The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-27

The man who thinks he can live on
past reputation will sooner or later dis
cover he is a back number.
The public soon finds that man who
dyes his hair to make himself look
young, usually has gray haired ideas,
and will soon junk such buffoon.
Every person casts shadow. There
is sort of penumbra hanging around
him. It is strange indefnable some
thing which all have, and which effects
every life on which it falls. This shad-
ow is always pouring out from life like
light from lamp. Did you ever notice
what an effect your presence had on ap-
preaching a group of people? Oft
times it will change the entire trend of
the movements of the group. The
change was caused by the shadow cast.
Weak men always stOop to SANDER
when they cannot carry their point by
bluff and buster. They then are US
ualiy found in the role of martyrs and
spend their time appealing to you for
sympathy.
Brave men live on and struggle for
success, even when life seemed to be
an abject failure. 81 am afraid does
not belong to the vocabulary of an IN
conquerable SOUL
suppose it indicates some courage,
if when chained to stake, the lighted
faggots are brightly burning, you can
look and graciously smile; but it is real
glory to be resigned to the inevitable;
when having liberty to go away, but
chains of duty hold you. while the
flames scorch you to a cinder.
One of the most relentless things
known is gaunt-eyed poverty 1t seems
to kill the very soul within US. But l
would rather have this north wind of
adversely because it has made more
vikings than the soft south winds of
luxury. Poverty usually tells the kind
of stuff of which we are made, straw
or iron.
True education is that knowledge
that enables US to use all of self Men
are to a certain extent like musical in
struments with unlimited tunes in
them; but they only know how to play
one tune, and all the other tunes are
unlearned. A man is truly educated
when he can use every faculty well.
The most of US play t'the same old
tune" and try to make others think we
are trained musicians.
The most annoying person in COM
munity is the professional fault finder.
This professional calls his remarks
criticism - Every little town has
one or two of these wise guys" and
even Hays is not free from them. It
is so much easier to see weakness
than to do the work criticised. No one
but weakling ever assumes the role
of the Lord High Executioner."
Happy is the man who has nothing to
say, knows he has nothing to say, and
then refrsins from saying anything. He
is a philosopher, scholar and true
gentleman. May his tribe increase.
A man who is able to express him
self, gives to the world definition of
himself each day. Be sure your tongue
will expose you to the world.
A man or women may play cards
from morning until night and not have
q new idea pass through his brains.
It was Washington who said, fGamb
ling is child of avarice, brother of
iniquity, and the father of mischief"
It is strange that few words hastily
spoken, words to many an unintelligible
combination of letters and sounds, may
change the current of history. Every
thing then in this life must be valuable.
A rose, word, a tear-the rose with
ers, the word is forgotten, the tear
dries, yet the soft and dainty bloom of
the rose was the guerdon of mighty
battalions in ruthless war. Because
in an angry discussion one person
plucked white rose and one red;
war lasted for thirty years and
the faltering Eyes" of timid woman
spoken, a half century later made a
funeral pyre of wrecked empires. The
haff-concealed tears of a mother raised
aloft that torch of liberty lit upon Con-
cords plain.
Man is judged by his successes. 1t
is a cruel, brutal basis upon which to
make preferments. The philosophy of
such a finding is almost laughable.
There were three hundred brave souls
who fought at Thermopylae's Pass,
but one name ringing down the ages,
Yet the two hundred and ninty-nine un-
named heroes were just as brave as
Leonidas. Why? Cambronne was no
more valiant than the other cold
Guards" at Waterloo, yet history inn
nortalized Combronne and forgets the