Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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hose who have littleor nothing. But they have finally decided this policywont work, and have adopted different measures; theynow have a club, and are assembling for a descent on thetich valleys of the enemy. When my affairs go wrong I have finally learned thatthe only possible remedy is to behave better. The world was getting along pretty well up to 1914.Every respectable thing was meeting with some encourage-ment, when suddenly a fool kicked over the torch ofcivilization, and now the world is on fire. It is an awfulwreck, and everybody is in it. The first excuse for thebloody business was the shooting of an Austrian prince.The shot was fired by a man who had been wrought up toit by years of immoderate preaching, and it was in quarrel-ing over this incident that the devil got loose. Bad as therulers are, it was a foolish agitator who dropped the matchinto the powder barrel. Benjamin Franklin has been called the greatest type andexample of the citizen, yet his principles were extremely
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DECORATION BY DOUGLAS RYAN simple. In his journey through life he had a desire to be aslittle as possible-either an incompetent, an idler, a fool ora rogue. He didnt claim perfection, but sincerely desiredto avoid mistakes as frequently as possible. In his writinghe acknowledged a good many bad habits, but experienceproved the folly of bad habits, and he gradually quit them. He always gave his private business sufficient attentionto make it prosperous, but did not neglect his duty inpublic affairs; he took an interest in street lighting, inpaving, in libraries, in fire departments, in home guards,in schools. He became noted in science, and one of theworlds best-educated men, though he almost never wentto school. For a time in his youth he was a kind of orphan,castaway or runaway, yet, some say now, he became theworlds greatest citizen. Franklin happened to be born with a good mind, but themost ordinary man may adopt his rules of life with profit.He had all the weaknesses you have, but

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