Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1911 — GETTING BEST IN LIFE [ARTICLE]

GETTING BEST IN LIFE

BROTHER DICKEY DELIVERS A SERMON ON SUBJECT. i * , Passes Some Remarks on Business Man's Acoount of What He Saw on Trip Through the Eastt “I ain’t seen you for de longes’,” •aid Brother Dickey, to his friend, the business man, just returned from a trip east. “Whar an’ whar hex you been, an’ what hes you been a doin’ of? Tell me dat now?” “I’m Just In from New York, and Boston and Washington,” was the reply. “I’ve been taking in the country, generally.” - “You must ’a’ seen a lot,” said Brother Dickey. jiv:; ; “Yes; had a fine time of it. Met wide-awake people. They’re a hustling crowd, old man; they know how to get the best out of life.” “You reckon day’s a-glttin’ it?” “Seems so. Why, some of ’em own half a dozen automobiles —new one for every day in the week! And they're riding over the earth in airships, whenever they feel like it I stayed in a hotel 40 stories high. And talk about money, I saw 50 d&rloads of It—gold, silver and. greenbacks—in the treasury vaults at Washington; then I spent a day with congress—the fellows who think they’re running the country, you know. Shook hands with our Georgia representative. Fine lot o’ boys in congress. Brother Dickey!" “Well,” said Brother Dickey, “is dat aH?” “That’s about all I thought you’d cue to know.” j I ”1 mean,” said the old man, “is dat all you got outen it —all you fetched away wld you? Kaze,- es it is, I wants ter tell you dat yo’ trip didn’t set de river on fire! Is yo* pot time ter 11ssen ter a few remarks what come into my min’ whilst you wuz a-gwine on? ' '••••*' ./-V-"' i “Ez ter de folks with de half a dozen ortermobiles, I makes no doubt dat dey is speedin’ so fas’ deyTl go clean pas’ de heavenly station, an’ never rickernize de hills o’ Zion ’tall. Ez ter de high buildin’s, dey can’t go hlgher’n God; an’ ez fer de Ilyin’ a’rships, no man kin fiy so high but God kin t’row him down. You say, dey got it all, but it ain’t no good ter have all now, an’ bimeby have nothin’! An’, cornin’ ter dem fifty cyarloads o’ money what you seen in Washington, tell me, what good it’s doin’ dar —fer people wld empty pockets ter look at an’ go ’way sorrowful? It's des rustin’ fer de want o’ use. . Ole Laz’rus is oryln’ at de rich men’s gate up dar same ez he done in de fur country yonder, an’ what dey calls dem ’treasury watchdogs’ is barkin’ at him, “An’ talkin’ ’bout congress, memme it’s dar fer good, an’ mebbe it ain’t Es some er de folks in it talks lak’ dey did ‘fo’ dey got in, ten minutes dar would be too long fer me! “I ain’t a-faultln’ nobody,” the old man explained. “I’m des passin’ my ■opinions on what you been a’tellin’ me. De man high up on de trapeze in de circus looks mighty good ter de crowd, an ’pears ter be glttln’ de- bes’ outen life, but he’s mighty glad ter come down w’en his turn is done, an’ lay low fer fes’. "Be life-circus is soon over, de lights out, an’ de tent took away, an’ what do it matter den es you had a front seat, or. had ter stan’ up fur back?

“Dey ain't but one ter git de bes’ what life is got in it, an’ es you don’t find an’ toiler dal way It’s ’goodbye, honey, an’ don’t tell he folks you seen me!”’—Atlanta Constitution.