dig up forty thousand
dollars. Now can travel any
where without fear of mOlpsta,
ton and leave my humble home.
open at night untroubled by any
dreams of BURGERS. No burglar
cares to- waste his time fOOling
round my premises. He gets ad-
vance information that at no
tme would he be able to collect
over six bits in change after
spending two or three hours rum
aging aOund the house. Why, he
couldn't make ordinary days
wages.
81 used to have a friend who
set his heart on getting rich. He
madeoit, too. He's worth pile
CT money nOw-eight or ten mil
lion. But the last time saw
him he was the most worried ap-
spearing man | ever saw. Two of
Q his children have been kidnap-
ped at different times and he
has had to put up fifty thousand
dollars ransom for each one And
then his wife got a fool notion
ins her head that it would be a