The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-03-05


hold II things" In statelivr phrase
DR.. johnson uttered the same truth
..Whateyer wiihdraws us from the
power 81 the sens :. whatever makes
the past. the distant, or the future pre-
dominate over the present. advances u
in the dignity II human beings" There
i no trial II our mortal lot which ear
nest. absorbing and constant toll viii
not Tighten a no other help can DO
Even manual labor, that brings only
weariness u the body and kindly sleep
in it, train. i benefcent distraction.
Bodily activity deadens emotion And
As swift walking relieves intense irrita-
ton, - the necessity Of occupation i a
safe-conduct 10 grief and pain
But il i work that fills and ronses the
mind which i the true conSolcr- Histo-
m j. full Of stories OF noble men and
women buffered with hard blows ~ fate
who have armed themselves with
laborious patience. and made their
hearts greater than their fortunes
Poverty is bitter, and reminds her VIC
tins. in season and out ~ season, Of
her rude nature. Yet Shakespeare was
right wnen he said, .lt j. the mind
that makes the BODY rich" When the
great Erasmus was poor student IN
Paris, almost in rags. he wrote 70 =
friend: :. A. soon as get money viii
buy. first. Greek books, and then
clothes.- In his work he could forget
all bodily distresses. Kepler was
always poor and hampered by his penu-
~, but he declared al the end Of his
life that he would rather have had hrs
Inheritance 81 poverty. with his work
and is successes. than 10 have been the
heir Of the Dnchy II SaNony-
Exile and imprisonment are among
the darkest tragedies of existence. But
Ovid. hanished from the luxurious and
learned capital 10 the barharians Of
TOMS. in the inhcspitable waste along
the Euxine. stripped II property, wife.
. and children, saved himself from
, despair bv labor. and. surrounded by
hopeless Savagery. produced some ~
f. The finest ~ hi works. Boethius, the
, Ia. and noblest Of the ancents. before
l the darkness u the Middle Ages iell on
4 Europe. lying under unjust sentence 81
! death in the tower Of Pavia. forbidden
books. intercourse with fcllow-schoiarS-
preserved his sanity and fortitude 60
! face cruel death by writing = The
4 Consolation u Philosophy" Don
!. Qnixote.-- which conyulsed a nation
4 With merriment. was the solace q m
undeserved imprisonment which bodily
: suffering made more uncomfortable.
The dungeon If Walter Raleigh was
y his calm study. In the condemned cell
Madame Roland. less moved by the
! certainty If her own fate than by appre-
I, hension for her beloved husband, forti-
fed her mind against possible madness
! bv the composition Of her memoirs
!, LADY Jane Grey and Mary Queen ol
Scots beruiled imprisonment Of half IL
:, terrors with hard study and careful
Y writing.
In the WEAKNESS u disappointment
when life mas lost its SAVIOR. the same
comfort avails. Arthur Helps say.
somewhere that as long a. there j. an,
N thing 10 be done in q matter. the tim'
!, for grieying about il has not vet come
i But when the trouble i fixed and inev
y liable. sorrow i 10 be borne like pain
7 Bat pain we lulI by all those instrument
talities that bring Inconsistencies, AM
pre-occupafion i that kindly mental an
:p-rhefic which soofhes till nature shall
= 81 Dire. Southey wrote 70 friend tina
q Ifiennss Il the wef-nurse Of Melancholy
II lgur-ooldr found hard study the bes
cure for mental distresSes and for phys =
I" cal illness alike. Charlotte Bronte told
= friend that the last part ~ "Shir
lev ! was composed in the anxious, resi-
less effort to combat mental suffering
= that were well-nigh intolerable.
u And IL work be the great consolar 3
ed man in all the lesser woes 81 existence
far more i IT, beneficent aid effectiv
when bereavement makes u cry On
that our life Is lived, and we too woul
j. die. All down the age the noble'
y minds have bent themselves TO labc
RI when this calamity fell upon them. Cat
Ic- the Censor made his devotion 70 publ
g. business provcrb when his eldest 20
~ died. Goethe in a ike affection. bel
nd himself to study difficult scienc'
~ Cicero. distracted with the loss I
he his darling daughter, gave himse
-, ND 10 composition. and wrote WIN
y. the world will not willingly let Iii
ne Hood. in bitter sorrow, found IL
srk great blessing 20 b. able to carry b
fr. thoughts Unto the ideal from the 4
sie strong real Washington Irwin
-. heart-brOken By the death n his b
An .r0thed. wrote in private memora
n. dun: = The world Was blank 70 m
~ l went into III country. but could y
bear solitude, yet could not enjoy :
en-, cicfy. There was dismal horror 60
inr tinuaIly in my mind. which made =
nj fear 10 he alone Aftcrwarsi, when q
~ literary pursuits which afforded hl
ar. distraction had become the habit Of !
nh life, he wrote, :. b. constantly cxerc
IA ing my mind. have in m-nn
"a. worked myself into a very envial
N. state Il serenity and selfpossession-