Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-23
CHORDS AND pIsooRDs.
The Little Things Create Annoyance In
Everyday Life.

The Little Things Create Annoyance In
Everyday Life.
It is related that n certain eastern
king was so disturbed by any nisfor'
tune which came to him that he was
powerless to look beyond it to any pos
sible pleasure or good fortune fate
might still be guarding for him. Pres
ent aflliction seemed the only reality
and nothing i'm life powerful enough
TO overcome it. On one occasion a ring
was to be engraved for him and those
who loved him and deplorcd his pessi-
mistic moods sought an inscription that
should embody the greatest wisdom and
consolation in the fewest words--sorne-
thing that coming at once to the mind
in hours of depression and despair
should ward off the twin demons of
fear and melancholy sort of tails
man to protect him from his own way
ward fancies. Many beautiful senti-
ments were submitted, but nothing
which contained such message of JOY
as that which his daughter caused to be
inscribed in the ring: ''rhis, Too, Shall
Pass" was the translation of the tiny
cabalistic characters.
1t wouldn't be n bad idea to have this
motto writ large and hung in a conspic-
uous place i'm the homes of many of the
moderns, for the poor Persian king has
many followers-even among Ameri-
cans. Most of us don't have to plunge
very deeply into retrospect to recall
something that presagcd most dismal
results-that we worried over by night
and struggled over by day, and then
when our strength was well nigh eX-
hausted some Unforeseen circumstance
turned the scale and everything came
out right, and better far than we could
have planned it.
Don't waste any energy on imaginary
battles. Life brings actual warfare
enough, and ever so vigorous a target
practice with visionary foes won't help
you any in real contests. The ills you
arm yourself to meet with such show
of bravery very likely never come your
way at all. 1t is oftener the unexpected
that happens. True, there is an occa-
sional man who goes about uncon-
sciously seeking failure. He reads it
between the lines of his morning paper
He sees it in the tiniest purchase for
the home-but he never dreams he is
wooing it with his opportunities.
Our motto is not for such men. 1t is
for those to whom there comes times
when in spite of every effort the walls
seem closing in around them. But
somehow they usually manage to pull
through, Or if they fail the experience
proves a stepping stone to something
higher.
Is it not almost better to go through
the breakers in 4 FOOLS paradise of care
lessness than by constantly anticipat-
ing bad luck make yourself a magnet
to attract it?
The motto. however, should not be
held sacred to matters of great inn
portance. The unimportant affairs of
life often create untold annoyance.
Very insignificant trifes cause many
dey of sorrowful depression. If we
could only hold 10 that thought: "This,
too, shall passive know il does pass.
The little grievances go by and are rs
if they had never been. We forget
them; but new ones come, and they
will go like the others.
Every cloud has a silver lining" is no
mere figure of speech or poetic fancy;
it is literal truth in life as well as in
nature. No matter how black the
clouds. how impenetrablc the gloom;
behind them the sun is shining, and
sometime it will burst through in a
grand blaze of glory. Whether you are
foolishly grieving over some petty an
noyancc or staggering under the weight
of ineNpressible suffering, tell you as
tell my own heart, Divine Love is over
too, shall pass.-Mnte Palmer
in Banner OF Gold.