New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-05-25
FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
MISCELLANY FOR
BRIGHT YOUNG FOLKS.
An UNLIMITED Guest--Aspiration
Versus Contents Showing Ones
Gratitude--"W what Next?"--
A Nation OF Athletes
Too Little.
An UNLIMITED Guest.


with an opening instead OF door,
and not far off from an Indian jungle,
is not exactly an alluring bed
chamber. It was just in such place,
however, that a brave boy awolSe
suddenly one moonlight night, his
companion, an experienced hunter,
being fast asleep quite near him. For
beds, each had a blanket spread On
the ground, and the boy had drawn
his up over his feet as far as the
knees.
He wondered what made him wake
up so suddenly, and as he looked
around in the moonlight a fold of the
blanket near his feet had a curiously
heavy feeling, and there was a queer
smell around like that of raw pota-
toes. The boy gazed at the blanket
with an apprehensive loathing, and
was scarcely surprised when the fold
began to move. and one OF the most
venomous OF Indian serpents, a cobra
de-capello, slowly reared itself up aft
er the fashion of it's species. 1t had
been startled by some involuntary
movement Of the boy, and the latter
knew now that If he stirred Or made
any noise his life would be the forfeit.
Cobras do not like to be disturbed, as
they prefer to do all that themselves.
So, not daring even to call his COM
panion, our hero lay thinking with
lightning-l like speed over all the things
he had ever heard about managing
dangerous serpents. Nothing feasible
occurred to him, except that his re
voIver was in his pocket, and fortu-
nately, on the side that he was not
lying on. Could he not cautiously
draw it out and send bullet through
that horrid head, which was adorned
In front with apair ofspectacles? No,
answered cOmmonsense, you can't.
Look at that sWaying movement on
the first guarded attempt, and what
ever you do, do not stir.
It was not apleasant predicament,
and there seemed to be no way out OF
it. If there were only snake-charmer
at hand to lure the ugly reptile out Of
the hut! An idea at last. He'd try
the charming himself, as the creatures
liked poor music, and forthwith he
began a low humming. It was a
brave attempt, and the boys voice
faltered at first, for his dangerous
tyrant was moving it's head back and
forth and from side to side in appar-
ent disapproval. But presently he
saw that the creature was keeping
time to his humming and this encour-
aged him to sing louder.
The cobra rose higher, until it AL
most seemed to stand on end,. and
moved off the blanket. 1t craWled
slowly away to the opening, and
then performed a series of gymnastics
to show his delight in the music, the
boy keeping steadily on without tax
ing his eyes from the serpant. But
all the time he was grasping the butt
OF his revolver, and drawing it slowly
forth. His snakeship, however, was
getting so near the doorway in his
delighted antics that he might roll
himself outsideand disappear without
the necessity Of shooting him, when
back again came the tormenting
creature, and took up his first
position on the blanket.
Evidently he could not leave so
charming a musician, but the weary
performer had had quite enough OF
him, and aiming directly at the
reared head, he sent three bullets as
near it as possible. The convulsive
movements of the twisting and I'M
twisting snake took it quite through
the opening which it had declined to
pass before, and there it lay as mo-
tlonless as a stone.
Meanwhile the reports had awaken
ed the sleeping hunter who wished to
know what his young companion was
making all that racket for. But
when he was escorted to the ugly
looking mass of snake outside in the
moonlight, he was filled with admir-
alton Of the boys GOODNESS and
courage, while he shuddered at his
narrow escape. The creature was
now, however, as it's conqueror said,
considered strictly as cobra-di-
capello of no further account"
Aspiration Versus Content.
The boundary line between legiti-
mate aspiration and reasonable
content is sometimes hard to find.
Contentment may be construed by
some as lack of enterprise, and so
more or less ignoble, while aspiration
may and often does become mere
restlessness and discomfort. That
all depends on what we aspire to and
what we are content with. The one
who wants to be a little better, a
little wiser, a little richer than he is,
whose aspiration takes the form OF
gradual growth by Titles, will proba-
bly, realize his desires. And if he re-
fuses to fight the inevitable and i'm
mutable limitations that are set
about him, even while constantly
bettering his condition, he may yet be
content and happy.
Great estates are built up by slow
and gradual accretion running
through the years. Content with