Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER PAYING THE TOLL Is sure to come some day to evera human being now jociney ing through life an austere agent of nature empowered to collect certain personal debts and long overdue the simple process of falling behind in payments Is a common one brought out in most cases by ence in youth we ride madly garding reason and health cut all of a sudden we and our solves unhorsed bins upon an un known road hurt in body and broken in spirit and beside us stands this abdu rate collector who insists that we hind out our toll to the last penny it seems as if he bad never heard or seen HS until eliat moment but by report of his memory hp must have known us a long while 1 I know you all says he the wise and the foolish bul tt Is from the tools that I 1 gather the heavier tolls to those who in the springtime shunned wisdom and understanding he presents a heavy bill they must work it out in dismal shops where work Is menial and a lifetime Is required in which to cancel ane debt aiom others who in their early days were wild indiscreet and evil minded who ran up obligations which in middle life must be paid in disease repining and broken or worn angood he staggering accounts till all is gone and hope Is fled from the vicious and depraved he levies tolls in prison walls without taic or tret thousands are piling up such debts today which must in the days rb come be paid n full those who travel the primrose path sow tares waste time sneer at instruction and forget their creator in the days of youth will sooner or later be compelled to pay for their follies with their last dro of blood and their last ounce of strength only a few years ago these merry makers were clear eved happy and innocent boys and girls but now as the grim messenger comes to gather his toll in biln sorrow sobbing and sickness it must be paid for nothing hut this form of pay ment will suffice to cancel the ac count bl mcclur newspaper syndicate t 0 |