Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-12-29


for any pennies that he might pick up,
and John Ruuyan mendiug kettles, and
tie Late Judge Bradley, of the United
States supreme court, who was the son
Of q charcoal burner, and Turner. the
painter, who was the son of barber,
and Lord Give. who saved India to
England, shipped by his father to
Madras as useless boy whom he want
ed to get rid of, and Prideaux, the
world-renowned scholar and theolo-
gian. securing pots and pans to work his
way through college, and the mother of
the late William E. Dodge, the philan-
thropist 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 affiuent career
by reading the books that had been
driven ashore from shipwreck 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 take il. 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, II lis star-shaped
Hover and covered with gliStening
specks like diamonds. A Russian took
some of the seeds of that flower to st.
Petersburg and planted them, and they
grew, and on the coolest day of Janu-
airy they pushed back the snow and ice
and burst into full bloom. They called
it the 'snow flower" and it makes me
think of those whom the world tries
to freeze out and snow under, but who
in the strength of God push through
and up and out and bloom in the hard
est weather of the worlds cold treat
ment, starred and radiant with beau
ty given only TO those who find life n
struggle and turn it into victory,
Again, if you would master the sit
nation, when angry do not utter u
word or write letter, but before you
speak word or write word sing
verse of some hymn in tune arranged
in minor key and having no staccato
passages. If very angry, sing two
verses. lf in a positive rage, sing three
verses. First of all, the unhealthiest
thing on earth is to get mad. 1t Jangles
the nerves, enlarges the spleen AMI
sets the heart into wild humping.
Many a man and many woman has
in time of such mental and physical
agitation dropped dead. Not only that
but it makes enemies out of friends,
and makes enemies more virulent, and
anger is partial or consummate SUI
eide. Great attorneys. understanding
This, have often won their cause by
willfully throwing the opposing coun-
sci into a rage. There is one man you
must manage or one woman you must
control in order to please God and
make life success, and that is your
self. 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 mil
lions of the human race there is only
one person who can do you permanent
and everla sting 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 to gov
ern is the realm between your scalp
and heel. The most dangerous cargo
n ship can carry is dynamit and tie
most perlous thing in ones nature is
an explosive temper. IF your nature
is hopeleslsly irascible and tempestu-
GUS, then dramatic 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 Of
fered, or some wrong done, the best
thing for you to say is to sly moth
ing. and the best thing for you o write
is to write nothing. If the meanness
done you is unbearable or you must eX-
press yourself or die, then commend
a plan that ! have once or twice sue
cessfully adopted. Take sheet OF
paper. Date it at your home or Office.
then put the wrongdoer'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 cour-
tesy but a bold and abrupt "sir."
Then follow IT with a statement OF
the wrong he has done you and of the
indignation you have felt, Put it into
the strongest terms of eEueeration you
can employ without being profane.
Sign your name to the red-hot epistlc.
Fold II. Envelope 1t. Direct IL plainly
to the man who has done you wrong
Garry the letter week or two weeks,
If need be. and then destroy IT. In God Is
name. destroy il!
like what Abraham Lincoln said
to one of his cabinet officers. That cab
met officer had been belied and mis-
represented until in fury he wrote
a letter of arraignment to his enemy
and in teHlsest possible phrascology
told him what be thought of him. The
cabinet officer read II to Mr.. Lincoln
and asked him how he liked it. Mr..