The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-28
BY REV. BRUCE BROWN. Phi. d.

49, 'EH tiA'HS wv "EAN 'SN"'
and digged and digged and sweat
II sweat until they had turned up
every square foo of ground. They
lid not find the sack Of gold and
there was nothing to do but put in
another old crop. They kept his up
year after year till they got r.ch,
Then they knew that the treasure
was in the soil right beneath their
feet, where it is usually found.
But ear | get people 10 believe it?
Many won't. But ii ] would come
around in the back end of u wagon
with n performing monkey. sing a
song, get a crowd around me and say
Dear friends j come to you almost
like an angel from heaven. | am go
ing to make you rich. ! am organ
izing a company and because | love
YOU so well ! am going to let you in
on the ground floor. ] am going TO
sell you some stock at Zoe "A share
and next. year it will be worth S10.-
900 a share. and the only trouble
that YOU Will ever have will be tc
go dow to the bank, all bent over,
carrying the bags OF gold that | am
going to send you. | am organizing a
company to bore for boraX in th>
mountains of the moon Come on and
buy stock" DO you know that they
would fill my wagon fun of money?
Now. | just want to ask you an
honest question How about that gold
mining stock you bought? You re-
member when the man came ont from
Colorado who had a whole mountain
OF gold. All they needed was a little
more money to put the tunnel in u
few feet further, and a golden stream
Of dividends would begin TO flow TO
you. They were just selling some treas
ury stock to their dearest friends and
soon ii would all be gone and nobody
then could ever buy any more. Re-
member how you digged down into
your wallet TO pay for your stock?
Remember the Chicago house and
the Limousine you were going to have
when the bags Of Gold came rolling
in? Honest low. when are you going
10 get those dividends?
guess it will he like n man who
went into business up in Minnesota
among the Swedes. The strange thing
about It was that when he was selling
them groceries they seemed TO under
stand him very well. but do YOU know
when he came to collect they couldn't
understand one word of Englishl He
thought he had better get a Swedc to
? collect and he was mighty anxious
g., ,n,,,rt or tho an1 nf thn first
week. How did YOU get along? DID
you see Johnson 'Ya, ] oane see
Yonson. | dank Yonson ban no guide"
That's too bad, did you see Olson?'
va. | bane say Olson. | dank Olson
no bay Now that's tough. Did you
see Swanson" "Ya bane see Swan
son. I dank Swanson bay in Yanu-
ary.'' That's good. You found one
man that will pay. swanson said that
he would pay in January, did he? Il
dank Swanson pay YOU in fanu-
ary.' you think so. Didn't he say so?
What did he say He say it bane
one dam cold day you get your money.
| dank dat bane january" Now when
are you going to get your money from
that mining stock and that oil stock?
am afraid there will be a change
in the weather first.
We get the most Of our gold by
digging for it with our head instead
OF running after it with our feet.
| have three more words TO say 10
you tonight--a word about the pot OF
gold of health: a word about the pot
Of gold of religion me a word about
the pot Of gold Of happiness-the three
greatest treasures Of life.
What Is all the world to us when we
are sick? What is the finest house
in the city If we must sit day after
day looking down upon the barefooted
children playing in the street and
know that we will never walk down
those marble steps again? What is all
the gold in the world to a dying man?
He cannot eat il nor wear 1t and there
are no pockets in shrouds. What is
all the mockery OF finery to the wo'
man with n hollow breast and deep
toned cough? What is all the food
in the world when we haven't any APP
petite? An Irish tramp was going down
the street. He only had five cents but
he bought a loaf of bread and was
feeding from both sides like you e
Il threshing machine, as happy as a
king. A hungry dog got a sniff of the
bread. One lunge. it had it and was
gone. The tramp watched it out OF
sight and said, well. thank the Lord,
me appetite's left" It's a fine thing
20 have an appetite. The only trouble
is that people hat have a whole
lot TO eat don't seem to have much OF
an appetite and tho people that have
a whole lot of appetite don't seem TO
have much to raj. But between the
two give me an appetite every time.
The man who has sunshine in his
smile. iron in his blood and thesflag
OF health unfuricd in his cheeks, III he
lives In a cabin and wears blue jeans.
can do a mans work, fight q mans
battle and die like a man In the far
flung battle line. But when q mans
sick, Every song Is II dlscord, music
is misery and mirth IL a mockery, The
earth Is a cemetery and rhe sun is
drs ped In mourning.
Believe ME when | say that health
is one Of tho cheapest. easiest ocst
and most natural treasures 10 have
and TO keep. Seven things. II Kept In
mind, make Il almost impossible 10
be sick. / do not want "a ~oSaggernte'
OF course sometime you will be. sick
and sometime you will die. But ] am
speaking Of the ordinary ills OF hfe'
Here are the directions FOR finding rhc
pot OF gold Of health; U) Pure air
never shut yourself away from 1t. t2)