The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-10
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

Ali.
Many waters cannot quench love
neither can floods drown it. S. of S.
ST.
Are you risking anything, if
you are not, you are failing to ac-
complish anything.
Just because you breath and look
at the world big round eyed, is no
reason that you are success.
1 saw a man hobbling down the
street, the other day, without feet.
He did not act discouraged. No doubt
but he was a success. And you can
rest assured he has a comfortable"
bank account. He worked at his
job.
You who though thoughts one
year ago, believing them to be true,
| go to your locker and take one out,
try to have it stand alone and you
will be surprised to find it to be Nigh
! ty shakey, and it is more than ten
to one, you will find it too sickly to
hold its head up.
1t is more than possible that pow
erty can sit at your table so long,
that love will starve.
Whe lives over there? o, they are
poor folks. It is an awful thing to
live full life, say seventy years
and the only aim is to accumulate
enough to keep from going to the
poor house." Reader just think
about it. We have hundreds of peo-
pie whose only ambition is to have
enough to be buried in free dirt. The
expression ''they are poor folks" is
enough to kill the growing ambitions
of any boy.
Some people always remind you of
of clabber milk poured into a mold
If you do not have more sense than
you are sensitive, you will find you
cannot win. 1t takes a courage thick
er than your skin, before you dare to
aspire. If your vanity hears better
than your ambition, you will be found
in a class of disappointed grumblers
by the time you are forty.
Are you going up, then you have
met with malice. You are in the way.
The more you climb the more you
| will be hated, thebigger the lies will be
and sharper the thorns. By the time
you have made a few challenges for
position, you will realize the devil
chorus will be sung to defeat your
work. You may be doing a work
that would make one of the ancient
saints-all saints are ancient-jeal-
Gus of your good deeds, but you may
rest assured you will be knocked, and
charged with some base motive, pro-
viding your acts upset the notions
of some posing social leader.
Not many of US can appreciate "a
| f 0l1S
will find there is a primal instinct in
US, that makes US dread what we do
not comprehend. We are still like
little children, who in the shades of
evening, through their imagination
transform every stump, tuft of grass
Or deepening shadow into a bear,
dog, crazy man, or dreaded ghost.
In other words eve see things" We
instinctively revert to primal days.
1t may take 10000 years to breed
All history is filled with ingratitude
Socrates drank the hemlock, the dag
ger in Brutus' hand slew Caesar,
Williams camped on the path of the
great Washington, and an assassin
took noble Lincoln's life. Any real
benefactor~ must suffer from the
hands of the conservatives of his day.
Common sense is a mighty uncom-
mon thing these days.
You may have a fist as big as
pile driver, the temper of sick bear,
a heart as big as a prize pumpkin at
a county fair, but these qualifications
will not help you hold a job worth
| having. The more you really know
about your job and the more accurate
you are, the more likely you will be
to keep on holding the job.
1t is now the time of the year for
folks to commence "to hunt for a
job" 1t was only little while ago,
l heard one of these Spring job hunt
ers make this remark, cit beats all
ueqM ..sAeq sMoUeJ euos YonI lsqM
commenting on the other fellow
He was making an excuse for his own
failure and charging the other fell
lows capability to mere luck. Is
that the way you do it?
1t is told by Alexander Dumas
that the reason Napoleon lost such
battles as he did was because he
wrote such fiendish hand. His gen.
erals could not read his notes and or
ders, but were afraid to disobey, so
spent much time trying to interpret
his undecIpherable commands that
they failed to be on the spot. Water
loo was lost because of poor writing.
You can imagine Grouchy handing
around Napoleon's notes on that san
culinary Sunday, saying to one of his
marshals is that word Gembloux or
Navre or is that word Butcher or Bu-
low? Anyway Grouchy made the
mistake that cost Waterloo. On the
left and center d'Erion, Jerome and
Ney were equally puzzled and gave
orders that were useless. If you viii
try to- read much OF the copy that
comes to the average newspapers you
poor handwriting indicates greatness
but if you judge them from the stuff
found IN the paper you are forced to
make a different conclusion
VictOria, March 9Th.