The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-29
BITS OF PHILOSOPHY.
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TRANQUILITY.


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 TRANQUILITY.
 Probably nothing tires one so much as feeling hurried. When. in the early morning, the days affairs press on ones attention beforehand, and there comes the wonder how in the world everything is to be accomplished-when every inter- ruption is received impatiently and the clock is watched ia distress as its mo- ments fit past-then the mind tires the body. We are wrong to drive ourselves with whip and spur in this way. Each of us is promised strength for the day, and we must not wear ourselves out. If only we can keep cool and calm we shall be less wearied when we have reached the eventide. The children may be fractious, the servants trying. the friend we love may fail to visit us, the letter we expect may not arrive; but if we can preserve our tranquility of soul and demeanor we shall get through everything creditably.
 OUR INFIRMITIEs.
 It is often easier to bear with the in. hrmities of strangers than with those of friends and kindred. Too often the snarpest words which we utter-thoses which sting the most keenly and cause the most bitter repentance-are addressed to those whom we love best. The sad fact ought to be appreciated, however, so that every one of us may be on his guard. In nothing is the spirit of Christ seen more plainly than in the little acts and the unstudied words of home life. and no other victory over self is greater than when we bring ourselves to neither speak nor make retort to the unkind words which so often spring to the lip in the home circle.
 SILENT SUFFERING.
 Silent suffering is thing often un- known to the world; for there is much pain that is quite noiseless and vibrations that make human agonies are often mere whispers in the roar of hurrying exist ence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; rob- berries that leave man and woman tor ever beggared of peace and joy, but that are kept secret by the sufferer commit ted to no sounds, except of low moans in the night-seen in no writing except that made in the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred life has been breathed into no human ear.
 LlFE'S DISCIPLINE.
 It is not the best things-that is, the things we call best-that make men. It is not pleasant things; it is not the calm experience of life. It is ife's rugged ex- periences, its tempests, its trials. The discipline ot life is here good and there evil, here trouble and there joy, here roughness and there smoothness, one working with the other :; and the aitera- tons of the one and the other which ne- eessitate adaptations constitute part of that education which makes man man in distinction from an animal, which has no education. The successful man in. variably bears on his brow the marks of the struggles which he had to undergo. PRIDE.
 Pride is base from the necessary fool ishness of it, because 1t cannot but imply that our eyes look downward only: for there is not the man so lofty in his stand ing or capacity, but he must be hum- ble in thinking of the cloud habitation and far sight of the angelic inselligences above him, and in percciving what infin- fly there is of things he cannot know nor even reach unto. N
 HOME. E Most Americans do not have homes :, they have merely places to stay, where the father can read his newspaper, the mother ply the sewing machine, and the children make molasses candy, or have annual birthday parties. But the idea of a heart centre where love is cherished, thoughts sIe fostered, and morals ex- banded, is apparently unheard of in their philosophy. Materhmilias goes to church on Sunday with an idea that she is leaving the holiest temple behind her, of which she is high priestess, and if you should dissect her brain you would find that in the corner devoted to "necessi- ties the strata of clothes, cooks, sew ing girls and roast turkey fill up all but the smallest crevice conscientiously set aside for religious belief and church mem-