Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-05-25
The Cheerfulness of old Ar.


voI, lou cont feel the horizon pressing
you too closely. You have spacein which
~ sletch yourself. A litfls will do. if
your mind be healthy. Nor is the look
Iu1' IN TACT, SO much shorter All YOU
nave mad OF life is so much saved ont Of
the IRE. You never could count Ger.
fanny on day ahead at any time. how
over early IN your life. And you are in
no worse condition now. The possible
time before you is much less, doubtless
bnt you hope for the best You look
Tor the best. There is better, doubtless
but you know what l mean. The con.
sent OF wise and good folks. free from
morbid and transient moods. has con.
cluded that long life is a BLESSING 7.
cannot be the greatest. or il Womb NOT
be denied to so many. 1t NAV he n
Kindly permitted illusion that it is
messing at all; but it is well the illusion
Is permitted, if it be one. And as for
tIe averages, We disregard all such
calculations IN our own case. You fancy
Yourself TO lie such all exceptional being
,nat You look (most look for exceptional
length Of life, too l have remarked
tiils decidedly in men who in fact are
WISER than men in general. Besides
that, the short lookout contents that
we can enjoy the golden and brown
autumn leaves without intruding thoughts
OF The bleak, wet winter boughs. be-
SIDES the fact, too that transience some
umes adj singular enjoyment ms well
as O heauty which is all its own the
htAt.ly muld lives in q pervading atnos-
picfv ralear than a defined conviction
slat "a ehI is not SO near after All.
Intellectually calculates ona long time
VIZ. LITTLE while since talking with
ot4 .r'eud who has been lifted high. my
IieLG Brown sali something Implying
tii"t tLey both must soon bid 1.-The be.
l3Fcd work and the beautiful surround |
ih3s farewell. " Not at all" said the |
energetic and heathful pillar of the |
4tAie, lock forward please God for |
another twenty years. And Brown was |
corrected. For even after the twenty /
years he pillar Of the state would only |
be scyenty-four and wherefore count on |
i.il alrid Sulent Of honor and usefulness 2 /
BOW. was months the younger; but
by b. ing 09erworked and worried he had |
got ntp lie way az nlistiIy Thinking
t.4@t ahuut tlrce or four years would see
the lat cf HIM And. indeed. thcrs are
those Who early in September feel as
though the winter were upon them
and "lo at tlirty-three talked of them
e.yes ~ Old. But this is wrong as well
rs depressing. Some cannot help it.
John Foster was a great man; but his
a!s OF thinking on most matters were
e s'ntlally morbid. Never more so than
~ the grevious fashion in which he an
tic'patedneedlessly soon the winter which
hn specially dreaded q have seen
fearful sight today" he once said: II
lay" seen buttercup." He could not
ENJOY the present greenness and warmth
fni intrusive fears of the coming cold
and drsolation. He was wrong. far
wrong. You don't blame him, YOU pity
j M. Bat body and mind lie never
Knew hriik health. There are great
many thoughts which II is quite fit that
We tes".Wely put away. A mischievous
n"fttl, desiring to oYorcloud the blink
OF sunshine in which Others are reioic-
ing, docs not need to tell them ANYTHING
tnat = not true. You remember Mr.,
Croaker and his frequent sentiment.
+" Heaven send we all he as well this day
sly months Then n shadow would
fall on the faces Of midde-aged folks:
us when q moddlng idiot asks them
what they are to make If their bows.
Those things are thought Of quite often
enough, be sure, without the idiots in
opportnne interference. -Frazer's 3foq-
0s1ic.