Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT I By Dy F. F A. A WALKER TWENTY FOUR HOURS THOSE hOI hopeful tul persons who ho continue continue con con- to expect t good fortune better bet ter conduct the gold guld und send purple In society so so- cI clety ty and possibly exalted leadership In their particular r spheres of or will 11 discover sooner or later loler that It Is I. quite quIre necessary necessary always to pay II strict attention to the Ule passing hours There Is III nothing SQ so elusive as ns time though It awaits our bidding con con- It respects neither prince nor pauper louper us eia It proceeds on Its lis way to he abused d pushed rudel rudely aside aD and wantonly rejected All of our great aspirations ore sae borne to tn os os- os ason on the silent wings of hours and unless we give Immediate Im Im- mediate attention to the thc Inspirations which are placed nt ot our w ware we weare weare are likely to find that we have missed a precious opportunity It Is a falling failing of ours to live In a n delicious vague vague- flea neM of what we shall do nt at a later day to astonish our friends when we finally settle down to carve car our wonderful won woon monument We have not yet ret con confided Oded our secret secret se se- cret tret resolution to our most Intimate friends who In their solicitous admonitions admonitions ad ad- monitions have frequently hurt our sensitive souls loul by reminding us ua that the 24 21 hours hour of yesterday were thrown away as ns were the Importuning Im hours of the dead and burled yesterdays of the long ago It n would not do to discuss discuS this thU mat ter It Is not an agreeable subject for the reason that It would bring to tous tous tous us an on unpleasant realization of ot our faults We Ye have promised that our sins of yesterday should be our lost last but here we are today among the old transgressors unable to reform When we were twenty we started bravel bravely at ot twenty five we began to let an hour or two slip away at thirty thirty thir thir- ty to be quite frank frnnk the habit of ot squandering time had taken token so strong a hold of us that thaI we yielded to It without without without with with- out a murmur still dreaming of ot the great things we should do when the spirit moved us ns At forty we became berame so 10 monstrously overwhelmed that we cried too late Intel I and slipped quietly back In the rear ranks Those of our friends who had bad with wisdom apportioned their 21 hours to duteous work proper rest and recreation are now among the leaders where re rightfully belong and where they forced themselves by sheer Industry from tram the beginning of ot their triumphant career II St by br McClure N w paper O |