The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-10
EDITORS CHAT.

Cherish the Little Moments, for Many Mo-
ments Make Long Eternity.
If voung neopls only knew that it is in making
the most of the moments that life is well made up,
they would not fritter so much time away. They
have a vain belief that one must have unlimited
and unemployed time in order TO become well IN
formed and well educated, and so waste the oppor-
tunities that are SO many.
Burns the plowboy, found time for BOOKS,
though engaged in arduous and uncongeniai toll.
In our own country his experience is duplicated by
such host of successful men that 1t Is needless 10
enumersie.
Cherish the moments they run. Cultivate
habits of thought and contemplation. Read little
and think much.
Better an hour day of careful, attentive reading
than whole week of idle skmmng. In reading
go over and over the page, or paragraph, before
Won until you have made the writer's Thoughts
your very own.
Ii is not enough that you can recall the exact
words before your minds eye; you must nave
found the meaning in your soul.
Our boys and girls are. ought to be, amoitlons
to excel; 10 ii themselves for the best places This
can only be done by concentration of purpose and
application in whatever is undertaken. Appiea-
ton of the rules of composition will lead to correes
forms OF speech. Be CAREFUL. then, how yOn adhere
10 or initiate rude and vulgar forms oil speech
Good strong common sense language marks the
well-educaied man or woman.
4 prominent educator estimates that a half-hoHr
each day steadily given TO the comprehension
mark the word-of real books in history, science,
literature is three hours week, more than IL hours
amonth, and more than u solid days, of "A hours
each. year.
Just think of t. and try and estimate how many
half-hours yon are spending in more than idleness
that might protabIy be given to the cultivation OF
your mind for noble purposes.
NEWSPAPER GOSSIP.
IN your reading avoid the sensational as much as
possible Accounts of murders and suicides and
besraysls and wrong doing of every sort which
one finds in the average newspaper is nothing
more nor less than common gossip-gossip by the
wholesale, transferred from the streets TO the
printed page.
Beware oft 1t is unwholesome. It crowds ont
high and holy thoughts. 1t breeds taste for SEN
saiiOnal reading of the worst stripe.
Keep your mind pure and clean and receptive.
Be ehary of the thoughts you take in, and when
you once get them hold on TO them. They will
grow aud strengthen until your heart and life is
full of beautiful things
PRETTY PICTURE.
One Of these bright Midsummer days a very
pretty picture found IFS way the Editors desk.
His picture of one of earliest and s;auchest
C. C. friends, Annie l. Williams, who is seated be-
fore table placed in the picturesque park form
ing portion Of the grounds OF Annie LIS. home at
Saugus. Mass
Annie l. is writing letter. The table is strewed
with C. C. souvenirs; small American flag is
fastened Ia her organdy gown and at her throat is
the c. c. badge. while large American flag is
fastened to the back OF her chair. At her feet
the newspapers Of Boston and Saugus. with THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE whose title be read, in a
conspicuous plHce.
To her left are trunks Of the grand old forest
trees that sing 10 her grand anthems of American
Progress and Patriotism while she writes. On the
trunk Of one hangs THE NATIogAL TRIBUNE CAL
endar with its army corps embems and GAR.
and W. re. badges.
80 In such a beautiful nook who could not think
high thoughts and live noble lives" somebody
seems 20 he saying
And yet you could not aud you. and you. unless
quiet contemplation which makes such surround
ings inviting. There people. and plenty of
them. who would feel like running away from
themselves if left alone in such a spot.
Cherish the moments, always remembering that
everyone makes bis own atmosphere. Remember
that while circumstances may check they cannot
wholly change The development Of the human
soul.
- Just The twig is bent the tree IS inclined"
fers TO ihe shaping Of character only. You may
make apple tree like vine. but it is a
appietree Still. Keep cultivating your tree, and
IL will bear good fruit though diverted from its
inward trend.