Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-11-08
SOME OF ure,s CROSSES.
To q Certain Extent Every Mortal Il
Somsthiag of Miesw bcr.
pilisf Tnruxf Chflhinlnaf

To q Certain Extsnt Every Mortal Ia
Something of Micswbcr.
Pillsi Cornsi Chilbiainsi
Widows who want beaux. Young
men who insist on courting girls who
want some other young men.
Toothache. soggy bread. tough beef
steak. poor relations. muddy streets,
smoking chimneys, bursted water-pipes,
plumbers, lightning-rod men, gentle
men who want to make contracts for
sewing machines. organ-grinders
Rich old aunts, who never die until
they are ninety. and then will their
money 10 n lunatic asylum, so that you
never can receive any benefit from your
I lifelong expectations, unless you turn
4 yourself into maniac and get boarded
at the institution aforesaid.
Life's crosses take great many
forms. They march along day by day.
Just as fast as you can bear them: and
you may fight them and rail at them
and swear at them. IL you like. but you
can not get rid OF them.
All the money In the world will not
save you from the troubles which living
entails. II you are born into this state
Of existence, and you can not very well
help IL, II 1t be so decrced, you must
suffer lbs inconvenience.
You must deal with flies and mos
quitoes, and March winds, and house
; cleaning. and fires that won't burn, ant
. she pump frozen up; and you wife's -
, told you SO" and your husbands That
i Just like q woman"
Q You must meet and conquer. or die ii
J the attempt difficulties innumerable-
a the contribution everv Sunday for tn,
4 heather In Asia, and the same thin
: two or three times week for tn
a heather at sore other point OF tho an
! tipodes.
a And II you are an honest man. yo
4 will save up your dimes with holes l
J them for such interesting occasions
:, For IL Is well known that the contr
= bution-box never refuses any thin
!. offered.
You will have 10 bear with your neigl
|. boris hens in your fower-garden; wit
dogs that bark in the next yard to kec
away burglars; with the musical effor
of itinerary tom-cats; with childre
which come a-visiting; with people WI
. know your business best; with lon
- ), winded sermons; Without why or
= We have all been there. and we kno
:. how lis. We know that very little OF u
p machinery OF this world runs 10 suit OF
:, own taste. IL rains when we want
- have picnic; 1t shines when we ha'
!. set out our tomatoes and cabbage plant
A. 1t thaws and spoils the sleighing VIII,
= that gentecl Mr.. Jones has invited US
q ride; IL freezes when the hre goes o
o in the furnace. and all our plants a
~ ruined; and IL rains. pouring the tir
1n time we wear our new summer silk, al
u that silk is reduced to the condition
~ q mere dish-rag.
- Somebody else draws the prize In 4
fair, where we have a ticket-somebo
else gets the ''beautiful moss-rose te
set, valued at fifty dollars, which
given away to purchasers OF ''our sur
Y. rior teas aud coffees:" and the stocks
81 purchase in that wonderful silver-mi
~ no 20 down &c nothing q week after we &
on the certificates.
e We have aches and pains n
y, ''ologies," and ''monies," and disorgal
- Eation generally, and we get out
o1 patience, and We wish we never b
been born. but we can't help 1t; al
e after all, the most afflicted and
- heaviest cross-bearing man in
or, u,orIa hod r.tha- hear q, n li,tla lonu
'u. In the hope that something better m
lls turn up. We are all Micaw wbers!-h.
- Ledger.