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Show ! GET LITTLE GOOD OUT OF LIFE William Allen White Criticises a Class of Citizens With Whom We Ar All Familiar. v !' In every town, big or little, thero is a gang of fellows with acute mental cholera morbus. Tho convulsions of their brains aro always cramping and they have a doleful time. If a calamity ca-lamity thieatens a town, they multiply its certainty by ten, and its destruc-tlveness destruc-tlveness by a thousand. If a good thing is coming they divide it by two and sniff at it. And when a man gets out and digs and makes a dollar and a half or two i dollars, thoy intimate that ho stolo It and that it is counterfeit anyway. Thero are men of a typo tho world ovor. They never build churches; their names never head subscription ! papers for libraries or schools; they nover go deeper in tnelr pockets than tholr suspender buttons, and when they have a schemo they expect to call a public meeting and havo it put through with a whoop; work is not in tholr bright lexicon. Sometimes tho Lord gives them money probably as a horrlblo example to show that money and happiness aren't absolutely JMIb woddod. But when theso fellows got money thoy put it out at interest In another county and keep tho mortgages mort-gages In Missouri to escape tho assessor. as-sessor. Tho question that naturally rises is: what do they get out of llfo? Whore aro they ahead of tho gamo? Board and clothes aro little compensation for living. What else Is thero in it for those old roosters? Certainly thoro can bo little fun lnpeddllng gossip and gloating In tho misfortunes of others. Certainly theso sour headed codgers would be happier if tney would lend a hand, not a hammer to tho world. Certainly their children would be prouder among other children, and their names moro blossod If they put In a llttlo time "for tne good of tho order!" But what's tho use of wasting time on that crowd. The Bad Placo must havo somo fuel and it might as well bo them might indeed bo bettor than to bo good straight timber, that Is bent by tho wind of circumstances to Its own fall. William Allen Whlto, in j Emporia Gazette. |