The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-29
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

1t is always dangerous to do wrong,
no matter how bright the prospects
may be to you, your ambition, through
wrong may lead into gardens Of roses
but you may rest assured you viii find
thorns and cactus at last. A good ex-
ample is Newell D. Hills the famous
Brooklyn divine.
Watch your step" is good advice.
1t saved 500, 900 for certain railroad
last year. It is a splendid motto to US
in all walks of life.
You can tell some men a great truth
and they will believe it. You may
state there are go, 200, 600 stars and
the statement will be accepted by
them; bnt you can put sign up Fresh
Paint and not one will believe it IN
til after investigation.
A man who has not accepted discip-
line, always acts like spoiled baby
when crossed.
The reasons why you do not have
friends are: you are not loyal to them;
only use them for stepping stones; al
ways saying mean things about them;
treating friendship as a luxury; wound
ing friends with a sharp tongue;
making funny remarks at their ex-
pense; willing to receive assistance but
never ready to render any-just being
contemptibly selfish will drive real
friendship from you.
The brutal man thinks bravery con-
sists in how many men he can beat up.
And often this brute has not courage
enough to keep his wife from taking in
washing or paying the family grocery
bills.
l have as much respect for the one
who honestly tries as for the one who
is hailed as victor. Victory is sweet,
but to behold the strained white faces
of those who failed, takes half the joy.
I oft times want to praise the man who
lost more than the victor because I
know what it cost the loser to make
the effort.
The man who is silent is forgotten:
he who is not always trying to advance
falls back: he who stops, feeling he
can loaf and then start will find he is
overwhelmed, outclassed and will not
be able ''to come back" and he who
leaves off, gives up and is no longer In
the glorious game of life.
When man opens his eyes in the
morning should offer up prayer
of thankfulness. 1t is such glorious
thing to live and to live today is almost
To feel the pulse bound
ing, and the body throbbing with life
makes this a glorious world to live in
though we do abuse it.
It is not an uncommon thing to meet /
people who entered into manhood's es-
tate with a good education and a great
but in their endeavor to climb
over the obstacles they gradually went
TO seed" In most any community you
will meet these failures. They stand
around telling you the world is growing
worse, and longing for 1.-THE good old
days"
The motto 'tget rich has caused
more life failures than any other
Many great souls have gone down to
oblivian because riches did not come.
To grow rich through honest effort is
highly commendable; but to write book
like 'Blackstone's concentrate" Is
more commendable than to be a self
made millionaire many times over.
If you could read the secrets of your
or real enemies you would
find hearts that ached as well as your
own.
Never kick man when he is down.
just because it is easy kicking. If you
do, remember the kicks viii come back
to you.
When you meet man who enjoys
dealing in filthy stories-such stories
is the sewage of social thinking that
would bring blush of shame to the
cheek of the Wild Man of Borneo, it
does not require an x-ray turned onto
his interior to discover his real charac-
ter. You may know a man by his daily
talk. His tongue will tell his character
story.
How long has it been since you wrote
to your mother? If you want to make
the world little brighter, just write
to mother. You argue, mo news is