The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-05-24
THE HAPPY OPTIMIST.
A Man to Whom Every Cloud Is sphered
I'm Purest silver.

A Man to Whom Every Cloud Is sphered
In Purest silver.
The optiElist is the jewel Of society.
He is not born; he is made. The OPP
timist is the pure metal that glistens
at the bottom OF the worlds crucible
after it has been freed from all dele
terious matter by the fire OF adversity.
He is, as it were, sheaf OF expert
ence clarified and tinctured till nothing
but the pure, fragrant altar remains
It is not impossible that he may have
been. in his younger days, so ill-con-
tanned as to rant himself hoarse as a
mosquito The father Of American OPP
timists, whose soul. in his latter years
was as calm and translucent as one OF
our mountain-girt lakes, was irascible
in his youth
When one has been beneath the trip
hammer of real affliction, has felt thei
hand OF calamity clutching st his
heart, the little everyday an
noyances seem to him like the
tickling OF straw welded
by liliputian, and the cries OF pain
and disappointment that winnow the
air, as the tinkling babble of toy lives.
Who shall say that the optimist has
not caught glimpss of the infinite?
Is it not very like, for is he not ever
tip-toeing on the skirt OF the limitlessp
The faith of the optimistis is as bound
less as space itself, even though you
grant it the much-haggled-over fourth
dimension, and by this faith he be-
comes almost prophet, for the knowl-
edge of what ought to be. and the faith
that it will be brought to pass. A
Delphic oracle, or a seer of Ercildoun
is not more intuitive than your perfect
optimist. He can catch the outlines OF
the ideal flower even while Nature vig-
orously wields the pruning knife of adj
versity, cutting back the young plant
and fitting it for better growth.
To the optimist every cloud not
only has silver lining, but ia sphered
in silver, with every drop of rain =
pearl. The mission OF the optimist is
to find good in every thing, and nobly
he fulfills it He is an oasis hid in the
great social desert, fountain OF peace
and content, undisturbed by the
typhoon of restlessness and dissatis-
faction that swerls ceaselessly about
him. His presence is as soothing as
the dow hum OF an aolian string fin
gered by the zephyr, and as healthful
as the wind which Egypt's natives
call the doctor is to the burr .ng
cheek and parched lip Of the fever
stricken African tradesman.
Where gets the optimist this peace
which pusseth all understandings 1t
comes from his conviction that around
the waist OF nature, cestus-lilSe, is
bound the saving and inexorable law.
ne Tnougnt IL was mean.
In a home on Commonwealth avenue, not
many evenings since, the father, unwontesi
to such duties, thought it incumbent upon
him at certain period during the evenings
exercises to take his youngest son upstairs
for a short outing, based upon the child's dis
obedience to its mother The echoes from
the interview penetrated to the parlor, and
while there was great sympathy for the at
aicted heir-apparent, laugh could not well
be restrained when in the midst of the boo
hoos," was heard the shrill, treble voice, SPA,
think it's real mean for you to spank me-
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workF- Boston Record.