Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON [ARTICLE]

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

Man walks through life with locoed tread, and finds the going rough; through all his youth he looks ahead—the future is the stuff. He'll do great things in coming years, when he has half a show; his fame will ring through all the spheres and reach to Broken Bow. He’s so impatient for the time when he can hit the spots, that youth, the golden and sublime, is gone before he wots. Youth, youth! It passes like the Wind, and cannot be recalled; and man wakes ./up some day to find he’s tired and old and bald. He sees the wreck of noble schemes, and murmurs, through his tears, “The plans of youth are idle dreams that won’t outlive the years.” Now he is always looking back, as once he gazed ahead; his eyes are on the rugged track that knew his hopeful tread. The future has no charms for him-, it smiles for. hint, no more; the past appeals to eyes grown dim, he talks of days of yore. Oh. youtli, forevermore your gaze is fixed.on things ahead; while age laments the vanished days, and sadly counts its dead.