Show r ED HOWE a bell ban se Berv r v ice lc if I 1 have bare any sense now it Is a tribute to the knowledge an ordinary man may accumulate naturally as he stumbles through life for originality I 1 did not have any and those about me had little the school teachers ten chers of my youth had bad scent scant education probably but I 1 do not know as to that as it happened I 1 did not much associate with them tl ietti I 1 attended country schools at intervals until ten or twelve years old but took no interest in their sessions they were poor and unattractive and I 1 attended them its as a disagreeable duty as I 1 chopped wood or went after the cows hushed corn or stripped sorghum cane with a forked stick the little I 1 know came to me front from contact with the necessary activities of life I 1 have selected the best with that spirit of selfishness which lies at the bottom of everything I 1 have avoided poison for my mind as I 1 have avoided it tor for my body I 1 quit a mistaken notion for the same sama reason that I 1 quit a food that does not meet the requirements of food A really good job steadies a man in more ore than anything else A man having one Is less apt to disgrace himself than one who Is here today and there tomorrow the man with a good job knows the part reliability politeness fairness played in getting it he knows how bow apt bad conduct Is to result in hla his disgrace note the men arrested for crime A very large per cent of them lack good lobs jobs respect at bank counters and in their neighborhoods note the men arrested for thievery drunkenness it Is said of mighty few of them that they have good jobs A good job will vilh steady a young man as nothing else will ne ile may be unfaithful to small duties but will hesitate about proving unfaithful to a good job I 1 met a rather smart fellow the other day who has a lot to do and attends to it rather faithfully and successfully cess fully ile he told me he be could spend all his bis time reading I 1 reading appeal to me as much as it seems to appeal to some others I 1 went want to get closer to events than a book account of them when I 1 have an opinion I 1 try to decide how much it Is influenced by age and how much by experience and intelligence telli gence it Is a mean feeling after you get old that you might have done better with your opportunities the same feeling appears in the consciousness conscious nesa of the young A feeling that you have often offer been petty and impolite that people have laughed lau glied at you when they might have cheered Is a bad thing to carry around with you it if you lack education it Is your own fault every man you meet every incident of life every hour of the lay day is a page from the best textbook there Is this book la is called experience 4 an american puts himself on record so frequently a a patr patriot lot a christian a gallant husband etc he Is ashamed asli amed to protest when called upon to assist in doing noble things that cannot be done tile the world would treat us all better it if we would treat tile the world better an and d all it asks Is a little more common coman n sense a little atle more politeness and industry 1 i Is agre agreeable entile when it Is brewing but when it breaks and etl the e furies are unchained the people lb begin 91 clamoring for order the scandalous things we read in ibe t tie papers are nut not halt half as exciting as those eliose we know RO go on everywhere ono bad badden from the public I 1 have participated in bents more exciting than anything I 1 read about and so have you yon t judges and policemen have me bluffed into lulng a good deal of ol 01 attention to lo their regulations I 1 herewith enter complaint because they in do not impress others with their frons and clauhs X X ay every nian man ahn h lei bells is a lie believes he Is cunning cui inina ile he la Is actually a annl due ae of tile the few sure things Is f that a lie never prospers all the people are as q to punish liars as they are to tell lii lies it f when foluen inie us they forgive everything awn pvn our r crimes when ahrn they hey I 1 da nt not anle ia us 9 they give us I 1 cn alt for nothing tint nl een tor for our nes en czae I 1 t X ta when a fool wiltra alp ilp if ate or ir tricks tile llie only explanation lip lie he thinks all the rest of us up ore foo fidila 8 W X when tile people cant to a thins after erlna fr for years they put it up all to congress congre it and himl and yell tp canse cabbe congress doeg not ant do it 0 t 1111 a day or nr two |