Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-01-26
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY "NEMO'.


copyrighted by Dave & Tabor.l
Look to the bicycle and learn, thou
striving and painting one! The swifter
the progress, the greater the resistance;
the rider makes his own breeze, holding
him back in a measure but tanning his
brow meanwhile. Rejoice in the pressure
ahead, you who exert yourselves; 1t means
that you are moving, progressing. forcing
some real resistance to one side. Lie
down and rest In your tracks supinely,
and all resistance will vanish; no one
will find in you then cause for fear, and
therefore no one will oppose you.
Look again at the bicycle and be wise!
Descent is ever easier and swifter than
ascent Years may he given to character
building or to fortune hunting-a mo-
ment may undo it all. Never mind
though your progress be slow; let 1t be
upward and upward only. That Is the
way man ought to go IL he is to be true
to the history of his whole race, which
has had an ascent of toilsome length and
blood stained steps. To love the slothful,
backward ways to violence and vice, is to
be traitor to our record.
Seek no hurried distinction. Never
wiser words were uttered than those con-
corning the man who took humble seat
at feast and then was called higher. Be
doer OF great things rather than
blower OF personal trumpet. Be capa-
BILE first, be the servant Of all second, and
having done all, be content to have served
rather than to have demanded service.
Nh 1 a., fatIz x,~I t,tv
hearts is the one who lives broadly and
grandly and yet walks humbly. Bear in
mind that good work done out of sight
is none the less good work. 1t is, to some
of us, like the miser's gold, a thing to re-
joice over with supreme satisfaction,
where there is neither eye to see nor ear to
listen. BY all the standards of universal
righteousness, call up your doings to the
Judgment bar of your own heart, get there
the approval OF the One who dwelleth in
the highest and then the vanishing,
vapid question of doing your works
where men can see you, sinks into its
right proportions. The beautiful figure
head on the prov of a ship is fair to look
upon, and gets many word OF praise;
but far more important is the sweat be-
grimcd coal trimmer down in the stoke
hole. Shoveling coal and carrying ashes
are essential; to be seen OF men is a nom
essential BE stoker and a good one;
there is honor in it.
Everything is vocal OF our social obliga-
tions-there would be no cheap travel
were there not many who wanted to
travel-no gas in your house or oil in your
lamp were there not others to use it-no
ways of getting anywhere along we'll
built highways unless there were people
enough to demand and to make them.
Unless we seek some remote spot, far
from the madding crowd,' it is impos-
sible for us to live to ourselves alone.
All our neighbors are helpful to us
some OF them certainly without intend
ing to be; and we in turn are helpful to
them, cross and uncharitable though
some of us are. Every article we buy,
every product we sell, brings us in touch
with our fellows; keeps looms at work
shares in the whir OF the factory; holds
captain on the bridge OF his vessel, hast
ening from a distant cline. Just as a
shout is said to disturb the ether as far as
the remotest star, your little wants and
mine "move the world. While we live
our fellows from every zone serve US;
while we live our service and our thought
must be towards them.