Show 1 I UNCOMMON SENSE J JD D By fly JOHN JOliN BLAKE IN IX A ACCOUNT cOU T WITH LIFE A newspaper man of ot very great ability and usefulness recently died in New York at the age of 60 For more than a week he had been certain that hat the tho end was was near But he was not afraid I 1 wish he said one afternoon that I could have ten more years There are a a. great many things I would like to do I have undertaken a lot of ot work I would like to finish fin tIn ish lab But lying here and feeling certain certain tam tain that I shall never leave this room alive I have been looking over m my account with life Ure And I 1 find that it is all in my favor Life Lite owes me nothing I owe it a great dealIn dealIn deal In the first place It has given me opportunity and opportunity has brought my happiness I haven't begun to do as much as I would like to do but there are one or two little things in my life work that have haye given me satisfaction Once I stopped a gang of ot legislative crooks from enriching themselves at th the expense of the the- poor people of a state That was a a. satisfaction satisfaction- to me anyway I 1 havo have had a chance to to travel abolt he world and have seen that it 8 beautiful I have made many friends In whose whoso company I always enjoyed myself I 1 have had no children of ot my myown myown myown own but there ther have been many or ot them in the families s of at my sister and brothers brother and I am always happy wh when n I can see and talk to children who are more moro nearly natural natural nat flat ural than any other creatures I know about On the other side I J have been ill III now and then often otten disappointed never ne very ery successful as an far as money Is concerned I shall have nothing to leave wh when n I go ambitious to be Once Oice I was dis di distinguished and I never became dis dis- dis Perhaps that was wan beCause because be- be cause I was wall lazy But I r cannot at attribute attribute at- at tribute my lay own laziness to o the wrong side of ot the ledger It was my myOwn myown myown own fault Taking It altogether I am ahead and a lonG way ahead I would as aa aaI asI asI I said have been glad to have those ten years more but out mo Ufo did aia not owe them to me roe and I had no rIght co expect themI them I will finish with a a. profit os in happiness and that is all I ask If It ever every man on his acCount account ac account ac- ac count could find find- that it was so sat satisfactory satis factory this would bo be a a. happier world yc Yet this man died ahead of the game b because causo he be had always put all that he ho had Into it j He He- had played fairly with life brought to It all that h he ha had to bring Life was Vas the he lo loser er by his going going- but despite despite despite de de- de- de spite tho the fact that It gave him a great deal It profited as much as asha ashe ashe he ha did while he was vas here Copyright 1923 by John Blake Farming FannIng was wall the O occupation of ot rT more ore ore- than half the population ot of France before belore the war iL Australia tr has more places elJ of pub pub- TIC worship In proportion fo to population tion than any other country t S. S jl t |