Show howe about wordsworth success Is easier how time passes 0 1133 cell syndicate service by ED HOWE I 1 DO not like poets but frequently admire a sentence they have written wordsworth wrote of the mighty sum of things forever speaking here Is sufficient brevity originality and common sense but as a rule poets color their bro product duct too highly and prose suits me better than the jumbled way in which ver shifters sifters arrange their lines the sentiment I 1 quote from wordsworth appeals to me because it la Is my natural way to pay constant attention to the mighty sum of things forever speaking ahIng there are so many of these mighty voices clamoring to be heard I 1 can give each one only a few lines william feather feathe I 1 published this paragraph no man can go completely to the devil without a great deal of determination ted robinson the newspaper columnist retorted wrong some can go to the devil just by standing still I 1 do not intend to let mr air robinson dismiss in a few words tho must most important practical philosophy ever formulated E W ilowe howe of kansas says success Is easier than failure and has written much on this theme consider the man who stands still on a sidewalk wa ik ile he Is jostled and cursed by those who are moving and who want him to get out of the way the most comfortable way to spend time on the sidewalk Is to be going somewhere over drinking or overindulgence over indulgence of any kind la Is followed by a headache overspend over spend spena ing or over speculation Is followed by the barking of creditors violation of criminal law Is followed by arrest and sentence to the workhouse ev every e ry man who goes completely to the devil gets there by easy stages at every turn he suffers more than the man who behaves himself never does he rise in tile tho morning without a warning that unless he reforms his troubles will increase ilia wife scolds him his employer threatens him and his friends avoid him it takes the strongest kind of will to ignore the signs on the road to hell and to bear the cross of self imposed failure think about this and admit it Is true success Is easier than failure 4 for several years an hour bour before eating my own considerable meal of the day I 1 have had the habit of taking a swallow of tasteless mineral minera era oil in connection with a pinch of seaweed called agar I 1 suppose some one induced me to try it and as it did me no harm and some good I 1 continued it on once ce I 1 was at table with a quite noted doctor and health specialist and said to him every noted man Is pestered somewhat by those to whom he be Is introduced I 1 shall bother you with only a simple question then I 1 outlined toy my habit babit and asked Is that a good ideal idea r well the great man replied lie he Is upwards of eighty 1 I do it I 1 pursued the inquiry no further but what I 1 started out to say la is that time passes so rapidly when one Is old that it seems to me now I 1 take mineral oil every hour instead of every twenty four As impressive rel rending iding as may be found in our american books concerns the firing on fort sumter which started the civil war the nattle hattle lasted four days and the exchange of shots from big guns between northerners in the fort and Sout southerners berners on shore was bremen clouspy noisy impressive and smoky yet not a man on either side was in ati aured the entire exhibition llo however wever when the yankees sur rendered and retired from the fort the southerners being brave men themselves wished to honor the gallantry of their defeated foes 1 fl I have long observed that opposing fighters usually commend the bravery of each other so the southerners attempted to ire fire a salute in honor of their foes a big gun burst and four gallant follows fellows were wounded alad the participants on both stiles sides been engaged in their usual callings I 1 should not be laughing at them more than severity seventy years later when etien I 1 go on the streets during the present depression tile the people seem sufficiently sensible and efficient 1 but when I 1 read of the doing f of statesmen at washington and state capitals I 1 bow my head and burst into tears surely I 1 am right in saying our greatest blunders our greatest cruelties cruel ties have been in war and statesmanship 0 plato has been exploited thousands of years as a philosopher na as probably the wisest roan man in history A writer lately sold a story to a syndicate of newspapers declaring that pinto was not a philosopher or thinker but only noted in hla his time is as a strong man a huge fellow who being attached to two horses at street carnivals pulled them all over the lot Y much aluch in print Is like that new interesting clever well vell done and invented |