Show howe about spending public money one critics end 0 0 mcintyre by ED HOWE A A MAN BIAN growled at me insely beia cause I 1 so frequently denounce river improvement at the rhine he be said raid 1 Im has undoubtedly been profitable there and I 1 replied the Germ germans have been practically using the rhine more than fifty years I 1 haie hae lived on the missouri river longer than that seen money wasted on its improvement every ciery year and not a single steamboat what I 1 grumble about the american plan of spending public money and getting nothing out of it IL the most merciless critic I 1 ever knew and I 1 may add the ablest has been a charge on the county many years as an inmate of the poor poo house and not one of those he cri criticized criticised t so 0 s severely ec rely Is in the poor house w with ith him there was a dull man named lem the critic nas inas particularly severe with but leno lem kept at work in his big dull way and Is now a lending leading citizen A lessen with which I 1 have been greatly impressed Impi essed Is abat everything worthwhile requires I 1 tard hard work and I 1 enthusiasm no man can succeed succeed d at anything and be idle shiftless and I 1 thoughtless there Is a man in new I 1 york named 0 0 who has succeeded as a writer that he be Is unusual must be admitted but it depresses me to read of his great industry when he walks about goes to a theater or to a dinner he be Is at work looking for something to write about it Is said of the poor farmers that they work from sun to sun mcintyre does it and in addition works half the night some one has recently written of the real thos A edison who became so famous the entire world paid him tribute he turns out to have been quite an ordinary man very untidy often unreasonable chewing tobacco constantly and spitting wildly but he was wag a great worker he moved a bed into his shop that he might economize on the time required for rest and had a better time working than others have playing good work provides the good times we hear bear of and are always looking for vainly in vacations in night clubs at card tables and on golf fields I 1 believe lo in a fight when it becomes necessary to effectively resent wrong the most absurd useless slid and unnatural sentence ever written was the advice to love our enemies no one does it no one should do it from the beginning of time men have on proper occasion hanged banged enemies for the common good but some one who hated his enemies did nc not t neglect eg le act t as a literary novelty to adv advise ise aith others er to love them I 1 have never been able to understand why more than halt half that Is written or spoken today Is wrong useless and unnatural 0 0 the most important and profitable work a man may engage in Is managing h himself as efficiently as possible intelligent endeavor to avoid harmful mistakes A mistake Is a terrible thing a careless man may blunder into one that will punish him all his life a mild one frequently humiliates for months or years A noted man named haldane connected with the most famous of ung eng lands universities once wrote that the most interesting study he knew anything about was his own body although familiar with all the sciences the details of which awe us so much this highly beighl y educated roan man confesses no scientific experiment interests him as much or pays as well as study of his own body it Is a statement that should sober the careless and illiterate every day I 1 RM nm ashamed because the ancients ancient knew so much I 1 have not yet discovered they warned us of the importance qt of temperance but we have interpreted it its as warning against rum and manufactured a more all la irions rum to show contempt for the nuisance of the old men are not always wise but most apt to acquire wisdom A an old farmer an old mec mechanic hanle an old trapper an old doctor has had bad opportunities tuni tunit ties les he be has sometimes taken advantage of 4 I 1 made a few resolutions for the new year and hope to accomplish a little with some SOM e of them I 1 am actually a better man i now than I 1 was ten years ago because of my poor attempts to i improve a very much better man than I 1 was twenty thirty or forty years ago although still ashamed A doctor once said to me the rhe trouble with men who say they will cut down on their smoking which would be enough Is that they never do it I 1 actually cut down a little on my bad habits its as a result of my worthy resolves 0 0 the african bushmen of toda today are said to be almost exactly like the very earli earlle eit qt races of men they have no idea whatever of what nhat we call morals but behave better tann higher peoples or nations as a mere matter of convenience ven veni ence lence we ave should all be encouraged that chur our earliest ancestors bad so go much natural sense and decency and try to get back bach to it 0 bell Syn diesto ser lee |