Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-11-26
Some Rambling Thoughts.
'By MEMO.

yet caused wings to bud, but the
wish has been father to numberless
thoughts about free movement over
the face of the earth, and thus asses,
camels, horses, and so forth have
been broken to cur USE and used I'M
til too slow for our fastening spirits.
From them we have passed TO steam,
TO electricity, to compressed air, and
TO other forms of propulsion. Even
the flying machine is rapidly nearing
a commercial possibility Better
than the birds who fly, yet needs
must rest, our servants carry us, so
that we skim the earth through
proxy effort and eat or sleep or trans
act business while being fitted from
place TO place by tireless machinery.
But do not write this in order 60
minister to human pride; on the con-
trary, it is TO point a moral for those
whose hearts sometimes feel like
bursting at being shut away in a nar-
row place. | know just how you feel;
eager to do great things, sure that you
could do them If you had chance,
and yet prevented by conditions that
s1thA NtQCl III bitGllSCistSs tlid nOit
cruel when you see how they are
hindering you. Have patienca-at
least for five minutes-and let us
draw little inspiration from poor
wingless man, who being without
powers of flight and yet DESTROYS Of
such powers-learning for the boon
does not grant him his wish, sets his
brain to work. Its results we know.
Like the traveller who scales a cliff
by turning this Way and that, the
absence of wings is "A limitation that
has been set aside.
Apply this method TO yourself, pin
ing and eager one. Mere longing for
different circumstances will never
bring them. Opportunities are not
forced by pulling wish-bones, nor do
chances come by Gliding fate. Since
YOU cannot be in two places at once,
your place for the present is precisely
the place you are in, and il viewed
Alright you will be 10th TO change 1t
until you have done your all With 1t.
The most seldom spot in the world
for you, is the spot you stand on; for
1t is your testing place-not some one
elses, but yours it is your opportun-
ity TO show what a man with limita-
tions can do and can dare. Trans
ported suddenly from where you are
doing less than your all--for that
must be true II you are grumbling
and Tuning to new circumstances
that seem ideal, you will still find
reasons for discomfort. But ii where
you are, you made wholesome blend
ing Of content and discomfort, con
tent that you know your limitations
and disconnected to the extent OF fit
ting yourself for wider scope, the
time OF fuller, more satisfactory life
is practically certain to come. The
waiting may be long, but even II long
or the chance for ever deferred, you
will have done well.
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Oyerworked one, pressed with anx-
ieties and harassed by those who
ought TO, but do not seem To cooper
ate with you, calm yourself. You
are like tangled kite, tearing your
self to pieces in thicket, instead OF
the eagle you should be, soaring far
above You know full well that the
work you are doing needs to be done;
that 1t is laid upon you to do it; and
ia your heart you try to feel that the
man and the task will surely fit. Be
lieve this with your whole. heart and
little annoyances will assume their
proper size. In your calm moments
you are thrilled by the things you in
tend to accomplish during life; multi
ply your calm moments by sheer exer-
else of will and your belief in your
own purposes will carry you far above
petty Interruptions. You are in
battle, fight it through. Would you
in such place pay any heed TO net
ties? When the smoke has rolled
away and the dust of conflict settled
you shall stand triumphant beneath
the silent stars. All of life is not
the present harassed moment; there
remaineth an eventide for the solace
of those who toll and triumph. At
twenty-five, James Watt, who has
transformed the world with steam,
begged for the henignity Of death, so
troubled was he, yet he came to be the
sweetest, sunniest old man you could
wish to meet.
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Questioning one, do you complain
because God is a mystery? Would
you have Him as visible as tree and
as tanoihla as rock2 Then He