The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-08

a drifter on the stream of life, don't
be a reprint of the one who had your
ear last! Stem the current that would
carry you over the falls. A dead fish
will drift with the tide, but it takes
a live one to wrggIe against the cur
rent; don't be a dead one"
David had been a man of high, lofty
purpose himself His life had been in
fluenced by Moses and other great
men that had preceded him. That
aim was high and his purpose lofty,
that is clearly seen by his writings.
1t wasn't an accident, believe me, that
took David from the sheep fold to the
throne of Israel Success like that
never comes by luck or chance. David
was faithful when he was herding
sheep and that became a stepping
stone to something greater. While
herding sheep he was qualifying for
the better job.
Prepares for
Emergencies
The man who said, Il will bless the
Lord at all times" you can bet he
won't go through life as a slip-shod,
happy-go-lucky, chalk and vinegar,
three carat kind of proposition. Ma.
sir! He'd loook ahead and anticipate
and provide for the emergencies that
are going to arise.
You all know you've got to die. You
all know there are only two places
to spend your eternity, heaven and
hell. Then I'D prepare and look ahead
and get ready. David got there as the
real man always does, as Paderewski
became king in music, as Caruso be-
came king in song, as Lincoln
became king in craftsmanship, by
having an ambition to accomplish
something he was capable of doing
and then not WaVerinq in aim nor en-
deaVor nor allowing the sneers or the
jeers or the taunts of some God-for-
saken mutt to divert him from doing
the thing his heart told him was right.
Half the ills, think, that curse the
world come from eagerness to achieve
success in realms you cannot reach.
! It's a great thing to know what you
| can do and then do it. Having won
! success himself by having high aims,
he was anxious that his son Solomon
/ should have the inspiration of a lofty
| purpose, so as he lay dying, gazing
up into the mist that was gathering
around his bed, he said, with his last
! breath, to his son, Solomon, be man,
! be a mani"
/ Without a definite, evermastering
purpose in life, failure is the certain
result, l don't care whether it is in
! business or in politics or religion.
/ You will get out of life just what you
look for. Somebody says, if it is a
| fight you want, you won't have far to
/ go until you can get busy.
| All right, you look like 1t. So,
I hot
! for. The vulture sees carrion no
. matter how high he scars. The bee
looks for flowers everywhere and he
gets honey where the spider gets poi
son. A topper sees the saloon. A
Christian looks for a church, a pan
derer looks for lust. The noble see
virtue, hooking bird will never learn
to sing if he takes music lessons from
a boot owl.
Every Man Must Judge
For Himself
And so, every man and woman looks
at life from their own standpoint.
Let a butcher stand before a master
piece. He sees nothing, because he
looks at it through hides, tallow and
suet. A carpenter makes his esti-
mate by his comparison with pile of
lumber every time. Let a tailor go
to Niagara Falls, he'd say, My, what
a great place to sponge your suit
Like an old farmer from Iowa, went
Ito Niagara Falls, stood here and
looked at her as she tossed, and he
said, as he pulled his bird tail whisk,
ers. Gosh, if that was milk, how much
butter she'd churn!"
The spider thinks the bee is fool
The hen is sure that the duck has de-
formed feet. Ask the camel what the
world is made of-sand. Ask an eIe-
phant-vegetation Ask whale
water. sheep neVe finds out what
frost is until he loses his wool. Some
politicians see no more of the public
good than they can get out of the pub
lie crib.
When he barks his shins. the giraffe
knows he is still on earth. The
lplumber smiles when it is forty below
zero and the glazier laughs when he
sees a hailstorm coming. The under
taker is happiest when pinning crepe
on the door knob. We all look at life
from our own standpoint
Now, as the twig is benz, so the tree
grows The man does thus and so to
day because he did certain things
| W ucn llc was q IVY IIOSoo tul II dIOuliS
before they lie down because dogs
did it five hundred years ago.
, Habits of Youth
Remain
The tastes and the habits We form
/; between the ages of fifteen and TWEEN
ty-four mark us for life 1t is because
! the young man goes with bad com
Ipany that he dies an old man in Sins
Sing That's why. Your life today
! depends on what you said, no or yes
, to. yesterday. Your life tomorrow viii
, depend upon what you say, yes or no
/ to, today. Always-it doesn't make
any difference what it is.
The world is full of failures, no
from lack of opportunities: hell is full
of sinners, not because they didn'
/ have a chance to go to heaven. Tn,
; red light district is full of prostitutes
: not because they didn't have chanc,
to be decent. Sing Sing Is full of con
( victs, not because they didn't have ;
chance to trot square. They had II
/ but wouldn't take it.
One reason why there are so man!
: bones bleaching along the highwa.
of the immoral life is because the mel
and women who once set out witt
! bright, sunshiny faces expected to g
: nowhere in particular. When Christ
I ian turned his back on the city o