The Washington herald., 1918-01-16
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and go and sell them. We so play
farobank."
I got him started again, and again
L lost track OF him. One day when
I was home, Jailer, Whitman. who
used to be jailer Of Cook County,
phoned and said.
Cry from the jail.
Come on over to the jail, there is
a felfbw over here and he wants to
see you. Tom Barrett, the sheriff,
Tom is holding him up from Joliet un-
til you came home.''
I hurried over to the jail. They
brought the fellow on down to the Of
fice and here was my friend. l said.
Gee. what does this mean, Bill?'
.Oh! I'm fourteen kinds of fooL
I got to gambling. got to hitting the
booze, got in the bunch, went to stick
up a jewelry store. 1 was so drunk
couldn't make my getaway. 1
went up a blind alley and a harness
bull who could do a hundred yards in
ten seconds, he pinched me. / got an
indeterminate-I am not going to
Snltcn on the gana
1 said. Look here. ] know more
politicians. Democrats and Repubh-
cans in this State than any man not
in politics, and / haven't asked them
for any thing and / won't ask them,
IL you are not going to go straight.
He said, "BiIl, there Is honor among
thieves, and IL you will help me will
vow before God will, and will kill
myself before will break that VOW.
Help me, will you Bill?"
I wrote to my friend on the board
of pardons and they reduced 1t down
to five years. Then for good behavior
he got out. He's been going straight
from that day till this, my friend.
Just Need n Boost.
o, there Is some that want a little
boost in this old world and they will
win out sure as you live. o, there
Is hope. God says, You go pro-
claim it,
read the other day where some
time ago DR.. Fitzhugh made a won
derful discovery. A man whose brain
had been injured and believed to be
permanently incapacitated, gradually
recovered until at last he regained
consciousness and power to think,
and that led DR.. Fitzhugh to make
an examination He went and Sc
cured two monkeys. He sawed into
their brain and removed that portion
of the brain which receives the visual
impression, and those monkeys were
as blind as II they had no eyes. He
put little silver plate into the skull,
and little by little those monkeys
gradually regained sight. Then he
removed that little plate, looking in
he found that the brain had been en-
tirely restored.
Now If the brain has the power
of reproduction it is the only organ OF
the body that has. = II you cut of
your arm a new one won't grow. II
you cut OF a leg a new one won't
grow, and if the brain has the power
Of reconstruction it holds out hope to
a good many people that we might
think were permanently incapacitated.
Hope Held Out to All.
But whether that proves to be true
or not, 1 know this, that God holds
out hope to every man or, woman,
never mind what you have been, God
Almighty is able to take you and
make you what you ought to be if
you will only yield to him.
Now-what is easily lost may be
painfully recovered. You can go
out and in one act you can sow the
seed that will baffle the skill of all
the physicians on the face of the
earth. You can easily lose your
health. You may save money for
twenty-five years and then invest in
some Get Rich Quick" scheme or
some fake mining stock proposition
and lose every dollar you have got.
What is hard to gain can be cas-
lily lost. Your reputation-you can
in one act tear down a reputation
that has taken you a quarter of a
century to build up. So. what is
easily lost may be painfully re-
covered.
Society makes it mighty easy for
a man to be a drunkard; makes it
mighty easy for a girl to side step
her womanhood. OH God, they
make it hard for you to get back if
you want to-make it mighty hard.
1t is easy to go down, hard to come
up.
Prof. Azassiz tells of his descent
into the heart of a glacier. He was
lowered by his assistants into the
great depths of ice. Each foot of