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Show Living Up to His Obituary V OR WILLIAM E BARTON knew in ,, later ara a shltt cantalo ' l arbo began h!j , rr M r mnlrur aav '" v. M ,n aaa mtS "iJ IM BBlBL dm BBElBBBBJ the Wtion almoat In fijii TTo BlOther Of the .i iped lot boy ' ' 'Pped all the good things tha- were ssld " "u '"r 'on and paeiei them int- tc r jcrap-book. Mothers hae a h.'- f '"'"'k' 1 1 1 a ne day this man 'urned up Ti e mem- 'f hJ" "hiwrPM-k had grown very., "'n with Mm if at the lima :i,. haJ i'ij.hel blni with solrtinirx that feeling . , ie. He had come l'.k In anticipation antici-pation of a high old time But he read his mother's scrap-hook. and th 'iighr the rva:ter oyer Ue determined deter-mined t.. be a good aian livinc ; people peo-ple da,) .,.Jfrxed bmi .Uat n.i I llAII There ar. maM people whoee fttnerai aermon f should like to nrea n a t.-oi iikan- '.p.irs -arllcr than I acuTail r ir- That is to say. I .hmild like ihe nri lieK- Of telliny them while thev live how people WOOM Ilk- to think of them arter the. are dead, and then kIv- them i cltnnce to !l up lo their obituary. ku' i onr unfortuuate thing about ooituarle.4: they usually ome too late 10 induce ib.lr -ubje. :, tp live DO lo th BB . are mr-n who .U read this nrtl- ' w po Some day are going to put . no-minister no-minister in a very tight place, lie win lsh to say good things. Every- Impulse or ralr play toward a man who cannot answer I ak and of cooalderntlon for hla family and Mends tends to prejudice preju-dice ),'., m fa.vor of the memory of the dead man. I.et me request my rcade- not to make It to., hard for the preacher Tr'. n-.'-.v to Ice iii to ycur obituary. OO |