The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-02
ON TNE SPUR
OF TIE AOMENT
BY ROY K MOULTON.

I've got an idee," said Farmer Brown
1t amt much use to worry and frown.
RMS world is not a congenial place
Fer man with long and tfresome face
1t amt never sunshine all the while
And old Dame Fortune amt goin to smile
Every doggone day in the calendar year.
The clouds sometimes have got to appear.
No man kin be happy all the time,
This life cannot always be sublime
Without no trouble a man forgets
The genuine blessings he really gets.
Into each life some rain must fall,
Or it wouldn't be any life at all.
II everything ran smooth every day,
Twould be monotonous in way.
Ambition is born of discomfort
And if a Teller is with cent.
When fate tries to hand him a knockout
blow,
He does not stop to belIer Oh, no!
He buckles right into the daily chore
A burned sight harder than ever before.
If everything went along just right,
A Teller would have no reason to fight,
And he soon would be a fossilized hack,
With the moss a foot thick on his back,
Your life is what you make it yourself,
And no one can lay you on the shelf
Unless you are sore and willing to quit.
You're the boss of yourself no doubt of it.
There is no man who's ever down and out
Till he says So himself, beyond a doubt,
For many man has lost a fight.
Then turned around and won out right.
For nobody's really whipped, 1 ween,
While his heart is right and his hands
are clean.
The man who kin smile and fight and
Is going to win out after a while
When things are lookin' their very worst
This kind of a man exhibits burst
OF wonderful speed. surprisin' his friends,
And his chances are good for gainin' his
ends.
After all is said. be it false or true,
Your own success is right up to YOU
Increasing the Business.
Am Tilson, our gentlemanly and genial
tonsorial artist, baseball expert and viii
lage autocrat, found that his tonsorial
business was running down at the heel
ady nP faf1-
Uncle Ezra Harkins of Hickeyvile. 1.-The
Shawn business showed profits which
could best be likened to cipher with the
rim peeled off. Am had to pawn his man
dolin and stop takn' the Police Gazette,
which are the two last resorts with any
gentleman in his more or less erudite pro-
fession-
'sAIl of suddint ANS business began
to p-~-- up and he put man on the second
chair. He got mis- mandolin back from
his uncle and the boy began leavin' the
Gazette again every Thursday. He bought
a quart Of perfpmery and put it into fivs
WITCH Hazel Lilies of the Alley and
Rose Water and the entire place took
on an air of rejuvenated prosperity.
But there wasn't any more Shawn
than there was before. 1t was all hair
cuttin' The boys was lined up for hair
box office to buy tickets to murley-cue
Snow. Fellers that would git haircut on
Saturday night would be back Wednes-
sight to behold.
Hank Tumms got a haircut on Monday
afternoon and was back Tuesday evening
for another and he hardly got home and
got the mare bedded down before he
needed another. One of AIMS customers
would go to bed at night with his hair
clipped to his head and wake up in the
morning with enough alfalfa on his dome
of thought to stuff a mattress and three
or four of them college sofy pliers such
as the millner always gives Elmer Sphinx
for Christmas.
1T seemed that Am had run across a
new hair remover and had got enough
sample packages Off a travellin' drum
ner to supply all of his customers, telling
them it was love potion which, if rubbed
on the head would make all the grass
widdors admire a Teller. When the hair
started to CROWN it wouldn't stop. Anse
Judson spilled bottle of it on an old sofy
in his parlor and the blame thing growed
hair so fast that he had to run avn
mower over 1t every day for four or five
months and he finally gave 1t away to
peddler The sofa growed SO much hair
while the Teller was haulin it away that 1t
flowed over the side of the wagon and
cIogged the wheels and 1t growed up
around the peddler so that he had to fight
his way out. The fellers in our town are
gettin their hair cut four times a week !
now. Am has got nine BARRIERS workin
and he spends his time ridin' around in
sixty candlepower linoleum. All of which |
goes to show that you can't keep good
man down, also that there is lot of hair |
lying around dormant in this country |
which only needs q touch or genius 10
bring it out