if your neighbor keeps his fortune on the off-side of the fence do your silent dreams of envy to help lighten your expense ? does the rattle of his sheckels sound as music to your ears let the jingle pass unheeded — tis the fool that interferes he has doubtless many mimics who can loudly sing his praise ; don't let such attract your notice spend your favor where it pays he has aid at every elbow and perhaps can't see you now ; — does the law ask you to greet him with a hundred-dollar bow don't give way to grief and s any next-door smile is ap don't lay plans for any future let him charm some othe row if a comrade turns you down : o be tomorrow's broadest frown n a politician's grasp ; s ong-bird if he wants to play the asp uty fades yes the rose today is handsome but its beauty fades and wilts : baby's everybody's angel while he wears the infant's kilts tom we know is fit to worship in the light he stands today but tomorrow finds you wond'ring why your thoughts have been at can you deem a man a scoundrel for his side-step of mistrust can you scorn a man once cheerful for his actions of disgust since experience has taught him what is hot and what is cool if he burned his hand last season must he always play the fool > you may have a loved confidant as a link in friendship's chain ; should he prove himself a traitor win you trust that link again ? yea tis hard to lose a comrade but let such loss be a guide ; — chance association tells you with whom you had best confide acorn of ttjc wttbn grtake utabemt , shade ev'ry morning has its evening whence the twilight comes to fade ; life is brighter for the sunshine that succeeds the gloomy rain — pleasure finds a greater welcome as a healing balm to pain virtue is the queen of passion when she's face to face vdth vice — thus the will must come to action where temptation must entice ; ev'ry instinct has foundation be it built on love or hate but at times the situation solves the problem just too late so the man sweats neath his burden as he climbs the steep up-hill and the selfish next-door neighbor puts her own share on the bill ; thus each kindly reputation treads upon the jealous snake but that climb toward salvation is for god and friendship's sake all the world talks up your friendship where you stand around to hear but the greatest generosity must bear the backward sneer ev'ry neighbor knows your mission and can laud the good advice while he pay his own tuition on the next-door neighbor's price thus does gossip play the judas in the broad cloak of deceit while humility oft stranded travels barefoot down the street : let the gay-boy mock the victim with the graceless backward slurs class them shades of utter darkness as with ev'ry his or her's should you wish to gain an object work to-day and gain it now ; don't let some benighted hypocrite come up and tell you how don't let some cheap parrot tell you what to do and how you can if you live for independence be an independent man walter emmitt