Show howe about he quit smoking satisfaction hidden treasure by ED HOWE W WHEN I 1 I 1 EIN a boy I 1 lived in salt late lake city and one of the points of 0 interest was lion house where brigham young wrangled with twenty wives lion house Is now a social center where seventeen capable instructors tora tors teach literature art home economics one wife at a time etc this social center la Is sponsored by the church of jesus christ of latter day saints as Is in also a very creditable monthly magazine called the improvement era in which I 1 read that one day a man called on the good doctor kellogg of battle creek when the following conversation took place 1 I am sixty five years old and doctors tell me I 1 have only a year to live what do you think about it your name charles S keene what do you do rm im vice president of the tha american tobacco company smoke yes ten or r twelve cigars a day well that and ill promise you yon three or four years longer sir mr keene keena quit a and nd lived twenty years Is now in fact a nuisance to his friends begging them to quit smoking I 1 met an angry disheveled man today and asked the trouble ile he replied im not being treated right im not satisfied and I 1 said 1 I have never known anyone who was satisfied you are no exception calm down you are neglecting your work to express in dIg nation in addition to bothering others I 1 do not visit graveyards except to attend the funerals ot of special friends but I 1 should like to see there finally a tombstone bearing this inscription as aa representing the man buried in memory of a man who Is satisfied I 1 am almost satisfied at eighty I 1 hope to be entirely so within a few years ive had bad my chance at the best there la Is in the best country in the world in the most modern civilization and I 1 am not as tired of natural tasks as I 1 am of the excited arguments of foolish men unreasonably dissatisfied is As far back a as I 1 can remember men have been looking for captain cantal 13 kidds hidden treasure so tar far they found a penny captain kidd was a pirate and worked so steadily at his bis trade it Is believed he had no time left for wine women and song and therefore burled his treasure lately the searchers for burled treasure have been encouraged a pot of buried money was actually found in a texas cotton field put there by a kidnaper so another boom in seeking treasure Is on where did samuel insult insull ivar kruger bury their ill gotten gains one pot of gold cold found in some hundreds af years of search and that containing only a few hundred dollars Is not much encouragement tor for buried treasure workers thieves at the end of their lives are nearly always poor they have no treasure to bury only honest capable and industrious arious men are able to maintain strong boxes I 1 have long regarded will rogers as a good deal more of a philosopher than comedian at present he Is the only writer widely read who has common sense nicholas murray cutler butler Is equally wise but has no circulation his writing appears only in privately circulated pamphlets the present circulars sent out by banks railroads commercial clubs and business firms might as well not be issued at all the masses only read newspapers the conservatives wake make a mistake in not buying space in all the newspapers frankly labeling it advertising and pleading dally daily for or common sense in public affairs the conservatives have it a strong case and plenty of men able to present it effectively but for or some strange reason refuse to go to the newspapers for a hearing the cost would be much less than the present plan of every indignant man issuing hla his own circular there are plenty of conservatives to appeal to but they read nothing but gross radicalism 0 0 th there ere Is one thing to the credit of dogs I 1 have not seen mentioned by 0 0 mcintyre a dog Is satisfied with his home ills home la Is the best he Is not always hinting to the proprietor for more and chasing ott off to the palaces next door hoping to be adopted 0 we hear of the forgotten man alan if there was but one he could be easily relieved but there are millions of them thein every man who does not dot hold bold a public job of one kind or another has been forgotten A few thousand are being appointed to new public jobs abs dally but it Is only a drop in tile the bucket sharlus Sll erlus says to lo his memoirs nie he be once onca knew a philosopher who wits was tre educated after eight years to in a university he married and that nothing new might escape him read two hooks books a day thereafter tills this took up so much of his time ms wire wife and children were comp pHed piled to wippert him Sile flus adds that the wife of the ahl lost once said to him that the 11 IT pleasure she ever had out of her in man led life was twelve years fears of idoly hood a 9 hit boll oll sarlo |