The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-02
Recover Potash
From Palmetto
LET US DO 1T NOW


It comes over me today, as some
times an old and well-worn truth
comes to us with stir of new vivid
lness. a sudden novelty of conviction.
bSometimes we awake in poignant
moment to realize thing we always
have known.
The time is short!
have no mortgage upon long life.
1.-THE number of my years to come is
hidden in the book Of fate. / may
live another decade. / may be called
Itonight. In either case the time is
lBhort.
/ So let me look about bit. i want
a birdseye view of my life. Get me
a viewpoint from where l can see all
lmy affairs in some proper proportion.
The time is short!
Very well, then / will find out what
Iare the essentials and devote myself
to them. And l will not allow my
self to worry over the non-eessentials.
will seek what is worth while; and
triffing things, that after all, make no
matter, | will let go to grass.
If am to have but ten minutes at
the lunch iounter / will axe only the
best food. / have no time for olives
and radishes.
The time is short!
l can't have everything; / must
carefully pick out what is the most
valuable.
A foolish old couple were granted
three wishes by fairy. The woman
, wish for a new broom, that she had
long been wanting. Angry at her sill
ly choice, her husband wished the
, broom was growing on her nose-and
D of course the third wish had to be
that the broom was off her nose again
> will not be SO stupid I will not
, grab copper and leave goal and dia
: monds in my brief chance at life's
4 treasure.
/ have no time for low selfindul
, gence, for drunkenness nor lewdness
. for the hot excuses that bring Ions
. pains. Why should l spend goot
n part of my little time in regret?
n will select the pleasures that leav'
q pleasurable memories, the sweets
that leave a good taste in the mouth
i, / will eat what is wholesome at life
II table. l have no time to waste II
n. nausea.
i Vices are pleasant, doubtless Opium
and alcohol have their delights. Onl
l have no time. l must choose pleas
pres that remain.
The time is short!
have no time for grudges, no tim
- for hates, no time for vengeance. T
!. get satisfaction from such things on
would have to live thousand years
~ Ihave but few. l will find things
40 can enjoy as I go along.
90 The time is short!
a. Love is worth while, I know; bot
~ now whilst we are together, and II
morrow, when one of us shall b
-, away.
Love is good everlastingly; in al
ticipation, in realization, in recolle
:. ton; future, present and past. l wi
- crowd all possible love into my brit
:. space.
The time is short!
l will make every day an epoch I
or happiness Every morning when
- wake up l will be cheerful; it ma
a. be my last. Every meal shall be
sacrament; we may not meet agai
:. My business shall receive my best e,
a. deavor; and all who deal with n
- shall feel they have met an hone
- man.
- l will enjoy my little children. B
"a fore long they will be babies no NOR
/ will make their childhood a viii
flower of memory, both for them ar
me.
The time is short!
:. l will be very thoughtful of the o.
~ people at my fireside. They will nj
- be here long. Every day must coun
- will not wait for ideal friend
- who may never come to me- but wi
= cultivate the friends fate has sent m
a. will try to appreciate, understaI
- and love them to he full. l may n
get others.
- will take things as they are, al
-, not cruelty myself whining for thin
as think they ought to be.
The time is short
Let me so use my few days al
years that when l am gone the pas