Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-06-04

dency of his country, who is declared
to be Of too frivilous mind to ever
be trusted with SO great and heavy
responsibility. In other words, the de-
ficiency Of these men in the minds OF
the constituency on which they de-
pend for suffrage is one of attitude
They do not stand right. They 90 mol
have the right address. Life is not a
Joke. It can not be treated with anec'
Idotes.
Some Search for Pleasure.
with some men and women life is
a great search for pleasure. There
is nothing they are so much interested
in, or spend so much. time over, as the
pleasure just past or the pleasure that
is to come. The first and last page
they read when the daily paper ar
rives is the sporting column. They are
absorbed in the schedule OF the great
leagues Or they are eager for the
working hour to close so they can go
home, eat bite of supper, dress, and
be off to the moving picture theater.
Life with them is matter OF fun and
clothes. The adornment Of the mind
never engages them The last dance
Tor the next Joy ride is enough for the
day. These folk never arrive any
where IN the world Of real people. You
can afford to cut them off your list OF
acouaintences and associates. They
will have only few years for laugh
ter with many for tears. You never
heard Of man who pulled off the
weekly or monthly hop rising to the
head of the business. My heart al
ways grieves for the young man VINO,
il hear, is the man who always gets
up the dance. Not because 1t is so
awful, or wicked thing to dance; but
because know that young man mas
not the right attitude to life.
with other men, and women, life
is career Of brigandage Trey look
on it as an opportunity for plunder.
They seldom take any real pleasure,
any genuine recreation, any time for
communion with their friends. They
look on life as highway over which
many travellers are to pass. most OF
whom are unsophisticated and unpro-
tected. They see that life's way has
many dark night and many lonely
valley where men and women be taken
unawares and despoiled Of their pos
sessions. Life with them is case
of get all you can and keep all you
get. There is a beautiful story, run
ming in the paper which / read every
week, in which one of the central fig.
ures is just such man. Here is the
authors comment on him when he has
put him fully before US: He had won
position for himself by sheer ability
and perseverance, by work so arduous
that it had robbed him of the power to
enjoy leisure; he had acquired wealth,
but Of the things which actually make
life, which are worth possessing, which
inspire men to noble deeds and
heroic self-sacrifice these thirty years
were absolutely barren. They had
been wholly destitute Of love, which
is the only force worth reckoning with
in the world Such an attitude to.
ward life, as this Mr. Crew had, is one
Of brigandage.
Seven Direct Instructions.
with others life is q glorious OPP
portunity to be somebody and to give
something to some body. To use a
well worn and hackneyed word-to
make the world better for our having
lived in it. To do this a man has to
strike the perpendicular In his atti-
tude toward life, with a friendly face
and an outstretched hand to it's great
needs. Paul in his letter to Thimothy
had this view Of life, and when he
wrote to Timothy, he was anxious that
Timothy should get the right attitude.
This is my desire for you.
..There are seven direct instructive
exhortations embodied in this chapter.
.'sBe strong in grace.
Suffer hardship as soldier.
"tConsider what say.
' Remember Jesus Christ