The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-18

why" he said. 1.-The man that
brought $4,000 was like me. wasn't
he?"
She said: Men like you sold three
punches for a nickel"
You can't look up to a runtede nina
and runted morals unless you are
married to the runt and then every
! only. man thar God. ever condemned
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a napkin and wouldn give II chance
to grow. He said to Gideon: Go up.
thou mighty man of valor." and when
David threw the shepherds crook
down in the pasture and picked up
the crown that had fallen from the
head of King Saul and put II on his
bean and climbed up on the throne
land sat down, God said to him, Dave.
you're man after my own heart
Get on the Roof
| God likes to see a man leave the
| misty valley, climb the sunlit hills;
leave the subways Of life and 60 up
| On the roof garden.
The humility that wants to remain
little. simply because it's easier to loaf
under the shade, suck lemonade
| through a straw, fan yourself. and
say, "Oh, amt it hot?" or something
vastly different. young people, from
| that magnificent manhood who will
| pull off his coat, sch II, and with the
money buy sword and then leap out
into the arena of the worlds conflicts
and drive that sword to the very hilt
| in the purifying abcesses that bore
their way toward our spiritual ana
moral vitals to leave your young men
and young women pieces OF human
| lust and Of passion and OF wreckage.
| So he's dead. is he? What complaint!
No complaint
Now. you've got to have a desire to
grow You must feel your need like
n miser wants money, like hog
wants slop. and like politician wants
office. Feel your need of 1t! It's a
good deal like watering a horse. A
| bow Legged, pigeon-toed, cross-eyed,
freckied faced. redheaded kid with a
stone bruise on each heel can ride a
Kentucky thoroughbred to water, but
a college professor with mutton
So we can build colleges and schools
and universities. tax the peoples
snend billions of dollars, put an edu-
cation within your reach. put
churches on the street corners, IL you
have no ambition to be decent. then
that isn't anybody's fault but your
own. We can't do any more than
furnish you with the opportunity. IL
you haven't got It in you, then you
are at fault
Good Night Nurse:
! It's n good deal like the young man
who says, II will never marry" but
when some girl with hair like a raw
ems wing. large, lustrous brown eyes
set far apart in an intelligent fore
head. straight Grecian nose, teeth
like lodges of pearl behind lips OF
coral, with neck like the swan--
I Good night nnrSei
When some girl like that chooses
his path he will fall so deep In love
with her that his breastbone will
stick out two inches. If some fellow
doesn't cut him out inside OF six
months. he will be looking for fat,
lacking down carpet. hanging up pic
/ turen
You let the desire come and they
will drill tunnel through the r1onu-
tains. You have to have desire.
! Somebody says. How are you GO
ing 20 get it," Well you might ask
me how think a tack would feel in
n key OF nails IL tack could feel and
soliloquize. / think the tack would
say, I'm not going 10 be fool enough
( 10 be tack all my life. I'm not 60
/ ing to be contented until I am as big
as the biggest spike in that barrel"
Go With Big People.
! Will tell YOU what 10 TO- 1o Win
people bigger than You are; bigger in
mind. bigger in ambition; bigger in
morals. Go TO college. Read good
books. Go to school. Get an intro
duction of yourself to yourself. In
! Gods name. young people, don't go
with anybody that will aSsaEsinate.
murder and electrocute every good.
high. noble Thought that ever struE-
gled for birth to get you to be de-
cent. Don't you go with dirty.
shrinking bunch like that,
The devil has teacher in every
man that viii cuss or hit the booze. A
diet of dime novels. viii make high
way robber and a. gunman out OF any
body. That's what they WIFI do. Some
boys In Chicago used to rendezvous
in stale beer joints and back alleys
read dime novels and they went out
and stole from the street carharn two
! thousand dollars, They had to kill q
man to get that paltry TWO thousand
dollars. Four of those young men,
! the oldest twentv-two. dropped from
| the soafrold with ropes around their
necks and another ons Is doing a life
term in Joliet penitentiary. All for a
/ paitry two thousand dollars
Have Aim in Life.
Have a definite aim in life. The
! road to anywhere Is fflled with pit
! iHitS OF disaster. IL you lIHN HldLi
4 on top OF mountain. he didn't light
there. he had to climb.
/ Like n man talking down in the Of
! fice-of one of the Gugwenheime--
not Ben, he died on the Titanic, his
brother Simeon--he said to him
You've got a magnificent ONCE here"
/ yes" he said. 81 have, but II Just
| took me fortyfive years to get II.
| had to sleep on the mountains: I had
to go WITHOUT food; I had to be out
in the storm, It's a journey Of forty
five years. I started out a poor. boy
when I started to this office here in
New York"
Oh. bet you II you md a fellow
on top he had to climb to get there as
sure VAS you live. And SO. you want
to know where you are going.
Hugo presented q poem to the
! Academy when he was only fifteen
and Bacon had successfully pointed
out the false philosophy of Aristotle
when he was only fifteen. Napoleon
when ne was ten we ars old. wrote
home to his mother from the military
school where he was a student
Mother. with my Homer In my
pocket and my sword at nay side, IN
nrhf INV NAV fhrough the world and