The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-05-26
Howe About:
Watching Out
The Alarm Bell
The Youth Movement
By ED HOWE

q. 1898. Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.


thing, but Silerius expresses the be-
lief In his memoirs that 1t is more
stable than the love grown children
show parents.
Silerius mentions with approval and
thankfulness that his third wife once
said to him that the blunt regularity
with which he was called on daily for
money with which to pay household
expenses, and the hard way in which
he was compelled to earn all his
money. excited her pity, and caused
her to resolve to be more frugal in her
expenses.
Silerius adds note (page 80, End
vol), that none of his grown children
ever said an equally agreeable thing
to him.
Another Great Man has gone to the
dogs. The trouble seems to be he
didn't watch out on his way up.
In climbing, one must be constantly
careful: see to it that every round
above Is as sound as those below
which carried him safely.
And such care is always easier than
a fall
do not believe Samuel insult was
rogue. but became careless as he
climbed, and developed dangerous con-
ceit.
/ cannot understand how any man,
intelligent enough to fully realize what
a man necessarily is, can become con-
ceited.
In youth and age only natural things
have impressed me.
And natural things have impressed
me only because of the power behind
them to force my acceptance.
AS a young man I was often
ashamed because of youthful incom-
petence and judgment; because those
older daily demonstrated more capa-
bility as a result Of longer experience.
In learning my trade 1 never doubted
the foreman's greater ability, and &C
copied his instructions as l accepted
the suggestions Of the older men in
the same shop.
have never been able to under
stand the Confidence Of Youth Of
which so much is heard.
The other day l met an old fellow
who had long lived luxuriously. He
seemed "about all in," as the saying
is, and told me of his ills. / said the
only remedy 1 had ever found was
taking care of myself. His reply i'm
pressed me.
EYES," he said, 81 know about that,
but did not begin early enough"
/ send out another general alarm to
be lost in the magnificent errors Of
today. Most people live like greedy
children until something serious hap
pens.
One should begin taking care Of him.
self before the first alarm, which comes
long before forty or fifty. The alarm
bell began ringing very early in my
life; l believe it does in the lives Of
most men, and beg them to pay atten-
ton earlier.
We frequently hear ordinations as
to the Most Amazing Thing in the
World / think 1t is the dullness, in
efficiency, carelessness and dishonesty
Of adults who are permitted to run at
large, bear children and vote, although
they refuse to learn the simplest les
sons we birch children for not prac-
ticing.
With all his cunning man has not
been able to teach food to walk to
him, or prepare itself for consumption.
The richest modern man must feed
himself, dress himself, clean himself;
in crossing the street he cannot have
a slave along to jump out of the way
of traffic for him. A modern man who
retires from business, believing he will
thereafter have nothing to do, finds he
still has a lot to do. 1t is the first
natural law that all living things must
work: the more we shorten our hours
the less comfortably we get along.
Man has no natural right to be idle;
get rid Of that notion. When a man
is idle he is somehow pulling his own
hair.
Some one excited US long ago by de-
claring we were not being treated
right. The people were never
promised, by any real authority, any
thing they are not getting.
l lately tried to read book about
Abyssinia, the author having travelled
extensively in that strange country.
But he lacks judgment: he devotes
most of his pages to Jokes"
Mark Twain, best of our modern hui
morists, was frequently dreary while
trying to be funny" Books of hui
NOR are almost as rare now as books
Of poetry, so many serious things hav-
ing developed requiring serious consid-
Grafton.
An old man called on me lately and
I asked him how he was getting along.
Not very we'll" he replied; 81 never
did"
AS moving an incident in life as
have ever heard is this: A young girl
of average good family in my town
married at seventeen. and had five
children in seven years. One day she
disappeared and has never been heard
from since, except letter she wrote
her mother from distant town. which
said she couldn't stand the burden Of
being married. She found no fault
with her husband saying he was as
great a martyr as she had been. "You
may be sure" she added, 'there is not
another man in the case; the man-lack
in my life has been completely salts