Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-05-26

what we may do and be. that our
lines and bounds are appointed us.
is no reason WHY we should not use the
limited power of choice that is ours.
.eTo him that hath shall be given
There seemed little chance that Benja-
min Disraeli should be Prime Minister
of England when he was young man
OF twenty-one; everything but himself
was against him. He had no fortune.
no friends, he belonged to race pro-
scribed. but he conquered everything,
and at last accomplished his plans, van
auished fortune, realized and probably
more than realized his proudest anfbi-
tions. In the steadfastness of aim. the
fixedness of purpose. the untlinching
and tireless perseverance which charac-
terized him, he is an example for all
men and all women.
II house is to have but one room,
that one room may be arranged SO as to
afford the greatest facility for work and
comfort, or it may be so arranged or
disarranged as to promote constant
discomfort and confusion. She who
lives in disorder in a small house will
carry the same mode of living into
palace. Years ago poor family on
their way to Texas were shipwreckcd
and brought to New Orleans where
they were given room in one of the
best hotels in that CITY. In two hours
that elegantly furnished room had all
the appearance possible to it of the
North Carolina cabin in which the fam
ily had previously been dOmiciled.
Every chair had some bundle or gar
mem in it, Blankets were taken from
the bed and strewn on the floor to ''set
the baby on and squalor peeped out
from every curtain and bit of furnishing
in the room.
The orderly, systematic soul impresses
itself on the body it inhabits. the
clothes of that body. the apartment it
dwells in, the life all around it. Soul
is form and doth the body make" and
this body is not merely the clothing
of freshly integument, but all the sur
roundings of every sort that are the ey-
preston of the soul. A man can show
on ten acres of land what kind of a
farmer he is as well as upon a thousand.
A woman can show what kind of a
housekeeper she is in a two-roomed
house as well rs in n five-story '.brown-
stone front" Only those who are
faithful over the few things are tit TO
be rulers over many things.
Not every one has the ability to sit
down and plan out an enterprise ofeven
moderate dimensions from beginning
to end Some are so made that they
can see but one step at time. can take
but one step at time. but there are
few who have not sense enough to see
that. and to take that with some sort of
discretion. and having done so much, TO
see the step next to be taken. If we
plan but for one day at time, one week
at a time, one year at time. and plan
wisely. the whole of life will be har-
monious and more or less successful.
But if we permit ourselves to drift
whittier the chance current may carry
us. what can we expect but to be strand
ed or shipwrecked? To an extent our
lives are mapped out for us by parents,
bv Providence. by various circum-
stances. but within limits we are all
conscious of freedom to choose and plan
for ourselves, and he is wisest who, ac-
cepting the limitations which he cannot
pass. makes the best use of his faculties
in improving to the utmost the oppor-
tunties of whatever sort he NAV call
his own, and sets about the work ac-
cording to. well-conceived and we'll
digested plan.-N. Y. Tribune.