Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1904 — PUT ON THE BRAKES. [ARTICLE]

PUT ON THE BRAKES.

Slow Up, or Before Yon Know It Yon Mar Be Oil the Truck. The limited goes sixty miles an hour. In the smoker meu joke and play cards and tell risque stories. The day coaches are crowded and comfortless. The heavy sleepers as they sway to and fro make only a gentle-rocking for the people who chat and read and nap. (.’rash! Engine and cars and fiesh and blood are ground up together In a shapeless, horrid mass. Off the track! So goes humanity’s train. Here Is a hoy who got to running on a fast schedule. He began by pilfering from tils father’s till. As he grew older he made faster time. Down grade he goes, and soon comes the crash. Newsboys cry a murder and a suicide. The crowd halts for a moment. His friends murmur, “I never thought he was so bad!” A young man is off the track! A young girl thinks her mother is too slow for these record breaking times. Mother is “old fashioned.” The girl goes to places her mother has warned her she should not frequent. The bloom is brushed from the fruit. * * * One day a brazen, drunken creature, cursing and shrieking, is loaded into the patrol wagon. A woman is off the track! A man gets in a hurry to be rich. His father went slowly, carefully, successfully. But father’s methods will not do. What’s the use of moiling and toiling when a quicker way may well do the business? So-and-so has speculated successfully. Surely I am as shrewd as he. * * * A pistol shot. A man is off the track! •Our age is a rapid one. Business and society go at a sixty mile clip. Rather than In* sidetracked for a time men will drive their trains into the ditch. Many of them run wild. There are frequent collisions and wrecks innumerable by getting off the track. Look out, thriving but venturesome merchant and reckless young woman and gay young man! The race is not to the swift alone. Put on the brakes. Slow up. or before you know it you will be off the track.- Milwaukee Journal.