Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-11-29

BY KATE THORN.
New York Waaklv

New York Weekly.
Tomorrow shall be as this day and
much more abundant
If we remember rightly. man was an
GENTLY persuaded or recommended not to
believe anything of this kind: but if he
did not what incentive would he have to
keep on trying to better his condition? If
he did not hope for something little more
abundant in the future, he would have
no inducement to hammer away at his
hfe-work, expecting by and by that he
should eat the fruit of his laborS.
1t is doubtless fact that very few of us
rea lie half the joys we expect to realize.
but there is good deal of delight in an
t1clpaGlon, and we might as well enjoy
what we can
But it. is also a fact that in the very hap
pest lives there are trials and troubles
innumerable, and good people who are
supposed to be thoroughly posted on that
topic, tell us that they are for our good,
and that whatever is, is best But we have
| noticed that these same worthy souls do
not seem to relish the cholera morbus and
the liver complaint any more than we
wicked and sinful mortals do, and if they
are sick they send in AS great haste for
physician as anybody else does
When man gets INTO a state of mind
where he can accept all the trials that
come to him as a part of the result of liv-
ing here IN this imperfect state, and be
satisfied with what comes, he has attained
a place, more to be envied than the condi-
ton of the king on his throne.
Where is he who can look with COM
placency upon poverty and sickness and
lost hOnOr-unless some other man be the
subject of their ministrations? Where is
he who can take boils with patience, and
collie with gratitude to God? Who wants
corns on his toes, in the firm belief that
they will conduce to his eternal good?
Will scOlding wife make a mans soul
any winter? viii drunken husbands
abuse refine the sensibilities of long suf-
fering wife?
Oh, we only propose these conundrums
for the benefit of those who profess to know
about such things; we do not pretend to
answer them. We are not quite far
enough advanced for that
Trials come in various guises. What is
Il trial for one person may be delight for
another. The man with ten tons of hay
in the field, ready to get into tie barn,
finds the shower which saves his neighbor's
wilted cabbage plants from destruction
about the worst thing which could have
occurred.
The poor man with nine children to
support. on eight dollars a week, does not
regard twins as especial blessings; while
next door neighbor, who has never been
favored that way, and is putting off dying
for fear some relative whom he detests will
inherit his wealth, would welcome the
twins as perfect god-send
Everyday trials are legion, and if the
Fates sat up nights and prepared them,
and studied to invent novelties in the way
of trials, they could not come any thicker
and faster
Colds in the head, buttons off, trains
missed, hjrse-cars blocked, broken banks,
banana peals on the sidewalk, big hats in
the lectTe-room, dyspepsia, wives rela-
tions, spawned horses, neighbors' hens,
begging sermons, strong butter tax col
lectOrs, friends who want to borrow five
dollars for a day or two, weather fends
who ask you if it is hot enough for you,
women with missions. stray cats cold
beans for dinner, frost in September, wet
feet, head ache impure water, hired girls
teeth, false hair. slippery sidewalks
there the list might be spun out indefinite
ly and Unfortunately, so we pause. and
leave the rest to the imagination of the
reader