Show I 1 howe about sr ED HOWE W 0 bell syndicate service lc it you yon have trouble getting rid ot of it Is usually easier than to it dont dismiss this with the sneering statement that it Is IB more copy book stuff it la Is a simple truth long neglected I 1 am an expert in trouble I 1 only dispose of one to consider what la Is best to do about another this Is my birthday the front door bell rang just now I 1 expected a boy with flowers it was a bill collector I 1 paid I 1 could have put him off on but be would soon have been buck the door bell Is ringing at this moment I 1 had bad visions of lowers flowers again old hannah calls up that it Is mr adams mr adams Is the tax assessor N business men do good preaching by il fighting their competitors one of their favorite ways of fighting a competitor Is to behave better than he does many blany an art gallery orchestra school had been founded as a meanness ness to get ahead of a competitor an opposition editor in my town years ago go was so good a man that he became governor of his state ue he was so well behaved and clo capable bable that I 1 was compelled to behave and work b hard ard t to 0 p prevent r ev en t h his is ru ruining in I 1 ng m me e a as s lie he 8 sincerely in e ere i y wished w is be d to do d although AI tb 0 a g b he hated e d me he e w was a s 0 one e 0 of f the strongest es ebbat enu cesil lne influences fl u 1 in n m my y 1 life f tor 0 r good ile he wished to butcher me but really saved me cotra cora harris Is an old fashioned sort of woman I 1 have bate always liked lately she said the women are acquiring a great fund of wisdom but it Is of the wrong kind one trouble with all of us we are becoming smart alecks rather than smart mart wisdom Is a convenient and useful se fa thing like a sharp knife or a good hoe when you have a potato patch to rid of weeds why should riot not people acquire wisdom as they acquire any other valuable thing and not boast of it in foolish clubs why should not the people behave well as a matter of intelligent self interest and not lot claim to be raving caving the world il L 0 all the furious hell bell raisers ral sers lacono blasts and reformers are actually weak men and leave no real impression on times in which they have lived it Is possibly true there Is a brisk demand for the big hell bell raisers for some people not read unless they can read about outrages that never occur but I 1 care nothing tor for the patronage or respect of such it if I 1 cannot gain the respect of reasonable and decent men I 1 shall do without it X I 1 know a widow who has plenty of bonds but they pay no ln interest terest and are of little value therefore the widow and her children are in distress but the men who manage her company are receiving enormous salaries and do little work many hany other women bome n and children are being robbed by men in like manner widows should be extremely careful in ili investing their money tor for income after the farmers and coal miners liae ilae had relief something should lie lone for widows and children who ime been mercilessly robbed there are dozens of different notions as to the greatest thing in the NO orld ald anti anil most people make a wrong wron guess about it it Is actually a ver very tiling thing taking care of yourself I 1 do not mean by this narrow selfish bese but the selfishness which appreciates iliac hint a F ick pick man la Is a burden to lo some one A strong man physically Is most apt to do good things half i the lie desperate acts are committed as an 11 result of auto intoxication probably host sui suicide eldee begin thinking gloomy thoughts because of unnecessary bad health or conduct X writers speak tit of the conventions lite hie generally accepted habits of the I 1 IVI ale with contempt I 1 have known men inen tn lot tight tile lie conventions all their alvs I 1 tt uni un I lle ile with their hoots on between Ul my town tonn and Nort nortonville onville i here Is at very ril glod paved road built it lite convent linial way it ir Is the way to nor linville lini ille the en easier iett tile the most agree little I 1 nav 1111 une afuso to travel it II nn an errand at Nori onville I 1 aci not know X an ali old 11 gent gentlemen lemin in rny my neighbor wits hii chilly noted coteil for qu quiet let 14 hold hinl Ino desty sly while in octha acelie life lit load no hid bid and uns as a model bu buyund hund and father fallier at al live lie ill reil red beama a great talker Fil lovied elpi relles and drunk all tire wills lie CPI fit it V 1 it if nit konin Kiin iii solid ay y ciany to have wilimen ny by a good i binl glennes spend ir lin or nf bainn tire fx ex of f drifts rifts lend to tn i too n crime link till lip tile ali 1 n vcr fal 1 da sf f iu know sv sev en ell benois of thim thi m alere riot ilic writing ond ol oil mot mil mile bueb u vie bif d only foli 1181 aldor der its vast roil oil these tl s tire are so as few they II uro easily red |