Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-22

ing to the brighter rooms are all rusty
from want of use Got lots of work be.
fore you to set this thing to rights. You
must try again and fail and keep on try
ing, and fail and fail end fail and try
and try and try and fail and try and
try and fail long time. No other way
out of it. Sure cure in time, but long
time to make the sure cure. It's all q
part and parcel of this working out
your salvation. When you get prac-
tice enough to keep your mind fixed on
a certain subject-fOr say ten or fifteen
minutes why, then, it will stay fixed
of its own accord until you want to
change it. ---------
put my mind on the work again
and wheeled about half dozen steps.
Then my pet grievance got into the
barrow. forgot the wheeling. The
pet grievance thus worked my mind:
eff So-and-So hadn' t said this and that.
1 know was partly WRONG. But, by
George! l never went SO far as to say,
or TO think, or to do"
''You're off again" said the adviser;
you're not attending to that barrow. y y,
1buckled to the barrow. '.Gracious. ="
went my mind. Cant put this mind
of mine on one particular thing for ten
seconds? What a weak thing it is to be
forever slipping off the. work right in
hand" 81 = ..TsEUa{ -.
YOU'RE off in another rut.' said my
monitor. "Think of the work and not
of your mind 8 weakness. - -
!, Il. Twas thinking how much truth
there is in what you say" remarked.
The reply was: =" Don't think even OF
that! Think of nothing but the barrow.
Stick to the barrow. Work at the bar
row. Work out the salvation of the
hour and the minute on that barrow"
wheeled dozen steps more. Then
the pet fear came before me black as a
and my mind reverted
gloomily thus 5"It'll all go wrong.
Everything does. Just my luck. I've
put myself in this position. What can
l say? What - ham, u. So. D..
:. Barrow! Barrow!' called out the
adviser. b, fr...,.5. r,.. ..-..r-[
I" Hang the barrowr' thought. 81
want to think over my troubles in peace,
and without being disturbed. Besides,
what ridiculous idea to put ali ones
mind on such an insignificant thing rs a
wheelbarrow and neglect the great con-
Germs of life.'' 7. it,-
= Great fiddlesticks!" said the mont
tor. 'Let me tell you that the great
concerns of life are what you call the
little concerns. It's the little neglects
that make the great accidents, the peb-
BILE on the rail that may throw the
train Off the track, the arsenic left on
the provisions sheM that's mistaken for
baking-powder and poisons the family,
the ladder that you're too lazy to ADJUST
properly that tumbles and breaks your
leg, the mouthful of food that you
shovel into your mouth. as if it were
corn into hopper that gives You an
indigestion and makes you unfit for
business or pleasure, the tack you reck-
lessly throw on thesfioor runs into your
foot and gives you the. lock jaw, the t.
in, writing you neglect to cross and
carelessly make with . loop instead of
a straight line so that your word spells
lie instead of tie and gets you into an
awful ENHANCEMENT with your best
friend. So '-.-s-ss '.sa-'s
THAT S the reason you never could
learn to waltz. You put your mind or
tried to on half-a-dozen steps at once
instead of one at time. Pretty mess
you made of it--jumbled and tumbled
'em all up together You know your
danoiuor M sfo,. 40 x,a x,o,, m, -,
said he never could make you dance
lower down than: your waist--never
could get any dance in your legs, be-
cause you wouldn't or couldn't get your
brains into them" -
So my monitor went on scoIding
while /, again forgetting my barrow,
went Numbering off into a possible
trying interview with certain person
which will probably never transpire,
saying to myself: IT shall just 90, and
when | do see him I'm going in gen.
tie, mild form andF forgiving frame OF
mind. I'm going to fix up a mental state
in advance
Said the monitor: "You've no bust
ness fixing up mental states in advance.
You'v We no business to take any thought
just now what you'll say or do ten days
hence. Your business now is to wheel
that barrow. Put all your strength on
that and let the future take care. of
itself. DoshaSenopes consideration for
your poor arms ard legs. Put your
mind into them. ma not send it away a
hundred miles or more or distribute it
over forty objects, plans, whims, wants
and purposes FOR tomorrow. Let the
morrow and the future take care of
themselves and you take care of that
barrow" !ss<t
But couldn't. Ifailed. l couldn't
wheel that barrow more ttan ten steps
but thu sonqe miserable thought, within,
trouble sof anxiety would slip in and un-
seat what I call my: mind. 1 couldn't
''beat the game. Still l do retain
faith in its curative properties for the
blues if long enough persisted in
Prentice Multord, IN NY Graphic.
Told by Simon Cameron.