Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-12-22

tory, living to give $500, 600 for the found
ing of an institute that has already edu
Gated thousands of the poor sons and
daughters of America, and Bowditch, the
scientist, beginning his useful learning
and af1luent career by reading the books
that had been driven ashore from n ship
wreck at Salem. There is, young man, a
great financial or literary or moral or re-
ligious success awaiting you If you only
know how to go up and take It, Then
take it or get ready to tako It, The
mightier tho opposition the grander tho
triumph when you have conquered. There
is "A flower in Siberia that blooms only
In January, the sevcrest month of that
cold climate. 1t is II star shaped flower
and covered with glistcning spccks that
look like diamonds. A Russian took some
of the seeds of that flower to st. Peters
burg and planted them, and they grow
and on the coolest day of January they
pushed back the snow and leo and burst
into full bloom. They called 1t the "snow
flower" and it makes me think of those
whom the world tries to freeze out and
snow under, l;lt who in the strength of
God push through and up and out and
bloom I'm the hardest weather of the
worlds cold treatment, starred and ra
diant with beauty given only to those
who find life a struggle and turn it into a
victory
Anger liz Unhealthy.
Again, If you would master the situa
ton when angry do not utter n word or
write letter, but before you speak word
or writo word sing u verse of some
hymn in a tune arranged in minor key
and having no staccato passages. If very
angry, sing two verses. If in n positive
rage, sing three verses First of all, tho
unhcalthicst thing on earth is to get mad
1t jangles tho nerves, enlarges the spleen
and sets the heart into wild humping
Many man and many n woman has in
time of such mental and physical agitn-
ton dropped dead. Not only that, but it
makes enemies out of friends, and makes
enemies moro virulcnt, and anger is par
tial or consummate suicide Great attor-
ncys, understanding this, have often won
their cause by wilfully throwing the op.
posing counsel into u rage. There Is one
man you must manage or ono woman you
must control in order to please God and
make life success and that Is yourself
There are draw bridges to every castle by
which you may keep out of your nature
foreign foes, but no man has n defense
against himself unless it be divine de.
Tense. Out of the millions of the human
race there is only one person who can do
you permanent and everlasting harm, and
that is the being that walks under your
own hat and in your own shoes. The
hardest realm that you will ever have tC
govern Is the realm between your scalp
and heel. Tho most dangerous cargo
ship can carry is dynamite, and tho most
pcrilous thing In ones nature Is an cX.
plosvc temper. If your nature is hope.
lessly irasciblc and tcmpestuous, then
dramatizc placidity. II the ship is on fire
and you cannot cxtinguish the flames, ut
any rate keep down the matches, When ut
some injustice inflicted upon you or some
insult offered or some wrong done, the
best thing for you to say is to say nothing,
ard the best thing for you to write is to
write nothing. If the meanness done you
is unbcarahlo, or you must express your
self or die, then commend plan that
have once or twice successfully adopted.
Take n sheet of paper. Date it at your
home or office. Then put the wrongdoer'5
name at the head of the letter page, with
out any prefix of colonel" or suilix of
ID. d." and begin with no term of cour
tcsy, but a bold and abrupt "sir" Then
ltlluN IL WIFI ~ SldltIutll vi lUt WTOilE
he has done you and of the Indignation
you have felt. Put into it the strongest
terms of execration you can employ with
out being profane. Sign your name to
the redhut eIistle. Fold it. Envclop it.
Direct it pla My to the man who has done
you wrong Garry tho letter IL week Or
two weeks, if need be, and then destroy it,
In God 5 name, destroy it!
liIn ,,bnt Ahruhun, LINCOLN RI
one Of his cabinet officers That cabin t
officer had been Delied and misreprescnted
until in IA fury he wrote letter OF arraign-
mcnt to his enemy and in tcrsest possible
phrasoology told him what he thought Of
him The cabinet officer read it to Mr..
Lincoln and asked him how he liked it.
Mr., Lincoln replied: lit is splendid for
sarcasm and scorn. never heard any.
thing more complete in that direction.
BIT do you think you can afford to send
it," That calm and wise and Christian
interrogation o, the president stopped tho
letter, and it was never sent. Young man,
before you get far on in life, unless you
are To be an exception among men, you
will be wrorg,G, you will be misintcrprct-
ed, you will be outraged. All your sense
of justice will bo in conflagration. Let
Tense and / will tell you whether your lifo
is to be IA triumph or a failure. You sea,
equipoiss at such II time means so many
things 1t means self control. 1t means
a capacity to forcsce results. 1t means u
confidence in your own integrity Itmeans
faith in the Lord God that he will SEQ
you through
Don't BE Suspicious.
A.
situation put tho best Interpretation on
the character and behavior of others. DO
not be looking for hypocrites in churches,
or thieving among domestic servants, or
swindlers among bl mess men, or nal.
feasancc in Office, There is much in lfa
to make men suspicious of others and
when that characteristic of suspicion be
comes dominant n man has secured his
own unhappiness, and he has become an
otfense in all circles, religious, CONNER.
cial and political. The man who moves
for coiEmittoc of Investigation is gener-
ally moral dorelict. The man who goes
with his nostrils inflated, trying to discov-
or something malodorous, is not o man,
but sleuthhound The world is full Of
nice people, generous people, people who
are doing their bcst-good husbands, good
wives, good fathers, good mothers, good
officers of the law, good judges, good gov
ernors, good state and national legisla-
tors, good rulers. Does some man growl
out, THAT has not been my experience
and think just the oppositeY" Well, my
brother, am sorry for your affective cir
oumstances, and that you had an unfor.
tunate ancestry, and that you have kept
snch bad company and had such discourag,
pnyirDpnpnt | nntirp TINT nftar n
man has been making violent TRADE
nunipst his falloxy ba &c 10 ~