Semi-weekly herald., 1911-05-04
THE THINGS THAT COUNT.


There's lot of things in this world
that exist but do not count and II
il the knack of being able to sift out
the things that count from the things
that fail to score, that wins success
il everything material.
1t has been truly said, and we vouch
for the truth of the saying because
we said it, that it is not what we eat
but what we digest that makes US
fat, not what we gain but what we
save that makes us rich, not what we
read but what we remember that
makes us wise and not what we pro-
fess but what we practice that makes
us good.
Gluttony never placed flesh upon
the bones of the thin and scrawny,
the eating of epicurean dishes has
never rounded out the hollows and
pumped the cheeks of the lean and
lank, it's the eating of plain but well
cooked and easily digested yiands that
have caused the loosening of corset
strings and the bursting off of pant
and vest buttons. The appetite which
is produced by good honest labor, or
properly taken exercise, accords the
honest hunger which gives bread and
butter all the exquisite flavor Of a
Durango bakery mine pie and the fnt
comes in response to the call from the
system.
An enormous income never made
any man wealthy unless he was en-
dowed with nature sufficiently fru-
gal to want to salt down a portion OF
that income. II a man receives only
n dollar day and freezes to a small
portion of that dollar he is richer
man than the man whose daily income
is many times as much but spends it
all. Wealth does not consist in the
possession of money. for the moneys
sake, but in the possession OF me-
dunn which can be converted in a
few minutes into almost anything de-
sired and il the conversion process
is carried on just as rapidly as the
accumulation process there will never
be riches in the hands of that par
ticular iinancier.
No man ever became wise by
chance, no man ever knew that ten
dimes made one dollar until he had
been so taught, and unless he remem-
bered that fact he is now no wiser
than if he had not been taught fol
il is the remembering of things that
give us fund of knowledge to bt
drawn upon as occasion demands. Just
as it is impossible to turn the wheel
with the water that has run so 1t is
impossible to use that which has been
forgotten for it is as though it had
never been. To remember is what
brings wisdom and with wisdom there
comes, or should come, profit.
The last branch of our sermon is
the most important, and the moss
touchy part. The human race is SO
built that we take naturally to pro-
fession but have to be educated To
practice, we speak as with the tongues
of angels and then go out and act like
devils, we pose on high moral plane
and practice on pitch of about twen-
ty degrees below zero, using zero to IL
lustrate the Indifferent point on the
good, bad and Indifferent, scale.
The point we wish to make is that il
is the things we do for good and not
the things we think or talk about that
count. A hungry man would rather
have crust Of bread at once than q
promise Of seven narrow gauge ear
loads of canned pumpkins tomorrow
for to the empty stomach cornbread
b0btail flush in the hand is worth
more than roast turkey full house in
the deck.
factions speak louder than words"
and buy more dresses for the infants
of the family so the motto of up
and be doing" is pretty good one to
tic to, both for municipalities and
for individuals.
How about paving Main street?
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