Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-12-19

cabbages in the street. and M lrtin
Luther singing on the public square for
any pennies that he might pick up and
John Bunyan mending kettles. and the
late Judge Lradley Of the United States
supreme court. who was the son of a
charcoal burner, and Turner, the paint
er, W he WAS the son of a bar Der, and
Lord Give, who saved India to Eng
land, shipped by his father to Madras
as a useless boy whom he wanted to get
rid of, and Prideaux, the world re-
nownsd scholar and theologian, scour-
ing pots and pans to work his way
through college, and the mother of the
late William e. Dodge. the pEilanthro
pist and magnificent man, keeping a
thread and needle store, and Peter
Cooper, who worked on small wages in
glue factory. living to give $500, 900
for the founding of an institute that
has already educated thousands of the
poor sons and daughters of America,
and Bowditch, the scientist, beginning
his useful learning and affluent career
by reading the books that had been
driven ashore from shipwreck at Sa-
lem. There is, young man, great
financial or literary or moral or reli-
gious success awaiting you if you only
know how to go up and take it. Then
take it or get ready to take it. The
mightier the opposition the grander the
triumph when you have conquered.
There is flower in Siberia that blooms
only in January, the severest month of
that cold climate. 1t is star shaped
flower and covered with glistening
specks that look like diamonds. A Rus
sian took some of the seeds of that
flower to st. Petersburg and planted
them, and they grew. and on the coolest
day of January they pushed back the
snow and ice and burst into full bloom.
They called it the "snow flower" and
it makes ME think of these whom the
world tries to freeze out and snow un-
der. but who, in the strength of God
push through and up and out and bloom
in the hardest weather Of the worlds
cold treatment, starred and radiant with
a beauty given only to those who find
life struggle and turn it into vic
tory.
Again, if you would master the stu
alton, when angry do not utter word
or write a letter, but before you speak
a word or write a word sing a verse of
some hymn in tune arranged in minor
key and having no staccato passages.
If very angry, sing two verses. If in a
positive rage, sing three verses. First
of all, the unhealthiest thing on earth
is to get mad. 1t jangles the nerves, en-
Iarges the spleen and sets the heart into
a wild humping. Many man and
many woman has in time of such
mental and physical agitation dropped
dead. Not only that, but it makes enc
mics out of friends, and makes enemies
more virulent, and anger is partial or
consummate suicide. Great attorneys,
understanding this, have often won
their cause by willfully throwing the
opposing counsel into a rage. There is
ona man you must manage or one wom-
an you must control in order to please
God and make life success, and that |
is yourself There are drawbridges to !
every castle by which you may keep out |
of your nature foreign foes but no man
has defense against himself unless it |
be divine defense. 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 Conquest of Self.
The hardest realm that you will ever
have to govern is the realm between |
your scalp and heel. The most danger
Gus cargo ship can carry is dynamite,
and the most perilous thing in ones ma
ture is an explosive temper. If your ma
ture is hopelessly irasci bic and tempestu-
Gus, then dramatize placidity. If the /
ship is on fire and you cannot extin-
guish the flames, at any rate keep down |
the Matches When at some injustice
inflicted upon you or some insult offer
ed or some wrong done, the best thing |
for you to say is to say nothing, and the
best thing for you to write is to write
nothing. If the meanness done you is !
unbearable or you must express yourself |
or die, then I commend plan that I |
have once or twice successfully adopted
Take sheet of paper. Date it at your
home or Office. Then put the wrong |
doer's name at the head of the letter
page, without any prefix of Colonel"
or suffix of Cd. D., and begin with no
term of courtesy, but bold and abrupt
"Sir." Then follow it with statement
of the wrong he has done you and of |
the lnO1SnatlOn you nave Ielt. Tut into
it the strongest terms of execration you
can employ without being profane Sign
your name to the red hot epistle. Fold
it. Envelop it. Direct it plainly to the
man who has done you wrong. Garry
the letter week, or two weeks if need
be, and then destroy it, In Gods name
destroy it. I like what Abraham Lin
coin said to one of his cabinet officers.
That cabinet officer had been beIied and
misrepresented until in a fury he wrote
letter Of arrangement to his enemy,
and in tersest possible phraseology told