HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent 



The God of the Men Who Do Things 

 The cause is all, and the triumph naught 



To the God of tiae men who do things. 

 He scorns the "Don't" and leaves the "Ought." 



This God of the men who do things. 

 He has one motive and only one, 

 He loves things doing and loves things done, 

 As all His battles are fought and won. 



The God of the men who do things. 



He knows high purpose. He works things out. 

 The God of the men who do things. 



Though the lazy lie and the righteous scout. 

 This God of the mea who do things. 



He cares not a whit for the common mould. 

 He burns the dross to refine the gold. 

 He cannot be bought. He cannot be sold, 

 The God of the men who do things. 



He hates things weak. He loves things strong 

 This God of the men who do things. 



In soul or body, in right or wrong. 

 This God of the men who do things. 



He knows there is hope for the meu who try. 



He sees them fail and He sees them die. 



For they will win to him, by and by. 

 The God of the men who do things. 



— Gerardus Post Herrick. 



"La Notte" 

 Is it night? And sits night at your pillow? 



Sits darkness about you like death? 

 Rolls darkness above like a billow. 



As drowning men catch in their breath? 



Is it night, and deep night of dark errors. 

 Of crosses, of pitfalls and bars? 



Then lift up your face from your terrors, 

 I"or Heaven alone holds the stars ! 



— Joaquin Miller. 



Two things are wanted by the true man — 

 danger and play. Therefore, he seeketh womam 

 as the mo?t dangerous plaything. — Nietzsche. 



Following the Linderman St^stem 



It's a good scheme. 



Chance to Bise 



I was visiting a California turkey farm last 

 month and a boy applied for a job. 



"Your references are all good. I will try you," 

 said the farmer. 



"Is there any chance to rise?" said the boy. 



"Yes," said the farmer. "A grand chance. You 

 rise every morning at 4 o'clock." 



He Agreed 



"I consider your wife a woman of excellent 

 taste." 



"So do I," replied Jinx, looking in the mirror 

 and smiling approval at himself. — Houston Post. 



Would Walk 'When He Slept 

 "So you want to get on the police force?" 

 asked the man at the desk at the Xew York 

 police headquarters, 

 "i'es, sir." 



"And what qualifications have you?" 

 "I'm a somnambulist, sir !" — Yonkers States- 

 man. 



Sized Up 



The mule, being in a temper, kicked a few 

 boards out of the side of the barn. 



"One of those fresh air cranks," commented 

 the horse to itself. — Buffalo Express. 



An Honest Avowal 



"I don't know whether I like that young man's 

 frankness or not." remarked the business man. 



"What did he say?" 



"I asked him if he enjoyed work and he saldi 

 no. but he would do it for the sake of the wages.'" 

 — Washington Star. 



A small package- 

 in himself. 



-any man who is wrapped upv 



Some men go to their graves without discov- 

 ering that they were not as important as they 

 thought they were. 



